I suck

[avram]

After more than a week of craving exercise, I slept late this morning and didn’t go to the gym. Bleh. I did eventually drag my ass into some clothes and do some laundry. I also upgraded to MacOS X 10.1.5, and installed Silk, so now all the web looks really slick and anti-aliased, which means large text looks great and small text looks blurry and illegible. Time to fiddle with the settings to find a good threshold setting.

Comments

You do not suck!

[(Anonymous)]

You rule! Avram is the snuggliest!

Anonymous Girlfriend (nuku-nuku)

anti-suck

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but spreading the word about Silk gets you back a lot of suckage points. Even Monaco looks young and almost spry again! And I didn't even have to restart applications to have Silk's text smoothing applied. Not what I expect from a personal computer operating system: much, much better.

I was having trouble with blurry text in iCab reading LiveJournal in particular, but setting the system cut-off for smoothing to 10 seems to have fixed that well enough to suit my optical indiosyncracies.

Silk seems to have a clipping bug when displaying smoothed text against a "benday" background, e.g. selected text in iCab's URL text box.

Re: anti-suck

[avram]

MSIE looks pretty damn boss. I’d previously been pretty down on anti-alised text, it tended to just look blurry, but 10.1.5 + Silk looks really good most of the time.