Word Monger

With each passing year, evolving software technology brings to us, faster, more sophisticated, versatile and easy-to-use products. Business software allows companies to save time, effort and money. Education computer programs teach basic skills and sophisticated subjects. Home software now includes a wide array of programs that enhance the user’s productivity and creativity. Computer graphics have turned PCs into veritable artist’s palette and new games are increasingly inventive. The industry is thriving and users stand to benefit along with the publishers. But in the process, the problem of software theft has developed and threatens to impede the development of new software products. Romantically called “piracy,” the unauthorized duplication of software is a capital offence that affects everyone; large and small software developers and legitimate users. Even the users of unlawful copies suffer from their own illegal actions. They receive no documentation, no customer support and no i...

It is astonishing to see what information technology hs done to the typesetting industry. In the past three decades, technological advancement in the area of typography and composition has revolutionized the graphic art and prepress industry segments. Claude Garamond, the sixteenth century French punch cutter who established the first type foundry probably had little or no idea what the young industry would become in the ages to come. Type is the personality of the printed word. Typography can convey great individuality. Competent use of type has given structure and emphasis to text, and helped present it in a way that is comfortable for the reader. Poor use of type can confuse the reader by conveying a mood that conflict with the meaning of the text. More especially, bad use of type can simply be distractive. The use of type in composition and graphic design has witnessed outstanding advancement by the introduction of desktop computing. At this point, a retrospective overview of the t...