Archive | August, 2008

Quickly Share any Images with Rapidpik

Aug/05 in Free Hosting

rapidpikAlways in search of the next best thing in free hosting, I happened to run across rapidpik.  Now I have only played with it for a little ‘bit, but it could very well be the simplest uploading tool with the most features.

You should know the basic song and dance by now.  You choose your picture, you upload it and you can share it.  This service is much of the same.  Once you upload the image you are given the option to “edit” it.  Only editing you can do for now is changing the name. 

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Once you have done that, you are given the final result as a URL.  You can check out my test one one to see an example of the final product in action:  http://rapidpik.com/show/4406/jd9gf

Some of the nice features here are that you can share the image using a number of social services, you can view the image in all kinds of different sizes and you also get a flash player (which comes in handy if you upload multiple images at one time).  So if your looking for another free image host to add to your favorites – give rapidpik a shot.

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Need Organizing Help? Colorful Vista Folders!

Aug/04 in Desktop, Personal

Remember a few posts past, when I asked if anybody had a solution for Windows Vista color coded folders?  I had this on Windows XP with the help of programs like Folderico.  That is when I decided it might be better off creating my own colorful Vista folder icon pack so I could just do this myself – no extra program needed!

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Download the Vista Colorful Folder Pack! (.zip)

All of the icons are  in the .ico format, and supports the following sizes:

256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16

Why color code your folders? Having color coded folders for certain documents is more than just about “making things pretty”.  It is also very helpful when it comes to getting things done.  Let’s say you use the green folder for your bills, green is the color of money – hence it makes you jump right to it instead of having to hunt through all those yellow folders.

Depending on how popular these are, I might release more colored folders in the future. Feel free to use them however you like.  If you pass it around to a friend, might also mention where you got it and ask them to subscribe to my RSS feed for more!

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Featured Again in Ping! Zine

Aug/03 in Web Hosting

Just got the latest edition of Ping! Zine at my door yesterday, and I do have to say it is great cover to cover, front to back.  Yes, I also had an article in it this month, Website Hosting vs Personal Backup Hosting (check it out on page 46).

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Download Vol 6 Issue #3 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

If you did not get the paperback copy of the magazine, you can also pick up the digital version from PingZine.com.  If you want to get the paperback version of the magazine for free, check out this special subscription offer from WebHostingShow.com.

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WWE’s Maria Kanellis Desktop Icon

Aug/02 in Custom Icons, Desktop

Playing around with creating desktop icons for my Windows Vista PC, I was using this picture as a kind of test to see what I could do.  Looked good to me (come on, it is Maria after all), so I thought I would release it out to all of you.  Can you tell which icon stands out more?

WWE Maria Desktop Icon!

It is in the .ico format, and supports the following sizes:

256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16

Download the Maria Kanellis Desktop Icon (.zip)

Download it and feel free to do whatever you want with it.  If you pass it around, just make sure you give me a link back, or better yet just subscribe to my RSS feed and we will call it even.

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Use Paint.NET to Edit and Create Icons

Aug/01 in Desktop, Resources

Logo3I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so.  I had the icon files, but no way to edit them.  So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.

First Step?  Get Paint.NET!

First step was to pickup Paint.NET.  This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It  features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,  tutorials, and plugins.

Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin

Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else.  Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this page:

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1152

To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.

Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas.  Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open.  With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.

So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.

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