About the favicon.ico file and how you can create one.
Ever wonder how some Web sites put their own custom icons in the address bar of the Web browser window when you visit them? Or, if you read your site’s Web logs, why there are so many requests for a file named favicon.ico that you might not have?
As you might have guessed, these two questions are related. The tiny image that appears in the address bar is displayed from the favicon.ico file that should reside in the root directory of your Web site.
There are a number of Web sites that make it easy to create this file based on an existing image, using a Web interface. The one I like is on the chami.com Web site, at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/. Chami is the maker of HTML-Kit, a “standards-compliant, full-featured and multi-purpose development environment for editing HTML and other Web-related file types.”
Click a browse button to find the image you want to convert to a favicon.ico file and select the file. Then click the Generate FavIcon.ico button. In moments, the image you chose is converted into the proper format and ready to download. Copy it into your Web site’s root directory and add a bit of HTML code to the HEAD section of your Web pages (or the header.php or index.php file in the active theme of a WordPress installation — whichever file has the HEAD section). The next time you load the page, the image will appear.
Cool, no?
Now if only I had some artistic abilities.
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Information from Software Update
iPod Updater 2006-03-23 delivers:
- New iPod Software 1.1.1 for iPod
- New iPod Software 1.1.1 for iPod nano
For all other iPod models, iPod Updater 2006-03-23 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2006-01-10.
Important: After downloading the iPod Updater software, connect your iPod to your computer and launch the iPod Updater application. If iPod Updater determines that your iPod needs to be updated, click the Update button to install the latest software on your iPod.
Features of iPod Software 1.1.1 for iPod and iPod Software 1.1.1 for iPod nano:
For more information on volume limit, go to
target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303414.
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Apple’s response to a lawsuit.
Someone realized that if you turn up the volume on your iPod and spend a lot of time with it blasting into your ears, it’ll damage your hearing. (Duh.) So they sued Apple.
Apple responded by creating software that enables you to set a maximum volume level for newer iPod models, including the Video iPod and the iPod Nano. Read more about it here: Apple Releases Software to Set iPod Volume
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