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Icon Generator - Generate CS5 or Web 2.0 Style Icons - Fully Customizable!

2012-01-19T15:04:00.000-08:00

Heres a fun website! You can easily generate FREE CS5 or Web 2.0 style icons easily and simply! With a few clicks you can have a professional looking icon, it takes only a couple of minutes - and what's best, is it's FREE!

Enter the website by clicking here - or copying the URL into your URL bar! (http://icon-generator.net/)

You can also change the language, at the moment there's only a few - but who knows, maybe later on in the future they could add more - so anyone can use it!

I tried this out and made a Techedia icon with the 'CS5' style icons - It's really easy, as it's a few clicks changing the color and text! Here's what I got -

As you can see, it looks professional and clean! This can be useful for companies and businesses looking for an icon with a simple look!
What's also great about this online application, is that you can save the icon for free! The icons come in different sizes, from 16 x 16 px to 256 x 256 px! So whatever size you're looking for, there's many to choose from in the downloaded folder.

Simply click the 'Save Icons' button (as shown in the screenshot above) and save it to whatever directory you like.

The file is saved as a .zip file - in which you may need WinRAR or another extracting program to extract the files from the .zip file. You can download WinRAR by clicking here.
Once extracted, you'll find 3 folders...

These 3 folders are named; Desktop Icons, Android Icons and iPhone Icons. That's another great thing about this site - you can use the images on your iPhone (as an app) and android! Then in the Desktop Icons folder - You'll find different sizes to use for your computer.

You can also download this application to your computer by clicking 'Download' on the menu bar at the top of the site. Then you can access this application from your desktop in one click!

and that's it! A cool, free and simple way to create CS5 (Adobe) and Web 2.0 style icons! Hope you enjoy creating these cool icons - comment if you know any other Icon Generators!

You can enter the Icon Generator by clicking the enter button below!

- ©Techedia

'The Amazing Fact Generator' - A Fun Website Full of Facts!

2012-01-17T15:30:00.000-08:00

Today, I came across a website named 'The Amazing Fact Generator'. It's a website dedicated to facts, and from a click of a button, you can generate several random facts! This will have you sitting at your computer for hours on end, as you get fascinated with these awesome facts! To enter this website, click here. (http://mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator/)

You can also rate each fact on a scale from 1-5 stars. This is a great feature for people to see the reliability of each fact!

What's also great about this site, is you can submit your own facts for others to read! Simply fill out a short form and your facts will be up!

Enter The Amazing Fact Generator!

Hope you have fun browsing the facts! Comment on your favorite fact! :-)
- ©Techedia

Top 10 Websites To Get Attractive Covers For Your FaceBook Timeline

2012-01-17T11:01:00.000-08:00

Recently, FaceBook launched a new kind of profile called Timeline for millions of its users. One of the best features of the new Timeline, is the big image that appears at the top of the page. FaceBook named this the 'Cover Photo'. Now, many of us want to create a personalized image to go at the top of our page, that suits our profile and shows who we are. But before you ask someone to design one for you, take a look at these awesome websites to get an attractive cover for your FaceBook page.

1. FBCoverPix.com

FBCoverPix.com is a very clean and reliable source of FaceBook covers. It's reliable for its cool FaceBook covers, and another good thing about these cover photos is you can download them freely without any watermark. You can also share your cover photos with others.

2. MyProfileCover.com

MyProfileCover.com is recommended for great high quality images. A good thing about this site is that you don't have to log in to your FaceBook account on the website like others, you just simply download the image and upload to your FaceBook photos. Some images may have the watermark.

3. FreeFacebookCovers.org

FreeFaceBookCovers.org is featured on several popular websites such as CNET, Yahoo etc. It has some good quality cover images. The images to carry a watermark, however again, you don't have to log in, you can simply download the image and upload them as your profile cover photo.

4. CoverPhotoFinder.com

CoverPhotoFinder.com is your best choice if you're looking for bright and colorful cover photos. Simply log into your account and CoverPhotoFinder.com will set your favorite cover image as your profile cover.

5. FaceCoverz.com

FaceCoverz.com is great for it's organization! It has an A - Z catorgories list so you can find exactly what you're looking for! These vary from Abstract to 3D, Animals to Cars, Movies to Games etc. You'll find all kind of cover photos here. Simply log in to your FaceBook account and set the cover image on your profile.

