- Open the greyscale folder and choose the .psd icon you want (for example the 128x128 which is the biggest dimensions offered).
- After you open the file with Photoshop, check if the layer pallete is visible. If not press F7 to make it visible.
- Right click on the "Feed icon" layer in layers pallete and select "Blending Options"
- Select "Color Overlay" on the left. This will make the entire icon solid red!
- Change the "Blend mode" to color as shown in the photo.
- Click on the color swatch and a select the color you want.
- Click ok and then go to File, save for web and then save the file in png 24 format and you are ready! I made the icon green and that is how it looks like!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Modify the RSS icon for your blog or site!
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 3:20 am 0 comments
Thursday, November 23, 2006
How to add a favicon to your site!
Favicon is a small icon displayed beside the url of a site and beside the site name on the tab (if you use a browser that supports tab browsing). You can see a favicon in the foto below.
- Upload the photo you want, click generate and
- Download the Zip File that contains the favicons.
- Find the </head> tag in your template.
- Exactly before the </head> tag, paste the following code:
type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="[URL]"
type="image/x-icon"/>
- Save your html file, or template if you are a Blogger user, publish and enjoy your favicon.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="[URL]"/>
<link rel="icon" href="[URL]" type="image/gif"/>
If you use the code for the static favicon to the animated one there is no problem, but you want be able to see the animation in some browsers. You can validate your favicon here.
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 2:21 am 2 comments
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Google Webmaster's tool to your blog!
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 7:41 pm 1 comments
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Google Analytics to your Blog!
- Visit Analytics site and sign up using your Google account (if you do not have one, you will be promted to create one).
- After that, sign in and click the "add website profile" button.
- Enter the URL of your blog and click next.
- Google gives you a tracking javascript code to place to your blog.
- Sign in to blogger and open the edit template window.
- Go to the end of the template code and find the < /body > tag.
- Place the code exactly before the < /body > tag (this is recommended for the tracking to work properly).
- After you place the code, click save settings and republish your blog for the changes to take effect.
- Now go to Google analytics again and click done. After clicking done the main page of your analytics account loads, where you can see that the tracking is installed, and that analytics is waiting for data from your site. Usually it takes up to 24 hours for the first data to appear in anlytics. After that data are updated every 8-10 hours. That means that you can not see with Google Analytics how many users are online in your site at a specific moment.
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 5:18 pm 0 comments
Monday, November 13, 2006
How to add a Youtube video in your blog!
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 5:14 pm 3 comments
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Migrating!
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 11:47 pm 0 comments
Labels: Blogger
Saturday, November 11, 2006
How to seperate a big track to multiple tracks with nero!
- Open nero express and import the track you want to trim and seperate. (It does not matter if the track is in mp3 or wav format.)
- Right-click on the track name and select properties.
- In properties window click the second tab which is called indexes, limit splits.
- Now you can see the track in wave form. Click the wave form, where you want to cut the track and click split. Devide the track in as many new tracks as you want.
- When you are ready, click apply and now you can burn your cd and listen to it choosing any track you want and not having to press fw or rw until you get to the song you want.
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 7:05 pm 0 comments
Labels: CD/DVD Burning Tips
Friday, November 10, 2006
Benchmark your pc! Is it stable?
- Open Cinebench. First we are going to benchmark the cpu.
- Click the "Rendering (1 Cpu)" icon (if you have a dual core cpu this test uses only the one core).
- After the test is finished and if you have a dual-core cpu click the "Rendering (x Cpu)" icon. As you see now in the rendered picture, the process takes less time and both cores are used. When the test is fineshed you can see under "Rendering" buttons how faster is your pc when both cores are used. Performances over 435CB-CPU are considered as high.
- If you have a graphics accelerated card you can run the three graphics tests below.
- Time for stability test! That means time to burn our cpus. Unrar Stability test and double click the CPUStabTest icon.
- Select Normal mode and click start. Stability test uses 100% of cpu. To see if your system is stable let the test burning your cpu for about 12 hours. If after 12 hours your system has not restarted and has not crashed, it means that it is stable and that it has no thermal problems.
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 6:31 pm 0 comments
Labels: Windows Tips
Clean up!
- Go to start-->Programs-->Accessories-->System tools and run a disk cleanup. Decide what you want to delete from the list and clean it.
- After you cleaned your drive, double click on my computer icon. After my computer is opened, click Tools on the top, next to Favorites, and select Folders Options. Select the Second tab next to General
- Select show hidden files and folders.
- Click ok.
- Now you should be with my computer folder opened if you followed the steps above. Double click your hard drive icon (C: probably)
- Double click documents and setting
- There should be three folders: One with your name, one called "Default user" (which is hidden folder) and one called "All users". Double click to open the one with your name.
- Double click Local Setting (also hidden folder) and open temp folder.
- Delete everything that is in this folder.
- Empty your recycle bin and you are ready.
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 11:00 am 0 comments
Labels: Windows Tips
Speed up your pc!
- Right click on My Computer icon, select properties.
- Select "for Advanced users" and click the first "options/selections" button
- Select "advanced" and on the Virtual Memory tab click change
- Select the first button so you can set the capacity of page file and type in both spaces 1024. That means that your page file will be 1024 MB all the time.
- Click ok and restart your system when you are promted to so.
- When the system restarts, defrag your hard disk drive using windows defragment tool and you are ready!
Posted by Nikos Psy2k at 1:43 am 1 comments
Labels: Windows Tips