Count words in TextWrangler

I tend to write my texts, at least for blogging, in a text editor and then cut & paste them into where ever. The editor I tend to use nowadays is TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software. Why? Well, I find that a text editor lets me focus on the task at hand much better than [...]

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Helvetica

It may not be a very well known fact to people, but along with several other fetishes, I have a huge one for typography and fonts. Because of this I spent roughly one and a half hours this evening watching a documentary about a font… Specifically about Helvetica. In spite of all that was said [...]

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Linotype FontExplorer X

People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement.
So [...]

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A room to your self

Do you ever find that the world is closing in on you and you are not focusing quite as well on the task at hand as you should? As a student and aspiring writer I find this a lot, and I’ve been looking around for a solution to this problem. Well there is one which [...]

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Internet Radio

As a modern internet person, I’ve more or less stopped listening to the regular radio. This is not for any particular reason more than a serious lack of interesting content… But we do have internet radio! Now, with the advent of podcasts, the allure of internet radio might have diminished somewhat, but none the less, [...]

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Reviews coming up soon! But a little something.

Well, two nice  things happened this week in the world of web. First Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released. So far I’ve only played with it, but having used most of the betas, I have to say, it looks good, it’s fast, compatible and reasonably stable on my system (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11). The [...]

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Why Amazon MP3 isn’t a real threat to iTunes, yet!

Yesterday I listened to the latest edition of MacBreak Weekly, number 79, and one of the things they talk a lot about was the iTunes Store vs. Amazon MP3 thing. Now as you may or may not be aware the record labels aren’t to happy with Apple’s position when negotiating with them, and have there [...]

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New Media - Where to go next?

Recently I listened to the MacCast, the Mac Podcaster meet-up episode (part one). In it  Scott Bourne, Leo Laport, Dave Hamilton, Ken Ray, Cali Lewis, Victor Cajiau and Adam Christianson debated the current state of new media in general, and podcasting in particular.
The general consensus seemed to be that podcasting is stalling a bit, and [...]

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Andy Ihnatko

Andy Ihnatko’s new site is  finaly up for public use, although in keeping with tradition of the Web 2.0 era, it is not yet out of Beta… Anyhow, as usual he is funny and interessting all wraped up  into one manly package, and his posts, be they on his blog, on YouTube or at the [...]

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