"Ithaca, NYManaging fonts in Mac OS X is all too often like herding cats, but users can now corral their fonts with a new ebook, "Take Control of Fonts in Leopard" (TidBITS, $15.00), and its sidekick, "Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard" (TidBITS, $10.00).

Written by font expert Sharon Zardetto, who has been publishing top-tier content about the Mac since 1984, these up-to-date ebooks cover not only the versions of Leopard up through 10.5.5, but also special font situations in software such as Adobe CS3 and CS4, Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, iLife, iWork, and Safari. The ebooks may be purchased for $15 and $10 respectively, or in a bundle for $20 at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-fonts.html.

"Take Control of Fonts in Leopard" covers topics such as:

• Making the most of character-rich Unicode fonts.
• The ins and outs of different font installation methods.
• Using Font Book to manage, validate, and organize fonts.
• Where fonts reside and in what order they load, and what--if anything--you should do about it.
• Organizing fonts from Adobe CS3 and CS4 so they appear when and where you want them.
• The quirks of fonts installed by Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, and which ones you should keep. - Using Apple's Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer to insert and explore special characters.

"Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard" answers questions such as:

• Where do fonts belong on my hard drive?
• In what order do fonts load, and what if I have multiple copies?
• How do I use Safe Mode to troubleshoot a font problem?
• How do I use another user account to troubleshoot a font problem?
• How do I move a font file that doesn't want to move?
• Why does bold and italic text look double-printed in Word?
• Why does a font's name have brackets around it in the InDesign font list?
• Why can't I install a PostScript Type 1 font?
• Why doesn't the Input menu show up in my menu bar?
• People keep telling me to "just delete the caches." Where are they? Why does deleting them help?"

Las Vegas, Nevada - Since SecureMac released its iWorkServices Trojan Removal Tool last week, a new related trojan has been detected in the wild. As a result, SecureMac has updated the tool, and renamed it iServices Trojan Removal Tool. The tool is still free to download and use, and now detects and removes the new variant distributed with pirated versions of Adobe (ADBE) Photoshop CS 4 for Apple (AAPL) Mac OS X.
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"Sebastopol, CA--No wonder we snap up 15 million digital cameras a year--they save us money, provide instant creative feedback, and allow instantaneous distribution of our pictures. But now there is twice as much to learn: the art of photography plus the science of working with photos on the computer. Fortunately in O'Reilly Media's new, highly anticipated "David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual" ($24.99), the New York Times tech columnist and camera critic takes all the "negatives" out of digital photography.

Instead, in a concise, easy-to-understand, jargon-free, and beautifully illustrated four-color book, author David Pogue demystifies the art of shooting pictures, editing them, organizing them, and distributing them to your audience.

"These days, digital photography *is* photography. But even the cheapest pocket camera has over 100 features, half of which are never decently explained anywhere. I mean, come on, read the photo magazines: 'Boost the ISO to 1600, dial up the aperture, or change the exposure compensation by 1/3EV.' Huh?" notes David.

David adds: "I'm so happy to have this chance to break through both the marketing jargon and the techno jargon--to write an entertaining little book that covers both pocket cameras and the big black SLR models. Over the years, I've reviewed hundreds of cameras for The Times, and loved every minute of it; I think this was a book I was born to write."
For more information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bio, and samples, Go to: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154035/

"If there was ever a product that richly deserved its own chapter, it’s Leopard’s amazing Spotlight search feature. That’s because we spend a ton of our time searching for things on our Macs. Why? Because we don’t know where anything is. Ever. Take my car keys, for example. You might as well take them, because I generally have no idea where they are. For some reason I can clearly remember undocumented keyboard shortcuts from Mac OS 7.1, but I have no idea where I laid my car keys last night. You know what I need? I need Spotlight outside my Mac, in my regular life. I would just type in “car keys” and it would say “in the kitchen, just to the left of the bowl of fruit” or, more likely, “they’re still in the ignition.” So, how does the name of this chapter, “Spotlight on Sam & Dave,” fit in? Well, that’s the hook from the classic oldie “Sweet Soul Music” by an artist named Arthur Conley. In the song, he “spotlights” other singers, like James Brown and Otis Redding."
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