Monthly ArchiveJune 2008
Internet & MacOS & Programming Daantje on 27 Jun 2008
How to make a transparent favicon.ico in Photoshop.
It’s only easy with this Adobe Photoshop plugin. It’s a free and open source plugin available for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3 for MacOSX and Windows. Also it works on PaintShop Pro.
To make a transparent favicon, just design your icon (32 x 32 pixels) with a transparent background. Resize your image to 16 x 16 pixels and choose ‘Save for the web’ and save the image as a GIF, with transparency on (duh!). Now reopen the GIF file and choose ‘Save as…’ and save it as a Windows Icon (.ico) file. And your done.
For an other way to do it on MacOSX with the free app ‘Graphic Converter’, check my older post ‘how-to-make-a-faviconico-on-macos-x‘.
Debian & Windows & MacOS Daantje on 08 Jun 2008
me, debian avahi-daemon and macosx leopard
Finally, I’ve got it working… There is so many documentation on the net on how to config your avahi-daemon under Debian, so it’s working under MacOSX Leopard. But what ever I did, the server showed up in my Finder, but when I tried to connect by clicking the server icon, it didn’t work… Googled around, but never a solution. I could not connect to my Netatalk daemon. After I added a configuration so I could click the server to connect to my sFTP server in Cyberduck, (same box as the Netatalk and Avahi daemon) and it worked?!
Now I know why… What I had in my Avahi configuration for my Netatalk daemon, was in my afpd.service file a host-name definition. But in my sftp.service file no <host-name> line.
So what I did, was simply remove the
So my working config file: /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name> <service> <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type> <port>548</port> </service> </service-group>
More usefull documentation:
Netatalk 2.03 with encryption support for Debian 4.0
http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/general/howtodownload-netatalk-encryption-support-debian-4/
How to use OS X Leopard screen sharing with a Linux machine
http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/mac-screen-sharing-with-linux