Typing Hebrew on a Mac

Chris Heard has put together two screencasts demonstrating how to setup and use your Mac to type in Hebrew. You might want to be sure you have the unicode SBL Hebrew font installed before you watch the videos. The font is available free for download here. Be sure to also download the keyboard driver and [...]

Great Free Online Document Conversion Tool

Just found out about Media-Convert, an online, totally free (no registration even) document conversion site. HT: Darwin Glassford

Hebrew Font Issues

I am pretty good at getting my Hebrew fonts to play nice on my computer. I use Mellel for wordprocessing most of the time. Scrivener does a decent job handling the mix of R->L and L->R text that I create. I’ve come to accept (after a great deal of weeping and gnashing followed by much [...]

I think I’m in Font Heaven

TechCrunch has a terrific post today about fonts, font utilities, and much more. Check it out! HT: @BoraZ via Twitter

Observe the Ant

Go to the ant… observe its ways and be wise Prov. 6.6 This photo is just amazing. Taken by 24-year-old amateur photographer, Bolucevschi Vitali, who captured the title of CIWEM‘s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 with this picture, Talking About Stars. On a sunny day I took a camera and set out to photograph [...]

“Yes, I can!”

That is my answer to the question “So, you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?” And I can prove it. Here’s my score on the quiz at Ironic Sans. Take the quiz yourself and see how you do. If you are nervous, brush up on the differences here first.