Filed under: Fun, Photo, Windows, Macintosh, Linux
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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
