Free-to-use images for your Myspace profile - Color Specific

Looking to add some snazzy design flare to your Myspace profile or layout? Yotophoto, a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images, has a cool new way for you to find color specific images for your Myspace profile.

Go here, fill in the Color Search field, click Advanced Search, and Yotophoto will return pages of color-matching, high-quality pics.

You can enter a color code in hexadecimal notation (as used in Photoshop) or, by visually selecting colors using their color picker.

Here are the results I get using the 11BB77 color from the Web Tracker logo:

Yotophoto's Color Search results

If you'd like to base your Myspace profile or layout on a particular image, try combining Yotophoto's search tool with this cool Color Palette Generator. You could do something like this:

Color palette Generator

Yotophoto's Color Search results

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Rockyou round-up for your Myspace profile

Received just moments ago in my email inbox (via Rockyou):


This is Sandi from Rockyou.

Wanted to show you the latest cool stuff we’ve just launched on the site!

Click here to try TextPix! We’ve got tons of images ALL with customizable text and effects. It looks so natural it is almost unbelievable!


Check out our new custom Glitter fxtext. Build your own message, and add awesome effects like glitter, spinners and rings. You can change it in more than a million ways!


For Slideshows, click here to try out any of our TWELVE new transitions and new
themes: Heart (my favorite), Photostack (widescreen), Supporting the Troops, and many more!



Finally, check out our Top Rated and Most Viewed shows here. Your show might be on the list!


We’ve got a lot more coming so keep checking back …


You Rock!



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Myspace custom friend space generator

Back in the day, when Myspace offered up their meager Top 8 friends list, we worked with what we were given. We scrutinized, philosophized, and reluctantly ___'ized some of our "friends" right out of the coveted Top 8 position. Battles ensued as a virtual "shot around the world" made its way across the Myspace network; friendships were put to the test.

In July '06, Myspace came to the rescue with their "brilliantly conceived" (unadulterated synaptic genius!) Top 24 friends list. Of course this, like its older bro' "Top 8", was destined to fail as well.

The Myspace Top Friends conundrum

Q: What do you do with 25+ "Top" friends, when you only have 24 "Top" spots to fill?
A: Use R4wr (a.k.a. The original Myspace friend space generator).

R4wr's Myspace custom friend space generator

R4wr is a site that, with some effort, will allow to push, pull, and stretch far beyond the limits of your generic Myspace friend layout. For starters, it'll allow you to accommodate up to a whopping 40 of your "bestest" friends. You can set them up in any column/row configuration that you like. Other options include, tweaking the title and friends text, hiding/scrolling comments, and showing/hiding a bunch of other Myspace variables.

It's relatively easy to use but does take some effort to complete as the URL of each of your friends Myspace profile and Myspace picture has to be entered in manually. If you do run into any trouble, the site does offer a nice FAQ and an even nicer Tutorial.

Give it try :)

RSS feed widget for Myspace

I've been using the very cool TheSpringBox Rss feed widget here on Web Tracker for a few weeks now (see middle right of this page). This particular widget can ALSO be placed on a Myspace profile . Simply click the TheSpringBox Widgetize button, choose your widget, widget size, add the URL of the RSS feed you'd like to syndicate, then click Apply. You'll get a snippet of code that can be placed anywhere on your Myspace profile. They also offer a clock widget, a weather room widget, and two sports style widgets. Give 'em a look.

Preview this Myspace add-on

Free fun quiz site for Myspace - Quizilla

If you'd like to add or insert a quiz into your Myspace profile have a look at Quizilla.

Quizilla Myspace quiz generator

You do have to register to start creating your quizzes, but hey, it's free! Once you get through that click on the Create a New Quiz link and get going.

Possible quiz types are the Personality quiz, the Scored quiz, and the Poll style quiz.

Personality quiz

From the Quizilla site:

Use this quiz type if you are interested in finding out what type of something someone is. For example: Which Naruto Character are you?, or What kind of Sharpie are you?

Scored quiz

From the Quizilla site:

Use Scored Quizzes to test knowledge. For example: How well do you know Green Day? How smart are you?

Poll quiz

From the Quizilla site:

Use Scored Quizzes to test knowledge. For example: How well do you know Green Day? How smart are you?

If you'd like to share your quiz and throw it up on your Myspace profile, look for the Share Your Creations link on the right navigation bar; it's right under the Registered users heading. You'll be taken to another screen where you can fully customize the look of your quiz. You can change the adjust the size of your quiz as well as its colors. When you're ready, you can either cut and paste their embed code or, you can have the quiz placed directly on your Myspace profile; You get to specify where (your Music, General, Movies, Television, Books, or Heroes section).