6. CoverPhotoz.com

CoverPhotoz.com - Here you'll find lots of different types of cover images! From abstract to plain, and music to sports. You'll have to log in to your FaceBook account in order to upload these images.

7. DesignFacebookCover.com

DesignFaceBookCover.com allows you to order professionally designed profile covers for your FaceBook profile! The price starts at $10. Don't want to pay? Well this website also offers free covers, which you can download freely! Each image comes with a watermark.

8. FacebookCoverWallpapers.com

Looking for simple and high quality cover images? Well FaceBookCoverWallpapers.com offers a great source of unique images! These images come with a very small watermark which is barely visible.

9. PicScatter.com

With PicScatter.com you can easily create your own cover images! This requires Flash 10.3 or later. You can also generate some awesome images for your FaceBook page!

10. Timeline Covers App

Timeline Covers App on FaceBook can easily provide you with a large variety of profile covers. You'll find the large collection of pre-designed images without leaving FaceBook.

And that's it! Hope this helped, and made some of your FaceBook accounts look a little better! If you have any more suggestions let me know by commenting! :-)

- ©Techedia

Google Easter Eggs : Over 40 Fun, Random and Cool Searches on Google

2012-01-16T17:25:00.000-08:00

Google's Easter Eggs became a hot topic after the famous 'Barrel Roll' trick, here I have put a list of over 40 Google Easter Eggs for you to enjoy!

Before we start with the list, ensure that you've disabled the instant search in order to use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button below the Google search bar. These Easter Eggs work fine with Google Chrome, and any of the latest versions of Firefox. Some may not work in Internet Explorer 8 and 9.

1. Google Search Easter Eggs :

- Searching "Do a Barrel Roll" or "Z or R Twice" will rotate the page in 360 degree.

- Searching "Tilt" or "Askew" will tilt the page to its right side.

- Searching "The answer to life the universe and everything plus the number of horns on a unicorn" will show you the number 43 in result.

- Searching "(sqrt(cos(x))cos(200 x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2)" will draw a heart on the page using Google’s graphic calculator.

2. More Google Search Easter Eggs :

- Searching "Christmas" or "Merry Christmas" or "Santa Claus" or "Father Christmas"

or "12 Days of Christmas" will show you the row of Christmas lights below the Google

search box.

- Searching "Kwanzaa" will show you the images of the seven candles below the Google search box.

- Searching "Hanukkah" will show you the row of stars below the Google search box.

Some others...

- Searching "the loneliest number" will show you '1'.

- Searching "the number of horns on a unicorn" will show you '1'.

- Searching "a baker’s dozen" will show you '13'.

- Searching "once in a blue moon" will show you '1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz.'

- Searching "Recursion" will show you 'Did you mean: Recursion !'

- Searching "anagram" will show you 'Did you mean: nag a ram.'

3. I’m Feeling Lucky Easter Eggs :

This time, instead of simply searching the phrase/keyword, you have to enter it into the search bar, then press that 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button.

- Searching 'Google Gravity' will show Google tumbling down. You can use your mouse to drag the different parts of Google around.

- Searching 'Google Sphere' will show Google in a 3D sphere shape.

- Searching 'Google Pacman' will show a Pacman game as the Google logo. You can play this game on the page.

4. More I’m Feeling Lucky Easter Eggs :

- "Google Loco"

- "Epic Google"

- "Weenie Google"

- "Find Chuck Norris"

- "Let Me Google That For You"

- "Google Gothic"

- "Google Gothic 2"

- "Google Guitar"

- "Google Pirate"

- "Google Rainbow"

- "Google Reverse" or "elgooG"

- "Who's the cutest person in the world?" or "Who is the cutest?"

- "Google Pig Latin"

- "Google Black" (You can type any color after 'Google' except green. Example : Google Red)

- "Google Pond"

- "Google is God"

- "Google Bork"

- "Funny Google"

- "Google Gangster"

- "xx-hacker"

- "Googles By Kids"

- "2204355"

- "Google Gulp"

- "xx-piglatin"

- "xx-klingon"

- "LOL Limewire"

Have fun with Google! We'll add more as soon as we find more Easter Eggs! :-)