Author: Steven Garrity

Inconsolata: Quality Free and Open Font for Programmers

by Steven Garrity

Inconsolata PreviewIf you spend a significant amount of time working with any type of scripting, code, or markup, then you’re probably looking at a monospace (fixed-width for each character) font.

The quality of these fonts varies, though the defaults that ship with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are quite good. The Consolas font included with Vista is particularly good.

Fortunately, there is a quality free/open alternative. Raph Levien has developed a great programming font cleverly called Inconsolata. I have been using it as my primary terminal/coding/text font for several months and find it superior to anything else I’ve used.

Incosonata is freely available under the Open Font License. The OpenType version of Inconsolata will work on all major platforms. There is also a PFA version available.

Font geeks can download the Inconsolata FontForge source file and a PDF sample is available.

Here’s a quick screenshot of Inconsolata used in a simple PHP file on my desktop.

 

Acts of Volition Radio: Session 29

by Steven Garrity

Acts of Volition Radio: Session Twenty Nine

A new session of Acts of Volition Radio is full of delightful songs for the summer. The songs may also be enjoyed during other seasons.

Songs for summer. Recorded Sunday, April 5, 2007 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 45min.

Session Twenty Nine Playlist:

  1. Two Hours Traffic – Arms Akimbo
  2. Travis – Big Chair
  3. Jellyfish – Glutton of Sympathy
  4. Stars – Midnight Coward
  5. The New Pornographers – Failsave
  6. Zwan – Lyric
  7. Starflyer 59 – I Win
  8. Manic Street Preachers – Design for Life
  9. Joel Plaskett Emergency – The Instrumental

For more, see the previous Acts of Volition Radio sessions or subscribe to the Acts of Volition Radio RSS feed.

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Around the Restaurant

by Steven Garrity

My friend Jakub was out for diner during GUADEC (a Gnome conference) and took a great video with his digital camera. They were apparently at a restaurant with a conveyor-belt that runs by the table and through the kitchen. He sent his camera on a little trip:

Clever.

 

“This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons”

by Steven Garrity

Tonight I got home from a movie (Everything’s Gone Green – good movie) and headed to the iTunes Store to listen to some previews from the soundtrack. I was greeted by this message:

Sharpmusique iTunes account error

I suspect this is because I have used SharpMusique, an unauthorized Linux-based client for the iTunes Store (that lets you pay for music). That said, my account has been disabled from logging in from the official iTunes client as well (screenshot).