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Cloud Computing

June 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Geek

Well, Igncap is nearly fully in the cloud. Our Exchange server is hosted (thank you Applix) which is the main thing. Our fax service is as well (thank you Metrohispeed) and is conferencing (thank you FreeAudioConferencing.com), as it our external website/blog (thank you WordPress and BlueHost) and intranet/wiki (thank you Wikka Wiki) so what is [...]

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Font common to Mac and Windows

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ampsoft explains what “browser safe fonts” are available. These are fonts that are both on Windows and the Macintosh. Codestyle.org has a study of what fonts are available on how many computers. Also, if you love typography, check out Typowiki.
You can also be a little more aggressive and assume that Microsoft Office is installed and [...]

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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac Office

This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things:

Excel Open Word Scroll Entourage [...]

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