Whenever possible, I try to use existing icons for my apps. I do this for two reasons: firstly, designing a good icon is an art that takes a ridiculous amount of time and practice, and, secondly, using standard icons correctly in your applications makes your app consistent with other applications on the same platform and thus helps it meet user expectations.

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Favicons, those little icons that you see next to the address bar of your browser, are one of those things that I can safely forget about for ages unless I'm launching a new site. Like anything else that I use rarely, it means that I forget everything about them by the time I need to create one again.

So, here's some quick information from my latest foray into creating a favicon:

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My story's often told: app meets UITabBarController, UITabBarController starts an affair with multiple UINavigationControllers, the UINavigationControllers end up with a host of child UIViewControllers, some of which need to rotate to landscape mode and some that don't.

So far, so good.

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I've presented Remember the Magic, my talk on User Experience, at my keynotes at the PHP UK Conference in London, Kings of Code in Amsterdam, the annual conference of the multimedia teachers association in Denmark, Flash at the Lake in Zurich, and at Visuelt '09 in Norway. In other words, in quite a few places in Europe. I'd like to debut the talk in the US at SXSW 2010, and I need your help to do it!

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Summary: Sys-Con Media's ulitzer.com was delisted from Google yesterday but their sys-con.com domain (with duplicate content and articles that feature keyword stuffing) is still being indexed. IBM is looking into their relationship with Sys-Con. Google News has stopped syndicating the libelous Sys-Con articles about me.

The campaign to boycott Sys-Con, which started with My Sys-Con Nightmare, won a mini victory yesterday as Sys-Con was dealt a blow by Google: their ulitzer.com domain was delisted from Google Search results (test it out).

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