wysiwtf

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by wysiwtf 6y ago
Yes, if you remove "use font smoothing" the font weight gets lighter and closer to other OSes rendering. Big Sur gets rid of this option, but I don't know if the underlying option is still on or not.
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by wysiwtf 14y ago
Maybe technically, but unless you strip every screw on your way into the machine, they won't know you ever had the cd drive disconnected. Just put it back when you take it in for service.
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by wysiwtf 15y ago
I use about:blank I think this started years ago when connection speeds were slower I'd hate to have anything load up automatically.
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by wysiwtf 15y ago
Are you sure that X220 is similar enough to an Air, it doesn't look like an air and the design specs are quite bulkier: MacBook Air 11 inch: Height: .68 Weight: 2.38 MacBook Air 13 inch: Height: .68 Weight: 2.96 X220 12 inch: Height: 1.25 W
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by wysiwtf 15y ago
It would be nice if Apps allowed you to adjust the text size of the entire UI to enlarge it. On a related note iOS has a Zoom feature in the Accessibility options which will make the entire OS larger (you just pan around using three fingers
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
I agree with that. I'm sure that they would rather have their own syncing app that simply works with the iTunes library rather than masquerading as an iPod and leaving it up to iTunes to do all the work. That's just plain crazy if you think
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
He doesn't have a color issue with his 30" display (they only sold him the wrong adapter). He's only complaining about the screen on his laptop.
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
The NYT has a good rent vs. buy calculator: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BUYRENT_GRAP...
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
These tools (like YSlow) are oh so interesting when your clients install them in their browser and examine the site you built for them. Now, I'll get to hear complaints that we used too many inefficient CSS selectors (and that we're incompe
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
Those text replacement techniques (sIFR/cufon) have downsides though. You can't manipulate the replaced text as you would normally, you lose some functionality because you've replaced text with flash/canvas/image etc., and you won't see any
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
You can already embed fonts easily without using a service such as this site will provide. The problem is of course the license to do so. There are a lot of fonts out there that are free and allow website embedding, but the majority of font
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
I agree, the main issue here is that they're not using SSL during these steps, and the second is that they don't recommend changing your password from the generated default.
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
"If the apps on the category charts are doing those sorts of numbers, what do you think the rest of them are doing?" What if Board Games and Social Networking aren't popular categories? Just because an app makes it on the chart of an un-pop
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
And there are easy ways that Google could track people with javascript turned off. I always thought they would add this as a 'Pro' feature and charge money for that option. So you'd have to pay for the complete stats, most personal sites wo
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by wysiwtf 17y ago
I think this might be better? http://optipng.sourceforge.net/