Sorry this is a short one, I’m not in the mood to post and havn’t been for some time, I wont say why.
I have a new camera! My old powershot A80 died, it decided to draw big fat lines across photos.
I’m sure if my friend ever finds this site she’ll be mortified that this pictures up here, but I deleted the rest of the photos as they were awful! I also have a supposidly 5mp camera I bought from work for ¨£50 but it doesn’t save images anymore, it deletes them as soon as it takes them, plus it has no zoom.
So I decided to treat myself to a nice small compact camera that I can take out with me. I can’t exactly take an EOS 350D to a nightclub can I!
I have a few criteria when buying a new camera, firstly, it must be a canon, I cant STAND sonys, their slow, clunky, extortionately expensive and the photo quality isn’t fantastic, HPs are awful, nikons and fujis are ok but I wouldn’t buy either of them, so really, I’m left with Canon, I love them, I’m on my third canon, out of 5 cameras (I have a thing for them!)
Without further ado, I present the ixus 65. Its no looker from the front and I’ll be honest, it does feel a bit cheap.
but when I googled it and saw the back I was sold!
Its so attractive! I havn’t really had a chance to test it out and about yet, but when I go back to uni tomorrow I’ll test it out during the week.
Incidently the photos were taken on an ixus 750 or i7, its my dads, its 7mp slightly smaller, damn sight more expencive, tiny screened camera and he’s dead jealous of mine even if he does refise to admit it – how to make your parents jealous!
If your familiar with linux you’ll know what virtual desktops are. Effectively their another desktop that is completely separate from your current one. It can have a different background and different programs running yet be on the same computer. I dont know of any for windows, and certain distros of linux come with virtual desktops installed.
I decided to try out VirtueDesktops and was pleasantly surprised, especially as the macbookpros built in sensor means you can change the desktop with just a tap of your hand.
Say hello to Rhys everyone. I edited myself out as I hate the sound of my voice, but I didn’t tell him why I was filming, so I suspect he thinks I’m a little mad, but still, it serves him right for filming me when we were in Cardiff!! (Try not to get the wrong impression from that!)
As Gravatar has been having server issues for the last few months as mentioned in an interview with the creator on The Wordpress Podcast and Rhys has been going on about them I’ve had a look into Favatars, but first of course you need a favicon! This post is here to teach you how to make favicons.
Because I know the majority of my readers are windoze users I will be covering both windows and mac ways of doing things, but there wont be any windoze screen shots I’m afraid.
Firstly, Making Favicons on a Mac.
note: this plugin also works on Windows :)
If you have photoshop, download the donationware plugin by Telegraphics here copy the .plugin file to Macintosh HD:Applications:Adobe Photoshop CS2:Plug ins Then load photoshop.
Open a new 16 by 16 image and create your little favicon, I’ve heard some people say its easier to do 32 by 32 and then rescale, so if you would rather do that feel free. Once you’ve got your image go to file save as type in the name favicon and be sure to select ico from the drop down filetype list.
Alternatively if you dont have Photoshop, create the icon in your graphics program of choice and save it as a .bmp, then download the shareware program Graphic Convertor and under the picture menu click colour, select 4-bit (16 colours). Save the file as a ico (windows icon).
Making Favicons on Windows
The way I’ve always done it is to use IconEdit32. Its a very nifty little program. Create your icon (remember 16 by 16) and save as an ico file.
Once you have your .ico file upload it to your root directory, /pubic_html on an apache server, and add these lines of code between your head tag.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://domain.ext/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="http://domain.ext/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Now if you use wordpress download the favicon plugin and have fun :)
Incidently if you know who made the strawberry on my favicon, please do say. I would credit the site I got it from but it was a xanga site and we all know what they’re like dont we ;)
