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Funny Animated GIFs

Chris — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:24:39 +0000

Funny Animated GIFs is a post from Chris Pirillo

How to Create an Animated GIF: Webcam2GIF

Chris — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:09:02 +0000

How to Create an Animated GIF: Webcam2GIF is a post from Chris Pirillo

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I was moving my lips, but I wasn’t saying anything. It’s not a movie, it’s an animated .GIF. It’s a single file with a series of frames spliced together – set to loop forever. I made this in less than a minute! This was done with nothing more than my webcam, and an Adobe Air app called WebCam to GIF.

WebCam to GIF is a tool that lets you to create animated GIF images using your webcam. You can use this to create an animated avatar for forums, social sites and more. If you don’t already have the Air platform installed, you’ll want to do it. There are a ton of great apps available for it. The best thing is that it is cross-platform, and works on even Linux!!

This isn’t the first animated GIF I’ve ever made. I’ve been doing them for years – starting way back when all hyperlinks on the Web were blue. Yeah, I know, I’m getting “old”. GIFs are a lot of fun to play with, and are just another way you can enhance your photos and make them fun.

When looking at the program, you have the live preview on the webcam showing on the left side. On the right side, you have the way to browse the images you’ve taken in the series. You can choose how many times it will loop, and decide the quality and size of your creation. When you start snapping captures, you can move around and change the frames (or even delete frames from the series).

It’s easy to do, and it’s fun. Remember that it’s not a video… it’s a GIF! Take your series of photos, mash them together, and loop them forever! Have a GIF of yourself doing almost anything! Download and play with it, make your own GIFs, and come share them with the rest of us.

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What Will Our Kids Look Like?

Chris — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:26:40 +0000

What Will Our Kids Look Like? is a post from Chris Pirillo

Our wedding is in another week or so… OH MY GOD, OUR WEDDING IS IN ANOTHER WEEK!? How is this possible? Why didn’t someone tell me about this? Will there be free WiFi? Why didn’t Ponzi add an HP 30″ LCD monitor to their wedding registry on Amazon? Inquiring minds wanna know.

I realize that thousands of bloggers have been asking themselves: “Yes, they’re getting hitched – but what will their kids look like?” You might be asking yourself how I know that so many bloggers are asking themselves this very question. You might also be asking yourself: “Are they seriously serious about having kids?!” Unagi!

Instead of waxing pathetic about the whole “marriage is the blending of two lives” story, I thought I’d simply illustrate it for you in animated GIF form. Courtesy of my friends at Morpheus Software (this link good for an exclusive $10 savings), here’s what we’re going to do on December 9th. Yes, the world’s very first live morphing event will be happening in downtown Bellevue that night!

Obviously, we can’t do that in person (not without VERY special software) – but at least your mind can rest assured knowing what Ponzi and I would look like if we really met each other half way. I don’t know whether to be turned on or disgusted?

Well, if you think you can do a better morph of us, be my guest.

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VMware and Parallels for Virtual Machines

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