Have you ever seen a font you really love but are unsure what it actually is? Yesterday I ran into an issue where I had a logo created by a contractor who is long gone and I needed to know what font he used in the logo. How hard could that be? Well after about ten minutes of searching I quickly realized there are way more fonts in the world than I ever realized and that I didn’t know enough about this space to do a keyword search to find my mystery font. Tiring of a manual search I wondered if there were any free tools on the web to help identify fonts. One quick Google search and voila, I found WhatTheFont, a free tool on myfont.com which quickly found my font with a minimal amount of work for me. All I needed to do was upload an image of the font in question, so in my case I stripped out the word in the logo and saved it as a png file. I then uploaded and the site tried to identify what the image was saying. In my case it guessed 100% correct, but in case it was unable to, the sites gives you the ability to tell it what the word(s) say by overriding their guess. Once I had completed that, WhatTheFont gave me a list of guesses for what my mystery font was and sure enough its top/best guess was exactly what I was looking for! This tool was a lifesaver.
Came across a service for finding available domain names that I absolutely love, its called Bust A Name. To use the service you choose several keywords that you would potentially like in your domain name and it checks out all the available permutations. This is 100 times better than the old one at a time domain lookups I’ve previously performed. Take a moment to check this site out and let me know what you think.
One of my favorite bloggers and authors, Tim Ferriss, has just announced his new book “The 4 Hour Body”. Check it out, I guarantee it will be an interesting read. If you are not familiar with him already check out his blog or his previous book “The Four Hour Work Week”. He is offering some signed books (3000) for the early orders, I just ordered two. I loved his previous book and I can’t wait to read this one!
For the past hour I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to get the System.Web.Extensions dll to load within my class library project. Turns out you cannot access any of the System.Web dlls from a class library that is targeting .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile. By changing the target to be just “.NET Framework 4.0” everything works fine. Hopefully this will save someone else some time in the future…
