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Tech: How to create and upload my own favicon?

Ever wanted to have your own Favourite icon for your site?

The icon you see on the left side of the address bar is called the Bookmark icon or Favourite Icon.
Want to increase your site's 'IMPRESSION?'
Think of Blogger and you recall the orange B icon, think Twitter with their blue t icon and Google with its colorful google icon and so on. So that tiny icon called Favicon.ico does make passerby recognise your site. Plus, it looks professional.

Here's how! First thing first, we have to create, upload and finally, configure.

1. Create a 16x16 pixels image icon

What image editor should i use to create my favicon?
-using photoshop, paint or any image editor you like!
- Iconedit32 is a great tool, simple to use, download here
- It doesn't have to be 16x16 pixels when drawing but do keep in mind how tiny an ico is.
- Or make one online using this online favicon generator at www.favicon.cc - you draw and instantly see it appears on your addressbar. it also converts your image into an ico file for you to download right there and then.

How do i convert my image into a .ico file?
- converticon.com using this [amazingly mac desktop looking] site. Upload your image & save as a 16x16 ico !

2. Upload your icon

How do i host my .ico favicon if i'm using Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal or any other non-file hosting site?
Help! My photobucket, imageshack, tinypic, flickr doesn't allow me to upload .ico file!
- ripway.com - they offer free file & website hosting. easy sign up, no questions asks besides your name, email address. did i mention 'FREE'?
- hostanyimage.com - they offer FREE image hosting for all types of image files, including .ico files.

3. Edit your website's HTML

How do i edit my page to show my new favicon? (non-blogger site)
- Add this code to your page, right under the <HEAD> code, like below:

<head>
<link href='http://www.myhost.com/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='http://www.myhost.com/favicon.ico' rel='icon'/>

Change the address in green to your own file location and presto, its done!

How do i add it in Blogger templates / How do i add it to Blogspot?
- If you're using blogger, make sure you're not using classic template. If you are click 'upgrade template')
- then go to Layout > Edit HTML >
Look for this

]]></b:skin>
</head>

- Add the below code between them, like below:

]]></b:skin>
<link href='http://www.myhost.com/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link href='http://www.myhost.com/favicon.ico' rel='icon'/>
</head>

Change the address in green to your own file location and presto, its done!

FAQ:
Why isn't it showing?
I've refreshed my site, its not showing.
How long does it take to show?
I've tried everything mentioned here it doesn't work, you suck?

- It could take a few hours for the icon to show, but not more than a day.
- Make sure you've cleared/emptied/deleted your internet history before viewing.
- If you've a previous bookmark made for your site, delete it. the saved icon could override and that's why its not showing.
- if its still not showing, you might want to check your code.
- still not showing? drop us a message at http://twitter.com/jazzieeaa with your site address, quoting its for favicon and we'll see what we can do!

FYI, isn't my piggy icon cute? totally irrelevant..what a silly thing of the moment.

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2011-06-05(00:40) :
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Stone Sir!! Why you so like that ah? - tvb drama updates

Have you seen the recent hk dramas on TVB? whoah, they have been churning out all the criminal and police procedural dramas - Every Move You Make, Gun Metal Grey, The Mysteries of Love, ATV's The Men of Justice...All criminal law ones.

The most mind boogling one has been Gun Metal Grey starring Felix Wong, Michael Miu, Jessica Hsuan, Nancy Wu,Vincent Wong.

Felix's return to screen (Since 2002) is a role as a upright police officer Stone Sir, who was framed for a murder he didn't commit and jailed for 15 years. After a reporter Ah Kim (Jessica Hsuen) took pictures of the murder scene which was being demolished, Stone Sir finds reasonable doubt of his crime with the dragon sculpture containing an unknown DNA to end his term in jail.

Think he'll be happy with this? yes he was but slowly, he finds that the law doesn't punish real criminals most of the time as they are often released and starts to take law into his own hands, placing fake evidence to jail those criminals. In the recent episodes 20 - 24, he uses underhand means to get his ex-wife boyfriend into problems so he would win his wife back. Slowly, he is turning into an evil side of the law.
He even caused an innocent criminal who had split personality to commit suicide!

Michael Mui stars as Mad Sir who romances Jessica Hsuan and was the one who got Stone Sir in jail. As Mad sir said, he was just telling the truth of what he saw and that's all. Initially we thought he was the one who got Stone Sir in jail but we're very convinced of his sincerity and justice - everything is by the book no matter how unhappy you can be with the final result. Its the jurisdiction we have to respect it.
Mad sir tries to stop Stone sir from doing what he does but there's nothing he can really do as we will know in the final 6 episodes - Stone sir is uncontrollable as he goes cuckoo!

FYI: Michael Mui & Felix Wong both joined TVB acting class together in 1979 and were part of the Tiger Five /5 Tiger Generals 五虎將 of TVB together with Andy Lau, Tony Leung and Kent Tong. It's their 30 years reunion in this Drama!

So exciting right!

No Regrets - the second season of Rosy Business ended recently.

How did you find the series? was it good? or was Fala & Raymond (YangYang) acting lovey dovey getting in your face and ruining the show?

No? But We felt that way!

There are some new dramas out this way and here are some of them!

Show Me the Happy 医家有喜/醫家有喜 Yi Jia You Xi (2010)
- replacing Someday 天天天晴（2010）

Twilight Investigation 囧探查過界 Jiong Tan Cha Guo Jie (2010)
- replacing No Regrets: Rosy Business II 巾帼枭雄之義海豪情

ATV, Hongkong GoGoGo 香港GoGoGo / Xiang Gang GoGoGo (2010)

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2011-04-07(15:46) :
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Why rich men won't marry pretty women - from an economics point of view. hilarious!

Happen to see this from a forum, an aspiring singaporean girl in her early 20s with "Tai Tai" wannabe mentality (rich wife) posts a question in a forum about marrying a rich man and here's what happened...

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here.

I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.

You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York .

My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?

I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.

If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden ( ? ) , $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty
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An awesome reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.

My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.

From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you.

The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty"and "money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.

However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason.

The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year.

Hence from the view point of economics,

I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position".

If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased".

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you,but will not marry you.

I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me.

signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO

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