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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for January, 2008

Coding Tip: Add a Favicon

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

1. Create your desired image 16×16px in an image editor and save it as a gif, jpg, png, or ico file, depending on which version your web host or blog provider supports. (Wordpress uses favicon.ico).
2. Upload it into your root folder.
3. Insert this code between your <head></head> tags.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
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Tips for Buying a Laptop

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

1. Decide what you want your laptop for.
Is it for work, school, design, gaming, or just surfing and email? Each function requires a slightly different configuration.
If you need it for work or school, you’ll probably carry it around. So portability is a concern. You’d probably want to look at the laptops with a weight [...]

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Seeing Double Logins in Vista

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Some of you who have the (mis)fortune of buying a computer or laptop with Vista already installed may have experienced this when a new update was installed.
At the login screen you see a duplicate of your login ids. I saw 2 pairs of cats and dogs for several weeks till I decided to search [...]

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