WOOOW!!!
I must confess, this is the coolest stuff so far(well in every lab i discover lot of new and cool stuff but this one is da bomb!!).
Seems like that era where only superstars had their posters or photos on covers of magazine, of CDs,.. is now over!!
I'm my own superstar!! with my photo on a billboard in Time Square or the cover of my "movie" and many more...
All it takes is to choose a template, edit it and post it. Just as simple as that, no need to know photoshop or other "hard to use"photoediting software to edit a cover of a magazine. The only buzz to this; you are constrained to the available templates provided by the generator.
I've come across many of such generators some pretty interesting and relating various types of generators such as CSS, Button, flash, Menu, Text, Image, Tag, blog, website,... I could resiste to the temptation of playing with "The Face Transformer" generator(http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//Transformer/index.html); Try this generator and see how you would look if you were Afro - caribean or Causian or East Asian or west Asian; you could also select the age range as well and see how you would look if you were an adult East Asian or a baby Afro Caribean. I Tried it with my ex girlfriend photo and i would say the output was 80% exactly compared to her 10 year old photo!!
I also edit avatars(http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf), created my own cartoon (in french http://www.gnomz.com/creerunebd.html) and many other cool stuff. The online generators are really simple and straight forward to use
For more generators check this link:
http://www.kalagoo.com/onlinegenerators.htm
May 24, 2007
May 17, 2007
Flickr
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
Today it's about flicking Flickr. I've been using the PitureTrail another photo sharing website for the past 4 months or so, PictureTrail and Flickr are in some ways similar, they both are used by bloggers (PictureTrail is mainly used by people using MySpace).I won't say which of the two is great since i haven't really fluent with Flickr but so far PictureTrail has been really cool. I found some pretty nice features with Flickr as well, such as categorising your photos using tags, putting photos that have the same titles. I also find that i could set my photos to private or public or make them available to a particular group which is a cool thing but initially all the defaults options are set to public. I put a link of my photos on my blog that way i don't have to load my space on my blog but instead using just a link that redirect to Flickr for anyone wanting to see my photosOne of the interesting pictures that i found can be found on this link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tglow/501390052/I also played around with http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp but definitelly, Flicker is really interesting than this one.
, a fancy photo sharing thing.Today it's about flicking Flickr. I've been using the PitureTrail another photo sharing website for the past 4 months or so, PictureTrail and Flickr are in some ways similar, they both are used by bloggers (PictureTrail is mainly used by people using MySpace).I won't say which of the two is great since i haven't really fluent with Flickr but so far PictureTrail has been really cool. I found some pretty nice features with Flickr as well, such as categorising your photos using tags, putting photos that have the same titles. I also find that i could set my photos to private or public or make them available to a particular group which is a cool thing but initially all the defaults options are set to public. I put a link of my photos on my blog that way i don't have to load my space on my blog but instead using just a link that redirect to Flickr for anyone wanting to see my photosOne of the interesting pictures that i found can be found on this link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tglow/501390052/I also played around with http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp but definitelly, Flicker is really interesting than this one.
May 15, 2007
Del.icio.us is really delicious
Folks, today we've got another impressive feature used by bloggers: Del.icio.us. This stuff helps you store ,share and discover bookmarks on the net. Any stuff posted on del.icio.us can be viewed publicly by default but you can still bookmark it as private, bookmarks that are imported are set to private by default. This feature is pretty cool because i can display my favorites links on my blog.
Let's talk briefly on how this stuff works:
You need to create an account with del.icio.us to start, during the process you'll install a set of command buttons (one has a TAG on it)that'll help you add new stuff to del.icio.us. click on the "tag" button or "post to del.icio.us" and save your bookmark, but there's another way to do that (which i learnt the hard way since i didn't have any administrator authority on the machines in the lab to install the del.icio.us toolbar); all you've got do is click on "your favorites" and in the search bar, you specify what you're looking for either in del.icio.us, or on the web; then you click on "save this" at the end of the link you wanna save.
Adding a couple of your buddies to your network isn't a big deal, click on "your network", fill in your friend's del.icio.us username and add him/her; his/her name will appear at the bottom of the search bar.
Using del.icio.us you could also subscribe to a bunch of newsletters or webpublication, what you've gotta do is click on " subscriptions", do a search and once again "save this". You can also send a particular link to your fellow who's on your network by clicking on "for:his/her username" in the process of saving the bookmark.
Finally you could also post your favorite bookmarks on your blog simply by copying some ugly and freaky line of codes from your linkrolls onto your blog.
Let's talk briefly on how this stuff works:
You need to create an account with del.icio.us to start, during the process you'll install a set of command buttons (one has a TAG on it)that'll help you add new stuff to del.icio.us. click on the "tag" button or "post to del.icio.us" and save your bookmark, but there's another way to do that (which i learnt the hard way since i didn't have any administrator authority on the machines in the lab to install the del.icio.us toolbar); all you've got do is click on "your favorites" and in the search bar, you specify what you're looking for either in del.icio.us, or on the web; then you click on "save this" at the end of the link you wanna save.
