Name Generator

The Name Generator over at Masterpiece Generator is a great way to come up with clever names based on all sorts of unique criteria. There are 24 different categories to choose from.

This a cool tool if you are looking to name your Project Sprint, or a particular testing server.

Description from Website

Generate names for characters, babies, authors or bands. Search at random or filter and sort by gender, popularity, birth year, country, personality
and many other interesting properties.

https://www.name-generator.org.uk/

Examples

Fictional American Towns

• Amespor - Amespor is a small town, known for UFO reports.
• Autar - Autar is a small town, known for theatre.
• Annplaines Du Barrerder - Annplaines Du Barrerder is a small town, known for being the setting of a famous story.
• Amteltor - Amteltor is a large town, known for elopement.
• Amar - Amar is a sprawling town, known for its cheese exportation.
• Austur - Austur is a large town, known for its nightlife.
• Agree Du Gleur - Agree Du Gleur is a large town, known for progressive values.
• Anver - Anver is a large town, known for its culture.
• Amchard Du Saukyor - Amchard Du Saukyor is a sprawling town, known for conservative values.
• Atwanster - Atwanster is a large town, known for its cheese exportation.

Obscure Usernames

This actually might be a place to come up with passwords:

• farzan0xtkpiq45ulae
• farzanj4racy6kbm
• farzanz170b9ekl
• farzanu.wxkejt6l
• farzan93ozumvjf
• farzan4e_bgafopw
• farzan3txezkgnib
• farzanzx1fn0q2r
• farzanezu6yn4xgma0

textfx.co

If your looking for a site with lots of created text designs, textfx.co is the place to go. There are 92 different text designs to choose from. Many of the designs allow you to customize the colors and styles. It's a great place to go when you're looking for the perfect graphic for the blog or newsletter.

You can create 3 designs per day for free. If you're a big fan for just $5 a month, you can create unlimited texts anytime and unlimited access to premium effects

Website Description

**TextFX is a free logo design generator. Generate your own logo with our stunning premade effects. From 3D to Neon effects. Use it on your designs, posters, and website.**

**Take a look at the available text effects, and with more added on a regular basis, you no longer need to spend countless hours learning complicated software to create stunning effects for your logos**

https://textfx.co

Example Designs

Chalk Board Generator

Chalk board writing can add a nice effect with some words and phrases.

What's nice about PosterGen Chalkboard generator is that you can create cool looking chalk designs for blogs, slack and social media. You can also have these same designs printed in high quality for hanging in the office or lunchroom. It's a good way to make announcements stand out.

There are lots of configuration options, but I have found the default option to be very good.

Website Description

All of our artwork is available as a gallery wrapped canvas, framed print, or a large format poster. Each of these options is additionally available in a variety of sizes to perfectly fit into your home decor.

http://postergen.com/chalkboard-generator

Example Poster

Top 8 Internet Tools Post of 2018

This year I found a lot of interesting Internet tools. It was hard to come up with the top eight.

The tools selected were based on popularity and practicality.

Top Eight Internet Tools Post of 2018

1. Photofunia - Great place to make a boring image a bit more exciting.
2. engfto.com Text Effects - Create cool text effects for Social Media or Blogs.
3. remove.bg - Simple way to remove background images to combine photos.
4. Cool Text Generator - Quick way to generate an image from a text. Lots of practical designs to select from.
5. Background Image Generator - Create plain background images for Facebook Ads, Social Media or blogs. Lots of patterns to select from.
6. ShortPixel - Crush your image size without impacting the quality. Best Image Compression service of 2018!
7. 3D Blocks Text Effect Maker - A few creative images to add a little pizzaz to your text.
8. CamelCamelCamel - Free Price tracker that monitors millions of products on Amazon and will let you know when your item is selling at your target price.

remove.bg

Removing background from a photo can be tricky. Working around the face and hair can lead to jagged edges - not to mention the amount of time wasted trying to get the selection tool to find the right edge. Fortunately there is now a better way - remove.bg, a free service that does a great job on removing backgrounds.

This newly created site makes it easy to remove the background in an image. This works really well with photos taken using portrait mode on the latest iPhones.

Description from the Site:

https://www.remove.bg/

Example

Word Art

Earlier this year, I blogged about a cool Word Cloud service, this week I found a good alternative - WordArt.com. You can create all sort of unique Word Art Shapes. Simply provide the words, select the design and be amazed at the final output.

Description from Website

The nice thing about WordArt.com, is that you can change the final output so some would stand out more than others.

Sample Word Art Designs

PlayList Generator

Finding the perfect for an occasion is tough when music isn't your specialty. Finding the right songs for the reunion or birthday can be time-consuming.

PlayList.Net makes it easier to generate a great playlist for any occasion or mood. You simply type in your favorite artist or situation and you'll have a lot of playlists to select from.

Description from the website:

http://playlists.net/playlist-generator

Sample Playlists to Explore

50th Birthday Party - All the music played by the guest DJs at Nicky & Gary's joint 50th birthday party on October 2017.

The Country Dance Kings â€" Greatest Country Line Dance Songs Ever! - Lots of good line dance songe created on May, 2012.

