Find Font’s Name From an Image

You may well be familiar with one of these scenarios:

• your boss asks you to reproduce a document or design that is now only available as a half torn piece of paper from 1998.
• a client wants you to redesign their web site, but they don’t have their logo in digital font and instead hand you a business card with the words… “there’s the font for our logo”.
• you’ve seen a graphic on a web site that has inspired you and you want use the same font.

In today’s digital word, designer or not,  you often find yourself trying to identify a font.  You just know you have seen it before but can’t remember the font name.

How to identify a font

So how do you identify a font? Well this post will give you some links that will help in your font identification problems.

Whatfontis.com

Whatfontis.com

Whatfontis.com is a fairly new site with a nice easy design and layout.

All you need to do is upload a photo/scan/image of the font you’re trying to identify.

Visit Whatfontis.com

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont.com is probably the most popular tool that people use to identify font names.

Again it works by you uploading an image of the font.

Visit WhatTheFont

Flickr Typeface Identification

Flickr Typreface Identification

Flickr, best known as the photo sharing site has a group of users dedicated to identifying font names.  Take a photo of your font and some font guru will be along to suggest its name.

Visit Flickr Typreface Identification

Linotype Font Identifier

Linotype FontFinder

This font identification tool is slightly different.  Through a series of questions relating to the characterics of the font you’re trying to identify it determines the most likely font name.  At time of writing it uses a database of 3764 fonts.

Visit Linotype Font Identifier

Identifont

Identifont.com

Identifont asks you a series of questions about the typeface appearance to identify the font name.

Visit Identifont.com

Type Navigator

TypeNavigator by Fontshop.com

Type Navigator is an online tool from FontShop.com.  It’s an interactive visual font search system.

Visit Type Navigator

Typophile – Type ID Board

Type ID Board by Typophile.com

Type ID Board is a messageboard where you can upload an image of your font and the resident experts will help identify it for you.

Visit Type ID Board

Bowfin Printwork – Font-Spotter Service

Bowfin Printworks Font Spotter Service

At time of writing this free Font-Spotter service from Bowfin Printworks allows you to email or fax a sample of the font for identification.

Visit Font-Spotter Service

I hope you find these resources useful in your font hunting tasks.  Please let me know your thoughts on any of these services by leaving a comment. Also see below..

Few days ago I was searching for a specific font that I once used to make a banner for one of my websites. I had lost the font from my system and all I had was that (.jpg) banner. I searched and I found it extremely time consuming to search and preview manually all the fonts from hundreds of fonts websites over internet for the one that I want and never found it .

While searching I landed on a really cool website “What the Font?!” with a smart font recognition system, means that you can upload any picture with the font you want to search and the website’s database matches your font (in your pic) with the fonts in its database.

1. Open WhatTheFont?!

2. To search the name of the font, upload the image having the font and click “Upload Image”.

3. You’ll be taken to next page, where image recognition system does its job, recognizing and separating each character from the image and displaying in the text box in front of each character.

If any character is ignored or not recognized, you may insert the character manually in the boxes to get more accurate results.

4. Click Search button in the bottom of the page, to proceed to next step, where all the relevant fonts are displayed.

Move the browser’s scroll bar, to move your image over the searched fonts previews for matching.

5. Click the Font’s title which you think is the most relevant. On the next screen you have the option to buy the font since none of the fonts are available free to download! 

Just note the font’s name in case if you don’t want to spend your money, and open UrbanFonts to search and download fonts from its huge collection for FREE!!

How to create a torrent?

It’s not that I have anything against msn (although the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.

So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:

file > create torrent

That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info and tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.
uTorrent

1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories

3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some good trackers you can use:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Bitcomet

1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)

2. Select the files and or directories

3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.

4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Azureus

1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)

2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://tracker.prq.to/announce

http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce

http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce

http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT

4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”

5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”

6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Increase the Speed of Your Internet Connection

Does your ISP deliver the speed you pay for? It’s rather easy to test your broadband internet speed. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. For one, ISPs usually promise an “up to” speed, so you can’t expect top performance at all times, that’s part of the deal. During high traffic times your ISP will suffer from high loads and will certainly not be able to deliver the maximum speed. Thus you’d best perform different speed tests at different time points, to see whether you ever reach the top speed. Also, when running a speed test, make sure no other applications are using the internet, else the result will not be accurate.

Speedtest.net is a good place to test your internet speed. They operate through servers all over the world, so you can connect to a server near you, which increases the accuracy of your result.

As you may realize, your internet speed does not only depend on your ISP, it also depends on the hardware and software used on your end of the line. If you are using hardware provided by your ISP, there shouldn’t be a problem. The bottleneck for speed often sits in the connecting computer.

Here are a few tips to Increase the Speed of Your Internet Connection

(1) Connecting Port

This may seem obvious, but you should connect to the internet though an ethernet port, rather than a serial, parallel or USB port. If ethernet is not an option, it may be advisable to update your hardware.

