I was searching around for text-to-image converters, after being inspired by what Mr Brown did. Years ago, I also tried playing around with K10K’s Sigmund but couldn’t figure how to run it on my own server.
So I was intrigued when I found this site via Google. And since they could Matrixify me, why not?
I used an image of me with the background removed, so there wouldn’t be any unnecessary distractions.
I was surfing around at the Digital Homes magazine website, and chanced upon an interesting service, Zinio. For a subscription fee, it lets you download digital copies of magazines, page for page, onto your hard drive. It may be ideal for people who love reading magazines but don’t want to clutter up the place /…
I said it before, and I’m saying it again. A few years ago, Rojo was my favourite news aggregator – a news feeds reader with Digg-like properties all rolled into one. Then Six Apart bought it over. The design was changed and somehow I felt it looked less spontaneous and too structured. Many people seemed…
Nokia phones exploding (link from Kottke). According to a book on security, Nokia allegedly rigs its phones to switch to full power mode when third party batteries are detected, and blames those manufacturers for the damage. Sharp producing the world’s first 3D laptop monitor. No goggles required. I’d expect the price tag to be in…
My last few days in the office have been spent ‘lobbying’ for using newsfeeds as a supplement to our website. I feel both public and private sectors in Singapore have been slow to make use of XML to disseminate information, preferring to use e-mails and more traditional forms of media for promotions and updates. And…
To think I was celebrating the acquisition of Rojo by Sixapart in a recent post. A few days ago I logged into Rojo for my daily fix of geek news and was surprised to find that the tag cloud was gone. Gone! When I first used Rojo I found it a bit overwhelming but soon…
After hearing the buzz about Gmail offering IMAP access, but also hearing that this new feature wasn’t rolled out to everybody yet, I decided to check if my account had it. Sadly, it didn’t look like it and I thought, maybe it’s because they’re enabling it for the earliest Gmail users first. Then I checked…