12 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters Of Yourself

If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why not create a cartoon characters of yourself?
It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing
yourself in a cartonized way in any online profiles and avatars,
anywhere from Gravatar to MyBlogLog, blog profiles, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc.

Thanks to many free web services, you don’t have to pay an artist
for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your
photo, or perform some mix and match. Here’s 11 websites that allows you to create a cartoon character of yourself.

You might also be interested in these articles:

• 25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos
• Create a Polaroid Effect of your Photo

1. Portrait Illustration Maker

   Portrait Illustration Maker is a service which provides character
   icons completely free of charge! They are available for your blog site
   or SNS. If you’d like to save the completed avatar, right-click on the
   icon. And then select “Save Picture As… ” from the menu.

   

2. WeeWorld

   Create an cartoon character to represent yourself in WeeWord games (WeeMee) or just export it for anywhere else.

   

3. Meez

   Social entertainment website that allows users to create their own
   animated avatars, or “3D I.D.” graphics, for the Web, to play casual
   games with their avatars, and to use them in customizable Rooms on
   social networks like Facebook.

   

4. Simpsonize Me

   Turn yourself into a simpson character.

   

5. Yahoo! Avatars

   

6. BeFunky

   

7. Buscar Messenger

   

8. Cartoon Me

   Cartoonize yourself as simple as uploading your photo, Cartoon Me will do the rest.

   

9. Joystiq Mii characters

   Think of it as creating Mii characters, but online so you can use it anywhere.

   

10. MyPlay

    By far, one of the most sophisticated cartoon character creating
    free service. However this Taiwanese site is only for those who are
    able to interpret chinese words.

    

11. South Park Studio

    For south park fans, now you can become one of them.

    

12. Moonjee

    Virtual makeover and Make a face.

    

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XBMC MEDIA CENTER

Media Management

XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and
image formats. XBMC has a sophisticated library management system that
allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate
access.

 

Fluid Interface

XBMC provides a user friendly interface that’s intuitive, very
flexible, and easy to use. The interface is completely customizable
through user-created or downloadable skins.

 

Plug-ins and Extensibility

XBMC has a built-in Python interpreter that allows users and developers
to write their own scripts and plugins that run inside XBMC using it’s
own widgets and controls. It also has a built-in web server that allows
it to be controlled remotely.

 

Visualisations

XBMC’s audio player supports many visualisations including ProjectM and
Goom. In addition, it allows easy development of visualisations using a
simple API.

 

Lots More

The above is just the tip of the iceberg. Try it out yourself to experience the ultimate media center experience on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Dual Boot Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

By Doug Holland (Intel) (216 posts)
on February 26, 2008 at 11:19 pm

After researching how to enable Aero on the Windows Server 2008 desktop (see previous blog post)
I proceeded to install Windows Server 2008 onto the third hard drive
within a desktop computer that currently has Windows Vista running on
the first two disks within a RAID configuration.

Windows Server 2008 installed without an issue however upon
rebooting, once the installation was complete, there was no boot menu.
Of course, Microsoft had removed the boot.ini file that users of
previous versions of Windows were so familiar with and replaced it with
the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store. Windows Server
2008 also uses the same BCD store and the installation does not
enumerate your disks to add boot entries for other operating systems
found, which previous versions of the Windows setup would do
automatically.

Although there are several utilities with nice user interfaces
available to help you edit the BCD store, I decided that I would learn
how to use the bcdedit.exe command line utility that Microsoft provides
for this purpose.

Using bcdedit.exe /enum to enumerate through the current entries within the BCD store you’ll see something like the following:

timeout            30

Windows Boot Loader

To enable the computer to also boot Windows Vista you again use bcdedit.exe with the following command which will copy the current Windows Boot Loader details for Windows Server 2008 to Windows Vista.

bcdedit.exe will respond with something like the following.

Using bcdedit.exe /enum to again enumerate through the current entries within the BCD store you’ll see the newly added entry:

timeout            30

Windows Boot Loader

Before you can use the newly created Windows boot loader configuration,
you’ll need to change the partition for Windows Vista using the
following two bcdedit.exe commands.

bcdedit.exe /set {8677dee0-e502-11dc-9f96-001e4cde5025} device partition=D:

bcdedit.exe /set {8677dee0-e502-11dc-9f96-001e4cde5025} osdevice partition=D:

If you now reboot the system you should now be able to boot into either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista.

Categories: Manageability, Software Engineering, Virtualization

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Using 7-Zip as a Blazing Fast File Browser

One of the most irritating things in Windows is the file browsing
experience… it’s slow, buggy, and never wants to stay in “Details”
mode. If you are already using the awesome 7-Zip utility, you have a
powerful alternative file manager at your disposal.

In case you’re wondering, 7-Zip is our file archiving utility of choice around here. It’s awesome.

Using 7-Zip File Manager

You can quickly find the 7-Zip File Manager under the start menu by just typing “7″ into the search box.

The default view is a simple details view, that doesn’t go out of
whack every time you browse into another folder. It just works. You can
even browse down into any archive (zip, rar, iso, etc) file as if it
was a folder.

Using the View menu, you can enable a dual pane mode, so you can drag/drop files back and forth between the panes.

For quickly accessing folders, you can setup Favorites that even
have hotkeys associated to them… makes finding that deeply nested
folder a breeze.

Inside the options panel are a couple of really useful options that
aren’t enabled by default: You can show the real file icons the same
way Explorer does, enable the regular explorer system menu, and set
full row selection.

Ever browse to a folder, but then forget which one it was? Using the
Alt+F12 shortcut key (or through the View menu) you can bring up the
Folders History dialog, which saves everywhere that you browsed. Very
useful!

The context menu for files already has powerful capabilities embedded… we already have a hack to add the Copy To / Move To options to Explorer, but it’s something that should just be there in the first place.

You’ll notice in the screenshot that there’s also a very useful option to create a new folder with a hotkey… something you can only do in Explorer with a plugin.

Create a Shortcut to Open a Specific Folder in 7-Zip

You can also setup an icon to open up 7-Zip already set to a
specific folder. Just right-click anywhere and choose New \ Shortcut
from the menu.

Use the Browse button to navigate down to the following path (adjusting if you installed elsewhere).

“C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zFM.exe”

Make sure to include the full path in quotes, and then pass in the
path that you want to open as a parameter (with a space between). In
the example above, the shortcut will open the C:\ folder.

Now you should have an icon that will open 7-Zip directly to the C: drive.

It’s simple, easy, and useful… it’s a Stupid Geek Trick. Got any tricks of your own? Share them in the comments.

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Tweaking Windows Vista for a Better Desktop

Switcher (in my opinion; THE only option atmo)

One of the most useful tools for Windows actually puts the beautiful Aero presentation system to good use.
The Mac has long had a fantastic Window switcher called Exposé. It
tiles all of the windows on-screen and makes it easy to switch from one
Window to another with only a minimum of key strokes. The Vista
equivalent, called Flip 3D is certainly pretty, but effectively useless. This is where Switcher steps in. Switcher is a clone of Exposé. Unlike other clones,
it uses the Windows desktop manager API (the same one used by Flip 3D).
This means that the preview windows are pretty, windows update as the
content changes, video plays and all is generally right with the world.

Switcher makes good use of Windows Vista Aero.

Tags: aero, computers, desktop, switcher, tweaks, vista

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RObdOG Network goes Blogging

The RObdOG network has gone Blog crazy in the hope of bringing some good content to the people.

We have started with clean slates on all our channels so that we can deliver the audience specific content you want.

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