July 12th, 2008 — at work, big deal, geek effect
My thumbdrive has been made obsolete.
Ok yea, I have a number of computers. Three desktops floating around the house right now, two laptops (one going to my sister rather shortly), and then there’s my desktop at work. The home network is great, when I’m at home. But does me no good when I’m at work or out and about with the laptop. So for that, I have been using a 4gig thumbdrive. And it is a pain in the rear when I forget it at work and need it at home or vice-versa.
Well, I no longer have to worry about that, cause now I just Dropbox.
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March 16th, 2008 — geek effect
We’ve all seen them, even if you don’t realize what they are - favicon’s. They are the icon that replaces the generic document image in the address bar or on the tab title when viewing a site, and are used as the icon image when you save a bookmark or link to a site.
I wandered across a fairly new site, genfavicon.com that lets you create your own custom favicon file in minutes. I used the logo image from my site here and created the favicon.ico file in about three minutes. It is a pretty slick, very easy to use, straight-forward site. Just one page, that is all it needs and that is all it gives you.
You have two option to get your image in to their web-based editor - link to an existing image (that you have the right to use) online, or upload from your computer. In my case, I right-clicked on my logo image, selected Copy Image Location and posted it in the URL box under Step 1.
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