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If you're a fan of funky-looking cartoons and comics, then I'm sure you will love this site. BeFunky lets you have fun with your photos by letting you cartoonize them. It has several applications which allows you to instantly and effortlessly turn photos of yourself into a cartoon you've always dreamed of being.



Here's the site's blurb about the Cartoonizer App:

Upload your image and start using the cartoonizer tool to warp, sketch and color your cartoon. Add all kinds of frames, graphics and shapes to your design and then share it on your favorite social networks including FaceBook, Myspace, Hi5, Friendster and Bebo. No special art school education or graphic design skills are needed.

The service is completely free and you don't have to download any software for it.

They are also planning to release a "Video Cartoonizer" soon. If you've seen Scanner Darkly, your cartoonized videos will look something like that. Here is an example:

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Want to know your real-world internet connection speed as compared to what your provider advertised to you? Here is one cool tool to do it. Speedtest.net is a free, simple and straight-forward web tool to check your internet connection speed. It has scattered several hundreds of testing servers around the world to analyze global internet performance.

In starting a test, Speedtest.net initially recommends the geographically-closest server from you to test your connection. Once you chose the server, it automatically test how fast the Download (the speed of data from the server to your computer) and Upload (the speed of sending data from your computer to the server) that your connection is capable of reaching. The tests are performed completely within your web browser over HTTP (just like normal web browsing).


After the test, your speed test result is shown where your download and upload speeds are indicated as kb/s (kilo bits per second or kbps). You will also be able to share your results through the links provided for blogs, forums or a direct link. The link directs to the .png image of your unique test result. Here's what I got:


The good thing about the results page is that you can rate your ISP. It's like another way of saying your happy or not happy with your internet performance. From this rating and the ratings of other people of the same provider, the ISP's rank is determined locally or globally based on user feedback.

You can also browse test results from around the globe and compare what your internet service provider actually gives you against other ISPs available in your area. You can check which ISP ranks BEST in your location. For those who's interested in global statistics, you can analyze broadband speeds around the world.

Another brilliant thing about Speedtest.net is that every test you make, the result is stored by Speedtest.net. Every test is not gone into waste. You can view your past results summarized in your fastest download/upload, average download/upload, number of test taken, your ISP and your IP address.


You will also have an idea of what your internet connection's country and global ranks are. Moreover, you will also see your ISP's average speed, your country's average speed, global average speed and more! There is a lot of information to see if you are interested in it.

This is probably the most accurate internet speed checker I've seen. They have a really cool interface too. Want to try it? Just tick the logo at the left.

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This is one cool tool from Reverse Fad Productions which transforms your typewritten text to its flip version. It uses unicode characters so you can paste it anywhere. You can put this in your social network profiles like facebook, friendster or myspace to astonish your friends with a seemingly uncommon text. Later, they will realize they are turning their monitors up side down!

You can try to flip your text in revfav website http://www.revfad.com/flip.html Have fun!

Here is a complete character set of Flip.

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"Every typing activity becomes musical fun!"

Alex Foran has made a java program which literally translates your computer keyboard into a musical instrument. You can make your keyboard into a grand piano, as if you are just hitting piano keys. Or try to strum your keyboard like an electric guitar and jam with it. Or if you want some windy sound, try making your keyboard into a flute. Or if you want to compose your own keyboard orchestra, then be it!


His program is called KeyBored which transforms every letter and number you type into a musical note.

G A B C D E F | G A B
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 8 9 0
q w e r t y u | i o p
a s d f g h j | k l
z x c v b n m

Each row on a QWERTY keyboard is an octave, with Z being lowest and the number row highest. Holding shift makes the note sharp.

The current version of the program is version 2.0 which is only 297kB. It's a very small program which can give you some enjoyment with your keyboard on boring times. Maybe you can compose a song as you type a word document, make an email or just by making a chat.

You can directly download it here. Alternatively, you can also download it in Alex's website http://thebatman.net/keybored/.


Handy Tip
Press stop before you close the program, otherwise you'll need to manually terminate it in the task manager so your PC will stop playing notes.



Play Some Tunes

Starwars Theme


Star Spangled Banner

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ICONlook.com is a simple and neat icon search engine. The site is still in BETA but it already has tons of cool and beautiful icons ready for download and use. If you are looking for icons to personalize your system or want to make some glare in your website with astonishing images and thumbnails, this is the site to look at. Be it a computer icon, system tools icons, applications icon, RSS buttons, or anything else, you can find it!

Personally, what I like about this site is the quality of its icons. Almost every icon is beautifully made and with a Web2.0 look, and you can download it for FREE (both the .ico file and the accompanying .png file). You can search by a keyword and image size. Depending on the icon, the available image sizes are 12x12, 16x16, 22x22, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 128x128.

Here is a snapshot of some of the popular icons in its library.



You can check it out and look for your favorite icons here.

Here are some of my favorites.

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Billy Chasen has created an interesting flash-based human clock using human formations of the numbers 0-9 from Stupid Random and Hilarious. Very neat and nicely done! You can check it out at his official website here.

And to make thing more interesting, I made a few comments on the images used in the clock. I also made a glossy feel on the images using a little tool from reflectionmaker.com. So here is the show of the numbers 0 to 9.

Zero: Is the shoot done? I think I broke my back.

One: Stand still, look on your right and smile, a hard task to do.

Two: Where is the string?

Three: Look, she's doing crunches.

Four: Want to sit somewhere else?

Five: Doesn't that feel heavy?

Six: Some stretching and body curvatures.

Seven: Hmmm... you barrowed the string from number 2 huh?

Eight: Still feel the bones in you?

Nine: Well that feels good!

What do you think about these pictures? Photoshopped, acrobatics with strings attached or photographer's technique?

All images copyright by their respective owners.

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