Thing 10 - Online Image generators

Here's my previous Meez avatar, Prakashsteve, newly animated. I went back to the site and copied the code into the post using "Edit HTML" rather than "Compose". I like it. Now my avatar works as hard as I do when shooting pictures!

Meez has a lot of options for image generation. You can pick everything from skin colr and hair styles through accessories and clothing and nail color. You also get to pick animations for your avatar and backgrounds to put them in. You can create a whole series of avatars under your log-in name. And when you get tired of your outfit, you can take clothes off, put them in your "closet", and get new threads. So my avatar won't freeze when it gets to be chilly, maybe I'll look for some appropriate footwear.

The Generator Blog is a dandy resource for an extensive list of all kinds of generators, both image and otherwise (for instance, you can find a German name generator on this site). I liked it so much I added it to my blogroll! I'm really digging a deeper hole for myself.

Thing 9 - MERLIN, Avatars, Feedster, Technorati, and the Whole Kitchen Sink

Meet my new avatar, courtesy of Meez. His name is Prakashsteve. Oddly enough, he, too, likes photography! I found the link to Meez through the MERLIN site, sort of. Truth be told, I find MERLIN hard to navigate, too busy and crowded with stuff. For instance, if it hadn't been for the link on the 23 Things page, I would have never found the Gaming & Avatars section of the MERLIN website. I think there is a ton of useful information on MERLIN, I just wish it was more user-friendly in its layout.

I found Feedster to be really effective at finding all kinds of feeds that interest me. I added a couple to my blogroll, so, as I said in the previous post, there's too much of interest for me to even try to look at it all. I like the fact that it's easy to search for podcasts, which I view regularly to keep up to speed with some of the exotic Photoshop how-tos. Technorati is also pretty good at finding the information you might want, but I'm a tad fonder of Feedster at this point.

As for the standard feed icons, I've noticed them on my Firefox and IE7 browsers. Maybe now I know what to do with them!