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Font smoothing in Firefox 4
Since the new Firefox 4 is out, many people are being brought to my website again, because they searched for keywords like “anti-aliasing”, “ClearType” or “font smoothing”. They then discover my two year old article Anti-Aliasing in Firefox, which describes how to enable ClearType in Windows XP – where it is not enabled by default after…
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Game review: “Lost Horizon”
Well-elaborated Indiana-Jones-like story that takes the player from Hong Kong across the Himalaya and Morocco right to the heart of Nazi Germany. Special finesse at the end: You control two characters located in the same place, but in different times. I wouldn’t exactly say that the puzzles are “bad” – but for hardcore riddlers like…
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Adventure reviews
I have decided to start a new category here. When I was six years old and we got our first computer, I began playing adventure games almost immediately. Since then, other genres have rarely had a chance with me. But there’s one kind of adventure games that I like the most, namely those with fairly…
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Unreal dimensions
The south of Saudi Arabia and North Rhine-Westphalia at the same magnification. Somewhat crazy, isn’t it? The Rub’ al Khali desert is the largest sand desert in the world and spans the entire south of the country.
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Windows Aero: remove glass effect (diagonal lines)
Usually I always post my tricky little discoveries right away – not least to be able to look them up here again at any time, in case I forget them. But as for this subject, I thought some time ago that I could remember it anyway and that nobody else would be interested in it…
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Late New Year’s thoughts
Some time ago I saw on the Internet a few pictures from the book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. They traveled around the world and had a look at the dining tables of people in various countries. In each country they visited a family and photographed their entire week’s ration…