Posts Tagged ‘Alex’
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Alex's Antidote - favicon.png
OK so today I was showing off my new mobile theme on my iPhone while at work. My buddy Bran was checking out the icon I made (with a little help from GIMP and the logo Bran had made for my website — thanks again man) and he made a great suggestion… why not use use the icon for my favicon on my main website?
So I did…
If you have a website, want a custom favicon, but don’t know how to go about it, then you’re in luck because it’s really quite easy.
Step 1: Make an icon
It should be 32 x 32 (pixels) and 32 bit color.
You can use GIMP (or some other program) to make the icon, save it as a PNG.
You can name it whatever you want, but I recommend going with something simple and clear like: favicon.png
Step 2: Upload the icon/image to your website
via FTP or SSH. Be sure to put it in a place that’s easy to remember… like the root of your web directory…
Step 3: Edit your template’s header
Between the <head> and </head> tags and paste the following code:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/wordpress/favicon.png" />
Save (and upload if you cannot dynamically modify your template).
Tags: Alex, Antidote, Bookmark Icon, Bran, Code Lt, Favicon, Gimp, Icon Image, Image Png, iPhone, Link Rel, New Icon, New Id, Step 1, Step 2, Suggestion, Upload Image, Web Directory, Website Thanks, Wordpress
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Alex's Antidote iPhone icon
That’s right folks, my website is now iPhone friendly. (Note: from what I understand it should also work in certain other fancy phones too)
Here’s how it goes:
Step 1 – Open Safari -> Navigate to: alexsantidote.com
find Alex's Antidote in iPhone's Safari Browser
Step 2 – Check out my fancy mobile theme
New Mobile Theme
Page Menu
Step 3 – Bookmark for future reference
Bookmark Options
If you’re really awesome you’ll bookmark it to your Home Screen 
Bookmark to iPhone's Home Screen
And you’ll see a nice shiny icon that will take you straight to this website when you touch it!
Shiny Bookmark Icon!
How’d I do it?
- Install the WordPress plugin called: WPtouch Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress
- Make a custom icon in GIMP (sudo apt-get install gimp)
- The icon should be saved in .png format.
- You will need 2 different sizes: 57 x 57 and 32 x 32
- Name the 32 x 32 icon something that reflects the name of your blog (I used: Alex`s Antidote)
- Name the 57 x 57 icon “apple-touch-icon.png” without the quotes.
- In WordPress Settings you will find a menu called: WPtouch, upload the 32 x 32 icon there (look around, you’ll figure it out), then make necessary adjustments below (lots of settings to play with).
- FTP/SSH into your root (and/or wordpress) directory for your blog and copy over the 57 x 57 icon you named “apple-touch-icon.png”
- Done!
Let me know what you think in the comments (if you have time).
Tags: Alex, Antidote, Apple, Blog, Bookmark Icon, Browser, Custom Icon, iPhone, Necessary Adjustments, Page Menu, Png Format, Quotes, Safari, Screen Caption, Ssh, Step 1, Step 3, Wordpress
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
4yr old Logitech mouse (by Alex)
So I was looking for a book that I needed for a class (an old APA Manual) and came across my old (about 4 years old) Logitech Wireless Mouse. I do all of my school work upstairs in my “office” on my 17″ Acer laptop (running Ubuntu of course).
I plugged in the USB receiver and pushed the power button on the bottom of the mouse. The mouse worked just fine – as expected.
What surprised me (just a little bit) was that the extra buttons (it’s a 5 button mouse) worked instantly (no special setup needed). Click one and the browser page goes back one, click the other button and it goes forward… nice!
I also noticed that the side-scroll (tap the scroll wheel to the left or right) works not only in Firefox (tested by adjusting the window dimensions to force side scrolling necessity), but it also adjusts the volume on VLC media player! I wonder what else this little baby can do!
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Ok now back to homework…
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(p.s. beat that windows haha)
Tags: Acer Laptop, Alex, Apa Manual, Button Mouse, Firefox, Homework, Little Baby, Little Bit, Logitech Mouse, Logitech Wireless, Power Button, Scroll Wheel, Ubuntu, Upstairs, Usb Receiver, Wheel, Window Dimensions, Wireless Mouse
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
OK I know it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve posted a quick guide to fixing the nasty Jaunty System Crash that seems to happen to users with NVIDIA and some Intel video cards…
I need to update the guide with some screen captures of how to add the X-Updates repository and its key, but I figured most people experiencing this problem would prefer to have something rather than nothing!
You can find the page here: http://alexsantidote.com/ubuntu/fix-ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-crash-problems/
More updates are coming soon, including a new Firefox section (you may already see it in the menu) which will offer some nice guides to making Firefox even more useful to your individual needs!
As always, if there’s something you’d like to see, please let me know (see the request an antidote page in the menu)…. Some have already made some requests which I am working on and hope to have antidotes posted soon!
Take care,
…Alex
Tags: Alex, Antidote, Antidotes, Coming Soon, Crash Problems, Firefox, Fixes, Guides, Intel, Links, Long Time, Nasty, Nvidia, Repository, System Crash, Ubuntu, Updates, Video Cards
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Alex’s Antidote has a new look!
Please tell me what you think by taking the poll (found in the side bar on the right).
More changes, including new content comings very soon! If you have any suggestions, requests, questions, or comments, please leave them here and I will do my best to consider each suggestion/request, answer each question, and respond to your comments.
Thanks!
…Alex
Tags: Alex, Antidote, Poll, Request Answer, Suggestion Request
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