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Favicon Generator: favicons made easy
Have you ever seen a site with a really awesome favicon -- that tiny icon that shows up in bookmarks and address bars -- and wondered how to get one yourself? Favicon Generator makes it totally simple, with two different ways to get exactly the icon you want. You can upload any image, or make your own with a pixel-level editor. Then Favicon Generator does the rest, and gives you a .ico file that you can use with your site. Generator mode is where you can upload your gifs, jpgs and pngs to be converted. The Generator will resize them to the standard 16x16 pixel favicon size for you, but you can easily get a full-sized .ico instead by clicking a checkbox. In Editor mode, you draw your own icon on an oversized 16x16 grid, using any web colors you like. There's no option to enlarge the grid, so this is no solution for serious pixel-art projects. When it comes to favicons, though, it's the perfect tool for the task.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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crytoncrew said 11:35AM on 2-11-2009
The link appears to be incorrect. Seems fine without the hyphen.
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ploppythekangaroo said 12:58PM on 2-11-2009
This one's better:
http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
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MDW said 1:44PM on 2-11-2009
Link doesn't work. I'm assuming this is a desktop application? If so - great find. It gets tedious trying to build these in a full-bore image editor, and web based alternatives don't offer the pixel by pixel editing that is sometimes needed.
Fix the link so we can check it out. ;)
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Jay Hathaway said 2:27PM on 2-11-2009
Fixed. Sorry about that, guys. Thanks for the catch.
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brendan_oc said 4:42PM on 2-11-2009
link still wasn't working, here's one that does.
http://favicon-generator.org/editor/
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Abscissa said 10:06AM on 2-12-2009
"Have you ever seen a site with a really awesome favicon"
No.
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