Someone Clearly has Too Much Time on His Hand

I can’t believe some of these huge image generators originate from people’s blogs! Really, someone must have a lot of time to make all these generators for us 2.0ers to enjoy. The Generator Blog had 927+ generators for playing around with different names and images!

With so many image generators to explore, I guess it’s no surprise to run into some duds. The Christmas Tree decorator reminds me of one of the Facebook applications, just a little trickier to find and “give” gifts. The Snowflake generator made a snowflake that looked unremarkably like the star drawn by an elementary school kid, and the snowflake looked the same no matter how you moved your mouse. The Brain Scanner generator looked fun, but it seemed random how your name gave you certain brain cells when your brain “scan” was generated. Alas, the result wasn’t so amusing because my brain scan only had angry or sad faces.

I tried a couple name generators and didn’t find them particularly impressive. The Tibetan Name Generator sounded interesting, but the link didn’t work. I found a Chinese Name generator where you could even choose different styles of calligraphy from ancient style to handwritten style, to have it written horizontally or vertically, but the unfortunate thing is that it generates a Chinese name only based on the phonetics of your name, so it’s really meaningless gibberish.

This generator is for someone who adores chocolate.

This link is to the chocolate I personalized. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the image to show up in my blog without creating an account with the site, so I included a link instead.





This is a variation of the Ninja text with a wizard instead.

I actually spent less time on Letter James and FD Toys in this exercise. Letter James didn’t seem to offer much image generating fun and felt more like a money-making venture. Back in the Flickr exercise, I had already checked out FD Toys. It didn’t have as many image generators, but they were easier to customize and often did (unfortunately) require you to have a photo file to play with. All in all, a little fun makes learning go a lot faster.