Tag Archives: Icon

Setting a FAVorite ICON for your site

By Ajith | Published: November 25, 2008

This post is an Answer to the comment posted by Carol A Ranney on “How to make custom icons”. A favourite icon commonly known as a favicon is the small image shown near the URL in the address field of the browser. Now a days these icons are also used for bookmarks. You can easily [...]

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Free online icon maker

By Ajith | Published: August 17, 2008

Free tools have always been my favorite. You can see that under the free tag. If you don’t have any software to create an icon or cannot create a free icon as in the previous post, you must try this free online icon creator. The site allows you to make 16x16px icons. You can also [...]

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Change the default Drive Icons in Windows XP

By Ajith | Published: July 8, 2008

You can change the default drive icons available in My Computer under Windows XP through the registry. Although it is done via registry the task is pretty simple and straight forward. (You can also use the Autorun method – please read that article if you prefer to do so) Open registry editor ( WIN+R » [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Customize, Registry, Visual | 2 Comments

How to get icons from exe and dll files of programs

By Ajith | Published: June 7, 2008

The icons that are used by programs such as Photoshop or Microsoft Office are actually stored inside the exe or dll files coming along with the program. To capture and save these icons you can use two methods. One is by using a program that can open an exe file such as PE resource explorer. [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged File, Free, Tool | 1 Comment

Download RSS icons – in different colors

By Ajith | Published: February 3, 2008

I have edited some commonly found RSS icons into different colors. The dimensions include 32px * 32px, 150px * 150px, 300px * 300px and a 60px * 60px reflections. The icons have been zipped and packed dimension wise.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Blog, Free, Funny, Image, Web | 5 Comments

Cool icons – get icons free from FastIcons.com

By Ajith | Published: January 2, 2008

Fasticons.com is a one stop shop for pretty and cool icons on the web. The icons can be purchased in bulk. There is also a collection of good free icons which can be used as ico icons or as icons for a web template Download free icons from FastIcon.com! FastIcon.com sells professional Royalty-free Stock Icon [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Customize, Edit, Free | 3 Comments

How to make custom Icons

By Ajith | Published: December 12, 2007

Most of us would like to add a few custom icons to some folders or file types in our computers, but the problem is difficulty to find a good tool. I was personally a victim of so called icon maker when it turned out to be a virus once. It was a long time ago [...]

Posted in Software | Also tagged File, Free, Image | 5 Comments