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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.

via lifehacker:

Windows only: PortableApps Suite 1.0 stocks your USB drive, portable hard drive, or any other drive with a full complement of software, ready to run wherever you plug in.

This new version of the suite includes the latest portable versions of Firefox, GAIM, OpenOffice, and other open-source gems. The suite also comes with PortableApps Backup for–you guessed it–making backups.

If you have a 256MB of bigger thumbdrive colleting dust, this is definitely worth checking out. Revew the full suite at portableapps.com.

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