Turn on ClearType. Now.

I’ve seen about half a dozen people recently who don’t have ClearType turned on on their Windows computer, and I’ve gone in and changed it for each one of them, prompting the inevitable, “I can’t believe I didn’t know that was there!”

For anyone who doesn’t know what it is, ClearType makes the ugly fonts that you’ve been staring at every day perfectly smooth and readable. If you are using Internet Explorer, there’s a web site to help you turn it on here.

ClearType was the best thing introduced in Windows XP. It brought the Windows presentation layer into the 21st century. It’s the best thing to ever come out of Microsoft Research. What more can I say? It rocks.

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