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How to Create an Animated Favicon

January 17th, 2010

Jojo Agot

A favicon is an image or icon that you can see at the left side of the address bar of your browser. It is used by most webmasters for instant brand recognition and to give a website a professional look.

A favicon is usually a 16×16 pixels graphic uploaded in the root directory of your server. It is stored in favicon.ico format and recently, you have the option to use animated favicons. The following are the steps to create a favicon.

1. Create an image file using any image editing program that allows you to save the file in .ico format like the GIMP. If you don’t have it, just use any program like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc. You can save it in any format but make sure it’s square like 125 x 125, 50 x 50. (more…)

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Samsung’s Transparent Laptop

January 10th, 2010

Jojo Agot

Engadget recently reported this new contraption in the making from South Korea: Samsung Mobile Display’s prototype 14-inch notebook – the world’s first and largest transparent OLED prototype.Yes, you read it right, it’s a laptop with a transparent screen. When the machine is off, the panel is up to 40% transparent. No specific details are released by Samsung but one thing is sure- computers are going to get more exciting than before. Watch this video and pray it will be released in the market soon.

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Tags: OLED prototype, Samsung Mobile, transparent laptop

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What’s the Fastest Selling OS in History?

January 8th, 2010

Jojo Agot

I wasn’t surprised when I read from FastCompany that Windows 7 is the fastest selling OS in history. You know why? Because XP is so outdated and people simply hated Vista. It was high time for an upgrade and the computing world is ready for whatever Microsoft dishes out to the market.

We really didn’t have that much of a choice, well, except cross over to Mac but not everyone really wanted to do that.

With the recent release of Chrome OS late last year, the OS market competition just got a little more exciting. Who would be the leader in the next 3- 5 years? Will Google finally beat Microsoft?

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Tags: Chrome, google, Microsoft, OS, Vista, Windows 7, XP

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Nexus One and iPhone Compared: Is this the Death of iPhone?

January 7th, 2010

Jojo Agot

Is Nexus One going to be the iPhone killer?

People expect it to. After all, Nexus One is a Google product and Google dominates the world wide web. If Apple is a giant that no one can take on, maybe Google can try?

People needed a smartphone that would not tie them to a single carrier like AT&T and Verizon. In this age of unlimited options, it doesn’t sound very smart for people get locked into iPhone and AT&T.

But how does Nexus One fare when compared to other smartphones? It’s quite hard to make comparisons at the moment but early reports indicate that Apple should really have to do something if they want to keep their place in the mobile phone industry. Sure Nexus One has a long way to go, but if Google’s clout and sheer size is factored in, Appleworld should sense trouble now. Remember how Chrome gained on Safari in its one year of operation? This could happen to iPhone too.

Erik Chang of Billshrink.com did a great job drawing up a comparison chart between iPhone, Palm Pre, Droid and the newcomer Nexus One. Look at the table below and decide. Is this the beginning of the death of iPhone?