Apart from the quizzes the site has quite a bit more to offer: Lyrics, poems, stories, forums, journaling, games, etc... It also has bit of a community feel; users can share each others quizzes, send each other messages, read each others journals, and blah blah blah - the have a lot going on. :)

You do have to jump through a few hoops to get your quiz published and it's definitely not the easiest site to navigate, but now that MTV has snatched them up hopefully they'll work on that and we'll get to see something new.

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Popularity vote for your Myspace profile - Mikudo

Here's a...ummm...well...I'm not really sure how you would use this. The sites tagline is "Express yourself easier with Mikudo" but to be honest I'm having a hard time "getting it".

The idea here, I think (they really do need a blog or FAQ), is to place the Mikudo bar somewhere on your site/Myspace profile and have it serve as a popularity vote style widget. People get to click on "High-five" if they LIKE you/it, "Slap" if they HATE you, or "Crush" if they...um...LOVE you.

To get it, register (email required), login, and generate a bar that looks like this:

Screenshot of Mikudo vote thingy

You can choose to omit any one of the above icons, or you can keep them all. When you're done the bar can be pasted via some embed code anywhere to your Myspace profile.

Personally I don't think the icons are descriptive enough. A thumbs up/down icon, both universally understood, seem to have been the way to go here. Even with the little "?" at the upper left of each bar explaining the significance of each of the icons, without someone clicking on it it's not really clear what they're voting on.

Resize a Youtube video for Myspace

Youtube videos a smidge too big? No problem. Here are a couple of ways to resize them so that they fit into your Myspace profile a little better.

Method one is simply to change the WIDTH and HEIGHT right in the Youtube code. You'll have to keep things in proportion for everything to look right.

An easier way is to get the Youtube URL of your favorite Youtube video. Then, using Mod My Profiles new Youtube Video Editor, click on the Youtube URL tab. There, paste your URL and click the Get it button. You'll be given three options to choose from: Normal (425 x 350), Half size (213 x 175), and Tiny (134 x 107). Choose the one that you want and cut and paste its code to your Myspace profile.

lonelygirl15 normal size

lonelygirl15 half size

lonelygirl15 tiny size

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Myspace Text Pix templates from Rockyou

More quality goods for your Myspace profile from Rockyou. I'm not sure if I missed this during my recent Rockyou mention but it looks like they slipped in another new feature; Rockyou Text Pix.

Example:

- Get Your Own

You choose a Rockyou template, insert your personalized text, add effects, a theme and your done. Rockyou gives you some Myspace code and you can then paste it wherever you like; presumably somewhere in your Myspace profile.

They have the templates broken down into the following categories: Popular, fun, characters, misc, signs, flags, friendship, illustrations, work, and sports. There are plenty!

Some of the themes that can be added include: Bubbles, hearts, stars, and notes.

Another example:

- Get Your Own
Fun!

Preview this Myspace add-on

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Youtube! Not Utube or Utube.com...

While we wait on the Myspace Youtube (not Utube/Utube.com!) verdict...

The controversy surrounding this weeks Google/Youtube/Myspace news is causing quite a bit of commotion.

So much traffic has been generated that it has been causing problems for a small company in Ohio (Utube/Utube.com). Apparently they sell "tubing". People, trying to get to "Youtube.com", are mistakenly searching for "Utube/Utube.com".

It seems that Utube purchased Utube.com back as 1996. Their immediate problem is that the Youtube.com/Utube.com mix up has crippled the Utube website. The sudden influx of Youtube user traffic has practically taken Utube/Utube.com offline.

The Utube/Utube.com site

The good news for Utube/Utube.com is that offers to buy up their Utube.com domain name have been coming in since Monday from as little as $200 to as much as $4,000,000.

:)

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Youtube badge for your Myspace profile - Add one while you can!

Harper Reed has created a cool little Youtube badge maker that works with Myspace (for now anyway). The badge shows your six most recent Youtube video uploads (in image form) and links directly to your Youtube profile page. Again, they have to be YOUR video uploads. If you haven't uploaded any Youtube videos of your own, you won't have content to display in your badge - It took me a few minutes to figure that one out. :)

Example:

Get your own youTube badge

Sample of what the Youtube badge looks like

Anyway, for those of you that DO have videos on Youtube, it's really easy to use. You enter your Youtube username, then click the GET CODE button. You'll get a snippet of code. Paste that code to your Myspace profile where ever you'd like the Youtube badge to be displayed.

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Myspace Adult content viewer - Adware scam

Add this to your list of things to watch out for when checking out random Myspace profiles: the Myspace "Adult content viewer" Adware scam.

How it works:

You're visiting a Myspace profile. You get a pop-up (a rather big one) that says:

This profile contains adult content

Click here to install Myspace adult content viewer

Looks legit. Must be some new Myspace feature right? Nope. If you click on the link you'll get a second pop-up; one prompting you to download and install Myspacecontent.exe, an executable file which apparently is Adware (not something you want on your computer). DO NOT install it.

