Brad Neuberg, from Google's Open Web Advocacy group, has made a video introduction to HTML 5. In just 40 minutes shows us vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Graphics, the Geolocation API, the Video tag, Client-side database and 'application cache', and 'Web workers.'
The people behind Typekit, the upcoming licensed font subscription service for use on websites, outlines the measures they take to protect the fonts on their service. Basically they're not trying to be too smart, they realize that people, with enough talent and time, will find a way to break any security. Instead they put up some hurdles, that will discourage casual misuse, and make it clear that stealing fonts is an explicit and intentional act.
Keir Whitaker, from Carsonified, gives us a brief overview of the upcoming Typekit service. Typekit will be a subscription service, that provides licensed fonts for @font-face enabled browsers.
For some Mac OS X applications, it is nice to hide the dock icon. Most apps, where it would make sense to do so, it is possible via a setting in the apps preferences. But some apps, like the Drobo Dashboard, or the HardwareGrowler, no such setting is to be found. For these apps, it is possible to hide the icon, by hacking their 'plists'. Mac OS X Hints shows us how.
One of my biggest issues with OS X, is the way Copy & Paste, for some applications, will copy everyting, including the text formatting. Thankfully there is an easy solution to the problem, it involves a custom keyboard shortcut, that will overwrite Paste, thus normalizing the paste-behavior for all applications.
“Nothing beats the ladies’ room.” He thought to himself “Nice smell, a floor sans urine. Until now.” He gave it a shake and opened his eyes.
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