Animated "Loading" Image Generator

Yesterday somebody sent me an email introducing me to http://www.ajaxload.info/ and it's such a handy tool I thought I should share it here.

Generate a customised animated gif by choosing the style you want, the background and foreground colors and whether the background should be transparent.

Here are some quick examples...

Newspaper Headline Image Generator

Last week I posted an article about creating an image using RSS + GDI. It featured a fairly simple example that was not always appropriate for the text contained. Yesterday I revisited the concept and produced the following image which feeds off the latest BBC News Headlines.

I've made some canny modifications to get the execution time down, but it still really needs short-term caching, and a link to the feed source. It's adequately working with most RSS/Atom feeds tested.

(Originally posted on pantsonhead.com)

News Headline Image Generator

I'm feeling a little guilty about not posting anything here for a few weeks, so I thought I'd put this up here since it's fairly developer oriented (even though I posted it 11 months ago on my other site).

I started mucking about with generating graphics from PHP's GDI and RSS feeds and put this together for your viewing pleasure...

Now you can get the latest BBC News Headline with a smile, whatever the content (which is sometimes less than appropriate). I also put some related stuff here that you might also find to be a diversion. I’m not finished with this concept yet, so eventually we might see a more refined version.