Turn Your Photo into a Cartoon
Posted on January 9, 2011 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
Overtime, finding new and interesting pictures to post as profile icons on sites like Facebook becomes frustrating. Many people resort to posting cartoon characters or celebrity photos in place of photos of themselves, just to keep the pictures from becoming boring.
Instead of using a cartoon character as a profile picture, try turning your own picture into a cartoon. Using Cartoonize Net, within seconds you can be the next cartoon villain or superhero… or at least look like one.
3 Last-Minute Holiday Greeting Cards You Can Make Online
Posted on December 21, 2010 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
The holidays come at the same time every year, yet many of us still forget to send our holiday greetings in time for them to arrive before the holidays. Luckily, the internet embraces and rewards procrastinators with many last-minute options. Here are a few ways to make and send last-minute greetings:
1. GotFreeCards.com
If you need a holiday greeting to attach to a gift, or a card to send to someone who sent you a card, but you forgot to send them one, GotFreeCards.com is a life-saver.
Make a Comic Strip the Easy Way
Posted on December 19, 2010 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
Most everyone enjoys a good comic strip—which is why this section of the newspaper continues to retain its popularity as overall newspaper popularity declines. Comic strips are classic, graphical ways to communicate ideas and concepts; plus, they are good for a laugh.
No artistic talent is needed to create a comic strip with a site called ToonDoo. Within minutes, you can create a comic strip to promote a Web site, teach a concept or just make your friends laugh.
5 Fun Computer Office Pranks
Posted on November 15, 2010 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 1 Comment
Work can be a boring place. Sometimes, someone has to do something to liven it up. That’s where pranks come in handy. However, you don’t want to be the office A-hole either. Prank at your own risk, don’t overdue it, and don’t take it too far. Here are some cool pranks to add some fun to your day.
The Sound Shocker
This one is classic and simple. Only works on computers with external speakers. Sneak over to a coworker’s desk. Within Windows, click the speaker icon located in the lower right hand side of the taskbar. Slide the volume meter up to 100%.
Make Your Own Mouse Cursor
Posted on October 8, 2010 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
The mouse cursor, the little white arrow forever pointing at whatever we want, is possibly the most underappreciated part of our computers. We rarely think about it—for the most part, it is just there. But, the mouse cursor has a wide range of customization options. With a site called CursorWiz, you can even make your own, custom mouse cursor.
With CursorWiz, you can either draw your own mouse cursor from scratch, or upload a picture from your computer. To create a cursor from scratch, choose a color from the color wheel at the top of the page, then draw, pixel-by-pixel, your cursor.
Use a Sound Clip to Identify a Song
Posted on September 24, 2010 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | Leave a Comment
When the iPhone gained popularity a few years ago, one of the commercials featured an app that could use a radio-recorded sound clip to identify any song. The featured app now costs more than the service is probably worth, but the idea is still a great one.
A new service called AudioTag has the same idea, but charges nothing and works from any browser (even a cell phone browser).
Use your cell phone or computer microphone to record a clip from a song playing on the radio. Navigate to AudioTag.info and click Browse to upload the sound clip. Click Upload when finished.