Google went away from the supplemental indexing or at least from reporting the supplemental results. Which left some of us wondering what might be going on. Personally I like having everything in the index or at least most pages and post are doing better these days.
MyBlogLog was purchased recently by Yahoo. I thought okay no big deal, till I had to log into my account and start making changes, like they didn’t know what my avatar is so I have to create a new one. Like I can link to my Yahoo account if I want to, etc. etc.
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The last post here at the Lab was about the font legibility on IE 7 vs Firefox. I looked and looked to find a way to make them as bold and easy to read on FF as on IE 7 to no avail.
But now I have a solution and you can get this same legibility not only on FF but on EVERYTHING you read on your Windows computer.
Microsoft Power Toys
ClearType Tuner
This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access.
For me this was a great find. I downloaded this and installed it. Went directly into FF and “BANG” the same look and feel in FF as in IE 7. Then I dropped the browser window and there was my desktop and all of my application fonts were the same legibility as I had in IE 7.
I’ve lived with IE 7 for a week now. I would much rather use FF. It knows when I’m logged in to a site and doesn’t ask me to login a dozen times when I’m already logged in.
Ex. I’m logged into my google account, FF knows when I go to gmail. I’m logged in, when I go to google notebook, I’m logged in. But IE 7 asks for a log in every step of the way.
Bonus info P margin 40 vs Blockquote
I also find the RTE in Wordpress functions a little differently (better) in FF than in IE.
In the RTE when I bring in a graphic, I don’t set the location. I’ve noticed when I do this there is no text beside the image. Once the image is in the post I click on it and select right or left. It goes there in FF and the text wraps beside the image. Not so in IE 7. I have to go to the code window and insert align=”right” if I want text to wrap. In FF no such work is necessary.
One more thing I’ve noticed in both of these browsers with the latest version of Wordpress. A block quote is no longer a block quote in code from the RTE window. It puts in a paragraph margin 40 instead of a blockquote. If you want blockquote code you have to go to the code editor and put it in yourself. Call me old fashioned but I want a blockquote endblockquote not a paragraph margin 40 setting.
Ah, the eyes are getting a break. As much as they view this screen, they need it.
I’ve waited for a very long time to update IE to version 7. Our local MLS software was not compatible with IE 7 when it first came out. I recently checked again to see if any of the recent work they have done on the software changed this. It is now functional with IE 7 (but not Firefox). I thought it was time for a change and my IE 6 has been crashing practically everytime I open it. This past week I intalled IE 7 and had a option of font display during the intallation process to make the fonts enhanced and smoother and easier to read on screen. In essence it seems to bold almost every font making them thicker and darker on screen. For those of us using reading glasses to see our screen, much easier to read.
I was amazed the difference between IE 7 and Firefox. I’ve been using FF as my main browser and only using IE for those sites that were not compatible with it. However, I am writing this using IE 7 and I have to admit it is much easier to read and see the screen. IE 7 is loading my web pages much faster than FF and in the RTE that I’m using to write this I don’t get the hesitant backspace or a double backspace that I get when editing and typing in FF.
Here are two screen shots from IE 7 and FF of part of todays post on Tucson AZ Real Estate blog.
As you can see the IE shot is clearer and smoother than that of FF.
There are still a lot of things about IE I don’t care for. But I do wish FF would load faster than it has been since the last update and I wish I could get the same fonts to display in FF as they are now displaying on IE.
For the time being, I’m back to using IE for all my blog editing. It is so much easier on the eyes.
Anybody wanting to weigh in on how to get FF to display fonts in the same way IE 7 does I would be glad to hear about it. Getting FF to load and add new tabs quicker would also be a bonus of information.
The 2.3.2 upgrade was painless. So there is no smoke in the Lab just this picture of Prickly Pear Cactus since upgrading Wordpress continues to be a prickly situation with which to deal. There was still the issue of the spell checker not working so I had to move the spellchecker directory from the previous install to this one.
There was a very nice post here. I used Windows Live Writer to create the draft and send it to the blog. It looked good and had an image on it. Once it was published I came back into Live Writer. I had sent the post to the blog as a draft. I finished editing and adding tags on the blog itself.
I came back to Live Writer and the draft was still here. I couldn’t find any way to get it off the screen to start a new post. Finally after clicking on a few things I found where I could delete the draft.
Ah, but it deleted the published post on the blog along with it. So here is my excuse. “Windows Live Writer deleted my post and this is all I have left to hand in.”
I’ll rewrite tomorrow.
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