Monday, December 26, 2005

Tip of the Day: Improve your screen readability on XP

Have you ever wondered why you prefer to print and read from papers rather than screen directly?The answer is that the fonts appearing on the screen are not sharp & clear as the printed material. Microsoft has attempted to resolve this pain of customers through ClearType. I think they did really well. See it yourself to believe it. The improvement is very impressive in LCD. I personally don't see much in the CRT. You can enable ClearType on XP using the following web interface.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx


Note:
1. Use IE instead of firefox as this enabling is based on ActiveX control.
2. After this, increase your screen resolution and see that now you'll be comfortable with larger resolutions. I use (1400 x 1050) than (1280 x 1024) when ClearType is enabled. Saves lot of scrolling & tabbing.

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