A few days ago I noticed the MiiEditor website was no longer available. Luckily I was able to find the MiiEditor standalone application which can be run on my desktop. To run the application it requires Adobe AIR to be installed.
Here are the Mii characters I created of some of my family and friends:
A favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. The easily way to create a favicon is to take an image with the same dimension and reduce the size to 16 pixel by 16 pixel, then save it as an Windows Icon Format. Of course if your image is too big or too complex then the results might not be appealing. I recommend that you use a 64 pixel by 64 pixel image for best results.
GIMP is a free software which allows you to do this. If you like to use Photoshop you can download a plugin from Telegraphics.
If you don’t want to go through the hassle of using graphics software to create your favicon there are website available which can do the work for you. One that I find works well is Dynamic Drive FavIcon Generator.
The easily way to install the favicon is to name the file favicon.ico and upload it to the root directory of your website. Another option is to embed your favicon with HTML code similar to the following:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/image/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
For the past couple of weeks I had been having trouble trying to find the right painting to hang on my wall. I decided to try transforming my pictures taken during vacation to look like paintings. The software that I chose to use was Photoshop. Not being a graphic expert and only knowing how to use the basic functions, I was relatively surprised how easy it was transform our pictures to look at like paintings. All, I did was apply the predefined filters that already exist and walla! I’m done!
I’ve posted my transformations at my gallery.
Recently, I have been busy uploading photos to my gallery. Since the photos taken from my camera are much larger than necessary to be view on the web, all lot of image processing is needed to resize the images to a smaller resolution. I use Picasa mostly to manage my photo albums on my computer, and it comes with mass image resizing features. However, I also found two free software that allows me to do mass image resizing as well: