Posts Tagged ‘spoof’

JibJab Crazy dancing heads

August 19th, 2007
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Grab some head shot photos and upload them to JibJab to create your very own crazy videos. These videos feature themes such as the Hawaiian hula, Disco, Chikita, The Charleston and La Cucaracha

If you don’t want to use any of your family, you can grab some photos of public figures if you wish and have a ball! I made one with Hillary Clinton and Bald Brittany Shears. It was pretty funny.

This is a very Myspace friendly Flash based widget. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this widget was created especially for Myspace. Yes it works on Friendster, Hi5, Piczo, Blogger and more. But I think they had Myspace in mind when they cooked this one up.

You will have to register in order to use this widget. Registration requires a valid email address. Why? I have no idea. They may want to limit the amount of illegitimate widgets created by bots. Of course…who would bother to set up fake JibJab accounts?

Anyhow…this is a fun widget that I got a kick out of. I would like to see more dancing themes or maybe some limited action sequences from movies etc…

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iPhone Spoof widget

July 24th, 2007

the iPhone death watch widget is a complete spoof.

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For starters it comes from PCMag.com An online magazine dedicated to PC news not Apple news. So, of course the seriousness needs no to be accepted as pure drama.

They say that they have contacted the iPhone people and…

Apple says that after 400 charges, the phone will hold 80% of a charge. Alas, they wouldn’t tell us any more than that. (When we inquired, they skirted the issue.)

This is a good joke on Apple and fun for iPhone users.

But I find it difficult to call this a widget.
First, there is no code to copy or download. It appears to simply be a website that you would keep as your homepage. Who would do this? It might be a shade more popular if there were a Google search bar embedded on the page (a Google widget). You also might want to include some adsense (it’s not a website without adsense)

Japanese widgets How many?

July 13th, 2007

Japanese websites seem to be very colorful and even though I can’t read Japanese I can see widgets all over these pages.

This makes me wonder…‘How many cool widgets are we missing out on because of the translation gap?’

Here is an example of what I am referring to…

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The ticker looks like it would be an interesting widget, serving up….? Who knows?

Here is the link to the site A I ticker

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