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Create image mosaics with a free web app


There's no denying the inherent coolness of image mosaics. If you haven't heard the term, they're those insane images that are made up of hundreds of other scaled-down images. Zoom out, and it looks like something recognizable (like Paper Mario, for example).

Click7.org has a slick online generator that automatically creates mosaics from your uploaded images, and it works well. Processing only takes a few moments and your completed image can, of course, be downloaded. You can also zoom in and out - from 50% to 200% - on your image to see how it looks at different sizes.

To achieve the best results, use fairly large originals - Mario was 1280 pixels high, and turned out rather nicely.

For more mosaic fun, you might want to take a look at the Flickr-based Mosaickr.

Filed under: Design, Fun, Internet, Photo

Create your own Flickr Mosaic with Mosaickr

Mosaickr is an online tool that allows you to create your own mosaic using photos from Flickr. You can create your mosaic from your own photos or search by tag through others photos (with a creative commons attribution license) and add those.

To create your mosaic you have to first select a main photo, and then whether you want to make a small, medium, or large sized mosaic. Your mosaic size choice determines how many additional photos you need to select. A small mosaic requires between 1 and 3 hundred while a large mosaic requires somewhere between 3 and 5 hundred.

If you're really particular with your mosaic you can select all 500 tiles individually, the rest of us can import photos random by tag 50 or 100 at a time. You final masterpiece take a bit of time to make, but can be emailed to you. A low-res version is free, and a high resolution image will run you 1.49 Euros. If your mosaic truly is a masterpiece there's also a poster option available if you're in one of the supported countries.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Browser Tips

Looking at today's internet using yesterday's browser

Old browser emulators
Continuing our trip in the wayback machine, have you ever wondered what today's internet would look like if you were using a 12 year old browser?

Well, wonder no more. You don't have to install Mosaic, Netscape 1.0 or Internet Explorer 2.0. Just pop on over to the Deja Vu Browser Emulator, choose your poison, and watch as all the things that make today's web beautiful are stripped away. The virtual browser will pop up inside of a browser window, giving you the surreal experience of surfing the web using the granddaddies of Firefox or Internet Explorer from within IE7 or Firefox 2.0.

You haven't lived until you've tried to watch YouTube videos using HotJava. And don't forget to enter http:// in the address bar. Older browsers didn't recognize web pages without the full address.

We supposed you could use the emulator to see how your web site looks on old browsers (or even mobile phone browsers), but the odds of anyone actually using IE 2.0 to visit your page are pretty slim.

[Thanks Markus!]

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