This site was a neat tool that was meant to study the way that viral sites were shared and took of in popularity. I really do like the new more playful side of Microsoft. I will say that I doubt that this site is going to stick in your bookmarks or anything. They don’t save the photo you upload, so you don’t have to worry about them amassing your data. You can use Bing to search for new photos, or you an choose one from your local computer. It’s a simple premise, you can submit a photo and it will try and guess the age and gender of the person. How Old Do I Look is a product that came out of this year’s Build conference. Microsoft has done a lot to try and clean up its image, trying to show that it cares about consumers more than the IT department. What Sucks: Web app is a bit crashy, audience can make this less than accessible to the outside.īuy it?: If you like weird experiments in social media, check out Mountains of Mouthness. What’s Good: Neat idea that channels the Internet into an actual space. Also like any public forum on the Internet a string of swearing and slurs is a semi-regular occurrence. The web app crashed a few times on me in Chrome on the desktop. This is a really neat idea, and some impressive programming. The camera controls with the accelerometer. If you visit it on your phone or tablet, you are a villager looking up at the mountains. If you visit the site on your desktop, you get a nice animation of the mountains and a very nice landscape. You’ll just have to keep trying to get your tweet into the organized chaos. They will also read out random tweets with the word bad in it. You can tweet to or tag your tweets #Mouthness and your tweet will possibly be read out. Mountains of Mouthness takes a more surreal approach, embodying random tweets as two screaming mountains.
TYPORAMA FOR MAC FULL
If you could embody Twitter as a physical space, it would be a bar full of screaming drunks all vying for attention. Strips out author attribution from random quote generator.īuy it?: If you’re looking for an easy way to make image macros on your iOS device, check out Typorama.
What Sucks: Could be used for evil and share generic inspirational quotes. What’s Good: Very easy to create and share out image macros Their random quotes even strip out the author from the generated messages for you. So if you want to share out that quote your stealing, Typorama is a great way to do it. You can share out to social networks, the Photos App, or even Messages. None of them will win you a design award, but they look better than a plain font over the picture. There’s a host of typographic choices that are well done. Once that is done, you’ll then edit the size and color of the text. You then enter your text, or you can even get a random quote. You can either use one of their artsy ready for Instagram backgrounds, or an image from your Photos library. Typorama makes image macros on your iOS device really simple. There may come a time when all communications on the Internet degrade to image macros. What’s Good: Puts RSS handling back in the browser UI.īuy it?: If you’re using RSS and Safari, you want Syndicate. So if you don’t use this for your RSS section you’ll have to click No, and the link will still load in your RSS reader of choice. This is really handy, but it doesn’t turn off the default handling of RSS by Safari’s Shared Links section. This button then allows you to subscribe to the RSS feed right from the browser. Syndicate remedies this with a Safari Extension that puts RSS right back in the browser toolbar. Also if a site has multiple feeds, Syndicate lists them all in the popup, allowing you to select which one works for you. You can always find the link, but the address bar button was better. One of those that always bugs the crap out of me is the lack of an RSS button when I’m on a website. However, like a lot of Apple’s modern redesign it’s still missing some features. The modern version of Safari is pretty slick. Then I’ll close out with Brett Terpstra’s latest utility. I’ve also got a web app that brings Tweets to life via screaming mountains. First up I have an extension that brings RSS back to Safari. This week I’ve got a slate of simpler apps, but I think that they’re all either vital or fun.
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