Jersey Shore font

Umbrage: http://www.acidfonts.com/typeface/umbrage.htm

You know you want it. Amazing they went with a freeware font.

Fixing the Photoshop clipboard bug (copy and paste)

"For many Photoshop users, there is a horrible bug in Adobe Photoshop that causes the program to stop importing from the clipboard. You’ll be using the software for hours or even days without a problem, and all of a sudden you won’t be able to copy and paste anything into it at all, with your only option to close and re-open Photoshop."

http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/09/05/how-to-fix-the-photoshop-clipboard/

swffit - Smart Flash Resize Script

http://swffit.millermedeiros.com/

"swffit was made to improve accessibility of your flash website.

It was made because each user uses a different screen resolution and resizes the browser window at custom sizes.. when you set the flash size to 100% width and/or height (full bleed) the browser won't generate scrollbars and maybe an important content will be hidden from the user.

In short: It controls how big and how small your Flash movie can be scaled to within a browser window (assuming you're at 100%). Adds necessary scrollbars if someone resizes the window to a size smaller than the minimum.

Flash Liquid Layout - Top Left Corner

This code is for top left aligning an object inside a centered fullscreen Flash movie. Took me a while to figure this out, but here's the code:

Stage.align = "T";
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

originalStage = Stage.width;

sizeListener = new Object();
sizeListener.onResize = function() {
myObject._x = myObject._x-((Stage.width-originalStage)/2);
originalStage = Stage.width;
};
Stage.addListener(sizeListener);

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.