Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2008
Flickr Exercise, Take 2
This is my attempt to post a Flickr photo through Flickr's Blog It feature. Interestingly enough, I could write my blog in Flickr and it wills still show up with my blog! Unfortunately, there's no formatting features, and I have to go back into Edit Posts to fix that. Now if I can retroactively go back to my first Flickr post and add the picture right...
Monday, February 11, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Order: Play with Flickr.
What can I say? I am thorough. When I first created Flickr and looked at its features, I sort of already explored some of the mashups and third party applications available. However, I did stop to look at the mashups mentioned if I haven’t explored them before.
I wasn’t too impressed with Mappr, since it didn’t look too attractive with photos on a map (unless the map is huge enough) and it would be a bit of work to print off something huge enough to see the photos. I already looked at the Color Pickr for #20 and was amazed at the pictures pulled up in shades I thought would be hard to find. Spell with Flickr had some interesting effects, but I didn’t care for the images of the letters used and I didn’t like being unable to choose the design for the letter. It was fun in the randomness, but a letdown in the lack of personal input.
Mongtagr was pretty cool, pulling photos from Flickr to make a mosaic of a particular picture. Unfortunately, Montagr pulls any pictures of the right color even if it’s not part of the theme. I looked at sunsets and felt the effect was ruined when I saw that some of the photos were of people who made up the right colors for the sunset Montagr put together.
I checked out the Trading Card Maker from FD Toys and had a little trouble because the picture I used was too big. I didn’t realize the size of my picture mattered, and I can’t see how to resize the picture before inserting it. Otherwise, I thought it was a fun way to make our own library-themed cards to use. Hmm, my brain’s whirling with ideas for what we can do with them!
Learning 2.0 is all about discovery and playing around with the internet tools available to us (if we know about them), but I can’t believe we actually need to be assigned to play! Really, what workaholics we are.
I wasn’t too impressed with Mappr, since it didn’t look too attractive with photos on a map (unless the map is huge enough) and it would be a bit of work to print off something huge enough to see the photos. I already looked at the Color Pickr for #20 and was amazed at the pictures pulled up in shades I thought would be hard to find. Spell with Flickr had some interesting effects, but I didn’t care for the images of the letters used and I didn’t like being unable to choose the design for the letter. It was fun in the randomness, but a letdown in the lack of personal input.
Mongtagr was pretty cool, pulling photos from Flickr to make a mosaic of a particular picture. Unfortunately, Montagr pulls any pictures of the right color even if it’s not part of the theme. I looked at sunsets and felt the effect was ruined when I saw that some of the photos were of people who made up the right colors for the sunset Montagr put together.
I checked out the Trading Card Maker from FD Toys and had a little trouble because the picture I used was too big. I didn’t realize the size of my picture mattered, and I can’t see how to resize the picture before inserting it. Otherwise, I thought it was a fun way to make our own library-themed cards to use. Hmm, my brain’s whirling with ideas for what we can do with them!
Learning 2.0 is all about discovery and playing around with the internet tools available to us (if we know about them), but I can’t believe we actually need to be assigned to play! Really, what workaholics we are.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Capture the Moment…and Then Share It!
I started off my Flickr experience with a groan. I have to create yet another account/profile? With Yahoo this time. At least Flickr makes it easy to upload images from Flickr onto your blog, though you have to set up that between Flickr and your blog account. After grumbling about it some more, I finally sat down to explore Flickr, and I was impressed with the photos I saw there. Then I grew overwhelmed. With all these great photos there, why do I need to add mine?
To avoid the topic of which pictures to upload to my account, I looked around at some of Flickr’s services and features. I stumbled onto Flickr’s Interestingness feature that has highlights of some of the remarkable photos from different dates to look at. And Flickr’s boast that it is easy to loose track of time while looking through these photos was definitely true. (This is how I found my interesting image to share.)
To avoid the topic of which pictures to upload to my account, I looked around at some of Flickr’s services and features. I stumbled onto Flickr’s Interestingness feature that has highlights of some of the remarkable photos from different dates to look at. And Flickr’s boast that it is easy to loose track of time while looking through these photos was definitely true. (This is how I found my interesting image to share.)
It was exciting (and humbling) to see what other people have used Flickr for in the third party applications of Flickr services. If you want pictures of a certain shade of color, you can pick one from the Color Picker; I was awed by some of the pictures I found matching the colors I selected. You can make motivational posters or customized movie posters by simply selecting a photo from your files, filling in the information blanks and then you get an instant poster! I was tickled by the busy message while your poster is made: “Digitizing your wisdom, great one...Please wait.”
I gave a cursory glance through some of the libraries using Flickr, and it reminded me of the photo archives in our W drive except online. This got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great to have an online photo archive? This way, all the photo files won’t take up so much room on the W drive. We would also be able to share these photos with other libraries from all over the world!
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