Tag Archives: Mac

Snow Leopard Font Smoothing

Do fonts look like crap on your shiny new copy of snow leopard?

That’s probably because Snow Leopard now relies on your monitor to tell your machine that it’s an LCD. Unfortunately, many LCDs including both of my Dell displays don’t do this. So you get no sub-pixel anti-aliasing. Bad times.

But don’t fret.

Still Life with Drobo

About 6 months ago I bought a Firewire Drobo with wide eyes and big expectations. I’ve had a growing video and audio library that was getting tedious to keep all on one drive. The idea of having a machine that automatically expands by popping in a new drive was awfully sexy.

In the past I’ve