Favicon Generator

Great free Favicon generator at http://www.favicongenerator.com (Favicon for my website was generator there)

Create a favicon from scratch at: http://www.favicon.cc/Â

Sample favicon library at: http://mppierce66.home.comcast.net/web/fi/

Link: DMOZ list of online Favicon Generator websites

GO: Wikipedia informatio on Favicons

I’ve added Favicons to my websites to decrease the error logs from browsers trying to find the file. I looked online but could not find any downsides to having one – except for some people who didn’t care for it aesthetically.

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ABOUT FAVICON IMAGES

A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface.

The original means of defining a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of a webserver. This would then automatically be used in Internet Explorer’s favorites (bookmarks) display. Later, however, a more flexible system was created, using HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is achieved by adding two link elements in the <head> section of the document as detailed below. In this way, any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the ICO format, other browsers now also support the animated GIF and PNG image formats.

Most modern browsers implement both methods. Because of this, web servers receive many requests for the file “favicon.ico” even if it doesn’t exist. This may annoy web server administrators by creating many server log entries, and unnecessarily loading the disk, CPU, and network. Another common problem is that the favicons may disappear if the browser’s cache is emptied.

Originally, Internet Explorer only used favicons for bookmarks (for instance MSIE 6.0), which created a minor privacy concern in that a site owner could tell how many people had bookmarked their site by checking the access logs to see how many people downloaded the favicon.ico file. However, since newer versions of Internet Explorer (e.g. 7.0) and most other browsers also display the favicon in the address bar on every visit, this is becoming less of an issue.

Hip Hop Translator

A few readers have entertained themselves here with translating my binary code posts, and recently my posts in Japanese. However, I’ve also been working on a new hip hop translator and I think it’s working quite well. Let’s try it on a recent post in one of my forums.

yo i feel u admin homie g…ima post a thread of sum picz wit me and mah boiiz flashin our booz and all dem fine ladiez im rollin wit, then ima out yall, gotta some real shit in life to deal wit, gotta go to tha toilet yall, so peace, one, cyaz….itll be a while, ill keep u posted…

ohh shit that reminded me, im go be all cool and key up all my shit for ma battlez…

TRANSLATION:

Greetings fair administrator. I too have such sympathetic emotions such as yours expressed. Soon I will use Photoshop to optimize some .jpg’s or .png’s of my fraternity brothers and I courting ladies whilst partaking in summer recreational activities. But then lickety split I must hasten back to my studies and freshen up.

Darnitall. It’s been reminded to me that I have forgotten to work on my poetry writing in the style of Emily Dickinson for the upcoming essay contest.

The Conway Muse

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Let’s send a little Google love to The Conway Muse. The Muse is one of the favorite hangouts for local artists in the Skagit County, Island and Stanwood areas. Some of my favorite late night jams have been up there. But the exciting news is that soon they will be open to the public so everyone can experience the magic.

My favorite part about The Muse is the wide diversity of people present. I have never seen a wider diversity in any other setting. Everyone who hangs out there has one thing in common: a passion for the arts (or is dating someone who’s passionate for the arts!).

Joke: Skinny Dipping

SKINNY DIPPING
An elderly man in Florida had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back, fixed up nicely: Picnic tables, horseshoe courts, a volleyball court, and some apple and peach trees. The pond was properly shaped and fixed up for swimming.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond and look it over, as he hadn’t been there in a while. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard

voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, “We’re not coming out until you leave!” The old man frowned, “I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.”

Holding the bucket up he said, “I’m here to feed the alligator.”

Old men can still think fast.

OsCommerce Download – Fix for Link and Expire

OsCommerce 2.2 Download Mod – Problems with:

  1. Download Expires Tuesday December 1999″
  2. Download link not showing (not clickable linking – no link) after approval of payment.

I’m posting this here off the support forums because the search functions wouldn’t allow me to search and find this fix, I had to find it on Google. Assuming others are doing the same, here it is. Keyword help to find this: Osc MS2, Super Download Mod, error, problem, downloads expiry, no link not showing unable to download.

Within download.php in modules I changed the following:

FROM:

$downloads_query = tep_db_query(“select o.orders_status, date_format(o.last_modified, ‘%Y-%m-%d’) as date_purchased_day, opd.download_maxdays, op.products_name, opd.orders_products_download_id, opd.orders_products_filename, opd.download_count, opd.download_maxdays from ” . TABLE_ORDERS . ” o, ” . TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS . ” op, ” . TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS_DOWNLOAD . ” opd where o.customers_id = ‘” . (int)$customer_id . “‘ and o.orders_status >= ‘” . DOWNLOADS_CONTROLLER_ORDERS_STATUS . “‘ and o.orders_id = ‘” . (int)$last_order . “‘ and o.orders_id = op.orders_id and op.orders_products_id = opd.orders_products_id and opd.orders_products_filename != ””);

TO:

$downloads_query = tep_db_query(“select o.orders_status, date_format(o.date_purchased, ‘%Y-%m-%d’) as date_purchased_day, opd.download_maxdays, op.products_name, opd.orders_products_download_id, opd.orders_products_filename, opd.download_count, opd.download_maxdays from ” . TABLE_ORDERS . ” o, ” . TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS . ” op, ” . TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS_DOWNLOAD . ” opd where o.customers_id = ‘” . (int)$customer_id . “‘ and o.orders_status >= ‘” . DOWNLOADS_CONTROLLER_ORDERS_STATUS . “‘ and o.orders_id = ‘” . (int)$last_order . “‘ and o.orders_id = op.orders_id and op.orders_products_id = opd.orders_products_id and opd.orders_products_filename != ””);

Its actually a very small change: Within the quiry I changed “o.last_modified” to “o.date_purchased”.

WinMerge File Compare Program

Found a great file compare program called WinMerge. It’s available for free download. Google it or checkout download.com. Use it to see two files side by side as it highlights the code differences between the two files.

Great for adding mods and updates to software. I’m using to modify new software releases with older version mods. It’s saving countless hours in php coding. Highly recommended.