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1st March 2005

Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

“As a web designer, you know that Verdana can get real old real fast. But you also know that there are millions of free fonts on the internet and most of them are horribly bad. Here’s a secret: not all truetype fonts are bad. Some of them are quite classy. The truth is you dont have to be rich and able to afford postscript fonts in order to look professional. I’ve collected 300 of my favorite truetype fonts that can be used for design works. Here they are free to download in .ttf format (works on both MacOSX and Windows machines), organized into the following categories…”

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1st March 2005

Digital Railroad streamlines the selling and distributing of pictures electronically 

“Digital Railroad is an online archive system for managing the marketing and distribution of photographs by individual photographers and smaller agencies. Since its launch in August 2004, Digital Railroad has signed up some of the finest editorial and documentary photographers working today…”

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1st March 2005

Use Nikon Lenses on Canon Cameras

“You can get an adaptor to put Nikon lenses on Canon EOS film and digital cameras. Canon cameras have a shorter distance between the lens flange and film plane than Nikon. Therefore there are a couple of millimeters left over into which a metal mounting adaptor can fit.”

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