Logitech is undoubtedly a world leader in input devices and they have a good history of providing quality products. Using their MX 518 Gaming mouse left a good impression about their line of input devices and provoked me to go for K340 when I was searching for a good wireless keyboard. What I was looking for is not something funky looking or highly customizable multimedia keyboard, but something streamlined and compact which is portable enough to be used some 5 meters away from my computer. And off course, I had a budget to stay into, between Rs. 1500 and 2500.
Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340
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When designing a website, apart from the usual gradients and other graphical elements, the single most important constituent is the Font. It takes a hell lot of trial and error to get the right font for your website, you need to try different ones, look at them from different angles and decide if they’ll work for you or not. On the other hand, since the browsers will be finally rendering whatever you’ve chosen as your favourite, a designer also has to keep in mind how different browsers are generating the fonts according to the underlying code. That’s why I decided to give the 3 most popular browsers a go on their own capabilities of font rendition. And here’s the result,

As you can see, Google Chrome 4 Dev builds have some problems with Font Anti-Aliasing, while IE shows a bit more blur than anyone else. In my opinion Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 gave the best results with both Serif and Sans-Serif fonts. [click to continue…]