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Create your own file extension icons

Daniel Pataki — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:27:18 +0000

I absolutely love all kinds of icons, and not long ago I found a very quick way to make my own simple Adobe-Suite-like icons. All you need is Adobe Air, and an app called Air Icon Generator. The app is from the same people who gave us Bookmarked Generator, and works with the same style, although with quite a bit more efficiency. You can churn out 4 different sized icons for as many formats as you want, I created about 10 in 2 minutes.

All you need to do, is fire up the application, select your style (Adobe style, or Web 2.0 star style), enter your text, up to four letters, select a background color and click generate. The shading is done extremely well, no matter what color you choose your icon will look good. This really is a great way to create file extension icons, especially if you use a lot like php, css, js and so on, you can get much better stuff the the original system ones.

The only thing I don’t like about the app is how it saves icons, more specifically, the naming. It generates four files with the names of “icon_16.png” for example, where “icon” is NOT the name you entered. This way, if you want to save a new icon, you need to get the old ones out of the way because they will be overwritten. I have no idea why the icons are not named after the name you enter, this would make saving and handling of these files much easier. Otherwise a great little app, give it a go!

Tags: adobe air, generator, icon

Create WordPress Themes

joshua — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:15:16 +0000

WordPress is fantastic for the extend to which is can be customised, however if mucking around with CSS isn’t something you really want to get into personally then here are a few tools to help you out:

Artisteer

Artisteer is a new application fresh out of beta which helps you design either normal websites or a WordPress theme. It’s also one of the few programs I’ve seen which uses the Office Ribbon UI, it works pretty effectively for this application and looks great as well.

The problem is that this isn’t freeware and costs $99.95 for a developer license. Considering the lack of advanced features in the software, however nice it looks, I can’t see many people jumping at the chance to purchase this.

Perhaps if it included an actual code editor as well or had a great deal more options for customisation then it would be a more attractive offer but till then I think not. If you use the free version all images are watermarked when you export your theme, however this could still be useful as you can simply replace the images in the files.

I can only assume the activation of Artisteer provides a lot more functionality such as more templates, support for more platforms and more options.

WordPress Theme Generator

Feels kind of dated compared to Artisteer but will do the basics of theme design for you, handy if you want something to work off but not much more than that.

Starkers WordPress Theme

I particularly like this. If you’ve ever started a new theme based off the default WordPress themes then you’ll have realised how much stuff is in there which you really don’t need. Naked WordPress theme is a completely stripped down theme for you to work off, really helpful =)

There’s an update saying it isn’t working too well with WP 2.6, but that the author is updating it soon =)

Tags: css, generator, html, wordpress

Ultra High Security Password Generator

Martin — Sat, 27 May 2006 11:17:55 +0000

If you´re ever in the need of a high security password the Ultra High Security Password Generator Website might be exactly what you´ve been looking for. Everytime you visit or refresh the website it will display three randomly generated passwords, one 64 random hexadecimal charakters password, one 63 random printable ASCII chars and finally a 63 random alpha-numeric characters password.

“Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again. Also, because this page will only allow itself to be displayed over a snoop-proof and proxy-proof high-security SSL connection, and it is marked as having expired back in 1999, this page which was custom generated just now for you will not be cached or visible to anyone else.”

Just one hint, make sure you save the password somewhere because I think it´s rather difficulty to remember the passwords. You might want to consider using a password safe like keepass which I also recommended here at ghacks some time ago.

Tags: generator, password, passwords, Security

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