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Google Font and the Web

Introducing Google Font.

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers

Now that’s a nice little gift for us Web Designers and Developers. The next time you’re looking for fonts for the web but don’t want to spend a dollar or lurk into technical stuffs, be sure to checkout Google Fonts (They have a sleek preview tool too).

Also worth mentioning, TypeKit and Google recently announced some sort of partnership regarding this matter, you can read it on TypeKit’s official blog entry here.

Things out there in the wild

Here are some interesting stuffs lately:

Chrome Beta for Mac is out!

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Finally after months of waiting. Here’s the public beta for Mac.

Whois google.com?

A quick whois from my terminal tells me:
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It has less porn :D

Hello ChromeOS

I’ve been up all night for the official announcement of ChromeOS from Google which is scheduled to be released next year.

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Demo:

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Here’s are some of the details:

- instant boot
- every app is a web app
- all data is in the cloud

- browser security model- reference hardware
- you can’t download Chrome OS and install it on your machine
- the only way to install the OS is to buy a Chrome OS machine (*)
- the target launch time: the end of next year

Even though I’m skeptical about (*) I’m still excited about the year ahead.  For more details, you can visit the the Official Blog Entry from Google.