Here's what it might look like. I say "might" because if enough people know about it they'll more than likely change the look of their delivery.

Screenshot of the Myspace Adult content viewer adware scam

Livecrunch has a very thorough write up here.

Post this to a bulletin and help spread the word.

Add this to your list of things to watch out for when checking out random Myspace profiles: <br /><br />Scam: The "Myspace "Adult content viewer" Adware scam.<br /><br />How it works:<br /><br />You're visiting a Myspace profile. You get a pop-up (a rather big one) that says:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This profile contains adult content</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">Click here to install Myspace adult content viewer</span><br /></div><br />Looks legit. Must be some new Myspace feature right? Not exactly. If you click on the link you'll get a second pop-up; one prompting you to download and install an executable file which apparently is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware">Adware</a> (not something you want on your computer). DO NOT install it.<br /><br />Here's what it might look like.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><center><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" src="http://members.cox.net/travel.site/web-tracker/adultcontent.gif" alt="Myspace Adult content viewer adware scam" title="Myspace Adult content viewer adware scam" border="0" /><span style="font-size:78%;">Screenshot of the Myspace Adult content viewer adware scam</span><br /></div></center></div><br />Livecrunch has a very thorough write up <a href="http://www.livecrunch.com/myspace_adware.aspx">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Post this to a bulletin and help spread the word.</span><br /><br />Related posts:<br /><b><a href="http://web-tracker.blogspot.com/2006/09/funny-myspace-bulletin-not-beware-of.html" alt=" Funny Myspace bulletin - NOT! Beware of Phishing" title=" Funny Myspace bulletin - NOT! Beware of Phishing"> Funny Myspace bulletin - NOT! Beware of Phishing</a><br /></b><br />

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Myspace Google rift - Youtube banned from Myspace?

It seems that people over at Myspace are expressing "displeasure" at Google's Monday morning 1.6 billion dollar ($1,600,000,000!) Youtube acquisition.

...Over the weekend, News Corp. executives expressed their displeasure with the deal to Google and threatened to remove any links to YouTube videos placed by users on their MySpace blog pages, according to a person close to the situation. Google's Mr. Schmidt and Advertising Sales Vice President Tim Armstrong are scheduled to meet this week in Los Angeles with News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, President Peter Chernin and Ross Levinsohn, head of its Fox Interactive Media online unit, to discuss the matter...

Now that Myspace is in the picture, it becomes relevant to us and I can mention it here. :)

Anyway, here's what's going on.

- There has been an ongoing rivalry between Myspace and Youtube from as early as last year. Back then, Myspace went as far as blocking/banning any Youtube reference on its site; be it link or video. After public outcry Myspace flipped the switch back on and simply said that there had been a "misunderstanding".

- August 2006, Myspace secures a 900 million dollar advertising deal from Google whereby Google, using its own AdSense network, is allowed to deliver contextually targeted ads across the Myspace network.

- September 2006, Myspace's Rupert Murdoch predicts that Myspace Video will overtake Youtube Video as the market leader in the 60-70 days time.

- October 9, 2006, Google purchases Youtube for unprecedented 1.6 billion dollars.

So that's it. Now that Google has purchased Youtube...well...things could get ugly. Meetings have been scheduled this week to discuss the matter but apparently the whole Gootube deal isn't sitting to well with Myspace.

For now, keep your eyes open for banned Youtube videos and links and we'll see what comes of these meetings.

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Glitter words generator for Myspace - FxText

If you haven't been to Rockyou for a while you might want to have a look at their still in beta, Glitter Fxtext word maker. A very cool Myspace bling generator!

With it, you can easily make your own glitter text for Myspace. This is not the ordinary glitter word maker that has popped up on just about every Myspace layout site; this is much slicker!

Currently their glitter generator offers five presets: Word, Pinkie, Swirls, Greenie, and Curlie. Additionally, using some flash based sliders, you can easily tweak font size, spacing, and rotation (among other things) to create your own personalized glitter text/word.

When you're done, your glitter words can be pasted anywhere really; to your Myspace profile, Myspace comments, your blog, etc...Just click the big green "grab the code" button when you're done.



- Get Your Own

Preview this Myspace add-on

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Halloween-themed Myspace layout widget - Tagworld

Halloween isn't quite upon us, but we die-hard Myspace users do not, I repeat, DO NOT wait until the last minute when it comes to our Myspace layouts! Do we? Anyway, I was reminded of a good old Tagworld widget that might be appropriately themed for the rest of October.

Drum roll please...

I present to you the, soon to be infamous, "Tagworld fire text widget"! *cue circus music right about now*

Preview this Myspace add-on

Nothing is more Halloween than a well placed fire text widget. I mean after pumpkins, witches, black cats, goblins, candy, haunted houses, etc... After all that, a burning hellish abyss definitely comes in at a close second. Doesn't it?

