The Google Android operating system was defined to run on smartphones with 4 inch or smaller displays. And one of the ways Android makes text look good on a screen that small is to use a custom family of fonts including Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono, and Droid Serif. The Droid Family fonts were developed by Ascender Corporation’s Steve Matteson,…

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I’ve mentioned a few times that there’s one major problem with the HP Mini-Note’s display: It’s almost too sharp. While the 7 inch 800 x 480 pixel display on the Eee PC is a bit too small to hold full web pages or some applications, the Mini-Note has the opposite problem. It’s 1280 x 768 display is amazingly crisp. But…

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