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4. Henryk Górecki (10)
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There is, in the settings, a place to change your chosen font, font size, and the name you publish under. But beyond that, QuietWrite is a plain, blue-themed place to do some writing. The publish-if-you-wanna model is novel, and gives you a place to direct a group or just friends to your writing that’s not quite as public as a blog post.

I’m using this slightly differently to the scenario here. I’m a bit OCD about settings & layout (ok, all those that know me can stop laughing at “a bit” appearing before “OCD”! ;P). So as part of my backup system (also known as the “paranoid aren’t we?”*) I’ve always taken regular screenshots. Now I don’t have to faff about making them, and I know they’re quickly accessible outside the computer itself.

^{*It’s more paranoid than it was. Last year my beloved laptop died on me, the next day a lightening strike took out my external hard drive which housed the full backup. No really, I mean, how evil is that?! {:) Never have I been so pleased that I had a second portable external hard drive that whilst not a full image, did have all the files back to 3 days beforehand. So yeah folks, always have backup of your backup too! :)}

Quite useful this. On first sight I was horrified, but that soon turned to smugness as I went through each section and found it was empty thanks to my uber carefulness on Facebook. A good way of demonstrating to your friends with their accounts quite why YOU have a problem with Facebook and it’s “privacy”! :)

At Google, we often think that speed is the forgotten ‘killer application’ – the ingredient that can differentiate winners from the rest. We know that the faster we deliver results, the more useful people find our service. But in a world of accelerating change, we all need time to reflect. Think Quarterly is a breathing space in a busy world. It’s a place to take time out and consider what’s happening and why it matters. Our first issue is dedicated to Data – amongst a morass of information, how can you find the magic metrics that will help transform your business? We hope that you find inspiration, insights, and more, in Think Quarterly. Matt Brittin Managing Director, UK & Ireland Operations, Google

So far, there have been 150 glyphs created by 80 contributors from 27 countries. The Society of Typographic Aficionados is organizing Font Aid V: Made For Japan — a collaborative project uniting the typographic and design communities with a goal of raising funds to expedite relief efforts after the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Found this pretty thought-provoking. I can see the argument ‘You fought to be able to call it a marriage, now you want to segregate it as “gay”?!’ However I totally get where Gina is coming from, that it’s more to counter the assumption that “married”=people talking about her husband. As a commenter says, it’s relationship language we need to evolve.

Now that web designers suddenly face the challenge (and delight) of choosing fonts from an ever-growing selection, we thought it’s a good time to recommend some basic principles for making wise type choices.

What’s wrong with content management systems? Nothing. They’re great for big websites who have editors who login everyday and push new content through powerful workflows. But that’s not everyone. That’s not even most people. If you’re like me, you’re probably tired of logging in, wrestling with an archaic WYSIWYG editor and wondering why you must upload every new file by hand. Maybe you’re a web designer, juggling 10 different sites for different clients, wishing you’d written down those FTP details somewhere safer. If only changing some html were as easy as open->edit->save. Why this is better Simplicity. Edit your files on your computer, save and you’re done. No logins. No passwords to remember. woop! Sharing. Need someone else to edit pages? Share the folder with them. Backup. Everything is synced between your computer, Dropbox and DropPages. It’s safe. Fast. Quick to edit, quick to render.

British road signs use specially designed lettering, and much of it is quite distinctive. Nathaniel Porter and John Prentice have now reproduced the various types of lettering from official documents, and turned them into TrueType fonts that you can download here for free.