Comic Neue The new, suited, Comic Sans

Craig Rozynski is an Australian digital designer in Japan. He is the creator of the new Comic font. It is the refined and improved version of the old Comic Sans. Comic Sans was something I liked to use when I was 10 and liked to play with the computer. It is a font, though that to this day I have almost never seen used anywhere for serious purposes. Sure there are places such as the local kids shop or a pizza place that have. The purpose was to show their carefree nature(CERN and the Vatican are said to have used it too :/ ). This version though seems a perfect combination of cool and serious.

Here is quoted what Rozynski aims with this new font:

"Comic Sans wasn’t designed to be the world’s most ubiquitous casual typeface1. Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone including the typographically savvy.

The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular.

It's perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos."

Here you can see some changes from the original versions:

                                                     

This new experiment shows our love for slim fonts, Helvetica being the best example in this case. But loosing a few kilos on a font make it that much better?

The font is available for download for free for a limited time. If you are interested click here and get it. I did. What harm can it do?

Justdelete.me Delete your online presence!

Nowadays its hard to find someone who doesn't have a bunch of online accounts. We all do. We divide our lives between the virtual one and the physical one. I guess calling it "real life" is a little bit antiquated, since we can wear our "virtual life" on our wrists and our eyes.

Starting from Facebook, Twitter and moving on to Gmail, Outlook and finishing at some forum that you registered on a while ago, the sheer number of online accounts that we have is something to think about. Even multiple accounts at the same site.

Sometimes it can just be too much. We have all done it so no one is better than the other. One needs to sit back and think though, what is necessary and what is useless. It is a waste to keep accounts that you used just once to check a cool new service.

There are some sites that aren't very friendly at allowing you to close your account. Yes I'm talking about you Amazon. Of course there are others who are okay with removing you from their web service, but they are a dying breed.

British developer Robb Lewis created justdelete.me to tackle that specific problem. What he aims to do with it is show you which services make it easy and which ones make difficult erasing your account. It will even tell you which accounts are impossible to close.

It ranks the sites according to the steps a user needs to take to close the account. It also highlights some sites which you might want to stop using. The service is free so for anyone who wants to delete their personal presence

It may not be easy, but it's worth doing. Click Here to check it out.

New Google Drive add-ons, How to use them?

On March 11th Google presented for the first time add-ons for its Office apps. More specifically Docs and Sheets are the services which are getting this new feature. Basically the idea behind this is to do more without ever leaving the Drive. These add-ons are not written by Google itself, instead 3rd party developers are invited to create as many of them as possible.

Now, approximately one month later there are 35 add-ons available, from Charts to Bible Verses.
To find the add-ons all you need to do is to open a new document or spreadsheet. There on the menu bar you can find the "Add-ons" button.

Click it and then just find what you want to add. Being a student, I often have to write bibliographies for papers. They can be a pain. So for the purposes of this article I am installing the "EasyBib Bibliography Creator". After you press add, a permission window, like the one in Android, will pop up. Press Accept.

After installing to launch the Bibliography Creator all I need to do is go to Add-ons again and press Start or Manage the Bibliography in this case.

The add on will usually appear in the a sidebar to the right of the page. Keep in mind that only one add-on can be displayed at a time.
To remove an add on simply go to Add-ons>Manage add-ons... The click manage on the add on you want to remove and press Remove.

Enjoy these new features! Here is the video Google prepared for this new feature.

Emails from Apple top executives Reveal concerns over Samsung's success and more

Apple is facing Samsung in federal court over patent disputes. For the purposes of the trial several emails from its officials have been made public by Apple. These emails show their concerns about competing head to head with Android smartphones.

An email from Apple's senior vice-president Phil Schiller shows his concern about how consumers perceived the iPhone, compared to Galaxy devices by Samsung.

"I watched the Samsung pre-superbowl ad that launched today… It's pretty good and I can’t help but thinking 'these guys are feeling it (like an athlete that can't miss because they are in a zone), while we struggle to nail a compelling brief on iPhone."

 "Something drastic has to change. Fast!" is another part of the email obtained by CNET. Another thing mentioned in his email are the Apple's views on the market of phablets and low-cost devices(under $300).

Another email is the one of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sent on October 24, 2010 was posted by The Verge. You can read the full email here.
You can read there about topics such as a "Holy War with Google", "danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long(innovator's dilemma)" and plans for the new iPhone 4S and 5.
Jobs' strategy to "catch up to Android" was focused on notifications, tethering, speech and Siri.
Apple TV is also mentioned in his email and also a strategy to "stay in the living room game and make a great 'must have' accessory for iOS devices", with content from NBC, CBS, Viacom and HBO.

All these emails were revealed on the second day of the trial. Who knows what more will be revealed.

Source: Mashable

elementary OS Isis - Quick Preview

Avi Romanoff, member of the elementary team posted a video of the next iteration of the OS.
Named Isis, it simply looks gorgeous.
It was initially posted in Google+ in elementaryOS' community.
The thing we all want to know though is when will it be available. Romanoff gave this answer:

We plan on releasing a public beta and ISOs in the near future, though we don't have an exact date to share right now. We'll definitely let everyone know when we do -- stay tuned :)

Some of the features shown in the video:

1. The boot speed(approximately 10 seconds)
2. The new lock screen
3. The new Wingpanel, it can change opacity according to the background, pretty cool.
4. Some new animations.
5. New icons, and toggle switches.
6. The new Header Bar

The video is approximately 4 minutes long, check it out down here: