If you’ve just switched over to Linux, you’re probably hating the default monospaced font; thankfully I’ve found some better ones…

Liberation

On May 9, 2007, Red Hat announced the public release of these fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. You are free to use these fonts on any system you would like. You are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download.

Liberation Fonts

Lucidia Grande

AppleGaramond, Aquabase, LITHOGRL, Lucida Grande, Lucida Mac, lucon, MacGrand

Thanks to Nylock for sharing this fonts with us

Mac Fonts

Installing

Once downloaded, usually to your desktop, you’re going to need to install them into your system to use. They need to be copied to the /usr/share/fonts directory.

First unzip the files, then open Terminal and…

cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype
sudo mkdir liberation
sudo mkdir apple-fonts

Here, you’ve moved into the location where the System’s fonts are stored, then created one directory for the liberation fonts (worth having), and the apple fonts.

Now copy the files to each directory from the desktop to liberation & apple-fonts,

sudo cp /home/[user]/Desktop/liberation-fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
sudo cp /home/[user]/Desktop/fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/apple-fonts

Final bit, refresh the font cache…

sudo fc-cache -vf

Logout, login and your ready to use them.

Still improving my lil’ demo apps code I’ve moved on to create more permalink google-friendly site structures and reading data off RSS feeds.

So in the benefit of others, here’s what I found,

SEO on Rails ...nice blog on integrating basic SEO tactics into your rails app, friendly permalinks, url mapping and dynamic metatags.

Screen Scraping ...good in-depth article on screen scraping with Rails, pulling off html data from a target website (e.g. Twitter) to import into your database

Google / Yahoo Sitemaps ...excellent article showing how to get your Rails App to create Yahoo / Google compatible sitemaps using the in-built XML features of Ruby.

Enjoy,

John.