I’m not sure what it is about fonts, but I absolutely love them. To me it’s like each one is  a little work of art. Whether the fonts are serif or sans-serif, the thickness of the lines or the unique curve and formation of the “g” and the “ampersand”.

Today I found the Periodic Table of Typefaces thanks to a tweet from a friend. The whole collection is gorgeous.

Each font is ranked according to overall popularity that was collected from a variety of websites. All of which is detailed on the original chart graphic. Each individual font also lists the details of that font’s design.

Probably not to anyone’s surprise, Helvetica was the number one ranked font available.

View the original Periodic Table of Typefaces online here.

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OmmWriter

There have been successful applications such as WriteRoom who have managed to unclutter the desktop and allow writers to concentrate on writing instead of the chaos that is their desktop.

OmmWriter is an application similar to WriteRoom. However it ups the ante a little bit. Instead of offering you just a blank canvass, OmmWriter sets a meditation mood complete with background music and a zen like background. Evoking a serene and tranquil environment to help set the mood for creative writing.

It’s recommended that you use headphones with OmmWriter to block out all external distractions.

OmmWriter is developed by Herraiz Soto & Co, a digital creative agency. It was initially slated as an internal tool for them but they thought that it’s such a good application that it should be shared with the world.

It’s still in beta version but from the looks of it, this promises to be a good application. Simple and does something really well. Apps shouldn’t always have all the bells and whistles. They just need to answer a problem and answer it well. OmmWriter does just that. As proof? This post took me a very short while to write, simply because I wasn’t distracted and had a condusive environment to work with.

So go check it out. Download it from this web site.

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The EverNote Corporation is proud to announce that we have launched EverNote Plus 1.5 for Windows, an improved, faster version of our popular Windows software.For a limited time, until October 31, we would like to offer you an exclusive 25% discount to purchase EverNote Plus for just $29.95:

You can access your limited-time promotion here.

EverNote is a nice clean tool, but not one I’ve ever really started using myself.

With EverNote 1.5 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!

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Do you know what a blue, squiggly line means? What? You’ve never seen the blue, squiggly? You’re right, you haven’t, that is unless you’re playing around with the Office 2007 beta. The blue, squiggly is a new visual alert to let you know you’ve used the wrong spelling of a word in context.

This sentence hear fore example.

If I had been typing this in Word 2007, the “hear” and the “fore” would have been identified by a blue, squiggly underline. The correct spelling of those words would have obviously been “here” and “for” respectively.

When I get to my home computer, I’ll grab a screen shot of the functionality and share it.

It’s amazing to me the amount of intellect it probably takes for Word to figure this type of stuff out. I think it would be pretty enlightening to see the code and logic behind that functionality.

Thanks to Jensen for sharing, and providing the link to more details about the rest of the activity surrounding the work being done by the Speech and Natural Language group. Jensen shares some interesting thoughts of his own behind how he believes the squiggly features improve his overall writing.

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