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2 cool things for your puter

November 13th, 2005 Timbo Leave a comment Go to comments

This cleartype thing, if you are using a flatscreen monitor it makes your fonts in Windows look awesome!

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/

And I also found this. Most of you linux peeps know you can mount your NTFS partitions (read-only of course) when you are booted into Linux. Well you can also mount your Linux ext2/ext3 partitions when you are in windows!!

http://www.fs-driver.org/

I’m using both of them now, very handy.

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  1. James
    November 14th, 2005 at 06:54 | #1
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    That’s amazing. In order to read a USB drive which was in ext3 on Windows, earlier today I downloaded and installed ext2fsd which does the same job. Spooky coincidence.

  2. Timbo
    November 14th, 2005 at 08:18 | #2
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    Whoa, freaky.

  3. Colm
    November 15th, 2005 at 01:30 | #3
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    I’m not entirely convinced about this ClearType thing…. it seems to make all my non-Italic fonts significantly bolder, and fuzzier – though Verdana (I assume the font on this comment box is Verdana) looks great. I’m going to give it another while and see.

  4. Timbo
    November 15th, 2005 at 07:01 | #4
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    Hrm, thats strange. All my fonts look great now (at work and at home).

    I don’t have any bold or fuzzy ones.

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