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Pixton: Click and Drag Online Comic Creator

AgentOrange — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:00:37 PDT

Pixton is another place where you can create web comics. The creator makes it easy of anybody to produce their very own comic strips. This can be done by click-and-drag. You can move characters into any pose making it easy and entertaining to produce. You can also edit your character’s expressions, clothes, hair color, accessories and much more.

Using Pixton, you can create a Quickie Comic by choosing a template, selecting your characters, and typing your text to the text bubbles. The regular comic allows you to start from scratch and be more creative with your comic design and layout. The large format is made for t-shirts and posters where you can create one giant scene. You can also bring your comics and avatars to life by animating them. Set keyframes and let Pixton do the rest of the work for you. The animation is rendered to video so that you can easily upload them.

This social comic creator allows you to remix your friend’s creations. This simply means that you can create your own version of the comic or produce an entirely different ending using the same storyline. Making variations of a particular comic strip just adds more fun in it. A great part of using Pixton is its interactivity and the personalization of the comic characters making them your own, well, sort of.

Next time you‘re in the mood for creating your own web comic or simple want to share a short story through comics, try Pixton. There are a lot of neat things that you can do with it.

TumblrMap: A Sitemap Generator for Tumblr

AgentOrange — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:00:26 PDT

TumblrMap is a sitemap generator that allows Tumblr users to enjoy the benefits of having a sitemap on their blogs.

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is the term used to describe a list of pages of a website that also act as a navigation aid by providing an overview of a site’s/blog’s content in a single page. This allows search engine crawlers/bots and users to easily find pages on a website. Site maps can improve SEO (search engine optimization) of a site by making sure that all the pages are available for search engines. Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask support the sitemaps protocol.

What TumblrMap does

TumblrMap automatically generates a sitemap containing all the articles published on your Tumbr blog. Users will now have the ability to submit a sitemap to Google directly from TumblrMap’s interface. Once everything is set, all you need to do is take it easy and wait for Google to crawl your site. All of this can be accomplished in just a couple of minutes.

Steps to take to generate your Tumblr Sitemap

• 1. Verify your tumblr credentials

• 2. Select one of your tumblr blogs

• 3. Preview your sitemap

• 4. Put a meta tag on your tumblr blog

• 5. Get indicized!

That’s all there is to it. Now, you can enjoy more viewership/readership for your articles on Tumblr. This will surely help your Tumblr blog get more search engine traffic through your new sitemap.

*Wordpress hosted blogs has its own plugin for generating sitemaps.

Pictaculous: Generate a Color Palette Using an Image

AgentOrange — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:00:01 PDT

Pictaculous is a unique color palette generator that can be used for different design projects. If you are doing a design that focuses on a particular image, you can use Pictaculous to give you palette recommendations for your color combinations to match a particular image. The service uses ColourLovers and Adobe Kuler to give you the best color combination recommendation available.

To get your color palette, just upload a photo or an image that you want to build a design around with. You can upload pre-existing logos, photos and other images that you are using with your design (PNG, JPG, GIF). The palette generator can also be used to find out the color codes used in an image. You can even use it to extract the color combination used on an existing website. Just take a screenshot of the website, upload it on Pictaculous and see the color codes appear on the palette of the image source along with the color combination suggestions generated by the application.

Whether you are designing a website, brochure or anything that requires you to properly blend colors together around a particular image, Pictaculous will certainly be a great assistance in helping you choose the right colors to use in your next design.

*This application also works with your iPhone.

FaceBomb: Add Effects to your Photos

AgentOrange — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:42 PDT

FaceBomb is an online photo enhancement tool where you can do a lot of neat stuff with your photos automatically. You need not be a Photoshop ninja in order to make your photos stand out. Just upload them at FaceBomb, select which enhancement tickles your fancy and watch it do the work for you. No signing-up and registration required. You can add effects on your photos in a matter of minutes.

Once you have uploaded your photo, just select an area, crop it and add your desired effect. There’s a wide variety of effects that you can choose from. You don’t have to bother with the technicalities of knowing the name of each effect. Just view the sample photos and choose which effect best interests you. You can also add text and other images on your photos.

This is an easy and painless way of enhancing your photos without taking too much time editing and adding effects manually on photo editors. You can use this to quickly tweak your photos for use on your social networking profiles. This works best on profile pictures but you can also try experimenting using other images. Have fun with your photos.

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TwoQuick: Real-Time Search Meets Traditional Search

AgentOrange — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:00:04 PDT

TwoQuick is a search engine that provides search results from both Google and Twitter. You can view the results from the search engine giant and the most popular micro blogging slash social networking site side by side. The search engine offers nothing too flashy, just simple and direct to the point results from two great sources of information that is presented in a single page.

