gHacks technology news » avatar http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Create Your Own Manga Avatar With Face Your Manga http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:46:38 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6311 Anime are popular, mangas are popular and hentai is, well popular to. That integral part of Japanese culture has long made its way into the West and kids are crazy after manga stuff. Face Your Manga tries to take advantage of the fact by providing its visitors a way to create their own Manga avatars to be used in forums, social bookmarking and community websites.

The process reminds of the Mii creation on the Nintendo Wii. The user picks a gender for his avatar and can then customize various facial features like the hair, eyes and nose. Nintendo Wii users should experience no difficulties creating the avatars and everyone else won’t run into a lot either.

It’s pretty much about picking the right facial feature and color to go along with the avatar. Face, Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Ears and Hairs are the six main parts of the face that can be changed. Most containing subcategories; Eyes are for instance further divided into Shape and Eyebrows.

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Add clothes, stuff and background to that and the opportunity to add makeup to the avatar. Want your avatar to wear a tie, a peace logo, tattoo and piercing? No problem. The avatars are send to an email address that has to be entered with some additional data. It’s probably a way of collecting emails and I would advise to use an email account that does not receive private emails for that. It has to be able to receive attachments so most disposable email services are out of the question.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/feed/ 21 Add your own Avatar to Ghacks http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/06/add-your-own-avatar-to-ghacks/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/06/add-your-own-avatar-to-ghacks/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:21:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/06/add-your-own-avatar-to-ghacks/ You might have noticed that I added so called avatars to the comments that you write. I thought it would be nice to personalize ghacks a little bit more and add avatar support. All you need to do to add your own avatar is to visit mybloglog and register for a free account there. This is not only helpful for my site but all sites that support this option. Everton from connected internet uses the same system for example.

Registration is free and simple. Add a screen name, your email and a password and you are ready to use their system. You could use one use emails to register there if you like but I don’t think this is necessary. The last thing that needs to be done is to upload an avatar to mybloglog and it will be displayed on all websites that you visit that support it. You can also add code to your own website if you have one to personalize it as well.

Please let me know if you like this new feature. I think it is great for regular visitors. So, if you do not like the dark shadowy image next to your comment join mybloglog and customize your appearance.

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