Agfa Monotype today announced it has added more than 250 new fonts to Fonts.com, including collections from Tolstrup Pryds, Typeco, Jonathan Macagba, Elemeno, Selis, Wiescher Design and Altered Ego. The fonts range in price from US$22 to $74 and may be viewed on the Web site.
Read MoreOpenOSX today announced the availability of Office 1.5 for Mac OS X 10.3, a solution for configuring, installing and utilizing the open source GNOME Office software. This newest edition offers enhanced integration with Mac OS X, completely new and updated software, improved installation, along with additional features and enhancements. GNOME is a free desktop environment included with many distributions of Linux. Mac OS X includes its own desktop environment and does not include the support libraries required to run GNOME Office.
Read MoreWincent Colaiuta has announced WinSwitch 2.0, the latest release of the popular replacement for Apple’s Fast User Switching menu. Version 2.0 offers several new features, including the ability to auto-launch applications, scripts or documents when switching to or from other user accounts; two new options for menu bar display style: “first name only” and “initials only”; as well as numerous other enhancements and bug fixes. WinSwitch is open source and free.
Read MoreMatthew Fordahl has written an article for The Associated Press appearing in today’s Detroit Free Press looking at Sony’s recently announced NW-HD1 Network Walkman and compares it to Apple’s iPod. “For now, Apple has nothing to fear,” says Fordahl. “Sony’s Network Walkman NW-HD1 is as clunky as its name.
Read MoreSony today introduced the world’s first HDV 1080i camcorder. The HDR-FX1 Handycam camcorder records and plays back high definition video with 1080 interlaced lines of resolution — the highest resolution (1440 pixels x 1080 lines) of any consumer camcorder available, according to the press release. The camcorder’s video resolution is enhanced by Sony’s new three-chip, one-megapixel Super HAD CCDs.
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