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Compare fonts for use in your blog : TypeTester

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Don’t know which font to use on your blog or site ? Using good and easily readable fonts is the first step to building a accessible website/blog and it could well be the deciding factor as to how much time visitors spend on your blog.

Typetester LogoEnter Typetester. An online tool which lets you compare fonts right on your screen before you use them in your blog/website.

Typetester is an online application, that can be pretty useful when you need to check or choose a typeface for your (next) project.

Some points about Typetester :

  • You can select three different fonts and compare them at the same time to see how they will look.
  • You can set the size, leading, tracking, alignment, color, background and decoration of the font.
  • Fonts from user’s system are pulled into a web page, so you will never miss out on your favorite fonts.

Typetester interface

After finalizing which font you want to use, Typetester goes a step further to give you the CSS code to implement the font on your blog/website.

Try Typetester now and tell me if it helped you.. :D

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April 24th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

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Create your own web address shortcuts with OpenDNS

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This is going to be nothing short of a new revolution. OpenDNS has introduced a new feature enabling you to create your own shortcuts for websites you frequently access.

With OpenDNS shortcuts turned on, the address bar of your browser can be used to launch websites via your own shortcuts (for example g for google.com or mail for mail.yahoo.com).

What Shortcuts ?

For creating a shortcut you first need to log in to your OpenDNS account. Then go to Shortcuts in My Account. There you can create the shortcuts you want.

For example if you frequently access Wikipedia. Using OpenDNS shortcuts, you can simply create a shortcut wiki in OpenDNS, so that everytime you type wiki in the address bar of your browser you will be taken to Wikipedia. :)

OpenDNS Shortcuts

You can create as many shortcuts as you like. For these shortcuts to function, you should obviously have set up OpenDNS on your computer. If you have not, it is very simple. Just change the DNS servers of your connection to the ones provided by OpenDNS which are :

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

You can change the DNS server from the TCP/IP Properties section of your network connection.

Try it ! || How To Set Up Open DNS || How to use OpenDNS shortcuts

Written by Manas

April 24th, 2007 at 12:22 am

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