ImagIcon - Convert multiple image formats (JPG, BMP, PNG) into Windows icons

Here’s a nifty little utility that you can use to take any picture that is in BMP, JPG, or PNG format and convert it into BMP, JPG, PNG or ICO format. Using this program, you can take your favorite picture of your girlfriend, let’s say, and convert it into a Windows Icon. Then you an replace out your My Computer icon with her face rather than a boring computer ! Hmmm or maybe you don’t want to see her that much…!!

Anyway, the program is called ImagIcon and it’s not only a tiny program, but it does it’s job very well. You can take an image and save it as an icon in all of the different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, and 64×64. The 16×16 size can be used to give your web site a logo in the IE address bar. For example, in Blogger while writing a post, you can see the orange icon in the address bar:

The program also lets your transform the images if you like. You can scale the image to make it smaller or flip it horizontally or vertically. You can even save the icon with alpha transparency! And if you don’t care to save the image as an icon, you can convert between any of the three formats: PNG, JPG, or BMP.

Simply drag a picture into the colored area after configuring your settings and the picture is automatically converted! Here I took a picture of my wife & I and dropped it onto the program window. By default, it converts the picture into an icon of 32×32 and puts it in the same folder as the original picture:

You can change the settings by click on the Options menu item. Icon Settings allows you to pick the size of your final icon. Image Transform lets you pick the transformations you want if you are converting between picture formats (JPG to PNG). Remember, you can convert to the same format and simply transform the picture also. So if you have a bunch of JPEG images and you simply want to scale them quickly, then in Save Mode choose JPEG and choose the settings for image transform. And of course Save Mode is the format that you want to convert to. Save Directory is if you want to have the pictures stored somewhere else other than the directory where the originals are located.

And lastly, you can customize ImagIcon itself by choosing different colors or by loading in your own custom image for the background!

Very nice program and very handy, especially for converting images into Windows icons!

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Top 5 jokes of the week - Mr.69

#1 Husbands are husbands

A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him round the Head with a frying pan.
"What was that for?" the man asked.
The wife replied "That was for the piece of paper with the name Julie on it that I found in your pants pocket".
The man then said "When I was at the races last week Julie was the name of the horse I bet on"
The wife apologized and went on with the housework.

Three days later the man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on thehead with an even bigger frying pan, knocking himunconscious.
Upon re-gaining consciousness the man asked why she had hitagain.
Wife replied. "Your horse called up !!!!"


#2 As the thief was leaving the house, the child woke up and said to the thief, " Take my School Bag too, else i'll wake up my mom....".


#3 Help Her With Her Plan

A grade 5 teacher one day asked the children in her class to make rhymes with their names.

First up was Dan. A very adventurous child.

My name is Dan,
When I grow up to be a man,
I want to go to India and Japan,
If I can, If I can, If I can.

“Very good”, the teacher said to Dan. She then asked Sally that it was now her turn.

My name is Sally,
When I grow up to be a lady,
I want to have a baby
If I can, if I can, if I can.

“That is good Sally,” the teacher said. “But maybe one day you will change your mind.”

Next up was Sunny. He was the naughty one in the class. Here is his rhyme:

My name is Sunny,
When I grow up to be a man,
Never mind India and Japan,
I’m gonna help Sally with her plan,
I know I can, I can, I can.


#4 Three answers most scared by men.. Typical girls...

1. (Whatever)
Men: What to have for dinner?
Women: Whatever..
Men: Why not we have steamboat?
Women: Don't want, eat steamboat later got pimples in my face
Men: Alright, why not we have Si Chuan cuisine
Women: Yesterday ate Si Chuan, today eat again?
Men: Hmm..... I suggest we have seafood
Women: Seafood no good, later I got diarrhea
Men: Then what you suggest?
Women : Whatever..

2. (Anything)
Men: So what should we do now?
Women: Anything
Men: How about watching movie? Long time we didn't watch movie
Women: Watching movie no good, waste time only
Men: How about we play bowling, do some exercises?
Women: Exercise in such hot day? You not feel tire meh?
Men: Then find a café and have drink
Women: Drink coffee will affect my sleep
Men: Then what you suggest?
Women: Anything

3. (You decide)
Men: Then we just go home
Women: You decide
Men: Let take bus, I will accompany you
Women: Bus is dirty and crowded. Don't want
Men: Ok we will take Taxi
Women: Not worth it... for such a short distance
Men: Alright, then we walk. Take a slow walk
Women: What to walk with empty stomach woh?
Men: Then what you suggest?
Women: You decide
Men: Let's have dinner first
Women: Whatever...
Men: Eat what?
Women: Anything


#5 The Top 10 reasons why a handgun is better than a woman

• 10 - You can trade an old .44 for two new .22s.
• 9 - You can keep one handgun at home and have another for when you're on the road.
• 8 - If you admire a friend's handgun, and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.
• 7 - Your primary handgun doesn't mind if you have a backup.
• 6 - Your handgun will stay with you even if you're out of ammo.
• 5 - A handgun doesn't take up a lot of closet space.
• 4 - Handguns function normally every day of the month.
• 3 - A handgun doesn't ask "Do these new grips make me look fat?"
• 2 - A handgun doesn't mind if you go to sleep after you use it.

AND THE NUMBER ONE WAY THAT A HANDGUN IS BETTER THAN A WOMAN . . . You can buy a silencer for a handgun.

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Gain Knowledge at unnecessaryknowledge

• Only 2% of water on earth is fresh.
• The world's oldest piece of Chewing Gum is 9000 years old.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

These are just a few out of 2315 posts on unnecessaryknowledge. unnecessaryknowledge is a good site for viewing such interesting posts. Its absolutely free and you don't have to sign up or something, just open up the site and start viewing these information's by voting.

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How to Bypass Mandatory Free Registrations

Do you really get annoyed when asked for FREE REGISTRATIONS by many websites without which you cannot proceed further? Everyone who uses internet regularly must have faced this and must be knowing how annoying this is. Registering means, you have to give your personal details, which can result in SPAM, Promotion emails, Identity Theft etc.

Now here's a site which can solve this problem, BUGMENOT.

Here are 5 simple steps to use Bugmenot as described on its tutorial page :


STEP 1: Make a note of the website address your are trying to access. For example:

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1024_3-5567274.html
Or even just:
www.nytimes.com

STEP 2: Visit Bugmenot

STEP 3: Enter the address from step 1 into the box and press the "Get Logins" button

STEP 4: You should now be presented with at least one username and password. Make a note of them.

STEP 5: Go back to the site you were originally trying to access in step 1 and proceed to login with the username and password you noted in the previous step.

Bugmenot is very helpful if you don't want to get spammed or give your personal details and it also saves a lot of time.

Moreover, Bugmenot also provides an option for site owners to block their site from the Bugmenot database, if they match one or more of the follow criteria

1. A community site where users register to change content, but not to view it.
2. The site is pay-per-view.
3. There is a fraud risk associated with the site due to accounts containing private financial information .

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