Archive for August 2004

Creating a favicon.ico file with The Gimp

2004-08-18 21:26

Because Gimp 2.0 doesn’t support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.

The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:

  • ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency
  • xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
  • png2ico did the trick for me

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Choosing a weblog software

2004-08-16 18:28

I have evaluated a weblog software for a server without fancy options like CGI, Perl or PHP. I found BlogMax, Nanoblogger and Thingamablog and chose Nanoblogger for its Spring Theme and because it stores the entries in flat files.

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