Not a graphic designer, but you need an animated graphic to show something is loading? Preloaders.net is a free online tool that lets you create your very own loading graphic.
Tools
Favicon png or ico?
I found some great info, where I always do, on stackoverflow. Basically it all modern browsers request a ico file so its best to have it in case you don’t have a <link> tag. The best thing was the ico generator url on Dynamic Drive which does transparency. Just great stuff. Scroll down to the answer with the most votes, not the accepted one.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344122/favicon-png-vs-favicon-ico-why-should-i-use-pngs-instead-of-icos
keywords: favicon png
git move files
Problem
I added and pushed a bunch of files into my repository, but now I need to put it into a subfolder.
Solution
Git is smart and will find the files you moved. Do the following:
$ mkdir newFolder
$ mv oldFolder newFolder
$ git rm -r oldFolder
$ git add newFolder
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3900805/git-command-to-move-a-folder-inside-another
keywords: git move files to another folder
git couldn’t resolve proxy null
Problem:
I keep getting this error:
“Couldn’t resolve proxy ‘(null) …”.
I googled so hard!
Solution:
Thank you to someone who just plainly answers my question. You just have to unset http.proxy and possibly https.proxy!
git config –global –unset http.proxy
searched: proxy connect aborted while accessing git
Thanks to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5102361/pull-command-error-failed-connect-to-github-com8080
Convert Mac dfont files to TTF format
Windows only accepts TTF font files while Mac format’s their font into Dfont format. This tool by Peter Upfold lets you convert those beautiful Mac fonts into windows format. Then with your TTF fonts you can upload them to http://www.font2web.com/ or http://onlinefontconverter.com and make web fonts!
http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2008/03/11/dfontsplitter-convert-dfont-files-to-ttf/
What to do about PostScript type files?
Say you thought you had a dfont file, dragged the file into the tool above and got an error saying it’s not the right format. Well, Looking more into the file you’ll probably find that you have a PostScript Type 1 file.
What I did was go to http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/Type1-2-OpenType.pdf and find the OpenType format of the font you want to convert. Then go to somewhere like http://www.fontpalace.com/. There you can download your font in OTF format and it can be used everywhere.
Font2Web
Problem
Using your own fonts with HTML 5 can be great, but different browsers require different font formats. I only had the TTF (True Type Font) file, but I also needed the otf, .eot, .woff and .svg files to be compatible with all browsers.
Solution
http://www.font2web.com. Font 2 Web is a great website that does what it says. It takes your TTF and gives you back a zip file with the other 4 files that you need. It also gives you the CSS file needed for your custom @font-face. You may notice that in the CSS file the local src has a smiley face character. You can read more here on what that’s all about: http://paulirish.com/2010/font-face-gotchas/#smiley.
Update: Another solution is http://www.fontsquirrel.com. However, even if you have all font format files, it still may not work in all browsers and all OS’s. I believe one issue is the EOT licensing issue for IE. Microsoft use EOT format so that font licenses can be verified so maybe I’m using un-licensed fonts. The only fonts that have worked consistently for me are Google’s Web Fonts.