MacKeeper is software for Mac, with lots of useful utilities. If you need an online backup, or need to recover lost data this may be for you. Nobody should need to lose data in this day and age. I just had a student email me today that his hard drive had crashed and he’d lost all his files. This is something that is completely preventable. The anti-theft and Geeks on demand are both great little features as well. As much as I love my external hard drive, I don’t know how many more times I can drop it without it falling apart. Online backups are getting more and more appealing to me! I love being able to access my files from anywhere. Using Dropbox is also great for this, but they give you such limited space. With this you can create a backup schedule and don’t even have to think about it.

I’ll be covering a few ways to add fonts to your website in my classes over the next few days but here is one method from Paul Irish that works well. Keep in mind you will also need to use Font Squirrel to generate fonts with @font-face. Here is his example CSS:

@font-face {
font-family: ‘Graublau Web’;
src: url(‘GraublauWeb.eot’);
src: local(‘☺’),
url(‘GraublauWeb.woff’) format(‘woff’), url(‘GraublauWeb.ttf’) format(‘truetype’);
}

On another note Paul has been developing a few other nifty things. I enjoyed his CSS3 please site and am looking into the HTML5 boilerplate. The CSS3 site has some nice tips and tricks for things like rotation that are new to CSS.

One of the things I have done quite a bit of as a wordpress designer and developer is giving clients hours and hours of tutorials on how to use, manage and update their wordpress website. I just stumbled on this plugin for wordpress – and this is one of the best things I’ve seen online for awhile in regards to getting clients up to speed on using their wordpress as a CMS. It includes not only videos that show how to edit and do all the things you’d need to do to manage your site but also is a plugin and has a manual with useful information.

If you are a student in my new media course this semester you may also want to check this out for some extra information on building and editing your wordpress site. The videos are very easy to follow and I would recommend this to anyone who is just starting out with using wordpress, either as a blogging tool, for designing and developing websites, or for your clients.