Google Delivers Web Fonts Developer API

new Web Fonts Developer API enables developers to dynamically incorporate Google Web Fonts into apps.on the release, Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann, a software engineer on theGoogle Web Fonts team, said the team has received several requests fromdevelopers for a dynamic feed of the most recent Web fonts offered viaGoogle Web Fonts.“Such a feed would ensure that you can incorporateGoogle Web Fonts into ...

Aretha Franklin to enter Gospel Hall of Fame

Music icon Aretha Franklin is set to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame....

Tech: How to protect your privacy on Google

you’ve ever performed is stored on the search giant’s servers? And that data is cross-linked to your search data from YouTube,Traditional web designers have access to only a limited set of web-safe fonts, while typography geeks must ensure that all visitors’ devices support their custom fonts.Fonts offers a middle ground with hundreds of standardized fonts. Simply put, Google Fonts are downloaded to...

Euthanasia Should be Legalized, Say a Panel of Canadian Researchers

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Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Finding Fonts for All

you send someone e-mail in a font that his or her computer lacks? I have a font I like for my e-mail newsletter, but do my recipients need to have it as well?Your mail recipients would need to have the same font installed on their computers to see the e-mail message as you intended. If your chosen typeface is not available, the mail program performs a font substitution to display the message in a font...

13 Girls from the Same School Portray Tourette-like Syndrome Overnight

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Review: Elpis lets you jam to Pandora with zero fuss and maximum fun

Pandora: An endless font of good music. More recent arrivals on the music streaming scene may look cooler (, I'm looking at you), but Pandora's music-matching engine is unsurpassed, at least for me. I just give it an artist name or a track title, and it comes back with hours of fun music I can tweak to my heart's content. If only its Web interface were as good as its engine–but alas, random Flash browser...

PM wants tunes for Nazrul lyrics

Hasina urges experts to compose music for the poet's unsung lyrics...

Gadgetwise: Q&A: Pruning the Mac’s Font Collection

I’d like to weed out a bunch of unused fonts on my Mac OS X Lion computer. How do I safely delete them?One way to remove unwanted fonts from Mac OS X (versions 10.5 and later, which includes the Lion 10.7 system), is to use the built-in Font Book program. Note that you cannot remove fonts that the Mac itself uses in the operating system. To get started, click the Mac desktop to switch to the Finder,...

The free 'gravity' font that could make reading online easier for dyslexia sufferers

The free 'gravity' font that could make reading online easier for dyslexia sufferersIt looks looks almost like a 'melted' page, but in fact this is the font that could help dyslexia sufferers read online.A free-to-use font created by Abelardo Gonzalez, it has a heavier bottom to give letters 'gravity' - making it less likely the brain will rotate them and confuse sufferers.The fonts are now available...