Aqua Text - How to Scale Down.
I sent an e-mail to the author (Rick Yaeger) of the aqua-text tutorial last night asking how to scale down my text and reduce the fuzziness (or as Lance called it, "the gel toothpaste look"). 
Here is Rick's response:
There is an easy way to scale the effects of the style in Photoshop 7. In fact, that's what the command is called "Scale Effects..." and it is found under the Layers menu under the Layer Style submenu. Select the layer that has the effects you wish to scale and use this command to adjust those effects on a percentage scale with preview.
Another method is to create your type at 72pt and then flatten the image and scale it down 25%.
So I tried this, and it definitely helped. Here is the old one, and the new one. I've noticed that I do lack one thing as a Blogger - and that is following up on my previous posts, so here goes...
PDF Searching. Thanks to Vince Mastrantoni (no blog) and Greg Klebus for their e-mails. These will help me find my solution I'm sure. Thanks Guys.
The obvious answer would be Adobe Acrobat. But, this is not open source and if you have many files to search through, would be cumbersome. I tried to do a batch search using it, but was unable to. It appears as though this may not be supported or an option.
Another alternative is the Lucene search engine available at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html
Now, this by itself doesn't search PDFs. However, you can add a plug-in to do this. See here:
http://www.i2a.com/websearch/
Other stuff that might help is here:
http://www.etymon.com/
Also, the Google internet search engine searches and indexes PDFs and allows them to be displayed in text format. I'm not sure how or if this might help but I wanted to point this out to you.
Lastly, there is a PDF filter that Adobe provides that can be plugged into IIS index server. Tried looking for it but couldn't find it. Maybe you'll have better luck.
Vince
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Found that filter. Gave up too soon:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows
Vince
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Raible, (I seem to have read your explanation about the name :)
pdftotext (forgot the source, you need to google it yourself). The name says it all -- convert your PDF to text and do the search.
It's a default viewer under Midnight Commander on my linux box, so I can view PDF's as text easily.
Open source, and probably cross-platform.
You can also try Ghostscript, it probably has something similar (but it's big, and you'd need to go through Postscript files anyway).
I hope I could help.
Regards,
-Greg
Also, I mentioned a while back that I didn't use Mail for OS X, but instead I use Entourage. Truth is, I've started using Mail (over Entourage) for a very simple reason, it's faster. When I click on the icon, it opens faster. I'm easy that way.
To follow up on my iSync post, I can't wait for the actual release. When I import all my vCards from Outlook XP, it changes the "mobile" phone number to "main" in my Address Book. Because of this, my contacts' mobile numbers never make it to my phone - doh! This same import works fine in Entourage. Also, I can't seem to 1) sync with .Mac or 2) publish my iCal to my webdav-enabled Tomcat server. Not that I really need to, but I like to experiment and see if it's possible. Manually changing my contacts' numbers from "main" to "mobile" in Address Book fixes the problem, but what a pain. And my phone seems to end up with a bunch of contacts I never put in there - iSync definitely has room for improvement. I'm looking forward to this update.
Last, but certainly not least, to follow up on where is Russ - it's great to have you back Russ, you were missed. You update your blog more frequently than any others I read - thanks.
In other news, I can see Phoenix being my default browser very soon. It's Mozilla without the extra stuff (i.e. Mail) that I don't use.