Icons overall are very special in a certain way because a good icon or symbol must display some kind of information in usually a very tiny space. Therefore it’s not so easy to create an icon that would express something in form of a comprehensible symbol and it can consume some time to make or find a specific symbol or icon.

IconLet.com looks like an average search engine too simple to be even interesting in any way but its simple interface only supports the clarity of this service. It lets you search for icons. But that’s not all. You can choose whether you want to search for png or gif image types.

IconLet also provides an Advanced search where you can choose icon resolutions from a long list of standard sizes and the license under which you want the symbol to be found. Only free/GNU/CC licenses are supported (so that you don’t have to worry about the rights so much).

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Tags: download icons, download symbols, icon resource, iconlet, icons, symbols
Categories: The Web

Ever got an e-mail with a document in the attachment containing malware which messed your computer up? Well, take better care the next time ;)

Now seriously. Have you ever received a document (a clean one) with an extension you never heard of and didn’t even know what application you were supposed to use to open it? That’s not a problem any more due to applications and online services that can understand varied file formats and display the contents of those files for you. Of course, you can’t edit such files with viewers because their only purpose is to display the contents of the document. But hey, better that nothing, ain’t it…

Let me introduce 2 ways of viewing contents of a document with an unknown extension:

1) Install a single program to rule all the document extensions you can ever happen to meet (alright, maybe not absolutely all of them but pretty much most of the common ones). I’ve tried a freeware tool called TextMaker Viewer and it does it’s job well. It’s a simple document viewer without useless functions but it has everything needed to fulfil it’s purpose. It supports 10 of the most common file formats which should be quite enough for average use. According to the coders, Linux version is under development.

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Tags: document viewer, document viewers, documents, internet tips, security tips, textmaker viewer, zoho viewer
Categories: The Web, software

Stuffing your system with tons of fancy fonts may not be the best idea because, as you probably know, the number of installed fonts can rapidly change the speed at which your system loads. Your system may have become slower without you even knowing it because many applications do install their own fonts that they (do not) need which adds to the size of your fonts folder.

It therefore would be good to pick those fonts that you want (need) and those which you do not which would have the effect that you would still have all the fonts you work with normally and experience a faster system at the same time. Also, if you’re into fonts and use many variations of them for your work / hobby purposes, you may appreciate a great source of free fonts I’d like to mention underneath.

Font Frenzy is a great tool for font management available as a free download. This application consists of 4 parts allowing you to put your fonts in order. DeFrenzy backs up all additional fonts to a specified directory and erases them from the font folder so that it in fact restores the default state after Windows installation.

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Tags: defrenzy, font frenzy, font manager, fonts, frenzyman, windows software
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

As a proud Opera user, you probably let your browser identify itself as Opera browser by default. Although most websites do work and display more or less properly in Opera, there are still many of them which don’t comply with the standards and contain many non-standardized code segments (usually working in IE only) thus confusing the standards-based browsers which leads to improper appearance of the site in the end.

Fortunately, Opera is clever enough to handle this in most cases by applying a disguise against the web server, it just needs to be triggered the right way. To make it identify as another browser however, you need to press F12 and go to “Network” tab in the “Site preferences” menu first and select “Identify as Opera (IE, Firefox)”, which is rather impractical. How lucky we are to have another, much simpler solution to this.

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Tags: opera, opera tip, opera-tips, web browser
Categories: Browsing, opera

Not long ago, my system popped out a dialog saying “Error” in the title and offering two ways to go in form of two buttons below it – Yes and No. I was trying hard for a while to find out about the right answer but I never really did find it because I did not know what the error was all about. I suppose I’ve saved the world by choosing the right answer, the world didn’t blow up after all… And now seriously :)

We live in an imperfect world full of bugs (and other insects of course) and the cyber-world is no exception to that rule. Fortunately, there are several ways to resolve problems, as long as you have any idea of what caused them to happen. Not all error messages or bug reports are as useless (and funny) as the one I mentioned above. Most of them provide you with at least a brief description of the error and mostly an error number or category as well. But what if you don’t understand the error message? How about asking some other users who could have experienced it or know how to fix it ?

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Tags: bugs, computer, errors, software, Windows
Categories: Knowledge, The Web

The competition between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD seems to be ridiculous and pointless when you compare it with the plans of Mempile company. After achieving the maximum of 2 or 4 layers on present-day discs, they’re coming with a 200-layer medium called TeraDisc™. It’s those 200 virtual layers in a DVD-size medium (1,2 mm thick) that allow such a huge amount of data to be stored 3-dimensionally on a single disc. The medium contains light sensitive molecules (chromophores) capable of switching between two states thus saving digital data.

Although it might look like a universal solution to finding a better way to handle digital data, this technology is probably supposed to be only used for permanent archiving of data, not rewriting (I’ve never found a single mention of rewritable discs on Mempile’s homepage) which rather limits it’s practical use. Also, when storing such a vast amount of data on a single medium, you could soon regret it if the disc got scratched or damaged in some other way. However, it’s still a great deal to have a medium with 1 TB capacity, even if not rewritable. Besides, in the future, when the technology develops even more, the capacity of TeraDiscs should eventually reach up to 5 TB.

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Tags: cd, data, datacubes, dvd, israel, storage, teradisc
Categories: Hardware

After two previously mentioned services, I’d like to add another web desktop provider to the “list”. A German company well-known for developing advanced audio and video editing software decided to offer their own “portable desktop” to those who register for free. I’ve tried it myself and I can honestly say it looks promising, although it’s still a beta version. Magix’s applications are very stylish and pleasant and this free service doesn’t make any exception to that rule.

After creating a free account at myGOYA and signing in using the https protocol you can see an overview of your virtual system drawing up how many messages / e-mails / contacts / calendar records you got and free space available on the web hard drive. MyGOYA provides 512 MB free space for e-mails and the same amount for all other data again. Should be quite sufficient for a light-weight and portable operating system.

After firing up the virtual system, which takes just few seconds, you can do many things that you’d be able to do on your own system like storing files, managing e-mails and contacts using built-in client, chatting with other users, planning events with a calendar, playing media files, scheduling tasks and so forth.

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Tags: magix, mygoya, online desktop, virtual desktop, web desktop, web operating system
Categories: Online Services, The Web, Tools