January 30, 2009
At MakeUseOf we highly value your comments and when we improved the comments area and introduced Gravatar support, we wanted commenting to become more fun by letting your eMail address point to a picture of your choice, eventually putting a name to a face or symbol or whatever. I noticed that many of our commenters [...]
January 26, 2009
You know you have always wanted to have an animated avatar of yourself to put on your blog, website, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or upload on your Gravatar account but never figured out an easy way to do it – well that is, until now.
January 21, 2009
If you’re looking for a way to spruce up your boring, old, static, text-only email signature into something more exciting and interactive, here’s how. Not only will it attract more attention to your signature and making it look more impressive; it will also liven up the mundane task of sending emails. Before we start, let [...]
January 19, 2009
Clippy The Paper Clip is as much a part of us as Microsoft Office. For the uninitiated, ‘Clippy’ is the animated paper clip which pops-up when we need some help from Windows. These animated characters make the computer a bit friendlier. The brains behind Clippy or for that matter Genie or Bosgrove is called the [...]
December 26, 2008
Have you ever been to a website and seen the nice little circle that is spinning round and round while the application is being loaded? Most people who have no technical knowledge will think that this is something amazing and can never understand how it works. Now, what if you can create your own animated [...]
December 20, 2008
An avatar is a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego, whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games, a two-dimensional icon (picture) used on Internet forums and other communities – Wikipedia Your online avatar is the first thing people would notice about you or your profile. So it becomes [...]
October 25, 2008
I’ve received a number of emails asking me how to add an avatar pic to the comment when commenting on MakeUseOf. See the screenshot below if you’re not sure what I mean. So how do I get an avatar next to my comments ? It’s very easy. Simply go to Gravatar, signup, and upload the [...]
June 12, 2008
In my last article, I talked about how you can use NicEdit to add RichText WYSIWYG functionality to your blog comments. Well today I want to talk about a WordPress plugin that I found which adds a bit of extra personalization when someone leaves a comment on one of your posts. It is called MyAvatars. [...]
