So you might be wondering it would be nice to have one of those little graphics that so many sites have these days. These are called Favicon’s and the resulting file name will be favicon.ico.

Once the favicon.ico file is created it must be placed in your web sites web root directory. Basically the page that your
home page file is located. This can be done easily enough with your web hosting Control Panel file manager, or very
easily uploaded to your web site using your favorite FTP program. To verify that the file has been uploaded correctly
just point your browser to your domain name and then use /favicon.ico after the domain. So for an example we will use www.karthost.com and make sure the favicon.ico file is where we think we put it, we type www.karthost.com/favicon.ico
into our browser and you should see your little favicon image in your browsers window.

But where can you get one of these FAVICON’s made? There is a wonder favicon generator site I personally like to use.

www.Favicon.cc.

Once your on the page to create a quick favicon.ico click on Import Image off your PC:

Creating a Favicon on favicon.cc

Then Click on “Choose File”

Click on Choose File

Then Click Upload Button:

Once you upload and you like the way it looks just click on the “Download Favicon” link under the Preview > Favicon in original size:

Remember your Favicon now needs to be loaded up to your web server. If you are not sure how to do that, then contact
your Technical Support group at your web host. Regardless of of the type hosting you have you can have a Favicon
that you can call ALL YOURS.

Now get out there and make you a favicon!

Hope you found this Blog Post useful, make sure to share the knowledge with your Friends!

Roy Randolph
Head Hostmaster
KARTHOST Web Hosting

That’s the very question a new web site ask those looking to raise some cash to answer.

The site’s premise is any freelancer can post any service, as long as they charge just $5.00 for the service.

Basically the things you would expect freelancers to offer.

Once the service is posted on the site, any visitor can order the service for $5.00, and the the freelancer has 48 hours to complete the job.

If the job is completed on time, the freelancer is paid $5.00 by the customer.

Some of the services currently offered by freelancers include:

* I will edit your 5 minute or less video on iMovie for $5.00

* I will help you with your resume for $5.00

* Write a 500 word article on any subject for $5.00

* I will design covers for cd/dvd/books for $5.00

* I will send your son or daughter a personalized letter from Santa Claus for $5

These are just of the few of the thousands of jobs freelancers are offering to do for just $5.00.

The categorys are Gift Ideas, Fun & Bizarre, Graphics, Social Marketing, Travel, Writing, Postcards, Advertising, Music & Audio, Tips & Advice, Business, Technology, Programming, Other and Silly Stuff.   Definitely worth visiting and bookmarking.

To find the ‘what would you do for $5.00′ site, visit www.fiverr.com

As the old cliche’ says, a picture is worth a thousand words. Have you tried explaining a problem you are having online in words and just can’t seem to communicate the problem or issue to others on the other side of an email or in a Support Ticket setting?

Well don’t feel alone. What you want to use is the Print Screen capability on your Windows PC or Mac PC, (yes a MAC is a PC “Personal Computer”).  providing screen shots of whats on your monitor to those that are trying to help you can do wonders in getting a problem resolved or just sharing cool stuff with others.

If using a Windows PC you could use the “Prt Scr” button (some key boards the print screen button will show as “PrtSc” or actually it might be spelled out as “Print Screen” in this article we will use “Prt Scr” because that is what it is on my PC) and capture your entire monitor, or use “alt” + “Prt Scr” and only capture the item you have high lighted like a web browser for instance.

To capture the entire monitor……

• Press your Prt Scr button and your image is stored on the Windows Clip board and then simply paste into a word document program, a image editor of choice.

To capture a portion of a screen……

• Make the web browser, or or item on your screen active (just by selecting it) click on the “alt” + “Prt Scr” at the same time and presto, its done. Now just paste the image off the clip board into a word document or image editor of choice.

To Capture a screen with the Mac using Mac OS X  system here is what you will need to do:

• Switch to the screen you wish to do a screen capture of
• Now, hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 3 and release all (Why did they make it harder on a MAC?)
• Using your mouse, click on the screen
• Now you are done. (Yeah!!) You will see a graphical picture file in your desktop. Which is the screen capture picture!

Now to capture only a portion of your screen…..do this…….

• Switch to the screen you wish to do a screen capture of
• Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 and release all key (feel like your playing “Twister”with your fingers?)
• Your mouse cursor will change to “+“
• Now just drag your mouse to select the portion of your screen you wish to capture.
• Now you are done. (Wahoo!!) you will see a picture file in your desktop. That’s the screen capture picture!

BUT WAIT!………………

There really has to be a better way of doing this that is more user friendly and provides you more options, and the good news, there is!

I use a Screen Capture Tool Called “Snagit!” Its a wonderful tool to capture images on your monitor and use to share in email, in Support Tickets, on your web site. In a matter of less than 30 seconds I captured the www.Snagit.com home page and shrunk it down and pasted it in this blog.

Screen Shot Captured using Snagit 10

Snagit is a pretty cool tool and will really make your life easier sharing with others. The price of this FANTASTIC software is $49.95 as of the day of the posting of this article. Its a great price compared to other over priced progams. There is also a Free 30 day Trail of Snagit to allow you time to give it a wirl if you like.

But if you do not have the funds to spare and would like to have the software working longer than a 30 day trail, the good people over at TechSmith, the creators of Snagit, have a similar FREE version both for you Mac enthusiasts and Windows users called Jing.  While not as robust as Snagit, you can’t beat the price! FREE! Head right over to Download Jing to pick up your MAC or Windows version. And it will open up a whole new world of being to be able to share graphics.