(2) Enough RAM

Make sure your system memory can handle the load! If you want to browse fast, you will need to close other applications in case your RAM is maxed out.

(3) Fast Browser

Mozilla based browsers generally are among the fastest browsers, while still being comfortable to use. Whichever open source browser you pick, make sure you don’t overload it with extensions or addons, those will just slow your browser down dramatically. On the other hand, if speed and RAM are not an issue, go for the luxury!

Also there are a number of tweaks and addons to increase the speed of your browser.

(4) Increase Speed under Windows XP Pro

Windows XP Professional reserves 20% of your bandwidth for services like updates or spyware checks. If you would like to exploit this reserve, do the following:

1. Click [Windows] + [R] and type gpedit.msc in the Run window.
2. Under Computer Configuration expand the Administrative Templates.
3. Go to Network and click the QoS Packet Scheduler tab.
4. Double-click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and enable it.
5. Finally change the Bandwidth limit to 0% and click Apply.
6. Reboot your computer and enjoy.

(5) Tweak Tools

There are a number of programs that promise to increase your internet speed. They may work, they may not. They all apply a number of changes to optimize your network settings. Whether or not they will really improve your internet speed or which one will work the best for you greatly depends on your system, hence it’s difficult to recommend an application.

10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads

Imagine being on the autobahn with the accelerator down and then you realize that you are driving a wrecked car. The plight is not so uncommon on the information superhighway too.

Torrent users would attest to the fact that half of our time is spent looking for ‘healthy’ torrents and the other half trying to download (and a bit of upload too) at the maximum speed. The former is mandatory; the latter thankfully is within the realm of tweaking.

If you are the one who thinks that your torrent download speeds could do with a boost then keep reading. Below, you’ll find a few tips on how to speed up torrent download speed.

1. Your ISP is where it starts

Check the maximum download and upload speeds allowed by your ISP. Most ISP’s have specific bandwidths for both uploads and downloads. Obviously your torrent download speed won’t cross the cap set by the ISP. Go over to this article on Speed.io for broadband speed test and this one by Tina on ways to increase your connection speed. There are many other bandwidth testers like DSLReports which is included in the speed test within uTorrent.

2. Choosing the right BitTorrent client

Use the better clients out there like uTorrent, Vuze or the BitTorrent client itself.Wikipedia lists about 51 of them supporting the BitTorrent protocol. The choice of client used should always be updated to the latest version. The screenshots here depict uTorrent. The settings should be similarly configurable for other clients too. Mac users shuld also check our Transmission vs. uTorrent post

3. Go for healthy seeds and peers

A peer is any computer participating in the download and upload of a torrent file. A seed (or seeder) is anyone who has one complete copy of the file being shared across the torrent network. A leech (or a leecher) is the person who does not have the complete file yet but has joined the network to download it. A leecher becomes a seeder when he downloads the entire file and then shares it across the network.

For high torrent speeds, the best bet is in numbers. The greater the number of seeders, the healthier the torrent and the better the chance of higher speeds. The rule of thumb says to choose the torrent files with a high number of seeders and preferably lesser number of leechers i.e. a higher seed-leecher ratio.

4. Get through the firewall

Firewalls can block all incoming BitTorrent connections coming through. To ensure otherwise, a firewall should be manually configured to accept the connections and let it through the client. Windows XP has the Windows Firewall. Configure the firewall installed to accept the connections by checking the BitTorrent client on the allowed list i.e. Options – Preferences ““ Connection – check Add uTorrent to Windows Firewall. Also, check the Windows Firewall exception (if you keep it enabled) in your client too. Shutting down the firewall is not recommended as it leaves the computer open to attack.

Note: If the home computer is behind a router, it also should be configured through the feature called Port Range Forwarding to enable torrent traffic. The router documentation should have specific information on this.

5. Limit your upload rate

A peer to peer network is all about sharing alike, but an unlimited upload rate hits the download rate too. Using the speed tests, find out your maximum upload speed and then set your client’s upload rate (Global Upload Rate in uTorrent) to about 80% of your maximum upload speed. You can also try varying your upload speeds ““ keep it high initially and then gradually bring it down towards the middle of the download.
Note: Mind the speed units ““ it may be given in kilobits per second (kb/sec) orkilobytes per second (kB/sec). 1 kilobyte = 8 kilobit

6. Go to a different port

The default port for the BitTorrent protocol is any between port numbers 6881-6999. ISPs throttle traffic on these ports as BitTorrent sharing involves high bandwidth usage. It’s easy to configure a different port in your torrent client. Use some number above 10000 to get around ISPs and also avoid problems with other applications. By default, the uTorrent port is randomized each time it starts. Set a specific port by not enabling the Randomize Port setting.

