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Making a favicon.ico with free software

png2ico - PNG to icon converter (Linux,GNU,Windows,Unix). For a while, I had a favicon for my site, but it was in PNG format. I made it using The Gimp. Mozilla worked well in showing it, but Internet Exploder wouldn't show it in the bookmarks. I thought I had to resort to using Icon Editor in MS Windows, until I stumbled upon this great program. It's not only written in Unix, but also has a DOS/Windows version! It works well, I just have to figure out a nice design.

Did I mention how much better Mozilla is than IE? I finally learned how tabbed browsing worked. For those of you who don't know what I mean, hit -t and find out what I mean (that is, if you're using Mozilla). I also went into the Preferences menu to disallow unauthorized window opening--no more pop-up ads! Lastly, for some of the most CPU-intensive, annoying animated ads, I disallowed images to be served from certain sites by right-clicking the picture and choosing that option.

BTW, tomorrow's my son's one-month mark!