Having a great keyboard matters more to me than debates about operating systems or computer brands. I can use Windows, Linux, or macOS and get…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Writing
Watching our daughters type for their virtual learning exercises pains me. Our daughters need to learn to type, properly. After two or three years of…
Blogging and vlogging (or being a “YouTuber”) have never been an easy way to earn extra income. The rare influencers with millions of followers do…
As the co-editor of Type Matters, along with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, I argue that font designs are semiotic communication. Typefaces accrue meaning through their historical uses…
Only three applications I use remain unavailable for macOS 10.15 (Catalina). Unfortunately, these are three apps I use with some frequency and past projects are…
Many disabled individuals rely on dictation and text-to-speech tools for their work and social interactions. There are days when I need dictation software for physical…
Physical books from major imprints still matter to the status of authors and to readers. Having a publishing house endorse a work matters because it…
Blogger was amazing when I first began blogging in 2004. That’s right, there are posts on my blogs dating to the year Google relaunched the platform. Today, Blogger…
MarsEdit and Blogger are not cooperating, and I’m uncertain if I will use MarsEdit past the trail period. Currently, what the application offers me is…
Mailing posts to blogs, a practice I adopted in 2005, allows a blogger like me to store copies of draft posts within an email. If…