The reason for the previous post
I actually am not much of a cell phone user, never mind a technogeek cell phone user. And I do not have much experience with nor care terribly much about Nokia. The reason I found out that Python was available for Nokia smartphones is that my search for a better LiveJournal icon led me to this, which is the basis for both Nokia's Python for S60 icon and my current default userpic.
What's kind of sad is that I actually found this picture way back when I first opened my LiveJournal account, about a year and a half ago. The only reason I didn't use it earlier is that it is too big for LJ, at 128x128 pixels. Sure, it should be a simple matter to scale it down, right? But it's a PNG with fancy alpha-channel transparency (to achieve the shadowing against any background), and I don't have many tools other than Paint-yeah, that cheesy little program that comes with Windows. I didn't feel like installing some full-featured graphics package like the GIMP just to let me use a nicer LJ icon; and for whatever reason, it didn't occur to me to just take a screenshot of it and paste that into Paint. (It's really an amazing mental block, because I paste screenshots into Paint all the time.)
Well, yesterday I happened upon a tiny application called @icon sushi. Besides being small and free, it doesn't touch the Windows registry and it has "sushi" in the name. How could I not check it out? It turns out it still isn't enough to get all the way from the original image to an LJ-usable form, but it did make it easier for me to change the background color, and like I said, it has "sushi" in the name.
If I were a Mac user as well as a Python fan, I would consider using this instead.
What's kind of sad is that I actually found this picture way back when I first opened my LiveJournal account, about a year and a half ago. The only reason I didn't use it earlier is that it is too big for LJ, at 128x128 pixels. Sure, it should be a simple matter to scale it down, right? But it's a PNG with fancy alpha-channel transparency (to achieve the shadowing against any background), and I don't have many tools other than Paint-yeah, that cheesy little program that comes with Windows. I didn't feel like installing some full-featured graphics package like the GIMP just to let me use a nicer LJ icon; and for whatever reason, it didn't occur to me to just take a screenshot of it and paste that into Paint. (It's really an amazing mental block, because I paste screenshots into Paint all the time.)
Well, yesterday I happened upon a tiny application called @icon sushi. Besides being small and free, it doesn't touch the Windows registry and it has "sushi" in the name. How could I not check it out? It turns out it still isn't enough to get all the way from the original image to an LJ-usable form, but it did make it easier for me to change the background color, and like I said, it has "sushi" in the name.
If I were a Mac user as well as a Python fan, I would consider using this instead.
