If you are running Windows XP and have an LCD monitor, you should be running Microsoft’s ClearType. Microsoft’s description of ClearType says:

With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.

Before, you only had the option to use the web-based ClearType tuner which required IE (since it uses ActiveX). Now you have the option to download the new ClearType Tuner PowerToy. It allows you to adjust the settings locally, and has an alternative adjustment UI in the Advanced tab.

In the past, I’ve tried to link to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term screencast. Well, I’ve finally been able to do that, since a user recently posted the original entry for this term on the 13th of March, 2005. You can see this by looking at the history view for Wikipedia term screencast.

Another recent entry to Wikipedia is the term podcasting, which was created on the 2nd of Oct, 2004.

How about folksonomy? Born on the 8th of Nov. 2004.

Del.icio.us? Created September 1st, 2004.

Perhaps there is something to monitoring Wikipedia for new terms as they are created and as they are changed… perhaps you can tap into trends very early in their lives?

Just watch Jon Udell’s screencast entitled Language Evolution with Del.icio.us all the way to the end. You can find a link to the screencast on Jon’s del.icio.us/judell/screencast page.