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TamDenholm
Developer here, all feedback appreciated, i'll do my best to fix any bugs found and answer questions.
heptat
Didn't notice any bugs, but haven't tested for bugs. Used it and it works great - favicon.ico is much small than that other thing I used in http://nashape.com/blog/2012/09/12/big-favicons/. Great work! (especially because you did it in PHP which, after 10 years, I don't think I can face again...)
gkoberger
Cool, but be careful: at these sizes, anything that isn't rendered by hand is going to look blurry and bad.

Edit: Really good article on the subject: http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting

TamDenholm
All hand rendered icons are going to look much better hopefully this provides a good easy solution to developers with little time.
msujaws
And much thanks goes out to Apple for using arbitrary sizes for their favicons. The web compatibility community must love it...
togasystems
Glad you followed through with it. Here are some neat features to have:

1. How about drag and drop?

2. A simple download of the zip file I think will work better than the Apache directory listing.

3. Wouldn't worry too much about storing the files for a week. Just let it be a one off process.

4. Check the dimensions before you generate. Mention the fact that the image should be square.

Thanks a bunch for this tool!

nihilius
Good tool, i would suggest to place and index.html in /uploads/ so i cant view other peoples uploads.
srik
import by url would be nice to have. Great work.
[dead] srik
import by url would be nice to have. Great work.