7. Increase the number of Max Half Open TCP connections

This figure specifies how many connections a torrent client should attempt to establish simultaneously at any given time. Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or newer, limits this to a default of 10 as a barrier against virus multiplication. But that’s a bummer for torrent speeds as torrents too need a large number of simultaneous connections.
A patch has been available for a while from LvlLord which modifies the TCPIP.sys file in Windows to allow a higher number of TCP connections.

After running the patch, you have to set the number of connections in your torrent client. For example, in uTorrent go to Options ““ Preferences ““ Advanced – net.max_halfopen. Set any number from 50 to 100. But see that net.max_halfopen is set lower than the value set in TCPIP.SYS. Always check if it is still patched because Windows updates sometimes overwrite it.


8. Experiment with Protocol Encryption

Some ISPs love to act like Big Brothers and constrict bandwidth for P2P protocols. Protocol Encryption in most of the torrent clients helps to override this bandwidth shaping. Enable outgoing protocol encryption and put a checkmark on Allow Incoming Legacy Connections.

With protocol encryption, ISPs find it difficult if not impossible to detect that the traffic is coming from BitTorrent. Experiment with enabled, disabled and forced options because you could be getting better speeds with encryption disabled. Non-encryption makes a torrent connection compatible with someone who is not using encryption but as a minus it makes the torrent detectable to an ISP with a bandwidth restricting policy.

9. Bandwidth and connections

Your BitTorrent client’s settings options will let you enter figures for ““
Global maximum number of connections gives the maximum number of connections that a BitTorrent client can make for any P2P exchange. Setting this too high does NOT mean higher speeds. Setting it too high would take up useless bandwidth and too low a figure would miss out on peers. For my 256kbps connection, I have a setting of 130.
Maximum number of connected peers per torrent gives the maximum number of peers that a BitTorrent client can connect to for any P2P exchange. Experiment by setting this number close to the available peers for a particular torrent. For my 256kbps connection, I have a default setting of 70.
Number of upload slots per torrent gives the maximum number of peers that a BitTorrent client will upload to for any P2P exchange. A low setting may affect downloads. For my 256kbps connection, I have a setting of 3.

uTorrent has a Speed Guide which handily calculates the figures for a particular connection.

10. Some common sense

Most BitTorrent clients allow us to view the individual files in a download. You can selectively disable the download of files you don’t think necessary.
Familiarize yourself with the customization settings of your particular client available in the Help files or at the website FAQs.

Some useful resources:

BitTorrent User Guide
uTorrent FAQ
Vuze FAQ

How to transfer balance from one mobile to another mobile?

Transferring balance/fund from one mobile to another mobile is very easy in India. Almost all mobile networks supporting this facility. Some times we really need this service because we will face network coverage issue, money shortage in our account or something like that. So here i have added how to transfer balance from one mobile to another mobile.. step by step tutor.

Vodafone Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in vodafone?

Transfer balance/fund from one vodafone mobile from another mobile by using below shown format.

*131*amount*mobile-number#

Eg: transfer Rs.100/-  from  9048990906 to  9048203040 then,

use:    *131*100*9048203040

Your Rs. 100 will transfer.

Airtel Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in airtel?

Transfer balance/fund from one airtel mobile from another airtel mobile by using below shown format.

*141#

A display will show:

1. Send Talktime

2.Gift Packs

3.Recommend

4.Rate service

5.Account

6.Help

Reply with option

Press 1 and click send button

Then you will get a message by saying “thankyou for visiting airtel gifting service. To be able to access this service from your phonebook save *141# as Airtel Gift or Airtel Gifting.

Aircel Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in aircel ?

Transfer balance/fund from one aircel mobile from another  mobile by using below shown format.

*122*666#

You can transfer Rs.10,20,50,100 recharges by using this aircel balance transfer service.

BSNL Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in bsnl?

Transfer balance/fund from one BSNL mobile from another  mobile by using below shown format.

Type    GIFT <mobile number> <Amount> and send to 53733.

Eg: If you want to transfer Rs. 50/- then you want to type    GIFT <9447xxxxxxx> 50 and send to 53733.

Idea Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in idea ?

Transfer code is  GIVE amount and send to 55567

Eg: transfer Rs.100/-  then,

use:    type GIVE 9847000000(mobile No)100  and send to  55567.

Above shown mobile number is example only. you can use the destination mobile number instead of that number.

Reliance Mobile – how to transfer balance from one mobile to another in reliance ?

Transfer code is:    dial  *367*3#  then enter *312*3#  then type the mobile number, then add transfer amount , then add PIN number (default PIN No is 1.)

Uninor Mobile – How to transfer balance from one mobile to another in uninor ?

Transfer balance/fund from one Uninor mobile from another  Uninor mobile by using below shown format.

*202*mobilenumber*amount

How to transfer balance from one mobile to another in docomo?

Type a message BTFriend’s Mobile numberAmount of balance transfer and send sms to 54321 For Eg:  To Transfer Rs.50 Talk-time from 9030012456 to 9030099900 . The sender(9030012456) types “BT 9030099900 50″ and send SMS to 54321