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Make Your Own Font

April 19, 2007 by Jason

I love fonts. I have a fantastic collection of them, ranging from delicate script fonts to ones that look as if they’ve been stenciled. The most wonderful of all, however, are the fonts I made myself. The process is simpler than you might imagine; all you need is a bit of free time, some software (such as High-Logic’s FontCreator, Home edition, $79 direct; www.high-logic.com), and a scanner.

You’ll have to do some fairly tedious writing: all the uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other symbols you typically use. (Alternatively, depending on what kind of font you want, you could draw the characters in your graphics software.) Then you’ll scan the page into your PC, tweak the characters, and in less time than it would take to chisel the alphabet into granite, you’ll have your very own font. — next: Step By Step Read More»

Windows Defender for vista

February 01, 2007 by Jason

The flood of spyware, adware, and malware of all stripes doesn’t seem likely to abate anytime soon. Antivirus software alone isn’t enough to keep it in check, because a lot of malware programs aren’t viruses or worms in the traditional sense. They’re products developed by halfway-legitimate companies that take advantage of users who are careless or rushed—those of us who don’t bother to read the tedious legalese of programs’ end-user license agreements during installation
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