Adobe Typekit is partially down. Some websites using the hosted web fonts service are looking a bit normal. A few websites have fallen back to the standard Arial font. On this site, I use Google fonts called Francois One and Bitter. It’s designed to fall back to sans-serif. It’s unusual for a web font service to go down, but just like everything else, they do go down occasionally.
Archives for August 2015
Opera Browser Maker On Sale
The makers of the Opera browser is considering selling the company due to interest from several companies. The Opera browser, while innovative at times, they were the first one to implement tabs, have never been able to get a large share of the market. It’s currently standing fifth behind the more popular browsers on the personal computers market, and a shrinking share on the mobile market as well. Read the rest of the article.
WiFi on 900 Mhz
A couple of researchers (hackers) have been able to transmit WiFi signals on the 900 Mhz amateur ham radio band. Signals were successfully received as far as 20 miles away. But due to the technological approached being used using frequencies on the noise floor, the top speed is only achieved at 56 kbps, reminiscent of the dial modem speeds of the past. Nevertheless, the range is quite impressive. Read the rest of the article.
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