3 sites to find the best Black Friday sales, specials, and deals
Posted on November 24, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 2 Comments
Black Friday is coming upon us very soon and so are the plethora of deals, coupons, specials, crazy sales, rebates, and lots more! Like most Americans, you will probably be shopping from dawn to dusk on Black Friday, but unless you really plan out what you want to buy and from where, you can end up missing lots of great bargains!
Convert images to text online using Text-Image
Posted on November 9, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
You’ve probably already seen a picture of someone or something converted into ASCII text at least once in your life. Basically, there are computer programs that take a photo, analyzes each pixel and generates a text character with the same color.
So what’s so great about this? Nothing really, except that it’s cool. It’s basically kind of like HTML art for geeks. If you search ASCII art in Google, you’ll find thousands of examples of what I’m talking about.
For example, here is a normal picture of someone:
DoppelMe – Create a free avatar
Posted on November 8, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 1 Comment
Avatars are all over the Internet. Instead of placing your own personal photo on a website, you can easily substitute it for an avatar. Usually, an avatar can best be described as a virtual representation of yourself.
Forums, blogs, and personal websites are always asking you to post an image of yourself. Although most web surfers don’t mind doing so, sometimes you’d rather use something else. Search the Internet for a couple of minutes and you’ll find tons of websites that offer free avatar making capabilities.
Toonlet – Create a comic for free
Posted on November 7, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 2 Comments
Growing up as a child, you’ve probably seen various comic strips in the Sunday paper. One of the most familiar comic strips consisted of Garfield and his many adventures with John. Although most individuals don’t have the natural talent required to make these entertaining tools, there are still plenty of other ways you can get your fix.
How to make your computer talk/speak what you type
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 49 Comments
Here’s a cool little feature of Windows that can be abused so that you can make your computer talk or speak whatever you tell it! This method takes advantage of a built-in API installed on most Windows XP machines called SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface).
The Microsoft Speech API is what is used for the Narrative accessibility feature built into Windows. You can also write programs that call the API, which would allow you to let your applications speak.
But making your computer say what you want is pretty easy actually! Here’s how you do it:
Find out the gender of a blog author using Gender Analyzer
Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 3 Comments
Sometimes I run across interesting sites that are unique in what they try to do. One of those sites is Gender Analyzer, where you can type in the URL of a web site and it will try to determine if a man or a woman writes the blog. Pretty interesting.
Apparently, it uses some kind of Artificial Intelligence algorithm to determine if a homepage is written by a male or a female. It’s based on some technology that you can read about at uClassify.com, which hosts a text classifier for various purposes.
