Web Talk

Mutapic is an interesting web utility letting you create, mutate and manipulate pictures online. Reading from the web site: “Mutapic is an online picture generator. It is a free tool you can use to rapidly create original art. Click on the green button to start.” So this online application is not a photo editor, but a wonderful tool almost specifically made for artists who want to create fancy artworks. It can also be used to create logos, icons, patterns, illustrations, and such just for fun. But how does it work? Basically, the main idea behind Mutapic is to blend two different pictures to create a set of new artistic images. Mutapic generates an infinite number of original images and icons using randomness, rules, recipes and elements that are shown as features on its complete palette. Some of its effects include: brightness, contrast, invert, translate, rotate, scale, shadow, gradient noise etc. If you are curious to see some artworks posted by people who have used it, click here. To start mutate your pictures, click here.

Gicks is a website that lets you create animated gifs starting from Flickr pictures, your own pictures or even YouTube videos! To start using it, you don’t even have to sign-up. Just specify where to upload your pictures, what sizes your gif will be (200 pixel with Gickr’s logo, 120, 100, or 50 pixels without Gickr’s logo) and its frame rate. That’s it! Reading from the website: “Gickr.com lets you instantly create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Just upload pictures or grab them from your Flickr. Create funny flashy slideshows with you and your friends, cartoons, previews, banners, etc. Post them anywhere you can post pictures: MySpace, Bebo, HI5 etc. No need for flash. Show them to people in our Gallery.”

Have you ever seen those nice pictures which are made by hundreds of small, really small different pictures (a.k.a. mosaics) ? I have ever wondered about the procedure to make them, thinking that maybe just Photoshop experts could really produce those beautiful masterpieces. Well, now I know how to make them, and I know that it is not difficult at all. In fact, Picartia promises to change your ordinary pictures into beautiful mosaics composed by hundreds of different colorful pictures! The whole procedure is quite simply. First of all you have to go to Picartia website. No registration is required. Once there, upload your picture, pick up the gallery ( each gallery has a particular theme such as: babies, cities,birds, batterflies, kitties etc.) which is composed by pictures which will become part of the mosaic, and you are done: an email containing a link to your mosaic will be delivered to your email account! No extra knowledge is required. From now on you will be able to boast with your friends about the stunning creativity you have got!

This wonderful example of Web 2.0 lets you create new fonts from scratch. In fact FontStruct is a complete online font-building rich of interesting features. FontStruct lets you build your own personal fonts thanks to geometrical shapes arranged in a grid like tiles or bricks. To start using it you need to sign-up. Among its features you can find: FontStructor which is the earth of this application letting you build your fonts, MyFontStruct which is a place where you can store your fonts and the Gallery where people share their fonts. If you want to know more about this website, click here.

If you are a webmaster and a member of the famous Google Adsense program, you may be interested in knowing what kind of ads your blog displays in a certain country. This is useful to determine not only if the ads are pertinent and relevant to your blog’s topics, but also helps you get rid of those ads which pay very little (of course you have to use the Competitive Ad Filter to do that). Adsense Sandbox does a very simple and important task. It shows you which ads are running in a country. It displays most of the ads available in the Adsense program namely: Leaderboard 728 x 90, Banner (468 x 60), Square (250 x 250), Small Square (200 x 200), Adlinks (200 x 90), Large Rectangle (336 x 280), Skyscraper (120 x 600), Wide Skyscraper (160 x 600), Medium Rectangle (300 x 250). Alternatively you can also download a Preview Tool directly from Google by clicking here.

This website is a a web content management suite that allows you to edit a website in seconds, thanks to an easy interface that uploads your website and lets you work on it, even with the help of other people. Of course everything is done while you are online. No special knowledge is required, no back-end skills necessary, you don’t even have to look at any piece of code. Just drag and drop. Type in the name of your blog in the field and you can start personalising it right away. It is very easy to use and is highly advisable to people who know very little about coding or don’t want to spend too much time to modify their websites.

If you have issues writing on your computer because you are sidetracked by icons, sidebars, bright colors, different useless options which confuse you etc., then you have got to try this nice website. As a matter of fact DarkCopy contains a nice, simple, bare-bone, black text editor which promises you not to distract when you are writing something. There are just two simple options: Save as a file to save what you have written as .txt format and Start full screen to enlarge the typing area to the whole screen. The rest is up to you. After all the only thing which really matters is what you write!

If you need a thumbnail of a website because you want to send a small preview of it through email or you want to post it on your blog, or maybe you want to insert it in a document, then WebThumb and Thumbalizer are for you. As a matter of fact it is sufficent to write the web address of a website in their forms, to get back its thumbnail in a while. Among their options you can also decide the resolution of the thumbnails (320, 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 pixel width). Webthumb lets you get all the thumbnails in one .Zip file and get full snapshots of websites, Thumbalizer lets you instead get snapshots of websites or the snapshot of your screen.