Letter Board Generator

Easily create Letter Boards of various sizes

The folks over at Letterfolk created a cool generator that allows you to create letter board graphic. This is a creative way to display a message in social media or in Slack. There are all sorts of settings, such as font size, board size, and colors.

If your serious about Letter board, Letterfolk is the place to go. They have all sorts of designs and options that sure to meet anyone needs.

https://www.letterfolk.com/pages/virtual-letter-board

Sample Designs

Note: Like all post on the cryan.com, this is not a paid endorsement. I found the Virtual Letter Board to be a very useful graphics generator tool and thought it should be featured as this week's internet tool.

Backronym

Create a random phrase from any word

backronym.org is simple site that converts a word into a random phrase. This is useful if you're trying to learn a complex word, or just for fun. Since the phase is random it can give you some ideas on more useful backronym.

Webster's Dictionary: an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words, either to create a memorable name or as a fanciful explanation of a word's origin.

http://backronym.org/

Sample Generated Backronym

• YAHOO: that Yarn-spinning Admissive Houttuynia Orchestrated from that Organdie
• YAHOO: the Yellowish-orange Aerological Harmonics Overpaying one Octosyllable
• CNN: that Confined Narthecium from that Nuclease
• MBTA: that Maltese Brazilian Tortricidae in an Argument
• NRA: that Nonexplorative Reconcilable Alt

Graphic Burger Text Effect

Cool Text Effects for Photoshop

Graphic Burger has all sorts of cool text effects to download and modify using Adobe Photoshop. While it would be great if these were editable online, I think having the templates makes it just as useful.

Description from the Website

https://graphicburger.com/tag/text-effect/

Some Notes

• None of the Text Effects will work with Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo.
• Some of the effects will work with Photoshop Elements Editor but it appears that you need the full version of Photoshop to use the smart object container feature of the files.

Favicon & App Icon Generator

Easily Create Icons for your website

If you own a website, you still need to create a Favicon for bookmark purposes. A favicon is an icon that is displayed next to the URL in the bookmark list. Not having a custom icon makes the site look unprofessional and boring.

While you can use any graphics format for a Favicon, Microsoft is playing hardball and still requiring the use of ICO files.

This is where favicon-generator comes in handy. The site is a single source to generate all the icons for your website so it looks good on iOS and all the browsers. You don't have to worry about what format is supported by which browser and interface. The site takes all guesswork for you.

If you don't have an icon in mind, you can browse the gallery to see other Favicons to get some ideas.

Description from the Site

https://www.favicon-generator.org/

Sample Designs

When you upload an image, you are giving simple instructions on downloading the generated ZIP file and code snippets to your index.html file.

Check out Favicon and see it

Google A Day

Learn something new about Google

Google a Day is a fun way to learn all the capabilities of using google to do searches. The Website asks a question and you have to find the answer.

You can get a single hint and the opportunity to see the first few letters.

http://www.agoogleaday.com/

Newspaper Generator

A Cool newspaper generator to make professionally looking newsprint graphic

The newspaper article generator at jaguarpaw.co.uk is a quick way to generate a simple fake newspaper story. This is fun when you want to highlight someone's achievement in a newspaper.

The site is very simple to use, loads quickly, and within seconds you get a generated PDF of your limited edition newspaper.

Site Description

Use this free online newspaper generator to create your own spoof newspaper articles. Just upload a photo and add your own text.

https://newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk/

Premium Services

If you need more features, check out the Premium Services, where you can change the date, add a larger graphic and add related articles. Perfect when you want to frame the special moment.

Sample Content

Here's a sample Newspaper story from the Newspaper generator.

Pablo

Quickly create images for social media

On Social media, graphic images tend to get more attention than just a text. Pablo, by Buffer, is a great way to make a quick image with any text. You can interact with Pablo through their website or using the Chrome Extension.

The Chrome extension is great because you can transform any image right into Pablo to use as a background image - obviously make sure to have permissions to use the image.

Description from the Website

https://pablo.buffer.com/

Pablo has templates for Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. No Need to worry about the right size to use. You can post directly from Pablo or download the image for latest posting.

Sample Images

A couple of images that were scaled down for the purposes of including it in this blog.

Clock Face Generator

Create a clock face to help illustrate an important event

Sometimes having a visual clock face can help deliver a message. There's no need to create a clock face in Photoshop when you can use an online graphics generator.

Description from the site

https://www.helpingwithmath.com/printables/worksheets/time/3md1-clock-face-generator01.htm

Example Clock Use

Simple example of using the ClockFace:

RedKid Generator

Lots of great Image templates

RedKid Generator is the go-to place to find entertaining image generators. They have 55 creative image designs to pick from. Perfect when you're looking to add a bit of humor to the situation.

Site Description

http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php

Some Examples

GeoGuessr

Test your geographic skills with Google maps

The Internet is not all work and no play. There are lots of fun sites out there that can help make you think and still be fun.

This Week's Case in Point is: GeoGuessr.com a website that tests your geographic skills using pictures on Google Maps.

Website Description

https://geoguessr.com/

Take the Hard map challenge against a co-worker or try it yourself and see how well you know geography and terrain.