My Racket

I have added my OWN MSN Icons and I know the people I talk to like to take them, because I see them being used a few hours or days later. If you have used MSN, most likely you know how to take an Icon. If not, here is how.

How to Add Someone Else Icons on MSN
When you are chatting with your little friends and someone sends over and Icon and you are like, “OMFG! ih2 freakin hav tht!!11!!!”. Right click on the Icon and you should see where it says Add in a drop down box. Move your mouse over and click it. A box should pop up after words and there you can change the shortcut for that icon. In other words, every time you type in, “OMG32” that Icon will come up.

See how easy that was? Fantabulous!

Now, what if you do not like any of your friends Icons and want to be all unique and have your own? Stop stealing Icons and have them stolen from you. That is my new nerd saying.

How to Make Your OWN MSN Icons
Open up a chat window and click your Smiles like you would normally do. Then when it brings them up go to, Show All on the right hand side – click that. On the same side you will see a button that says, Create – click that. Click Find Image and it will bring up a window so you can get one off your computer. Below that you can make a shortcut so when you type in (example) :$ is will bring up an image.

Obviously it will make the picture smaller, so it may not look that great. But you can make your own smiles or icons easy as pie. Uber cool!

Stoopid Frendz
Then when your friends say, “OMFG!!!11!!!! ih2 freakin hav tht!!11!!!”. Tell them, “YOU CAN NOT HAVE IT”. Or send them to this article and so they can learn how. Lolz!

Cait Hagar

Here is a cool tool you can use to make Moving Typewriter Text. It is easy and good for if you need a moving header on a blog post (Or whatever). I seriously thought about putting the whole article in this tool, but because it moves around, I figured no one would be able to read it. There goes that idea… : (

Typewriter Text Maker Yo

There is only one kind of font, which would be the typewriter one. You can not change that, but you can change the colors, size and words. Uber cool!

When you get there, it will say – “Welcome to Screedbot”. Not “Pimpest Thingamagiger”. That is what your font is going to be like.

You should see a white box right below that; there is where you type your text. I would not advise you put a whole book in there because obviously you are limited if you want it to be readable.

Once you have put your cute little saying or not so cute, you will see right below where you can size it. Max width size is 600px – which is pretty big. To get it bigger in height you just need to make your text bigger, this will resize that automatically.

Right below that, there are the boxes to change the colors of the font and background. One thing I do not like about those it, if you click on them, a color box does NOT pop up so you can pick your color(s). I really wish they had those. So you have to get the color code.

Go here – Color Map

There is an article on how to use the Color Map thing. You can choose a color on that and it will give you a code, so you do not have to guess. Encase you are not good with color codes… Once you have found a good color, just copy and paste it.

When you have gotten just the way you like, click Create Screed.

Now you should see it. Below your screed text, you should see – Save it to: Flickr, ImageShack.us or Your Computer. If you want to keep it, you can use one of those.

Have Fun!

This is a cool tool if you are looking for a good site to get/find color codes. I have been getting a few searches for people looking for color code charts. Well, I have something much better than a color chart, because with this you can pick more colors. It is not just a few colors someone has screen-shotted and posted. Although, those are great, I have definitely used those before.

Color Schemer

When you first get the page up you will see the big boxes with all the colors. You should also see all the little boxes below. You can click on any color and it will pop that color over on the left hand side in the editor. Below the color there is R: G: B: - Which stands for, Red, Green and Blue. RGB is in every color imaginable on the web. Those are what make the colors you get.

On every color you will see these codes: RGB (for making the color in a graphic editor) and HEX (for putting the color in HTML).

It is a type of code. Without it, we would not get the simpler HTML code which is your #00000 type stuff. It all beings with RGB-HEX. You can set those if you want, that is of course if you know what the color stuff is, which allot of people do not, so do not feel bad. Lolz! I have no idea what any one those numbers are. If you do decided to do something with those, when you got it all ready, click Set RGB and your color should change, along with the color boxes in the middle. Where you see the # (whatever) that is the code you need to use for any type of HTML editing for text color, images...etc.

If you have some codes, but want to find out what color they are, you can go ahead and put that in # area and click Set HEX. If you want to change the color tone, click on Lighten Scheme or Darken Scheme.

Of course there are the little boxes down at the bottom. You know what those are. Click on one of them and you can do all the same crap with it as the big boxes.

That is about it for that. Once you have found an uber cool color, just copy it right out and paste it wherever. TIP: If you are messing around with HTML color code or images, ALWAYS make sure you have # in the beginning or it ill not work.

Easy enough, huh? If you were new with color codes you are now (Or almost) an expert. *HIGH CYBERFIVE* - Sooooo maybe not than. xD

Peace, Love and Color Codes

Here is a pretty cool site that I came a crossed, and wanted to share!

It is a Paint Program that is in your browser. It has “Allot” of stuff you can use on your picture or graphics on it. I find this good for if you are running a laptop or something smaller and you do not want to hog it up with something like Paint.net or Photoshop (Which you could not get on a laptop anyway). It does have more things on it than Paint – that crappy thing everyone has on their computer!

Splash Up Site

Since it is fairly easy and I am REALLY bored. I will walk you threw how to work it.

Setting Up SplashUp: When you go to the site, you will see where they show you a LITTLE bit about what you can do. If you do not want to read that or are done… Click on Jump Right In – this will be the big box that says those three words. All you will need to get, is an Adobe Update which most of your should have, so it will probably load right up. If not, get the Adobe Air update (Which is located right in the box) and you will be on your way!

Now that you have it all set up and ready to go you need an image to edit right? Go to…

File: New Image – This will just give a Transparent box, whatever the size is that you made it.

Open Image – There you can uploaded your own picture from You Computer, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket and even your own website… etc. You have to be a MEMBER of these sites to be able to get images off them.

Capture Image From Webcam – That is exactly what it says, if you have a webcam and it is plugged in (Lolz) you can click that and it will take a picture from your cam and stick it right in the editor. Now that you have an image, what can you do to it?

You can go to… Filters – this has 15 things in it you can do to your pictures. Those are fun to just mess with if you do not know what they are. If you do not like what you have just done, you can go to - Edit: Undo

Of course you have all your tools on each side. I really like the Color Bar in the right side. It works really well if you know your color codes. Or you can Drag and Drop the little ball in the gradient color box. I am pretty sure everyone knows how to use those. On the other side is your basic stuff, Cropping, Paint Brush, Color Picker, Erase…etc. I really like the Paint Brushes tool because if you go up to the bar that pops up under the File/Edit/Image bar. You can pick what kind of Paint Brush you want and fix the size of it.

You do not have to be a member to use this. If you would like to download it, you can if you go back to the front page and it will say Try Splashup Light. I would just assume you get Paint.Net if you are looking for a Free Easy to Use Paint Program Hopefully you think this is uber cool… Because I sure do. I have been looking for more of these types of sites. Does anyone have any good ones?

And that’s all she wrote…