I really wanted to Facebook “like” this page, but ironically they don’t provide a link.
So here is my own like link:
icondock.com/free/vector-social-media-icons

I was trying to match a font on a banner on one of the websites I work on.

First I tried to identify the font by submitting the image to MyFonts’ WhatTheFont tool, but that gave me less satisfactory results.

At that point I used the identifontsite by answering questions about the text available on the banner. It worked well, and gave me the name of the font I needed to buy.

Now I was facing the age long dilemma “if a client wants me to change one word on a 6 word banner, and my hourly rate is X, and I know for certain this is a one time need (the client is about to have a major web site redesign ), assuming it takes me 30 minutes to identify the right font for the job, edit the JPEG file, replace the text, save the file, and replace the file on the server, should I spend money on a font that I will only use for this one tiny project? Should I absorb the cost of the font and expense it on my taxes, or should I charge my client?”.

I didn’t even figure out what would be the price of the font in question, when it occurred to me it might be available to download for free. I Googled the font name, and clicked on one of the links that promised free fonts. The font I was looking for was not there, but a very similar one was available.

The internet saved the day again. Now I can obsess on other age long dilemmas… is it really wrong to wear white after labor day? When is it okay to start wearing white? New year? Easter? I am pretty sure the answer to that one is also only a few clicks away on Google.

Long live the internet!

I have spent a large portion of today fighting the good fight with Typo3. Typo3 won the battle. I am sure if I knew what I am doing it would have been an easy task, but since I am still fumbling with that CMS, it was very hard and didn’t yield anything like what I hoped it would do. Bummer!

Out of morbid curiosity I looked for a similar plugin in WordPress and I found this one. Switching to WordPress looks like a brilliant idea right now… Sob! registration

I really don’t know what happened to browsershots.org. It seems pretty dead, which is really sad since it was a great way to see how websites I worked, look on platforms I was not very likely to be accessing in RL.

Oh, well. I found that Adobe is offering similar service (although not as extensive as browsershots.org).
browserlab.adobe.com
Registration is required. I used my “regular” Adobe user name and password and that was good enough.

I love figuring out  how to do stuff, but knowing I already figured something only a couple of months ago, went through some mind erasing phenomenon, and have to go through it again, just sucks!

So here is the link to the online service:
www.zamzar.com
www.freepdfconvert.com

Now, if only I had a way to remember I have entered this info into my blog next time I need it.

It has been a couple of months since I last updated this page, and during this time I discovered that Open Office can not open those files either. Oh, the humanity!