Vijay For Victory

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A favicon (short for "favourites icon"), also known as a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface.

Favicons are also a way of showing your blog/website’s niche. Here are some online tools that allow you to create a favicons of your own choice.

Favicon.cc

Getting a favicon has never been easier. If you don’t find one that has already been created and published on favicon.cc under the Creative Commons license, you can get creative yourself. It’s really easy.

Genfavicon.com

A favicon (short for ‘favourites icon’), are little icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site’s name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Browse to the file’s location on your computer to select the image and press "Upload Image" button to generate a favicon for your site

RealWorld Graphics

Online favicon maker is a simple online tool to create high quality favicons. Create a favicon in easy steps.

DeGraeve.com

Favicons are the little icons that show next to bookmarks and in the address bar of most browsers. Favicons are 16 pixels square. Upload a picture and click ‘Make Favicon!’ to create a favicon for your website. This favicon generator supports alpha transparency.

Antifavicon.com

This site is an easy to use on-line favicon generator. Favicons generated here contain text instead of images in order to be descriptive, but are coloured to be nice looking.

Typewriting – An organized way to use computer keyboards (typewriters). This was initially introduced to input the text in traditional typewriters. This gives full control over the keyboard and help us to input text in a faster manner.

After the birth of computer keyboards, the following typewriting rules have been drastically reduced and people manged to input the text in their own way. Some of my friends don’t know the typewriting and they don’t follow the procedure and yet they can type faster.

The below picture is the typing guide that depicts the finger-key mapping for common keyboards(English-US).

A guide to Finger-Key mapping

If you are wiling to improve your typing skills, then you can visit the websites given below.

www.powertyping.com

www.artypist.com

www.software-giant.com

Passwords are the keys to access your personal information, online banking accounts. Everyone in the online world likes to secure their passwords from hackers by creating a tough to guess passwords.

Having a strong password is always safer to protect your online accounts.

Microsoft provides you an easy way to check the strength of your passwords.

Visit Microsoft Password Checker and type your password to check its strength. It is one of the easy and secure way to check your passwords online.

Here is a note from Microsoft Password Checker page.

The security of the passwords entered into Password Checker is similar to the security of the password you enter when you log into Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.

Link : Microsoft Password Checker

I tried visiting one of the follower in Twitter. But when I clicked the Twitter user URL, I have got the following error message and it says that the user is suspended.

Suspended Account in Twitter

Follow me on Twitter : VijayForVictory @ Twitter

I don’t use Twitter so often. Today morning (5:30 am GMT) I just wanted to catchup with my twitter followers and tried to login to twitter.

When I visited www.twitter.com, I got the following page stating that Twitter is down.

Twitter is down

Follow me on twitter once it is up.

GMail 5th Anniversary

1 April 2004, the day, GMail was launched to public with 1GB mail box quota. Today, GMail celebrates it’s 5Th anniversary.