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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@drewm just tweeted about a very cool free utility for developers called Developer Color Picker (DCP) by Wade Cosgrove, courtesy of Panic (developers of, among others, the excellent Transmit FTP client for OS X that I own and love).

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Mogenerator is a very useful utility that creates model classes for you when working with Core Data. I've written about Mogenerator before but what I didn't realize is that I wasn't working with the latest version (the version I was using was 1.6.1 and the latest version as of this writing, compiled from trunk, is 1.13.1).

It's easy to get confused as there are several outdated downloads and project pages floating around the web. It appears, however, that this github repository is where Mogenerator is being actively developed.

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I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this:

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If you're on T-Mobile Web 'n' Walk on a Mac, you probably use the imaginatively-named "stick manager" to connect to the Internet. While it is a remarkable piece of software engineering (with helpful alerts like "Success to Connect!", "Fail to Connect!", and, my favorite, "Success to Disconnect"), it is actually an entirely unnecessary bit of bloatware.

To connect without it, simply open System Preferences, select the HUAWEI Mobile device, and enter the phone number *99# in the Telephone Number section, click Apply, and then Connect.

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