Tag: FAVICON

Ah, Pokemon. Your collect-train-battle cuteness is a guilty pleasure for so many geeks. But wouldn't it be nice if we had an alternative to the cutesy little monsters (no offense, Squirtle)? Matthew Hollett thinks so, and he decided to create one for all of us to enjoy. Witness: Favimon! You'll begin the battle by collecting Favimon's own favicon, and you can then begin searching for other ...

Once upon a time, creating pixel art was a completely manual process. You drew your base shape, and then if you wanted to add highlights, shadows, or blur, you had to draw them in, pixel by pixel. Piq is a Flash-based pixel art editor that lets you enjoy fine-grained manual control, while making it a bit easier to add those extra touches to your image. You first draw the image pixel by pixel. ...

There's an incredibly short post up at Typophile by Miha showing how much better YouTube's favicon could be if Google applied a sub-pixel rendering technique. Sub-pixel rendering is the approach that Microsoft uses in its ClearType font-smoothing technology, though there are many others using the technique. The concept of sub-pixel rendering is that you can fool the eye into seeing smoother curves ...

The other day the folks at Google launched a new Gmail Labs feature called Title Tweaks that lets you decide whether your browser title bar should read "Gmail - Inbox (20)" or "Inbox (20) - Gmail." This is a feature that's been a part of Gina Trapini's Better Gmail 2 add-on for Firefox for a while, but now that it's officially part of Google Labs, you can set your preferences once and they'll ...

Have you ever seen a site with a really awesome favicon -- that tiny icon that shows up in bookmarks and address bars -- and wondered how to get one yourself? Favicon Generator makes it totally simple, with two different ways to get exactly the icon you want. You can upload any image, or make your own with a pixel-level editor. Then Favicon Generator does the rest, and gives you a .ico file that ...

If you've always got GMail open in one of your Firefox tabs, you can't always see the unread message count - when you have a whole slew of other tabs open, for example. Install the Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon script for Greasemonkey, and that problem is solved. The script overlays the current count on Gmail's envelope icon and it will display even when you're not parked at your Inbox. ...

The location bar in browsers hasn't changed in, well, a darn long time. The last big advance was probably the introduction of Favicons. Firefox Add-In Locationbar² attempts to upgrade the location bar and make it both more readable, and more useful. It breaks apart the sections of the URL, optionally hiding the protocol, and if you hold a modifier key (Shift, Alt or Ctrl) it allows you to ...

Oh, how cool. FaviconizeTab is an add-on for Firefox that does just one thing: It shrinks tabs of your choosing down to the bare minimum: Just the icon. While tab titles are handy to have, when it's a tab you have open all day like your RSS reader or (if you're me) Joe's Goals, the title is inessential and just takes up space. FaviconizeTab frees up that space, which gives the other dozen tabs you ...

When I first came across Favicon Picker, an extension for Firefox, I didn't really see the utility of it. It took Rachel Cunliffe at cre8d blog to set me straight. The real reason Favicon Picker is fantastic is that it lets you do away entirely with text labels in Firefox's Links toolbar (if you want), as in the screenshot above, and it lets you assign favicons to bookmarklets. Not only does that ...