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If it’s in a .Zip file, upzip it first.

Then follow carefully these extremely difficult steps:

For Windows Vista

Right-click on the font file (.ttf, .otf, .fon), then click Install.

For Windows XP

Put the font file (.ttf, .otf, .fon) into the Fonts folder, usually C:\Windows\Fonts or C:\WINNT\Fonts.

For Mac OS X

Put the font file (.ttf, .otf) into /Library/Fonts.

That’s it!

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I’ve just installed SnagIt on my desktop and I find it extraordinarily useful, fast, and easy to use. It’s just what I need since I make screenshots almost everyday for blog posts and layouts. SnagIt is a nice and simple but powerful screen capture tool. And it’s light. Unlike Photoshop, it will not eat up your CPU’s valuable bytes. SnagIt has all the screen capture and image editing functionality you’ll ever need, in one simply powerful program.

Capture anything

You can select and capture anything on your screen — you can capture an image, article, a region in a web page, the whole window, or the full screen. And one of the cool features that make SnagIt so easy to use is the highlighting of regions in a web page or window when moused over, providing a quick selection of region to be captured. Just select and single click the region that you want to capture and that’s it. It has more options for capturing screens than you may know what to do with. Continue reading →