Tips & Tricks

Although we’re in the business of helping organisations make the most of technology, we recognise that you may sometimes encounter issues which you’d like to deal with yourself, if only you could find useful documentation to guide you.

Documentation on almost everything exists on the internet, the problem is finding what you want; searching can be effective but what we hope to provide here is easy access to guidance to achieve useful tasks.

We are keen to expand this by adding information that is useful to our clients. Sometimes we write a howto, other times we provide links to good sources.

If you don’t find help on a particular issue that concerns you, by all means drop us an email and we’ll try to point you in the right direction.

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TypeCatcher for Google webfonts

TypeCatcher is a font manager with which you can search, browse, and download Google webfonts to use offline on your Linux workstation or in your website. It is created by Andrew and licensed under the GPL 3.0 and runs natively on any Debian-based distributions.

To install TypeCatcher and add it to your repository type these three commands into a terminal, one at a time :

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrewsomething/typecatcher
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install typecatcher