Mac tip: If your fonts in Snow Leopard seem like they've gotten less readable since upgrading from Leopard, you're not alone. Macworld details how to bring back several font-smoothing options to get ...

I am extremely far sighted. My perscription is a +5.5 spheric and I have an astigmatism. Ordinarlily my glasses fix me up just fine and under 99% of situations I can see perfectly fine.<BR>After ...

ClearType is a font technology that allows you to read the text for all periods. It is possible by the fact that it makes text on your screen almost as sharp and clear as text printed on paper, i.e., ...

One of the first things users noticed about the new Safari for Windows beta is that Apple is using their own font smoothing technology (found in OS X) instead of the Windows standard ClearType. Joel ...

Working on hints this morning, my machine experienced an odd “soft crash.” Each application I had open was slowly, inexorably, beach-balling. Trying to stay a bit ahead of the curve, I quit those that ...

Internet Explorer 5.2 Adds Quartz Text Smoothing — Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X (5.1.4 remains the current version for previous versions of the Mac OS). There’s only one ...

Has anyone else noticed font rendering changes in Safari 5.1.1? I've just updated and noticed some things (particularly Google results) looked a bit off. I pulled out the WebKit build I had been using ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Amazon's Kindle 2 is slimmer, faster and has longer battery life than its predecessor. But the newly launched ...