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Time Waster: U Can Beez a LOLCATZ with LOL Feeds

LOL DownloadSquad

This is probably the awesomest thing we've seen in a while. LOL Feeds takes the lolcat phenomenon and melds it with Twitter, Jaiku, Wordpress, or anything with an RSS feed!

Basically, you plug in your user name for Twitter (or an RSS feed of your choosing) and it will make what you've written into a lolcat complete with images and LOLFontz!

Here's an example one for you to play with:
http://lol.ianloic.com/feed/www.downloadsquad.com/rss.xml


The possibilities are endless here. Your blog, your Facebook news stream, Barack Obama's twitter account!

Make your own and post the link in the comments!

LOLinator: let LOLcats redesign your site of choice

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There has always been one major problem with the internet: it's run by humans instead of LOLcats. Sadly, the government isn't into LOLcats, so we'll never see the dream realized. There is, however, a simulation effort. I'd like to introduce the LOLinator.

The LOLinator is a website designed by an underground effort of LOLcats to show the world what an LOLcat internet would look like. It takes any website and sends it back to the LOLcat home base, where LOLcats work quickly and efficiently to create a simulation of an LOLcat version. A couple websites we recommend running through the system are Apple.com, Apple.com/store, and Microsoft.com.

The image above shows what an LOLcat run Download Squad would look like. Personally, we think it's an improvement, but the discrimination against cats in the workplace would never land us any cat employees. What a sad world we live in. Oh yeah, if you have any suggestions for sites to run through the LOLinator, please leave them in the comments.

Flickr Toys - Time Wasters

Flickr ToysBigHugeLabs has a big huge repository of what they call "Flickr Toys", which are basically web apps that let you do funky things with the photos in your Flickr account. Some better known Flickr Toys include the motivational poster creator, or magazine cover creator, but there are countless others to explore.

Don't mis the LOLcat generator, which can be used in conjunction with SpeakLOLcat to produce uncanny LOLcat pictures.

While the LOLcat thing has seemingly been done to death, it's funny like those SNL skits from the 90's were, right? Just getting better, over and over again, never getting old. We're sure of it.

Skitch - a simple image editor you will fall in love with



It could be the nice pink funky heart of Skitch's logo that draws you in. The heart definitely sets the tone for this sweet image editor that is fun and stupid easy to use. It is Forrest Gump easy.

They aren't kidding when they say you can learn Skitch in 3 minutes, however, you can run into some small roadblocks which can interfere with your whizzing around in the program. We'll get to those a little later.

You can use Skitch to take screen captures, crop and resize photos, draw or annotate photos, sketch, and it works with your iPhoto library.


It also keeps a history of all your Skitch images for easy retrieval. Below is a screenshot of the history menu.



With a click of a button you can post your image to mySkitch, a webservice that works with Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.


Resizing is easy. You just pull the image corners to the pixel size you want. This will work only if the "Export at Original Size" square is not checked.



Also, if you use the pull down menu and actually save your image to your hard drive, Skitch saves it as a .skitch file, which is only useful if you want to send it to another Skitch user. The easy way to save it as a jpg (or .png, .svg, .pdf) is to drag your Skitch image to the desktop.

If you like LOLCATS, Skitch is an easy way to make notes and sketch on your images.



Skitch is available by invitation only and so far, just for Mac users. Sorry PC fans. Word is there is a Windows application in development.

You can register at the plasq.com (creators of Comic Life, Pluzzle, and Sqreensavers) site and invites will be sent out via email.

If you're using Skitch, let us know what you think of it.

[via TechCrunch]


Popular cat macro website gets new tools

You know there's really only three destinations on the Web anymore, right? Twitter (for your need-to-know fix), Joost (for your tv fix), and I Can Has Cheezburger? (for your laugh-til-you-drop fix). They're practically all anyone talks about and if there's anything else going on around the Internet these days, you'd be hard pressed to know it.

Fans of the insanely popular lolcats meme site I Can Has Cheezburger? (ICHC) have spent the last six months or so laughing their heads off at adorable cat pictures with funny captions. To get in on the action, visitors to the site can email their own captioned cat picture and wait to see if it gets selected for posting, or simply offer their own caption in the comment section of existing pictures.

ICHC junkies rejoice. Now there's a third option and Download Squad talked to one of the enigmatic site owners, known only to visitors as "cheezburger," to get the inside scoop.

Continue reading Popular cat macro website gets new tools

Make your own cat macros with Gordon's LolCat Builder

If you want a little comedy with your cuteness, then you have to check out I Can Has Cheezeburger? If you've surfed the Internet for more than 12 seconds, you've probably already encountered cat pictures that have been captioned with deliberately bad spelling and worse grammar. Many of the pictures, known as "lolcats" or cat macros, are assembled on the ICHC site where visitors are encouraged to submit their own captioned photos as well.

People with mad Photoshop skills will have no trouble modifying pictures on their own, but some of us need a little more help. Gordon's LolCat Builder is a tool that lets you caption pictures and submit them directly to ICHC right from the site.

Using any basic photo-editing tool crop, adjust, and spruce up the picture you want to use, then upload it directly into the Builder. Type in the text you want to appear at the top and bottom of the photo into the appropriate fields (either one can also be left blank) and select preview to see your work of art.

The Builder allows you to change the font, shadow, text size, and text alignment to suit your fancy, but the default options look just fine, too. Once you have your photo captioned just the way you want, select "Submit to ICanHasCheezeburger" at the bottom of the screen and you're good to go. Alternatively, select "Save forever" and you'll get a URL where your picture will live for all eternity (or until the end of the Internet, whichever comes first). When you're done, you can leave your photo on the server for others to use or delete it, it's up to you.

Once you've mastered how to caption your cat macros, take a few minutes to learn the finer points of "kitteh-speak." But, be warned: lolcats are more addictive than Twitter. Or, um, so I'm told.


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