Cocoa Crusty

I am working on a Web site and needed to use part of the client’s logo for the site’s Favicon. Since I work on a Mac, I needed something that was quick and easy without a lot of fluff… I mean, come on… I just need to convert a A
PNG to an ICO file… How much interface does one really need to perform such a task?!

I stumbled upon this nifty command-line tool called png2ico. Did you hear me say “command-line”?! You know what that means, right?! Just issue a simple command on the command-line and you’re in business. This is exactly what I needed!

I downloaded the source and was about to compile it when I decided to see if it was already in the MacPorts collection of third-party Unix applications. GUess what?! After running % sudo port selfupdate to get my MacPorts up to date, I ran % port search png2ico and this was returned:

% port search png2ico
png2ico graphics/png2ico 2002-12-08 Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.

Great! After running % sudo port install png2ico I was in business. I quickly ran % png2ico favicon.ico favicon.png (where favicon.ico is the output file and favicon.png is my input file) and I had my conversion done in a matter of milliseconds…

If you need to quickly convert PNG image files to ICO image files on a Unix or Mac system, give this utility a try. No bulky UIno , fancy command line switches, just the basics to convert your file. Nice!

Until next time…

Yes, it has been quite sometime since I have blogged about anything… I admit, my life has been very crazy lately between work, personal life, and my own business, Fruitful Solutions. Anyways, I just wanted to post a quick little bit of iPhone news for the record…

I have been a long time fan of the Bejeweled (this link will allow you to play online) puzzle game since I downloaded it a while back on one of my many Nokia phones. I think every phone I have had in recent years has had this game installed, except for my E61.

Well, since you can’t install third-party applications on the iPhone, PopCap Games has given us iPhone users the next best thing. There is a version of this game that is strictly Web based without using the Flash Player plugin. You can play it by pointing your iPhone’s browser to http://static.popcap.com/iphone/. Actually, I played a game earlier on my MacBook using the Firefox Web browser, so you can more than likely play it on any OS and browser combination.

Until next time…