I connected Mac Mail to the work Exchange webmail service and started using the computer.

I noticed in some html emails, one particular font had been replaced with ‘Block A’ Characters. ie, instead of letters, everything appeared as a capital ‘A’ with a box around it. This was pretty strange as I’d done very little to the computer.

I launched ‘Font Book’ which reported a bunch of duplicate fonts which I choose to automatically resolve. Re-launched Mac Mail and the problem was fixed.

I can’t be sure, but I suspect installing and updating Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac installed the duplicate fonts and caused the font problem.

I’ve also seen this reported as a problem for Safari here:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20085570-263/safari-in-os-x-lion-replacing-text-with-block-a-characters/

Particularly on the iphone4 when using the rearward facing camera, some configurable text can come up on the screen overlaying the picture preview which can be read back, to the camera, presenter style.

Would suit tourist style self narrated videos. ie holding the camera and recording oneself and reading off the auto cue.

Text and pace of read back can be configurable.

To make the app more useable, using geo location services / check-in functionality, the auto cue app could suggest relevant text to be read back, ie historical or local information about the site.

Clubland is the home of real life social networking, having a good understanding of this opens up many possibilities for an online clubguide based social network. Yeah, facebook and myspace might be the flavour of the day for the moment, but the special possibilities around a clubland social network are extensive.

Had a great night? Really enjoyed yourself? Maybe you loved the music? opportunity to not only buy music from the portal, who wants to try and work out what the DJ was playing that night? – Buy the DJ set from that night and download it directly to your mobile device (which is no doubt your personal stereo), or just make the most of the opportunity to sell music, tie in with a music retailer or perhaps Shazam in some way.

The intention would be to pilot this in London, then syndicate the engine to other capital cities. It can be adapted to provincial town clubland as well, lots of ticketing and promotional opportunities with this. There is also the currently untapped technology around targeted advertising not only around people’s profile and behaviour, but tying in with the their geo-location making local advertising possible. An exceptional advertising engine opportunity exists if you are able to build a successful community around this idea.

Sounds like fun? Do you want to get this off the ground? Get in touch, mobileapp@clubguide.com.