Google gets new Favicon

In case you didn't noticed it yet, Google has introduced a new favicon. What's a favicon? - You might ask. Well, it's the small icon that web pages use as a symbol, that most browsers show next to the webpage name or address on its tabs, and that gives us a visual clue to better identify a webpage among several open tabs (as well as find it faster).

The new Google favicon is simpler than the previous multicolored mess we've grown used to since 2009. In fact, is quite similar to their older 2008 favicon, but with opposite colors: instead of a blue "g" on a white background, we now get a white lowercase "g" on a blue background.

As always, change requires a small adjustment period, but after living with it for a couple of days, I think the new favicon really works better than the previous one - and at least it pops up more among the dozen of open tabs I keep open on several Chrome windows.

Blogger gets Custom Favicons

It took them a while (a very long while, just like so many other "simple" features lots of Bloggers users have been waiting for, year after year), but at last we can now choose custom favicons to use in Blogger.

The favicon is the small icon that shows up next to your blog name/url in a browser, and it's quite useful to  make your website stand out from the rest in the middle of dozens of open tabs. Until now, if you wanted to change your blog favicon, you had to mess around with the HTML in the template - not a very user friendly affair.

Now, it's a lot simpler and can be done by anyone in their blogs design/layout section.

(All I need now is a nice logo for Internet Best Secrets... as the one I have in my portuguese tech blog: Aberto até de Madrugada. :)