Are your financials in the green?

With the economy in chaos, most Americans are trying to find a way to save, and to get in control of their finances. Mint personal finance management tool can help you get back into the green! Mint came out of beta earlier this week, and so far I am loving its massive array of features. 

This super cool, and free tool, logs in to all of your personal bank, credit, loan, and investments account to give you a complete overview of your financial status. For those of us who are wanting to keep up with the debt to income to investments ratio, this tool is perfect! 

I started testing out mint last night and was superbly impressed- it took less that 20 minutes to get all of my credit card, bank, and loan data imported. Once the data was imported it was aggregated and parsed together to give a clear graph of where you stand financially. I try to sit down once every 6 months or so to really understand what is going on with my money, and it is usually a 1/2 day affair, but with Mint, I can just open up my web browser, log in, and see exactly what is going on- without wasting half a day! Fabulous!

Creating a Favicon

Creating a nice little favicon, is relatively simple to create using Photoshop. To begin you will need to download the ICO Plugin for Photoshop from Telegraphics.

Installing the ICO Plugin

Once you have the plugin downloaded, you need to place it in your Photoshop>> Applications>> Plugins folder. When you next startup Photoshop the plugin should be automatically detected. If not, try shutting it down and restarting Photoshop.

Create your Graphic

With the plugin installed all you need to do is create a graphic for your icon. Create a new Photoshop document and for now you can set your canvas size to 64×64px (you will resize this to 16×16px later).

Create the graphic for your icon. Now all you need to do is scaled the image back down to 16×16 and Save it as a Windows Icon.

Uploading your Icon

Now simply drop your new icon into the root folder of your website. Viola! You have an icon.

Testing, 1, 2, 3…

To get your icon to show, you may have to clear your cache and restart your browser. If you are running Safari, you will specifically have to reset the favicon cache. To do this go to Safari>> Reset Safari, and check “Remove all website icons”.