Create iPod favicon.ico using Photoshop
After scratching my head about the best way to create a favicon.ico file, I made a happy discovery: a free Photoshop plug-in that allows Photoshop to read and write ICO files. Following this short tutorial, I took a 64x64 iPod icon PNG from the Nuvola theme, resized it to 16x16 in Photoshop, then saved it as favicon.ico. That's all. I uploaded it to www.askdex.com to see how it behaved, and it looks great; even the transparency was preserved. You can download this iPod icon from: http://askdex.com/favicon.ico. Ole! |
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Contributed by:
Sid Steward
[07/22/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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Conversion of slides to digital images efficiently
Convert your old kodak slides to digital in an efficient manner. |
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Contributed by:
jlb51
[07/18/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Bringing up the quicklaunch
Ever try to get the quicklaunch up in evryway? Well this hack is for you! |
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Contributed by:
jim-shur
[07/12/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Backdooring Knoppix
Remastering Knoppix (see Knoppix Hacks #94) remains pretty uneasy and time consuming. Here is a way to backdoor your Knoppix so that you'll be able to add a few new functionnalities (eg : add a script, aliases, even add new programs) in a snapshot... This hack won't keep you from remastering : it will help you in remastering a smartest way... |
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Contributed by:
Endrazine
[07/08/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Windows Wildcards Can Grab Extra Files
Some pdftk users process hundreds of files. Performing this work on a Windows machine can yield unexpected results. The problem arises from the Windows command-prompt shell, not pdftk. The problem arises because for every long filename, Windows creates a short, DOS-compatible (8.3) alias filename. This short alias filename might end up matching a wildcard expression, even when the long filename does not. When using pdftk, the result is that you end up with more input files than you wanted.
This article offers a couple workarounds and then describes the case where this problem arose.
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Contributed by:
Sid Steward
[06/21/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Tracking Amazon SalesRank with Rankforest
Track an item's sales performance with the reflexes of a puma and the wisdom of a man. |
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Contributed by:
romej.com
[06/07/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Using Google to Find Celebrity Birthdays and Heights
Google can be used to get the height or age of a celebrity. |
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Contributed by:
romej.com
[06/06/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Fast LILO boot floppy
Sometimes you want to leave the hard drive's boot setup alone, But booting from floppy is too slow or your bootimages (bzImage + initrd) don't fit on the floppy. Make a Linux Loader floppy that uses bootimages on the hard drive. |
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Contributed by:
clsgis
[06/05/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Speeding Up Firefox
How to make Firefox load faster |
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Contributed by:
Ferraridude
[05/31/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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Losing saved folder views in XP desktop folders
A documented annoyance in XP is a sudden and irreparable loss of memory between different folders even after all precautions have been taken. Here is a fix. |
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Contributed by:
claudduffield
[05/16/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Simple insecure hack for saving passwords
A quick bash script I use to recall non-vital passwords. |
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Contributed by:
bremac
[05/11/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Mining Popular Books and Movies in Social Networks
I describe how I generated a list of most cited books and movies from the profiles of the people who are connected to me at Orkut, Google's online social-networking service. |
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Contributed by:
Upster
[05/11/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Deluxe Google scraper bookmarklet
Scrapes the search links from a Google search results page and produces an HTML table that can be imported to Excel. |
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Contributed by:
David Crossman
[04/21/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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View microsoft word documents with less
Hack #52 in Linux Destop Hacks introduced wvWare doc viewer. This hack allows it to be used in conjunction with the pager less. |
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Contributed by:
trexx
[04/20/05 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack] |
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Get a memory drive out of your digital camera or iPod
In this hack you will learn how to make your iPod or other mp3 player, your digital camera, or just about any digital storage devise act like a memory drive, though sometimes this will give you a spacious advantage (such as with an iPod) |
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Contributed by:
truenecrology
[04/17/05 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack] |
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