If you do any kind of graphic design, you might appreciate the value of unique fonts. The resource I like to use, is over at dafont. They have a list of the Top 100 fonts, and that tends to be the one I check out.

I believe most of the fonts located here are free for personal use. I would be careful if you are interested in designing something for production, as it may not be considered free and the creator may need to be compensated.

Head on over to dafont and check out the fonts available. Many of them are spectacular.

I just thought I would make a quick post to share a pretty cool contest I came across. It is essentially a contest to write a story in Twitter, which as some of you may know, has a limit to it's messages. The length has to be 140 characters.

It has made for some extremely interesting tweets, and I suggest you check it out.

Visit CopyBlogger for more details.

You can use the Follow me link on the side bar of this page to view my Twitter page. I'm always interested in who is reading my blog, and encourage anyone and everyone to pop by and tweet me!

OK, you've caught me. Web applications won't actually destroy anything. However, it is my professional opinion that they will indeed take over the planet, and ruthlessly pillage and plunder your operating system and it's insignificant villagers.

Web applications are going to eliminate the need for specific operating systems all together. Below you will find my extremely logical and informative reasons that this will happen. Maybe not now, maybe not ever, but soon.

Cross Platform

The internet is a crazy place. You can check stock markets, purchase items, communicate, store information, check the weather, watch TV, chat/network with friends, stumble around social media sites, play games, and this just in, almost all web applications are cross-platform.

This will eliminate the need for a single platform for applications. And actually limit the success capabilities of the single platform apps.

Making Software That Everyone Can Use Broadens Your Potential Market

Obviously, with Linux and Mac (especially) user percentages on the rise, applications that are web based and cross-platform can reach a broader market. If you create a standalone application only available for XP and Vista, you are essentially dropping your potential market for that product by approximately 10% by the current market share numbers.

As the gap between Windows installations and Mac installations decreases, more and more apps are going to either need to be developed for both platforms to address the needs of both users, or go the less expensive route and make a single web app that performs on both machines. Linux can be thrown in to this mix too, but lets be honest, Linux doesn't really matter just yet. Most Linux users are dual booting with Mac OS X , Windows, or both anyway.

Web Applications are Cheaper to Develop

It costs much less to develop an application in Java or PHP for instance, than it does to develop apps in Visual Studio. Server costs for PHP are relatively low, as it has a high-performance, low resource style to it.

Oh, and by the way, you know those boxes they put software in? The manuals? The CD's or DVD's? Those cost money. Sure it's not much per unit. But if you don't find that kind of money useful in some way, feel free to email me and send me what you don't need. I'll promise to waste it on lottery tickets and bad DVD rentals.

The Bandwidth Available to Residential Consumers is Increasing Rapidly

Sure, North America is no Japan, but lets be serious. That kind of speed is just nutty. Remember those commercials that stated that DSL was faster than cable because you don't share a connection? How the hell can that be true if the entire population of Japan, which might I remind you is approximately 125 million people, use their broadband connections on their country which is around 378,000 square km. For you American folk, that is smaller than Texas. Enough of that rant, I forgot I was supposed to be writing some kind of article here. Forgive me.

You might be saying to yourself, “Hey stupid, I can't play the latest and greatest games on this OS or that OS. I'll need to stick with XP/Vista”. On one hand you are correct. On the other, you are entirely wrong. Gamers aren't real people. So their opinion doesn't really matter in the real people world.

In all seriousness, I think games are probably one of the few things that will remain dependent on a specific operating system. Things could change much later, but for now the technology just isn't there to create a next-gen quality game for your computer in some kind of web application form. I sure hope this changes though, because quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of XP. I've found Linux and OS X to be much better overall operating systems, and I'd rather not be forced to use an operating system just to play games. And yes, I'm not a real person either.

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Recently I found a list of SMS email addresses and thought it would be beneficial to post them here. This is useful if you want to forward all of your emails to your cell phone, among many other things.

Here is the link to the list. I have checked on many of them and they seem to be accurate, so if you notice any that are missing or incorrect let me know and I will try to add them. It would be nice to maintain a relatively current list of this type.

View the list here

Like I said, let me know if I'm missing anything in an email or in the comments.

The ultimatum that Microsoft gave Yahoo has received an official response. The letter states,

we have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders

We consider your threat to commence an unsolicited offer and proxy contest to displace our independent Board members to be counterproductive and inconsistent with your stated objective of a friendly transaction

Feedburner is showing all of their feeds with zero subscribers. I also stumbled across Brad Blogging.com and noticed he was having the same problem. Let's hope this issue is resolved, as I like to think my ramblings are noticed by at least one person other than myself.

Are you having the same problem with your blog? Answer via comments.

Update: It appears that the error has been corrected. Thanks Feedburner!

I thought this was absolutely hilarious. It took me quite a while to get it to work for me, as I had not done one of these for years.

Feel free to post comments and let me know what you think.

You can view the image here.