Buzzfeed Generator
A Buzzfeed title generator for creative blog posts
Buzzfeed is famous for the attention grabbing headlines. They try to make any "typical" story into something that is worth reading.
Ravi Parikh figured out a pattern to how buzzfeed create titles and created a page that would generate a "fake" Buzzfeed headline.
Website Description
There's a bunch of common patterns in Buzzfeed titles so it was fairly easy to identify these and create this title generator. I also had some fun by switching out the noun/verb/etc word banks with words that are "themed" so we can see fake Buzzfeed titles with a different flavor.
http://www.ravi.io/buzzfeed-title-generator
What's fun about this is that you can use this to create titles for testing and to come up with creative blog topics.
PermalinkTuxpi.com
Lots of great photo effects!
Photo Effects can really help make the most out of a dull picture. Tuxpi.com has a lot of cool effects that can help brighten up a picture.
This is a good site to use since the effects are very simple to apply and you can mix effects up to add a more dramatic effect.
Website Description
60 Photo Editing Tools
- Change colors, create montages and add text to pictures.
- Crop, rotate and resize pictures with ease.
- Edit photos with many different effects.
- Add picture frames and borders.
- Online photo editor - works directly in your web browser.
Sample Photo
I added the "Photo to Painting" and Focus effect to a photo.
Simple Frame effect
Sticky-Note Generator
A free tool to create awesome sticky notes for images and websites
Sometimes a message stands out on an image with a sticky note. The Sticky-Notes Generator over at Webestools makes it easy to do that.
The Sticky Note Generator has 12 different styles and 59 fonts to make your style unique. It takes a bit to properly fit the image on the note. I found that I had to play around with the Horizontal and Vertical positions to make the text-align perfectly on the image.
Website Description
This generator lets you create free sticky-notes online. First, you have to choose the text, the font, the size, the position, the text color and the background color(can be transparent). Finally, you have to choose the sticky-note style from the following sticky-notes gallery. When you will finish filling the form, you have to preview the result by clicking on the "Preview" button. If the result looks good, you can download the sticky-note by clicking on the "Download" button or you can create a permanent image by clicking on the "Get the URL" button.
Examples
Random Binary Number Generator
Create random numbers to use for graphic designs
The Random Binary Number Generator is a fun way to generate numbers. You can use this as part of a background or design for a blog or social media post.
You can generate a very large set of random binary numbers so the image pattern looks unique.
Website Description
5000 random binary digits. Reload the page (F5) to reset the numbers. Or try the other memory training scripts.
https://artofmemory.com/3.1415926/t/binary.php
Sample Designs Generated
Here are a couple of sample designs that were generated using the Random Binary Number Generator and Affinity Photo and Photoscape X.
Affinity Photo
PhotoScape X
Top Internet Tools of 2019
Great internet tools that were featured this year.
This year we featured a lot of cool internet tools - many of them free. There were some great graphics tools to internet utilities.
It was difficult to pick the right tools to feature for the annual end-of-year wrap-up. But the following tools are selected based on popularity and practicality.
Top 9 Internet Tools Worth Checking Out
- PhotoVisi - A great online collage tool with lots of templates
- BBC Sound Effects - Great sound effects for your Video Collection
- Password Generator - Random Password Generator to help create secure passwords
- clipboard2markdown - An easy way to convert your Clipboard content to Markdown
- Ugly Sweater Generator - Easily create an Ugly Sweater design in minutes.
- Blog Title Generator - Creative tool to help attract audiences to your blog post
- Kapwing Meme Maker - Create cool memes using different layouts and YouTube clips
- Space Type Generator - Create Cool graphics with your text
- My Birthday Hits - Find Out the Number one songs on your birthday
What's New for 2020?
Next year, I'll focus more on a category each month. For example, in January, Internet tools featured will be for creating Blog graphics. February might be internet tools for the home office.
If there are any tools you like to feature here, leave a comment below.
PermalinkUgly Sweater Generator
Easily create an Ugly Sweater design in minutes.
Ugly Sweaters are now all the rage. Companies are having Ugly Sweater contests just to spice things up in the office.
Thanks to Coco Bongo, you can generate an online graphic version of the Ugly Sweater.
The site is fun, and you can come up with a lot of crazy ideas. The images are the perfect size to announce the Ugly Sweater contest on Slack.
