Over the past decade, I’ve started a number of personal blogs that I never really followed through with, but some of my fondest memories rest on theme design and font tweaks. There’s something satisfying when you find that perfect match of fonts for your website and everything falls into place. Thankfully, with Google Web Fonts, that whole process has never been easier. So which Google Web Fonts should you use? Well, you can use any of the fonts in the Google Web Fonts directory, which currently houses over 600 different fonts — and that number continues to grow. But some...
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Browse and install any of Google’s fonts, quickly. TypeCatcher is a free Linux app that lets you easily explore a large collect of open source fonts, then instantly install them. Longtime users know how to get Mac and Windows fonts in Linux, but probably yearn for a high-quality collection of open source fonts to use in publishing projects. Happily, one of Google’s lesser-known services, Google Fonts, is arguably the best such collection on the web. Collected by Google to offer more fonts to web designers – who can, for example, use these fonts on any WordPress site – the project...
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Meet a new alternative to Droplr and CloudApp that brings simple drag-and-drop file sharing to your Windows PC and Mac.
Yahoo just unveiled a new logo. From last 30 days, yahoo sharing a different-2 logos. Now finally revealed today, new logo that will used for it services.
Yahoo! is making exciting changes daily. To celebrate where we’re headed, we’ll be unveiling a new logo in September.
To get everyone warmed up, we are kicking off 30 days of change. Each day, we’ll be sharing a different logo leading up to the big reveal on September 5th!
What’s your view on the, The new Yahoo logo.
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The Print YouTube bookmarklet extracts the storyboard frames of a video, stitches them all into one big poster and sends it to your printer.
If you want to get educated about the food you eat, you might start by checking out Fooducate, a website, iOS and Android app that grades the food and beverages we purchase from supermarkets and fast food outlets. Fooducate consists of a team of parents, dieticians, and techies who have established a way to evaluate the ingredients in food and report on their nutritional value. From sandwiches and breakfast foods, to meat, fish and baby food formula, Fooducate reveals both the healthy ingredients and the not so healthy additives that food manufactures don’t always want you to notice. With Fooducate...
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This week: Google is naming its next operating system after Nestle’s KitKat brand, yet somehow ads on the Google homepage are off-limits? Give me a break. Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone division, meaning they’ll be able to produce phones no one buys completely in house. And Yahoo is revolutionizing the photography market by adding filters to it’s iPhone app. I’ll tell ya, that’s a billion dollar idea right there! This week’s show is brought to you by Bitdefender’s Family Pack, which protects all your family’s devices. It secures all the PCs/Macs/Android devices in a home with just one license at a...
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Learn how to create and publish your podcast in the iTunes directory. The step-by-step tutorial includes instructions for both Blogger and WordPress platforms.
The TweetDeck app for Twitter needs a button that will let you clear tweets from all columns with one click. Till then, use the Clear TweetDeck bookmarklet.
Laptops are replaced every few years. We crave fancier hardware, novel features, and maybe our old device has become unresponsive and suffered some damage over time. Consequently, most laptops get thrown out prematurely. Unless you are looking for a silly excuse to buy a new and shiny device, you will love to hear that there are many ways to make your laptop last longer. Apart from delaying the headache of setting up a new computer and moving all your files over, this will also save you money in the long run. So let’s see what you can do to turn...
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Microsoft is facing an important next phase in its long and (sometimes) illustrious history. The past decade has seen the Redmond-based company struggle to maintain its once vice-like grip on computers. Apple has gained in both power and influence, and the move away from home computers to mobile devices has tempered Microsoft’s influence on the industry. Now, Microsoft is attempting to change from the inside out, with a new company structure and strategy as outlined in a memo from Steve Ballmer to the employees in July. Not that Ballmer will be there to see the transformation occur, as he has...
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As a director, screenwriter, and producer of such classics as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and more recently Django Unchained, you’d expect Quentin Tarantino to know a thing or two about what makes a good movie. From his humble beginnings as a video store clerk, Tarantino has been thrilling movie-goers with his flavour of stylised violence, satire, and gripping storytelling for 25 years. Last year the director (among other things) contributed a revised list of his top 12 movies for Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll. Many of the films on this list have clearly influenced his work throughout the years, and...
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A year ago Kelly James was wrapping up her time in the prestigious TechStars Boulder startup incubator, pitching her consignment web application to investors in New York City and Los Angeles. Now she’s living in Mexico, selling candles, and loving it. “I don’t want to be a part of the hype,” James says. “I don’t feel the need for that anymore.” She has gone from being a plugged-in startup head to ditching her iPad, quitting Facebook, and otherwise trying to figure out the pros and cons of her relationship with technology. She’s also started a new brand, Cera Company, which...
Read the full article: Plugged Into Life: Why This TechStars Alum Moved On From Her Startup To Sell Mexican Candles
