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Polaroid-o-nizer: Trick out your photos, scrapbook-style
by Jordan Running Jun 24th 2005 at 2:02PM
Polaroid-o-nizer is kind of a one-trick pony, but it's a neat trick. You feed it the URL of a photo or graphic anywhere on the web and it spits out a reasonable facimile of a Polaroid photo. You can add your own caption, customize the background color, and change the angle of rotation.
If you're a tinkerer, you can download the PHP source code for Polaroid-o-nizer, as well as grab a bookmarklet and a plugin for Wordpress. If I have any complaint about Polaroid-o-nizer, it's that it spits out a JPEG where I would rather have a lossless PNG with with a nice alpha shadow. Also, the engine behind Polaroid-o-nizer is the GD graphics library, which doesn't always do as good a job with scaling and rotating as, say, Imagick, sometimes resulting in a blurry picture. But then again, maybe I'm taking this too seriously.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
