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		<title>Windows 7&#8217;s Disingenuous &#8220;Advantage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/14/windows-7s-disingenuous-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darien Graham-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Microsoft announced some details of anti-piracy measures in Windows 7. It sounds like they’re going to be slightly less intrusive than those in Vista, and probably roughly as effective.
I don’t exactly resent all this product validation stuff. I’d prefer it if Microsoft didn’t feel the need to do it; but I accept that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stretching the truth by snipping the figures</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/04/15/stretching-the-truth-by-snipping-the-figures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darien Graham-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[damned lies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s something that winds me up. This is a graph that was published to accompany a high-profile hardware launch last year. I won’t name names, but you can probably guess who produced it and what they were trying to show:

As you can see, across various tests the red bar is three, four, even six times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Font smoothing: a not-so-sharp distinction</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/05/a-not-so-sharp-distinction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darien Graham-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fonts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m just road-testing Safari 4, and I’ve come across this interesting claim on the What’s New in Safari page:
&#8220;Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Apple’s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer.&#8221;
Now, if you didn’t know any better, wouldn’t you take that to mean that Windows’ fonts aren’t anti-aliased? And [...]]]></description>
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