Category: Web Tips

When Apple announced Ping, it’s “social network for music”, I gave it my default fan-boy happy dance.  Oh, look what the great wizard has done now!  Sure – I couldn’t see the need or reason for it, but it was another possibly cool thing from Apple, so I jumped on board.

I struggled to see the value in it – so few of my friends used it – but it did offer a way to tweet likes and statuses to the community beyond iTunes, so I thought I would grow to embrace it.

That all changed this morning.

There was an app that I wanted to write a review of (Sleep Cycle), but when I posted the review it referenced my full name. … More...

I had decided I wanted to add a favicon to the site.  A favicon is the small graphic that appears either in your bookmarks on on next to the URL in your web browser.  For me, it makes it easier to find a site among the many I have bookmarked.

For my favicons, I usually prefer something simple.  In this case, it was just the initials SP in a font that I thought represented the spirit of the site (for you font-geeks, it was  “Handwriting – Dakota”).  I created the graphic using white space in a text editor, then used a screen capture utility to create a GIF file.  I then renamed the GIF to favicon.ico and the image was created.… More...