Characteristics of Fonts

By Sabih Javed

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Fonts play a very vital role in our everyday life. All of us, whether we use computer or not, are directly or indirectly linked to fonts and keep using them all the times, in fact many times in a single day. Every time you chat on a messenger or you use MS Word or whenever you are typing a cover letter, you are actually playing with fonts. It's not necessary to have lots of various font styles installed in your personal computer, but it is definitely of immense importance to have the font style with you when you need it.
Installing, updating, deleting or replacing fonts is very easy. You don't have to be a "technical guy" at all. Anyone can update or add a few extra fonts in ones laptop, tablet, computer, cell phone and the like. All you have to do is find a reliable font distributor and get the fonts you need.
Fonts are majorly or I must say solely differentiated on the basis of their characteristics. Each font style has its own unique characteristics which make it different or unique from other fonts. What are these characteristics; let's have a look at some of the basic ones.
Weight
Weight of a font means the thickness of the characters. Font weight can range from ultra light to ultra bold. Most of us are only familiar with the all famous "bold" font, which depicts the weight of the font. However, there are many other forms of weight as well. Computer programmers, designers, engineers, graphic designers and alike usually use many different weighted fonts. Some of the weight styles are mentioned below:
· Thin
· Hairline
· Bold
· Light
· Block
· Medium
· Heavy
· Black
· Extra black
· Normal
· Extra light
Width
Width represents the stretch of the characters. Letter spacing is used to represent width of the characters. Compressed, wide, extended, narrow, ultra and extra are some of the types of width.
Slope
Slope is a special characteristic of fonts or characters which represents the angle of the character. European typefaces are mostly represented with the help of angle. Italic is one of the very common types of slope. Most of the characters don't change when their angle or slope is changed, however at times characters change their appearance when their slope is changed. For instance, gaining swashes where the character will lose its original appearance.
Optical size
These types of fonts are used by Adobe users and were also introduced by Adobe. In optical size, characters are represented in different sizes ranging from 72 point to 8 point.
As mentioned earlier, fonts are easy to download. Now that you are familiar with almost all the basic characteristics of fonts, you can now download free fonts. You can purchase different fonts, however it is suggested to use free fonts initially to get a grip on various types, characteristics and uses of fonts. For free fonts, try searching for various websites where you can download free fonts. You will find many such websites out there.

We have thousands of free fonts for you. Get them today.

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Windows XP Tips and Tricks

1. Code (cheat code) freecell game

Freecell game is one of the default windows game. There may be among friends who love to play a game, but did not know about the cheat. If you use this code cheating, then you can be victorious.
Here’s how to activate the code cheating freecell game

2. Optimizing multimedia applications using the K-lite codec

If you want to improve the ability of multimedia applications in the multimedia files, then you can use the following free codec. Simply install the application automatically windows media player to recognize more in the maximum file fomat video
and audio.

3.How to add Windows fonts


If you feel that the time a font of windows on your computer is still a lot less, then you can download the font from several sources that are free. You only need to
enter the font you have downloaded into your Windows font directory.
To begin the process of adding fonts to Windows to do the following procedures:
1. Try the site below for free fonts,http://www.1001freefonts.com
2. Once the page appears the following site, select the Font category (in
this case I take a name based on the font alphabet only, by pressing A)

4.Speed up close an error application (crash applications)

Sometimes because of the influence of bug or because the quota runs out of memory the
application program which runs suddenly hangs. There are a few tips to speed up the application that hangs close it
I. First way
1.Magic 3 key combination Ctrl + Alt + Delete (all three keys pressed simultaneously), after a Windows dialog box appears select Task manager Processes tab, select the application that hangs, for example: DAP.exe (Download Accelerator Plus), then press the End Process (waiting
application to close the error, usually need some seconds)



5.Clean up junk file using CCleaner

By using CCleaner (freeware) you can clean up trash Windows file. Usage is very easy and the result is quite satisfactory. You should do first is to install to your computer. If you do not have the installer file (master file) CCleaner, can be downloaded here
Use the procedure is as follows:
1. Open the application CCleaner
Start -> Programs -> CCleaner -> CCleaner

6.Clean up the windows registry file

In addition to clean up garbage files windows, software CCleaner (freeware) can also be used to clean the windows registry file. If you do not have the installer file (master file) CCleaner, can be downloaded here
If your computer has been installed CCleaner, can do the following procedures:
1. Open the application CCleaner
Start -> Programs -> CCleaner -> CCleaner


7.BIOS Beep Codes

When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system’s hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system’s hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if the BIOS detects an error before it can access the video card, or if there is a problem with the video card, it will produce a series of beeps, and the pattern of the beeps indicates what kind of problem the BIOS has detected.

Because there are many brands of BIOS, there are no standard beep codes for every BIOS.

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Tips Mempercepat Booting Windows XP

Mempercepat Booting dengan Otomatis Hapus File Prefetch

Setiap kali kita booting windows, OS windows kita akan buat file simpanan dari kegiatan sebelumnya. Nah, file itu biasanya ada di folder Prefetch di direktori windows (%SystemRoot%Prefetch), atau mungkin temen pastinya dah tau kan, hehe…
Kalo di folder tersebut banyak tersimpan file2 savingan sebelum2nya bisa bikin windows kita jadi lelet pas booting/start up. Nah, dengan cara ini akan secara otomatis menghapus file2 yang tersimpan di %SystemRoot%Prefetch setiap kali kita shut down atau restart komputer.

1. Pertama buka notepad  atau ketik di run notepad
2. ketik dalam notepad dengan isian : “del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q” (tanpa tanda petik) dan  save as dengan nama “ntosboot.bat” di C:\
3. Buka Run n ketik “gpedit.msc”
4. Dobel klik “Windows Settings” di “Computer Configuration” lalu dobel klik lag di “Shutdown” di sebelah kanannya
5. Di jendela baru, klik “add, Browse”, trus pilih file “ntosboot.bat” yang tadi kita buat, klik open
6. Klik “OK”, “Apply” trus “OK” lagi n exit
7. Masuk run lagi, trus ketik “devmgmt.msc”
8. Dobel klik di “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers”
9. Klik kanan di “Primary IDE Channel” trus pilih “Properties”
10. Pilih “Advanced Settings” di tab, kemudian di “device type” pilih “autodetect” (biasanya sih emang auto detect, tapi sekedar untuk chek aja, dan klik “OK”;
11. Trus di “Secondary IDE channel”, klikm kanan pilih “Properties” trus ulangi ajah kyak langkah nomor sepuluh tadi
12. Selesai… reboot komputer, dijamin pasti lebih cepat.