Cavs owner's letter mocked for Comic Sans font

Dear computer users: If you're ever going to write a fuming letter, think twice before setting the font to the oh-so-mockable Comic Sans.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/09/comic.sans.cavs.james/index.html?hpt=C2

iPad GUI Kit: Teehan+Lax

Teehan+lax are back with a GUI kit for iPad. Yeah, I know I'm 5 months late, but I've only just begun iPad work. As always with their kits, make sure to look closely at detail and use this more as a starting point, as their iPhone kits were nice, but not perfect.

Enjoy!

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/

Type 1 Fonts, Windows 7 and Photoshop

Today my computer was upgraded to Windows 7, and well, now my Type 1 (postscript) fonts don't want to work inside of Photoshop CS3. I know the format is ancient and is slowly going the way of the dodo, and even though I have OpenType and TrueType versions of Helvetica, none organize as nicely as my Type 1 fonts do. In Photoshop, all versions of my Type 1 Helvetica show up in the secondary dropdown, not as separate entries in the full font list, as happens with OpenType and TrueType (for me at least). Plus, some of us have had these fonts for years and don't feel like buying another set.

After much Googling, I discovered that Adobe products will recognize them if you place them in this directory:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts

If this directory doesn't exist, try creating it. The workaround kinda sucks, but for me it's worth it.

FREEBIES: Think Design

http://thinkdesignblog.com/category/freebies

Patterns, vectors, fonts, textures and more.

FREEBIE Links: Media Militia

http://mediamilitia.com/category/freebies/

Tons of Photoshop actions, brushes, vectors, etc. etc.

Praat: Exporting soundwaves as EPS

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

Okay, so I don't know exactly what this program is for. All I know is that you can import an audio file, and export it's soundwave as EPS. How badass is that?

Ascii to Flash ActionScript Key Codes

http://people.uncw.edu/tompkinsj/112/flashactionscript/keycodes.htm
This is more of a bookmark for myself, but if anyone needs to know the complete set of keycodes for keypresses in Flash, check out the above link.

Usage:
keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(49)) {
trace("CTRL is pressed");
}
Key.addListener(keyListener);