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The latest entry in to OS X font management has been the release of Linotype’s FontExplorerX. The most interesting aspect of this software is that it is iTunes for fonts, but more on that in a bit.

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I come back from a summer hiatus and look at all the changes in the mac world. First of course is Tiger, then we have the switch to Intel chips, and now to top it all off Apple creates a multi button mouse.

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A simple truth with most design shops is that they probably design web sites using Dreamweaver or the dreaded GoLive. This in itself is not necessarily bad or wrong. What is bad is not being thorough. In order to highlight this I have include this snippet from a Philly area design studio that is not paying attention (and it is their own site).

Adobe Systems said Monday it had agreed to buy Macromedia for about $3.4 billion in stock, in order to extend its lead in the market for creating and distributing digital documents.

Adobe set to buy Macromedia! Is it April fools again? Well I did not see this coming.

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First it was Microsoft’s Smart Tags (read more at ALA). Just a couple weeks ago it was Google’s AutoLink (learn to stop it). Now we (web developers are facing a new threat in keeping our site, our site and the culprit is a someone most web people considered an ally.

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