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Let’s face it … we’ve all been in that dreaded place where we don’t have the right font to do the job. Whether it’s titles for a video, captions or watermarks on photos, preparing a PowerPoint presentation, or updating that ubiquitous TPS Report, the perfect font can make all the difference.

The problem? That font usually costs $100, or maybe more. Ouch.

To the rescue of the would-be media geek comes urbanfonts.com and their massive selection of free fonts. They may not have exactly what you want, need, or are looking for, but they might get close. The price is right, at least, so it can’t hurt to take a look at what they’re offering.

http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm

If you’re anything like me (And, really, who is?), you’ve undoubtedly deleted a few digital photos from a memory card that you didn’t mean to delete. If not, then you’ve probably accidentally deleted a master image from your desktop before you backed it up and after you formatted your memory card. Either way, you’ve lost the original photo. What do you do?

You download a copy of PhotoRec — available for anything from DOS to Mac OS X — and hope for the best. It’s free, open-source, and even a great general purpose file recovery tool.

Flying home for the holidays?  Have a laptop in your bag?  Here’s a list of airports that provide free wifi ‘net access.

http://www.smallbusiness.com/wiki/Free_wifi_airports

OS X experts tend to agree: Dashboard is a resource hog. Most folks will never notice and, consequentially, will never care. Me? I’ve disabled mine. Here’s how.

1. Open a Terminal window (found under /Applications/Utilities in Finder).
2. At the prompt, type:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall dock

To re-enable dashboard, just repeat those commands, but replace “YES” with “NO”.

Now, when you’re editing photos or rendering video, you’ll have a small amount more of performance to squeeze out of your system.

I’ve always used SnapZ Pro X to record my screen and voice-overs but, this new app looks pretty sweet.

Check out the free open beta while it lasts. I know i’m going to.

http://shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html