Cool Tools: YourFonts

YourFonts With YourFonts you can make a TrueType font from your own handwriting for free. The process is simple, quick and basically idiot-proof. Print out a template from the site, write in your letters, scan, upload and — voila — there you have it. If you’re a real fonthead, you might want more detail and control over the fonts you create. I remember even years ago seeing an ad in MacWorld for a “make your own handwriting font.” The template that software had was a lot more sophisticated, since it asked for examples of different letter combination as well as individual letters. The YourFonts template basically replicates the characters on a standard keyboard, with an optional extension to characters with accents/umlauts etc

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Music: Turn Your iPhone or iPod Touch Into a Multi-Room Wireless Music Remote

For a cool $1000, you can buy the Sonos Bundle 150 and wirelessly play music from a single remote control in two separate rooms in your house. On the other hand, for about $100 or less if you’ve already got the right equipment, you can get the same functionality from your iPhone or iPod touch. Let’s take a closer look at how to use the iTunes Remote application for the iPhone 2.0 with inexpensive equipment you may already have to remote control music playback wirelessly in any room in your home.

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Google Mobile – Sync

Google Sync for your BlackBerry – Have a different phone? Synchronize the built-in calendar and address book on your BlackBerry® with your Google account. * Get your Google Calendar events to your device * Synchronize your Gmail contacts * Be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound and vibration using your BlackBerry’s native calendar

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Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 :: the How-To Geek

Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 We’ve all been hearing about the new IMAP support in Gmail, but how do we access that from Outlook? Those of you that have been waiting patiently will be happy to know all the instructions are on this page. Using IMAP we can synchronize email across multiple devices, since the mail stays on the server. You already stopped reading this part and skipped down to the instructions, didn’t you?

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