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Images, favicons and some text

April 8, 2009 /

When searching for images for my blogs I use Flickr Creative Commons (free if source is given) and iStockphoto where you buy the right to use images.

For more sources, see 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images.

A favicon (also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon) is a 16×16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. I use FavIcon from Pics to create my favicons, the service is free and easy to use.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Great when you are more focused on looks than text content andd simply want “filler text” for testing something.

Life is back

April 8, 2009 /

I use iStockphoto for images and get their Tip of the Week. Today it says:

LIFE and Getty Images, the two most recognized names in photography, have created LIFE.com so you can access millions of breathtaking photographs — for free.

LIFE.com lets you wander through the legendary LIFE and Getty archives, and with more than 3,000 new photos added every day, it also gives you the best pictures of people and places shaping our world.

I have taken a look at the new LIFE – Your World in Pictures and it looks very promising.

Q10 text editor

April 6, 2009 /

Maki, @doshdosh, tweeted about Q10 text editor. It’s freeware and Q10 says it is “a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind”.

There are several interesting features but what hooked me is this:

Perfectly portable. A single self-contained executable file. That’s all. Easy to use with a pendrive, so you can carry your writing environment with you everywhere.

Update April 11,2009.
I have installed and tested Q10. It is a bit odd (to me) to have a totally blank screen without any visible distractions. I like the typewriter sound when writing, getting an audio feedback is actually great.

Q10 is a plain but powerful text editor. No formating can be done, all you can do is write which is the sole purpose of this software. Q10 creates txt-files, import them into your word processor of choice and do the formatting there.

You can have an information bar that shows current number of words, pages, lines, paragraphs and characters. Quite useful in order to see your writing progress.

In summary – I like Q10 and will use it when I need to focus on my writing.

Read more:
Q10: My New Favorite Text Editor
Q10: Text editor with a difference

Free 52 Page Complete Blogging Guide

April 6, 2009 /

Dan Schawbel with his Personal Branding Blog has created Road to Me 2.0: Free 52 Page Complete Blogging Guide! Dan writes:

If someone asked me how I became successful in the past two and a half years, I would point to this blog, without even bothering to mention anything else. After writing about the process of going from a beginner to intermediate to advanced and then expert blogger, I wanted to create a single resource for you to have all of this information in a simple and consumable format.

The guide goes from beginner to expert:

1. Beginner
* Learn the basics to jumpstart your blog
* RSS, widgets, Technorati, posting, logo & theme

2. Intermediate
* Formatting, pictures, links & pages
* Forum, email and comment marketing

3. Advanced
* Blog hosting, custom themes & plugins
* Social network integration & SEO

4. Expert
* Podcasting, lifestreaming and mailing lists
* Make money blogging and more!

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