Happy Songs For Sad Days - A Lot Of Happy Songs For Your Sad Days created on April, 2012.

1980s Time Machine Radio - Over 1,000 of the best songs from the 1980s! Whoa, this is heavy.

WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha is the place to go when you need to calculate anything. It's a great knowledge base to explore all sorts of useful information. It's great as your taping into the power of computation intelligence.

The Pro version of WolframAlpha is $5.49 a month with step-by-step solutions, increased computation time and calculator Web Apps. The Pro version also has Image Input features - which is pretty cool if you work with images. This is where you can get a detailed analyst of any image. If you upload an image with text it will extract the text from the image.

If you do any data analyst, WolframAlpha is a great tool! Also useful for students in school, where they can learn a lot more about data.

Description from their site:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Sample Query

Not Always able to Get Data I Want

Interestingly it wasn't able to tell me what city was 2,174 miles from Boston. I found that it's Tegucigalpa, Honduras via timeanddate.com and Salt Lake City, Utah via distancetofromto.net.

Check out WolframAlpha

I would highly encourage you to check out the "Surprise Me" feature on WolframAlpha

Squoosh

Google is on a mission to get people to shrink their images so pages load faster on mobile devices. They recently launched a new website called Squoosh to make it even easier to compress images.

Squoosh Description

https://squoosh.app/

Four Differences Between Squoosh and ShortPixel

Back in Septemeber, I wrote about how ShortPixel is a great compression service. Here are some of the key differences between ShortPixel and Squoosh. Still a good option for many reasons.

1. ShortPixel allows users to batch process lots of images, with Squoosh you can only do it one at a time.
2. ShortPixel automatically sets the best compression, with Squoosh you have to figure out what compression doesn't ruin the image.
3. ShortPixel also compresses PDF documents and animated Gif files.
4. Squoosh allows you to play around with the settings to get the smallest possible size that works for that image, including settings for Reducing the color palette and image physical size.

Squoosh is great if you just need to compress an image for a blog or Slack. It's a quick fix tool. It would be nice if Google did offer several compression suggestions - such as "Best for Mobile" or "Image Optimized for Slack."

Dynamic Drive

Dynamic Drive has all sorts of useful tools for Web Developers, including Image Optimizer, Button Maker, Image to Base64 and lot more.

There is a section of the site where you can download script files, such as creating a dynamic calendar, snow or rain effect, the Matrix Text Effect, Mouse and Cursor effects and many more. It's a great place to get a code and some unique ideas to help spice up any webpage.

Description from the site

http://dynamicdrive.com/

Sample Content Listing

Check out some of these cool effects

It's Snowing - Decorate your webpage with this great animated document effect! Watch as snow gently trickles down the page, then disappear. Cool DHTML Tooltip - This is a practical, elegant DHTML tooltip script. Use it to display additional information about a link or any other element when the mouse moves over it. Tic-Tac-Toe - Entertain your visitors to a quick game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Comes with artificial intelligence and the ability to keep score. It's a good way to increase webpage time, which is a way to help SEO score. Online Image Optimizer - Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpg, and png, so they load as fast as possible on your site. You get a preview of each quality and pick the image that works best for you.

Cheatography

Single page reference sheets - often called Cheat Sheets - are good reference guides to common tasks. Most developers have used them when researching the latest CSS styles or figuring out the proper regular expression.

A great online resource is the Cheatography website - they have a huge selection of cheat sheets in various topics. If you think you can do better than what they have, you can also create your very own cheat sheet.

Description from their site

https://www.cheatography.com/

Cheatography Content

The five most popular Cheat Sheets:

1. Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
2. Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet
3. EQ tips Cheat Sheet
4. JavaScript Cheat Sheet
5. Python Cheat Sheet

Snipplr

Wouldn't it be great if there was a resource to get awesome code snippets, so you don't have to re-invent the wheel for an HTML5 Starter Template or a PHP function to properly trim strings or any bit of code. Fortunately there is such a site it's Snipplr.

At Snipplr you can search for any code bits for just about every active programing language. There even a useful HTML Test Page so you can see how your style sheet works with all the active HTML elements.

Description from the Website

https://snipplr.com/

glowtxt.com

The awesome people that created Textcraft, created a cool sister site called glowtext.com. The site offers a lot of very cool glowing style font styles. These are perfect when you want to bring to life some otherwise boring text.

Description from the Website

https://glowtxt.com/

Some Notes

• GlowText.com doesn't offer any shared library style as is offered in Textcraft.
• If you don't want to host the image, simply click on the 'Get Web Code' to get links from imgur.com.
• You can preview the PNG transparent image against different backgrounds.
• There are 147 fonts available - Only a small sub-set is visible on the page as preview.

Example Designs and Styles

Filmora Meme Generator

Earlier this week Filmora announced a new free product called Meme-Maker. Do we really need another Meme-Maker? Yes, Filmora does a good job making it easy to create custom Memes. If your looking to make a Meme from standard images your still better off using Imgflip.

Website Description

https://filmora.wondershare.com/meme-maker/

Example Meme Created in Filmora