Change Your Blogspot's Favicon !!

The first question which will pop out in everyone's mind after reading the title of this post will be: “What the hell is a Favicon?”(P.S. I am not talking about internet freaks and web gurus, they would probably know already, but for the sake of masses I have to explain)

Favicon is made up of two root words, they are Favorite – Icon.  It is an icon image of sizes 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64 pixels. It is used to represent a particular webpage or an URL. Here is the image of some famous favicon’s which I think you might have noticed.

Now for all the geeks and nitwits (who use blogger) and are bored by the traditional favicon here is a simple procedure to change it.

The basic pre requisite is an image which you want as your favicon for blogspot. If you are good in photoshop then create your own icon or else copy from many free providers online.

To start, click on NEW POST in your Blogger Dashboard and then add your desired favicon image there. Then go to the HTML View and copy the web address of your image. You can find the address under href attribute.

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Copy and paste this address this address in a notepad file. Now open the layout tab of your Blog.

Then go to EDIT HTML option and find the closing head tag (</head>).

Just before that paste these two lines and add the address which you earlier copied at appropriate places :

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 <link href=’Paste that address here’ rel=’shortcut icon’/>

<link href=’Paste that address here’ rel=’icon’ type=’image/png’/>

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That’s it save your settings, and open your blog to see a favorite icon.

Post your queries as comments.

Zune : A dandy job done by Microsoft

 Zune was purposefully designed to synchronize your Zune Player (an iPod Killer) with your computer but I have been using the software only as a media player and it’s awesome. Zune is Microsoft's belated answer to iTunes and the iPod. According to Microsoft, Zune Software lets you 'Manage and view your songs, videos, and pictures. Rip and burn CDs. Create playlists. Edit track and album information. And Zune software can automatically import your existing files, including your music and video from iTunes and Windows Media Player.'

Few things which I love in Zune are –

• Its interface is too good to ignore. Awesome is not the word it’s more than that. It is so smooth and pleasing to eyes that you can’t resist to gaze at it.
• Smart DJ: a quick and dynamic way to launch instant mixes in the Zune software based on any album, artist, or song in your collection, and to create automatic playlists. Using the criteria you provide, Smart DJ will select similar songs from your collection.
• Pins: Like Windows 7 pins in taskbar, we can add our favorite songs as Pins in Quickplay.
• Collection is also properly organized under various sorting parameters like Date Added, Release Year, Artist and A-Z.
• It also comes with a set of pre-installed themes which are really good.

Watch this video which will demonstrate the real beauty of this media player.

For all of you, who got excited  already, download it from:

http://tinyurl.com/yzwfd2m



Its size is about 460 Mb but trust me it is worthy.

If you want to read the comparison of Zune Player with iPod read here: http://www.zunescene.com/comparison/

All the comments and queries are most welcome.

Gmail: An Intelligent E-mail Service

Gmail is a mail service from the big house Google. It was released for public use in 2007 and it remained in its beta form for about 29months. Google believed that they can improve daily that is why they kept it in beta for such a long time. 

I am writing this post because I just can’t stop myself from letting you all people know what I experienced yesterday. 

Yesterday I was sending a mail to my father and I wanted to attach my Grade Sheet’s scanned image and I had to forward that mail to my Bank also. I was in a hurry so I quickly wrote” I have attached a scanned image of my Grade Sheet………” and instantly pressed the send button without attaching the file. But to my surprise Gmail was there for me. An alert box popped up displaying a message “Did you mean to attach files? You wrote: I have attached, in your message but there are no files attached “ 

I was so glad to see that. My heart was filled with joy on witnessing the technical beauty of a legendary service provider. And after all it prevented me from looking like a fool who forgets such basic things like attaching files. It saved my dignity. Gmail Rocks!! But then one more thing ringed in my mind that I can’t declare Gmail as a winner until I check other mail services. Hence to discover that this quality is unique in Gmail or not I opened my Live ID, Rediff Mail ID, and Yahoo Mail. Can anyone guess what might have happened? They all failed in this test, the mail was sent without any warning. Therefore, I hereby declare Gmail as an intelligent webmail service. Your comments for and against, both are most welcome.