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How to Make Favicon

Posted by Admin On June - 11 - 2009
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Sometimes, we look at the browser and see something unique above the browser, left beside the address bar. That’s called favicon. It’s not necessary to make it, but for some reasons, it can raise up your webs honor and pride. See how many websites like microsoft.com and wordpress.org. They must have a favicon, because a favicon can tell you how serious they work on their website, a website that doesn’t have favicon is like an under construction website :(. Here is an example what favicon is looks like.

Doesn’t know how to make it? You can try these simple steps to make it.

  1. Make a square image for your favicon with paint or sumthin’ like that (square is recommended, 300×300 pixels should be enough). Save it with .jpeg or .png format, it’s not must-do but save it
  2. Go to http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/
  3. Upload your favicon image and click generate Favicon.ico
  4. Download the favicon package and extract it
  5. Now, you will be given 2 files, animated and static one, choose one that you desire
  6. Upload it to your website/ FTP server
  7. Add following HTML tags to your web page after the <head> tag but before the </head> tag: <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”> (this is for static favicon), <link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”animated_favicon1.gif” (for animated favicon)  href value is depend from your favicon location on your website, if you want to be like this, you must upload your favicon to your public_html folder
  8. Save your web page.

It’s should be done and you can try to reload or visit your website and see it works.

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Dead Pixel on LCD Monitor

Posted by Admin On May - 18 - 2009

Many LCD monitors have one or more dead pixel on their screen panel. As you know, a dead pixel is a defective pixel that remains unlit or you can say always off pixel. This kind of defective pixels are usually best seen against a bright background, like white, it’s the best. Many people usually say that dead pixel is a pixel that remains on, a white colored pixel or so on, but actually, these are defective pixels that perform unexpected/ undesirable. Defective pixels itself by ISO 13406-2 are distinguished between three different types of defective pixels. Hot pixel, is the opposite of dead pixel. This pixel is always on and white colored pixel. Dead pixel, is a pixel that always off and Stuck Pixel, will usually be most visible against a black background. These defective pixels happen because of LCD’s transistor(s) malfunctioning.

So, here’s a software that can help you to test the LCD monitor you want to buy before you feel disappointed. Dead Pixel Buddy is a software that can do several color test for your LCD. It can do white screen background test to see a dead pixel or more on your screen and a black bankground to see hot pixels.

dead-pixel-buddy

ISO 13406-2, is an ISO standard for LCD replacement warranty, but not all manufacturers use this standard, you have to know their standard before you buy the LCD and ready for their warranty agreement, you can see the detailed standard at Wikipedia.

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Protect Your Blog Article With CopyScape

Posted by Admin On March - 15 - 2009

cs-gy-3d-120x60Hello again, this time I will give you a tip to protect your blog article and content. I use a CopyScape plagiarism warning banner in my blog, thus this can help to prevent copasser (copy & paste) to grab your content, but this only doesn’t protect your blog from copasser 100%. Place and include copyright notices on each of your pages to own over your content. If you are sure that your content is original and you want to know is your content is being copied or not, you can go to Copyscape search and just type your blog URL and walla, there is it, if the result found nothing, so your content doesn’t being copied, still. Too bad if the result found many site or a site, that means your content is being copied by many other blog or site.

What you have to do if your content is being copied? Don’t be panic first. At first if you found the plagiarist’s site, try to be polite by sending the webmaster a message to remove the content or material that being copied. This step still not working, try to contact the web hosting that provided their site. If this still not working, try this tip provided by Copyscape, by file a notice of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement  to have the plagiarist’s site removed from search engine results. If you need a proof , you can use the Internet Archive to show that the content appeared on your site is earlier than on the plagiarist’s site.

Well, if those ways still not working, note their address if any, and bomb their office and home, this will make the problem clear and ‘clean’.

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