The search engine displays simple Google results which are similar to how the search engine giant used to do it in older times. There’s no images and video recommendations, just the link and the short description of the page is included. The Twitter search results are presented in a manner which includes the Tweet and URL (if included) along with the avatar and Twitter user who published the tweet. It also displays the duration of the tweet’s existence which comes in very handy when you’re tracking the time of release of the information that you’re looking for.

Combining traditional search and real time search side by side using one search engine comes in handy when you are researching for fresh topics. You can view the most recent discussions that are found on Twitter and compare them with older articles that can be found using Google. Twitter is becoming more popular as a source of real-time information. Combining Tweeter data and Google search results in a single, simple and easy-to-use search engine is not a bad idea.

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Photoshop: Easily Adjust Brush Size and Softness using Shortcut Keys

AgentOrange — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:15 PDT

This very short tip shows us how to work with Photoshop efficiently by using short-cut keys to change the brush size and adjust its softness. It also has an additional short-cut key tip if you are using Photoshop CS4. Watch the video and try it on your Photoshop and watch your work efficiency improve.

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TwitLogo: Create Your Own Twitter Logo in a Snap

AgentOrange — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:00:56 PDT

TwitLogo is one of those applications that make it easy for you to mimic a logo of a particular brand and produce your own. In this particular case, this simple tool allows you to generate your own version of the Twitter logo. You can put in your name, dog’s name, car’s name, blog name, etc; and make it look like a Twitter logo.

If you are a Twitter fan and want your name or your own brand produced in a fashion like your favorite micro blogging site, try this one. It only takes a few seconds to produce. All you need to do is type in the text you want to appear on your Twitter-like logo and press the “make” button. That’s all there is to it.

This could be used in creating customized T-shirts, stickers and other stuff that you would like the customized logo on. Bloggers can also use it to produce text graphics for their blogs that sports the Twitter-like logo. You can even generate full sentences using the tool.

JokeyPhone: A Funny Video Hosting Service

AgentOrange — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:27 PDT

Got a new joke? Share it on JokePhone. It’s a site where you can upload or record a joke or a funny story and share them with everyone for some laughs. Of course, you can also enjoy minutes of laughter hearing others tell their jokes online. The site is dubbed as the YouTube of jokes where every shared video is supposedly funny and entertaining.

Like most video streaming sites, you are allowed to rate the videos depending on how entertaining they are for you. The videos are categorized by channels, competitions, most viewed, highest rated and recently added. The usual social media features like comments, add to favorites, tagging and sharing are also included. There’s also a small feature similar to the video reaction feature in YouTube that allows you to tell your own version of the published joke. If you think that you can dish out a funnier version of a particular joke, just hit the button and upload or capture your very own version.

Whether you want to share some laughs or hear jokes from others, JokeyPhone is definitely the site to visit. Check it out for yourself to find out.

Ring2Skype: Get a Free Skype-in Number

AgentOrange — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:46 PDT

Ring2Skype is a service that allows you to receive phone calls on your Skype from the phone network. The best thing about this service is that it’s free. What the service does is provide you with your own number with an extension and link it with your Skype account. Any calls to the phone number assigned to you will then be forwarded to the Skype username that you have assigned.

Signing-up for the service gives you a phone number and a private extension. All calls to your extension will be forwarded to your Skype. You are required to hand out a small amount of information when signing-up. Aside from the usual username, email and password, you’ll need to let them know the country where you want your number, the region for your extension number and of course, your Skype username. This will allow Ring2Skype to forward the calls to your Skype account.

The developers of Ring2Skype intend to provide a free service forever. The expenses for keeping the service open will be provided by advertisements and donations from grateful and generous users. This service is a great Skype enhancement. Whit Ring2Skype, you can publish a country and region-specific phone number that forwards to your Skype account without revealing your own phone number or Skype username. One can easily setup a new Skype account and link it with Ring2Skype to provide a more secure and private phone to Skype communication.

FeedMingle: Mix Your Feeds

AgentOrange — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:00:37 PDT

FeedMingle is an easy way to put all your feeds together in a single RSS feed. Web developers and designers who want a fast way to put several online publications in a single feed can take advantage of this web application. Aside from the fact that FeedMingle’s primary function is to merge feeds together, you can also use it as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS Converter.

This is a great tool if you want to publish several blogs in another website or publish blog feeds along with your Twitter feeds. You can also use FeedMingle to merge Twitter accounts and get feeds from both users and publish them somewhere else.

The application does not require you to sign up for an account. You can immediately start merging or creating feeds as soon as you land on FeedMingle’s page. Just place the feeds you want to merge (on for each line) on the text box provided, name your merged feed, and hit the “mingle now” button. Your new feed will be given a unique URL for each of the feed formats. The widget code is also provided on the same page which allows you to do a bit of styling to fit your preference.

The application is very simple yet useful. With it, merging feeds is just a snap. It doesn’t require you to learn any coding whatsoever. Just fire away and merge those feeds.

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