Tag mac
Fixing overbold text on Mac web browsers
Over the past few years I have regularly run into an issue with web browsers on Mac OS X rendering fonts too bold. This can sometimes give the appearance of text appearing at a complete font-weight above what it should be. I have, however, stumbled upon the solution.
HTML over Flash
Well it’s been a while since the last post but that doesn’t mean the quality has gone down! Today I needed to show a normal HTML anchor tag, a close button, but over the top of some flash content. Now this works fine in firefox, just create the anchor and move it over the flash.
VirtualBox Kernel bug on Mac OS X
A slight departure from my normal webby/development type posts today; virtualbox (my virtualisation package of choice) seems to have developed an odd error on my mac. Luckily I know how to get around it and it’s time to share the wealth :p
Fixing Google Chrome fonts in Mac OS X
Today my install of Google Chrome went a little mad and decided that Times New Roman was the best font in the world and should have the whole internet rendered in it. To fix this I had to clear OS X’s font caches using the following commands: sudo atsutil databases -remove atsutil server -shutdown atsutil server -ping And there was much rejoicing…