At 2:58 PM -0700 25/3/09, Tarik Bilgin wrote: >It sounds like smoothed fonts don't agree with your eyes. Mine seem >to prefer it. I know you are not the only one though. I've heard >many (mainly windows users) complain about this OS X feature. There are complaints from long term mac users too - a number of them have had to abandon mac and go the dark side as a result. People have lobbied Apple about this with no result. >As for the screens being too bright, I can turn the brightness right >down on my LED display. Are you someone who prefers white on black >to black on white displays? Turning the brightness down doesn't help neither does white on black. I still use eudora for email and I have set the background colour to pale yellow to avoid the stark contrast of black and white. On Apple mail you can't change the working background colour unfortunately - except for the person you are sending the email to. -- regards Clare ************************************************ Clare O'Farrell email: c.ofarrell at qut.edu.au website: http://www.michel-foucault.com ************************************************