Adding a couple of your buddies to your network isn't a big deal, click on "your network", fill in your friend's del.icio.us username and add him/her; his/her name will appear at the bottom of the search bar.
Using del.icio.us you could also subscribe to a bunch of newsletters or webpublication, what you've gotta do is click on " subscriptions", do a search and once again "save this". You can also send a particular link to your fellow who's on your network by clicking on "for:his/her username" in the process of saving the bookmark.
Finally you could also post your favorite bookmarks on your blog simply by copying some ugly and freaky line of codes from your linkrolls onto your blog.
May 10, 2007
Tagging, Blogging and Paparazzi Ooops Technorati
Today the topic is about Technorati, that name sounds a little scary, reminds me of paparazzi, those punks who make the lives of celebrities a living hell... well, Technorati is kinda some search engine that traces latest gossip in the world of blogs or live web: Better watch out what you say about your prof or boss on your blogs, the old days of trashing people on the net are now counted!! good or bad, well it all depends on which side of the gun you are standing.
Back to the main:
Blogs with RSS keep their users posted on the latest entry; This feature named "tagging" have made my blogging life even easier. To my understanding, tagging works like this, as i throw something on my blog board let's say a photo of my favorite cartoons (Family Guy) and tag it "Family Guy", the paparazzi search engine Ooops Technocrati search engine takes that tag and retrieves recent posts, photos and other stuff with Family Guy as Tag; basically tagging has made the spread of information in the world of blogs a lot faster. Basically you could be read lot faster by thousands of people around the globe but ...As I said always mind your language you never know who may end up reading your childish or offensive comments!
Tagging seems to me very interesting but it requires some sort of standardization; imagine someone tagging an article as CAN and another uses the tag Coupe Africaine des Nations and somebody else C.A.N; there should be a way of figuring out that they all are related to the same topic. Definitelly some clean up need to be done in that direction just to keep organised the world of blogs.
I've choosen 3 blogs for this project, that i find interests in, one relates to a Bob Marley who is of my favorite artists, another is about Reggae Riddims from 2000 to date, most of my favourite riddims fall into this range of time and finally I got some really interesting young christian girl, exchanges with her friends on various issues such as class,...the very reason I took this last one is for its religious conotation, i do Believe in Christ (no offence):
http://abobmarley.blogspot.com
http://blog.myspace.com/farmgurl115
http://blog.myspace.com/djchakalous
To find them, I typed in the Technorati search bar key words (Bob Marley, or Riddims, or Jesus Saves), then i specified where i wanted the results to come from (in blog posts or in tags or in blog directory) i got for each search results from which i picked those i've got interests in, once selected, i checked for a small heart icon on a green or red background, and added them to my list of favorites. Another way of doing it was to type the URL of the post and the tags in the URL box under the " Add a Favorite" section.
I guess the very last question is about if :"i'll be using the RSS reader, or Technorati more often"; it's all depends with what i'm intending of doing, if i wanna reach many bloggers as fast as i can, definitelly this feature is useful, but again i'd also rather be careful on what i should, in order not to offend people; Obviously, i would be checking my RSS often to get the latest news and gossip.
Back to the main:
Blogs with RSS keep their users posted on the latest entry; This feature named "tagging" have made my blogging life even easier. To my understanding, tagging works like this, as i throw something on my blog board let's say a photo of my favorite cartoons (Family Guy) and tag it "Family Guy", the paparazzi search engine Ooops Technocrati search engine takes that tag and retrieves recent posts, photos and other stuff with Family Guy as Tag; basically tagging has made the spread of information in the world of blogs a lot faster. Basically you could be read lot faster by thousands of people around the globe but ...As I said always mind your language you never know who may end up reading your childish or offensive comments!
Tagging seems to me very interesting but it requires some sort of standardization; imagine someone tagging an article as CAN and another uses the tag Coupe Africaine des Nations and somebody else C.A.N; there should be a way of figuring out that they all are related to the same topic. Definitelly some clean up need to be done in that direction just to keep organised the world of blogs.
I've choosen 3 blogs for this project, that i find interests in, one relates to a Bob Marley who is of my favorite artists, another is about Reggae Riddims from 2000 to date, most of my favourite riddims fall into this range of time and finally I got some really interesting young christian girl, exchanges with her friends on various issues such as class,...the very reason I took this last one is for its religious conotation, i do Believe in Christ (no offence):
http://abobmarley.blogspot.com
http://blog.myspace.com/farmgurl115
http://blog.myspace.com/djchakalous
To find them, I typed in the Technorati search bar key words (Bob Marley, or Riddims, or Jesus Saves), then i specified where i wanted the results to come from (in blog posts or in tags or in blog directory) i got for each search results from which i picked those i've got interests in, once selected, i checked for a small heart icon on a green or red background, and added them to my list of favorites. Another way of doing it was to type the URL of the post and the tags in the URL box under the " Add a Favorite" section.
I guess the very last question is about if :"i'll be using the RSS reader, or Technorati more often"; it's all depends with what i'm intending of doing, if i wanna reach many bloggers as fast as i can, definitelly this feature is useful, but again i'd also rather be careful on what i should, in order not to offend people; Obviously, i would be checking my RSS often to get the latest news and gossip.
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