Anyway, if you're still working on a cool new Myspace Halloween layout see if you can make some room for this little guy; you might as well start now and get some mileage out of the thing before November comes.

Click here to Join TagWorld. FREE Signup!

Then, proceed here.

Happy "early" Myspace Halloween to you!

How to insert an image in a Myspace bulletin

A few days back in my post titled Insert a link into a Myspace bulletin - How to, I made a quick reference to getting an IMAGE link into a Myspace bulletin. I just wanted to point out that the same code can also be used to place IMAGES in your Myspace profile, Myspace bulletins, and Myspace comments.

Briefly, you'd do this (these are just the basics as there are other more advanced options that can also be used):

1. Paste this code where you want the image to go.

<img src=" ">

2. Between those quotes paste the URL (internet location) of your image. Like before, I'm assuming that you have your picture hosted (Imageshack, Photobucket, Allyoucanupload, etc...) somewhere on the internet (email me if you don't understand what I mean).

It would look something like this:

<img src="http://www.ThePlaceYourImageIsStored.com/YourPic.jpg" />

That's it really. This code could be pasted anywhere you want your picture to show up in your Myspace profile.

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Camera phone slide show for Myspace - With skins!

Moblastic has a really Myspace friendly widget for creating camera phone slide shows. Take your pictures, text message them to Moblastic, and via some embeddable Myspace code your pictures get sent directly to your Myspace profile. That's all you have to do. Cooler yet; they offer 18 different skins to choose from.

Here's an example of what I think is a T-Mobile Sidekick 3 skin:

Latest from my cell phone:

View my pics | Get your own!

You can also add captions to your mobile pictures directly from your phone which also get posted automatically to your Myspace profile Moblastic slide show.

Give it a try!

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Upload pictures, video, & music to make a video for Myspace

Recently acquired (by Yahoo no less) Jumpcut, is a site that combines video uploading, editing, and re/mixing; tying them together, quite nicely I might add, into a video editing community of sorts. Users can form their own groups, collaborate, share and remix each others pictures and video clips, and when they're ready, their creations can be shared via a Myspace code snippet that is perfectly suited for a Myspace profile or blog.

The most notable feature of the Jumpcut site is their clean flash interface that allows its users manipulate video and/or picture, add music, titles, transitions, and various other effects. If video isn't your thing, you can of course stick to pictures and still make a cool Myspace slide show set to music; it's up to you.

Jumpcut video editor

This is one of the more complete video editing sites that I've come across and, now that it's happened, the Yahoo acquisition isn't surprising. It'll be interesting to see where they take Jumpcut from here.

Preview this Myspace add-on

Add picture and video from your mobile phone to your Myspace profile

Nakama brings us yet another alternative in the already crowded mobile media sharing market. Nakama allows you to upload pictures and video straight to your Myspace profile via your mobile phone. Like other sites that I've mentioned (Fotodunk, Mojungle, Shozu, Umundo), you simply use your mobile phone to take your pictures or video while you'’re out and about then send them to a specified email address. They are then uploaded directly to your Nakama gallery where they can be shared with other Nakama users. If you'’ve optionally pasted their Myspace html code to your profile, they'll also show up there as well.

Nakama: Add picture and video from your mobile phone to your Myspace profile

Tagging, rating, RSS feeds, and commenting, all pretty standard features, are also supported via the Nakama social network, but one feature that makes Nakama stand apart from the rest is the ability to add voice comments to selected media after your upload is complete; Nakama simply calls you back and you then record your short message.

Take a look:

Preview this Myspace add-on

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Source: Tom Thomas

Myspace profile friend adder - Badder Adder

Badder Adder is a program that allows you some surprising flexibility in adding mass amounts of friends to your Myspace profile; it's a friend adder.

In addition to adding friends, Badder Adder also serves as a Myspace commenter, a Myspace messenger, and a Myspace bulletin poster; think of it as Myspace on steriods.


Here are some of the highlights mentioned on their site:

• You can send unlimited friend requests each day - and never have to enter in CAPTCHA (image verification) codes.
• Gather ID'’s from any page on MySpace - steal someone else'’s friends, take friends from a MySpace Group, browse for friends based on zip code, relationship status, sex, age, etc.
• Rotate through multiple comments so you don'’t send the same comment to all your friends.
• Auto-post multiple bulletins at any time interval you select

If you'd like more information, here is the link to the Badder Adder Faq. While you're there have a look at a few of their how-to videos. They go on to show precisely how the software fucntions. Here's one of them:




If any of this appeals to you, let's call IT the "Good news!". The "Bad news" is that they charge $47.00 for the software. Those of you with nerves of steel can try out the Badder Adder downloadable demo.

To be honest, I've held off on mentioning Badder Adder before today because I haven't tried it out; nor do I plan on doing so :)

Good luck!

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Source: Tom Thomas