Mac OS X fans are gonna love this one:
now some Linux user has to come up with an answer, especially the Gnome users :-p
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Some industrious programmers have found a way to hack the Archos 605 WiFi portable video player to run the Qtopia Linux platform. By the looks of it, the Qtopia hack doesn’t add much in the way of extra media features (the Archos does pretty well as-is), but it opens the door to developing the Archos 605 WiFi as a more generally useful and configurable tablet PC. The Qtopia hack appears to work on older models of the Archos players as well, although the Archos fifth-generation players seem to be easier to configure.
What is a favicon?
A favicon (short for “favorites iconâ€), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many graphical web browsers —such as recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, iCab, AOL Explorer, Epiphany, Konqueror, and Flock—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.
Guidelines
The following are guidelines for displaying a favicon on your website:
- The
linkelements must be inside theheadelement (between the opening and closing head tag) in the HTML. - The image can usually be in any image format supported by the web browser, the major exception being IE, which only supports ico.
- The
.icofile format will be read correctly by all browsers that can display favicons. - Use the appropriate color depths (ICO: 16X16;4, 8, 24 bpp—i.e. 16, 256 and 16 million colors GIF: use 16×16 in 256 colors PNG: use 16×16 in either 256 colors or 24-bit).
- I have found that you do not have to place html on your website. You can just place a favicon.ico in the root directory of your website, but it may take longer to show up in some browers.
Creating an animated favicon
Animated favcons are easy to create. After following the guidelines from above, you just need to create an animated gif and rename it: favicon.ico. It is currently not supported in Internet Explorer.
Examples of sites that have animated favicons:
Vixta could be the Linux distribution with the smallest possible target audience ever: Linux users who love the look and feel of Windows Vista and wished their Linux desktops could look more like Windows.
Vixta is a Fedora-based distro with a custom KDE-based interface. You get widgets, a Vista-like start menu and taskbar, and evil looks from your die-hard open-source buddies.