Type kit, the web service that helps designer exploit complex typefaces in their page designs, is celebrating its one year anniversary with a large announcement the company has added 16 of Adobe’s popular font families to Type kit’s ever-growing firm of options.

With the adding up of Adobe’s fonts to Type Kit’s already large library, designers now have admission to popular workhorse fonts like Adobe Garamond, News Gothic, Myriad and Minion, as well as a little funkier options like Rosewood or Trajan, the movie font. These typefaces are deeply used in the print publishing world.

The new Adobe fonts are the original cuts of the typefaces, not reproductions or downgrade web versions of the designs. This means it’s now apt to use them just like you would in print work with the same interpretation accuracy and technical detail you would see on paper. Monday’s development should have a positive impact on the use of fancier fonts on the websites of old-school institutions and larger corporations companies that have been using Adobe products to build their print materials for years. Now that they have the same level of control over details like kerning pairs and line height on the web, they will have an easier time making the jump.

There’s been a lot written regarding the policy and course of the rising HTML5 design but what working Web developers mainly want to know is: What can I do with HTML5, and when can I start using it? The good news is that there’s a batch you can do with HTML5. The better news is that there’s a lot that you can do with HTML5 today.

But first, one main stipulation: You have to know your viewers, nevertheless, of course, this is true whether or not you feel like to start using HTML5. If the majority of your site’s visitors still use Internet Explorer 6, then you have no motive to rush. On the other hand, if your site is mainly for mobile browsers on iPhone and iPods, what are you waiting for? But if your site falls somewhere in the middle as most do at this point are some handy plans to ramping up to HTML5.

What HTML5 features you can use now

Although the HTML5 design is still a sketch being worked on by a typical team, major portions are already deployed in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera and the forthcoming Microsoft IE9 is likely to accept much of the sketch HTML5 requirement as well.

Speaking out on ecological genocide, Indigenous Peoples demonstrate the legacy of death and ruin from mining, power plants, toxic dumping and the nuclear industry, at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Indigenous Peoples are consulting and strategizing on energy and climate change, immigration, poverty, contract rights, valued sites, artistic preservation, and de-militarization.

Broadcast live on Earth cycles, Navajo Leona Morgan describes how new uranium mining targets Navajos living in Church Rock, N.M., where the nation’s deadliest radioactive spill occurred in 1979. In June of 2010, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hydro Resources Inc. of Texas, which if it proceeds, will poison the water supply of Navajos with new in-situ uranium mining, by drilling on land beside Navajo land.

The Tewa Women United, on Earth cycles live, illustrate how the nuclear industry and Los Alamos National Laboratories have exposed Pueblos to generations of death and ailment in northern New Mexico. Open air burning, burial of nuclear waste and detonations have poisoned the land, air and water for today’s Pueblos and future generations.

Beata Tsosie Pena of Santa Clara Pueblo said, we live in the desert and our water supply is very valuable to us. Water is our life. I’m scared for my children. I’m scared for my grandchildren. I’m sacred for my elders.

Pen Company Pilot teamed up with Spanish advertising agency Grey to develop an online application that lets you create and send handwritten e-mails to your friends and family.

The application, which went live, last month, asks users to print out a lattice and fill it out with their own handwritten letters. These are then captured by webcam and crooked into a digital font that can be used to create handwritten messages.

If you feel like getting creative, see what happens when you fill in the grid with photos, images or drawings.

If you like the idea of letting your computer become your own handwriting machine, a website called Online Tech Tips provides a how-to guide that will teach you how to turn your own handwriting into a font on a Windows Tablet PC

Even if your work is boring, your documents shouldn’t be. The latest version of Microsoft Office makes it easier than ever to create attractive documents, thanks to some cool new tools for covering up text, displaying images, and embedding video.

You don’t have to be a graphics professional to take benefit of these features, and the suite Live Preview and Undo commands persuade trialing by letting you painlessly ditch looks you don’t like. Try these nine simple features to add a little eye-candy to any document you create.

Create your own calligraphy (Word, Publisher): Want to give a document a complex copperplate handwriting look? Click the lower right corner of the Font group to launch the Font dialog box, and then click the advanced tab to access settings for custom kerning, ligatures, and stylistic sets, which create the extensive swirls that give some fonts a calligraphic look.

By evasion, 20 stylistic sets are listed; but not all Open Type fonts have that many different styles, and some fonts change very little in retort to the style set you use. You’ll have to research to figure out which ones work best. Microsoft recommends trying out style sets with a new font, Gabriola, or with Calibri, Cambria, Constantia, or Corbel four fonts that were also included in earlier versions of Word.

Your iPad decisions do not stop once you have developed on either the 3G iPad or the Wi-Fi-only model. There is also a not-trivial question of what apps warrant a space on your brand new mobile device.

App developers have not made the decision easy for you. The number of choices in the App hoard continues to scale upward, with developers now producing apps optimized to take advantage of the iPad’s features. Shortly after the iPad’s launch, Apple said that there were 3,500 iPad-optimized offerings in the App Store, and that number has only grown between then and now.

Over the past month, we have kept a close eye on the iPad-centric additions to the App Store both iPhone apps rationalized specifically to add iPad features or detached offerings designed solely for use on Apple’s new device. We searched across a wide spectrum of categories, from apps that help you get things done to offerings that keep you entertained. We paid special attention to apps that took advantage of the iPad’s unique features, most notably its expansive screen real estate.

Creating a flowchart can be a immense way to bring some clarity to a decision-making process. Finding a free tool to generate flowcharts, however, isn’t always a simple task.

One solid option is MeeSoft’s Diagram Designer. It’s extremely easy to get started with select an element from the sidebar, drag it onto your workspace, and add some text. Repeat until you have got your whole process in order. That’s really all there is to it. Want to add some visual interest? Insert an image via the edit menu!

Elements can be effortlessly scaled and moved after placement, and the properties menu lets you change each item’s setting, border and font colors, as well as text alignment. Diagram Designer also supports several pages so you can save several charts inside one .DDD file. Your finished diagrams can be exported to several standard image formats including JPG, PNG, and GIF.