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StripeMania: Easy Stripe Generator

StripeMania is a simple but effective tool for generating Web 2.0 diagonal stripes for your designs. The tool is so easy to use that you can generate your striped image in less than a minute. You can use them as a background image for your website or something to complement a design project.

You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing in between. You can even add color gradient effect for all you stripes which you can easily remove in just one click whenever you wish to. There are also different types of stripe orientation that you can choose from depending on your needs to complement your design.

You can view the stripes created by other users for inspiration or download them to use on your design. There is also a tutorial page to make the most out of your stripes. There are Photoshop tutorials to create fades and other effects that will make your stripes look better. There is also a CSS tutorial to help you place the stripes properly as your website background.

If you are a designer and like to use stripes in your designs, then you better give Stripe Mania a shot at it. It makes it easier to produce stripes rather than using Photoshop or Illustrator. Or you can just add the other effects using the said image editors after generating the stripe effect that you need.

Tags: Stripe Generator, Stripe Image, StripeMania, web 2.0

Web2.0Collage: Sniffing Your Browsing History

Web2.0Collage is a website that constructs a collage of the web 2.0 sites that you have previously visited. It sniffs your browser history and stitches them together to form a collage of web 2.0 sites. The browser history sniffing is done using javascript which matches the data with a white-list of web2.0 related sites. This simply means that the generated collage is generally safe and will not get you into any trouble.

What is it good for?

The site generally converts your browser history in some form of digital artwork. The logos from the web 2.0 sites are taken from the favicons that are stored on your browser cache.

But Web2.0Collage’s main purpose is to raise privacy awareness. It clearly points out that nothing is private. Any website you visit can easily determine your browsing history and web2.0collage is a living proof of that. You can never know if a site that you are visiting now is sniffing your browsing history and literally checking out your online purchases and most visited sites. This makes it easier for them to target you with ads and other online offers.

There are some precautions that you can take in order to protect your browsing history. One of them is to use the Firefox browser and install anti-scripts plugins. You can also install SafeHistory (SafeHistory is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension that protects your privacy by silently defending against visited-link-based tracking techniques. It allows offsite visited links to be marked only if the browser’s history database contains a record of the link being followed from the current site) to protect you browser history data from prying eyes. Other precautions include setting up your browser to auto-delete your browsing history upon closing it.

Tags: Browser History, Browsing History, Browsing History Sniffer, Collage, Safe Browsing, Sniffer, web 2.0, Web 2.0 Collage

Photoshop: Creating Shiny Buttons

This screencast shows how to create as shiny pill style button using a simple methon din Photoshop. The tutorial is easy enought to follow. You can start creating your personal buttons in just a few. Enjoy the tutcast.

Tags: Photoshop, Shiny Buttons, web 2.0

Web2.0Write: Type Using Web 2.0 Logos as Fonts

Are you a Web 2.0 fan? If you are and you find web two point O logos really cool, you should try this one. Web2.0Write is a nice little web app that lets you write anything and displays it using popular web 2.0 logos as fonts.

Anything you write in Web2.0Write will of course be converted into images or a single image file. You can share what you have created using the embed code. Check out the sample below.

Tags: Fonts, logo, web 2.0, Write2.Write

Get Your Web 2.0 Badges

Web 2.0 Badges is a place where you can get those nifty badges that most sites are using. The site features a badge generator that allows you to choose from a selection of web 2.0 badges and place the corresponding text that you want to go with it.

The badge generator is a simple tool which you won’t have any trouble using. First, select a badge that you want then just place the text, select a font, size and color and you’re good to go. If you want to change the position of the text, you may do so by placing x and y coordinates and changing the angle of the text. That is all there is to it.

Aside from the badge generator, you can also download the PSD files of the badges used in the generator. This way, you can do more advanced editing using Photoshop. You can add more effects with your texts like some of the badges below. You can even edit the colors and effects on each badge to match your website.

Tags: badges, generator, Photoshop, psd, web 2.0

Photoshop: Create a Page Curl or Sticker Image Effect

A  very detailed tutorial on how to create images with Web 2.0 sticker effect.

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Tags: Photoshop, sticker, web 2.0