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Image Chef, the avatar creators, and the other generators in 23 Things On a Stick were among the most popular things people explored. Glancing through the original 23 Things blogs shows that almost everyone tried at least one of the generators. You can debate whether web-generators are useful or not. It is easy to spend a lot of time playing around with the generators. They don’t challenge our creativity; we are using someone else's idea. However, the generators do make our life easier and save time by making it easy to add interest to blogs, sites, & newsletters. Having a site generate the code to embed a feature is much easier and far faster than having to do it yourself.

The generators in this Thing vary. There are some useful ones--password or username generators & some silly ones--fairy or vampire name generators. Some can be useful or entertaining, depending on your view. As in the other Things, you have many choices of what you explore and how you use the "generated" results. In the Mashups Thing, we will look at some generators that work with photos.

Useful Generators

Email Icon Generator

Put in your blog or Web site and link to your email

Password Generators

FreePasswordGenerator

Phonetic Passwords

Hashapass 

PDF Generators

PDFOnline

FreePDFConvert will convert from doc to pdf and word to pdf plus you can add button to blog for users to convert your blog to pdf

Illustrations/Images

Read Posters

Big Huge Labs

BGPatterns generates background patterns

Tartan Maker

Stripes

Newspaper Front Page

Dictionary Entry

GlassGiant

ImageGenerator

Obamaconme

Image Converters

Doc2pdf Image Converter 

Form Generator

Wufoo

Citation Generators

Son of Citation Machine

EasyBib

Graphs/Charts

CreateaGraph

Classtools--Graphs, diagrams and more

Tag Cloud

Tag Cloud Generator

TagCrowd

Wordle 

Timeline Creator

Timetoast

White Noise

SimplyNoise

Web 2.0 Site Name

Web 2.0 Name Generator

Signs & Labels

Tiny Tags

Acme Label Maker

Right click to save image or click on image as .gif file

Other

Cornell Notetaking Sheets

Notepad Generator

Random Generator (integers, sequences, more...)

Printable Paper

Braille Generator

Bridge Hand Generator

Comic Strip Generators

Stripgenerator--Designed for blogs

Make Beliefs--For kids, but useful
Read Write Think--Kids again
Comeeko--Works with a series of your photos

Historic Tale Construction Kit--Middle Age Comic Strips

ToonDoo--Social cartooning--create, publish, share

ComicLife--Comes with Mac, available for Windows

Make a Movie

Text-to-Movie-If you can type, you can make a movie. Or something like a movie, anyway.

Silly Generators

Convert Your Name to a Dewey Number

Concert Tickets

Vinyl Record

Need an excuse?

Need a name for your novel or play--or an alias for yourself?

Very Silly Generator

lolcats Generator

Lists of Many More Generators

GZZT.org

Technology Magazine

1000 Online Generators from MyOpera blog