So I installed Windows 7 after hearing a lot of positive buzz. But this is one (of many) thing that NEVER EVER happens in OS X…
Makes me think that there is still something wrong and rotten in the core. I wish they rewrote the whole thing!
Anyway, overall, Windows 7 does look and works a little better than its predecessors.
Arial has been around a very long time but Web 2.0 returned Arial back to its glory days and It spread like a virus through the typographic landscape.
But now, Lucida (Grande) is the new Arial. Lucida is now everywhere, a side effect of Mac’s success.
Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface included with the Mac OS X. It is currently used throughout the Mac OS X user interface, as well as in Safari on Windows.
As with all humanist typefaces, these fonts allude to human handwriting in the construction of the letters, making the type as a whole more friendly and warm than something like Arial or Helvetica.
Some of the big sites like Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, Hulu, and Techcrunch and many others are already using Lucida. And well, I too am using Lucida for this (qelix.com) website. :)
Lucida Grande is a great font to use in websites, but it doesn’t come standard with Windows, so we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. The solution to this is to create a hybrid font set, like so:
body { font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } strong, em, b, i, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, address { font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
Its assigns Lucida Sans Unicode as the base font and override the other elements (add others if you like) with Lucida Sans. This effectively combines the best of both.
UPDATE: Get the keyfixed firefox 3 final here.
Here’s an updated version of the KeyFixer for Firefox 3 that fixes both - Home/End and Word Backward/Forward keys.
Firefox 3 beta 3: toolkit.jar
Firefox 3 beta 4: toolkit.jar
Ezzy Enough has been dormant for quite a while. The official reason is that I’ve been extremely busy with a few design projects.
The additional unofficial reasons were a slight burn out of blogging and my lack of any interesting information to post about. But I think now is a good time to catch up with everything.
Thanks for keeping my blog on your watch. Posts will be coming especially fast due to all the stuff I have been backlogging for the last few days.
The painful process from vision to reality is often hard to describe, but this image does it really well.
As Web 2.0 is becoming more entrenched with its user-created content, distributed through blogs, communities, and devices (iPods, cell phones etc..); services like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, etc. have cornered their niche markets and have rapidly moved from being "startups" to "market leaders", with the power of new ‘social‘ phenomenon. 
As Web 2.0 matures further, markets will begin to organize themselves and the leaders will become more obvious. There are, however, pockets of innovation going on beyond the developed markets, as I’ve stumbled across a few untapped, and essentially unexplored niche markets.
‘Books’ for instance — Web 2.0 is all about user-generated content, but it seems to be limited to the web, as we haven’t seen many startups extending the content creation functionality to traditional media. Blurb and Picaboo are currently one of the few services that provide services related to ‘books‘.
Alex Wolfe (InformationWeek) writes about a new patent just awarded to the folks in Redmond.
Graphical User Interface For A Screen Telephone (U.S. Patent 7,225,409) is for:
A graphical user interface for a web telephone [which] provides a unique combination of display elements that provide information and enable the user to access functionality of the device.
More potential worries for Apple since the patent isn’t just for a phone, but for the underlying software, and the patent document even includes a helpful flowchart.
Although the patent was awarded on May 29, 2007, it was originally filed in 1999, which presumably means Microsoft could claim it had the idea first.
Steve Jobs, call your lawyer?
