Why did no one tell me before? 14/04/2005 The following only applies to XP:Right-click on your desktop, select properties, select the Appearance tab, click the Effects button and on the effects dialogue there's a drop-down that says "Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen fonts", select that drop-down and set it to "ClearType". Voila! Everything is now much prettier, including this site.Now for all I know everyone who reads this has ClearType enabled and is thinking I'm a numpty for not knowing about it after three years of using XP but for those who don't this is a groovy discovery. Mad
sparx Oh No. No, no,no. This is horrible. It feels like i'm looking through some very cheap glasses. Obviously doesn't suit the cheap LCD screen I have at work. I will try this at home but Oh No. Date Added: 14/04/2005
Mad I'm really suprised Sparx, I like it a lot! Date Added: 14/04/2005
keeefer will give it a try another day.off to bed just posted the next chapter, have a read i quite like it....so everyone else will probably hate it lol Date Added: 14/04/2005
sparx It does look better on my decent CRT monitor at home. Damn those company buyers who put style over substance. Date Added: 15/04/2005
Mad I'm still a fan of the humble CRT, in fact at work I have a three CRT screen set up. TFT's are nice especially on the desk space front but you can't beat a really high quality Diamondtron... Date Added: 15/04/2005
Josh Yeah bubs, ain't that a kicker? I used XP for 6 months before noodling that one through - but it is a pain for us web design types, always having to see our work get all blotchy on another machine. About LCDs : they react in very odd ways to ClearType smoothing, relying instead on something called Subpixel smoothing w/ hints, usually done by the proprietary video card/driver. It's a function of the shape of the actual pixels within the matrix. Do you know about the optional Copy To Folder and Move To Folder in the Explorer.exe context menu? That would be second on my list of must-dos :-) Date Added: 15/04/2005
keeefer *keefer enters the blog, catches the scent of techies on heat and keeps on pushin that revolvin door* Date Added: 15/04/2005
Mad Hmm, what's that explorer trick Hill?? Date Added: 15/04/2005
Josh I like it when a budding SciFi dork pokes fun at a techie. Some sort of irony there, just can't put a name to it. :P Well bubs, it requires a little gumption (to wit, backing up and editing your registry) but here is the Oreilly article on it: http://tinyurl.com/chan2 Date Added: 15/04/2005
Mad Good point on the sci-fi nerdery Josh, lmao. Cheers for the link. Date Added: 15/04/2005
Ned I was astounded at the difference, I am very pleased. Thanks for the great tip. I love to click around through menus but I missed this one entirely. It's great, thanks for posting it. Date Added: 17/04/2005
vanessa yep, you're a numpty :)) Date Added: 17/04/2005
keeefer Im with vanessa ;)Josh....i write it....you read it bud ;) Date Added: 17/04/2005
Mad Hey! You're not allowed to pick on me on my own blog! Date Added: 17/04/2005
vanessa you know I love ya... and um, you're a numpty in the nicest possible way?? ;) Date Added: 18/04/2005
keeefer im still with Vanessa :) Date Added: 18/04/2005
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