Website Description
You are Christmas lover? Or you hate it? Anyway, here is our personal experiment for these Christmas where you can generate and customize as you like your ugly Christmas sweater.
We have created a pixel editor that combines animations, patterns, typographies, and colors, resulting in more than 200M different designs. A GLSL shader transforms each pixel into a sewing knot and thus achieve the most realistic look possible. Finally, we can export the WebGL canvas in animated GIF format to download and share.
The CocoBongo team wishes you a Merry Christmas! ???or not.
Sample Gif
ReSmush.it
Fast Free Image Compression that really works
Compress images is critical for any website project. One of the most popular services is ReSmush.it.
ReSmish.it is a viable replacement for the old Yahoo Smush.it.
This isn't an online drag/drop feature at reSmush it. It's actually integrated into other services such as Wordpress, Drupal, Magento and other CMS tools. The most popular access is via JSON Webservice calls.
If you don't have those services, you can download the command line client from GitHub. It's a quick command line install. However, if you're not familiar with Homebrew, it may not be for you.
Website Description
reSmush.it is a FREE API that provides image optimization. reSmush.it has been implemented on the most common CMS such as Wordpress, Drupal or Magento.
Moreover, reSmush.it is the most used image optimization API with more than 2.7 billions images already treated, and is still totally Free of charge !
Our competitors are Kraken, ImageOptim or ShortPixel, but they're not free :(.
Notes on Testing
The CLI client install from GitHub was very easy. Any missing libraries files were auto-installed - as I didn't have the latest curl or jq. After installing, I moved the resmushit-cli.sh file to /usr/local/bin so that I could run the command everywhere.
The `resmushit-cli.sh` doesn't support HEIC format and files have to be less than 5MB. This is a free service, so I am not complaining.
I am working on writing a Python script for Dropzone so that I can just drag and drop images to be compressed. Once completed, I'll upload the Action here.
PermalinkDownload Facebook Video
Easily download any Facebook video
Facebook is becoming a popular place to find videos. There are all sorts of creative videos to be found. Facebook does a good job suggesting videos for you to watch.
Every once in a while, you'll find a video that you may want to watch offline - that's why Facebook Video Download from Getfvid comes in handy.
Simple past in a Facebook URL and then download the video to watch offline on your computer or phone. You can also download the video to your DropBox to get at a later point - useful if you're on a mobile and want to watch later.
Website Description
Getfvid is one of the best tools available online for convert videos from Facebook to mp4 (video) or mp3 (audio) files and download them for free - this service works for computers, tablets and mobile devices.
All you need to do is to enter the URL in the text box provided and use the button labeled "Download" to download the video in the available format.
The usage of our website is free and does not require any software or registration.
https://www.getfvid.com/downloader
How Big Is My Browser
Quickly figure out your current browser size.
An easy way to figure out your current browser size, without having to install an extension is to use HowBigIsMyBrowser.com
This is an easy site that gives you the current viewing size of your browser window. It's handy to have when trying to debug an issue. Also useful when creating websites and determining the best default size to target to.
Website Description
Because you have to allow for the scroll bars and window chrome. If you're specifically targeting mobile browsers, then 320 pixels wide might be a good choice, although mobile browsers typically scale content to fit the view width, so 950 or 960 pixels wide can be great.
Check it out right now to see what you're currently viewing this site as!
Permalinkimgplaceholder.com
Create cool looking placeholder images
Placeholder images are essential for QA and Designers. There useful for QA to make sure website uploads are handling certain image sizes. Graphic designers find them useful to show image size targets in certain designs.
imgplaceholder.com is a great site to generate all sorts of images. You can have any color type, message, and icons in the generated graphic.
Website Description
Placeholder.com is a free image placeholder service for web designers, serving billions and billions of images each year.
You can specify image size & format (.GIF, .JPG, .PNG, .WEBP), background color & text color, as well as the text.
About
I will highlight a fun Internet site every Saturday. The basic premise is to highlight sites that I regularly visit for a variety of reasons. All site recommendations are mine and are unsponsored. By highlighting these websites, I hope to provide value to those who may not know of the sites or who might be interested in visiting the sites. I also want to share the sites that I find valuable in the hopes that others will find them just as beneficial.
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Schedule
| Saturday | Internet Tools |
| Sunday | Open Topic |
| Monday | Media Monday |
| Tuesday | QA |
| Wednesday | New England |
| Thursday | Gluten Free |
| Friday | Macintosh |