AOL has released the new AIM Wimzi!
Its very small and easy to set up.
Follow these Instructions to get it on your Myspace!

1.  First Go to wimzi.aim.com
2. Click Sign in!
3. Write the Name of your Widget
4. Put No for Location Check!
5. Choose your Size.
6. Type Your Greeting Messages.
7. Agree to Terms of Service!
8. Press Code
9. Choose **Flash**
10. Copy and Paste the code into your Myspace Profile!
     

Now there you have it! Aim on your Myspace Page!

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How to enable Transparency on Aim Wimzi

Look at the Example embed code.

<embed src=”example.com” mce_src=”example.com” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”160″ height=”195″ >
</embed>

At the right after it says height=”195″, add the code below before the > sign

wmode=”transparent”

After you add that, it will look more rounded on pages that aren’t white.

Image sites like pikipimp lets you dress your photographs and add any "cool" glitter style graphics on top of it. Its clear they are attracting the Myspace crowd with their blingy text and animations. The user gallery shows pretty much the main audience of the site. Its scary seeing how many teens add cigarettes to their photos, but we’ll just focus on the app itself. First you upload an image. Then click and drag any elements on the side such as hats, chest hair, bikinis, headphones, glasses, and even scars. The app is nice enough to include rotation and effects for power users. I’m not too fond with its rotation engine. Instead of a full rotation, the element gets squashed within its "box" causing it to become disproportioned. Because of this, you’ll have to manipulate the box’s size to get back the aspect ratio you want. Clicking effects opens up a toolbar filled with all sorts of goodies. You can change the saturation, and color, or even motion blur on the fly. Each effect loads pretty fast and thats good for the savy hungry beast of Myspace users.

After you have finished amd saved your image, pikipimp adds a bar at the bottom advertising back to the site. I don’t like this at all and would rather pikipimp just use the link back to the site just as they do in their embed code. Its not so hard to photoshop the bar out of the picture but I guess the average myspace  user won’t know how to do it. Another gripe I have is that whenever you add animations, the image is set to gif and greatly reduces the quality of your picture. I know its something they can’t avoid given the limitations of .gif colors. However, I think in the future it would be nice for them to create an embeddable flash widget that hosts the image.

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Around June 24th, LoveMyFlash layouts everywhere stopped working. The Myspace page would either take an incredibly long time to load or not load at all. The main website itself does work but has a slow response time. Does this mean LoveMyFlash.com is getting too much server load or is the hosting company having problems with their servers? No blog post about this issue has been made yet so we will wait until further developments.

Update October 9, 2007

Well whatever happened has been fixed now and is back to normal. You can continue to use lovemyflash layouts.

Well we’ve seen 3D avatars before and some of them are pretty slow or they charge you money. Gizmoz brings up the standards for 3D avatar sites, by doing all the work for you. You can upload your face and have it wrap around a 3D model. The end result is beautiful, something you’d only see at professional sites. Faces can now look up at the sky or look down at their feet. You can also record and make it talk in your voice. Make sure your voice is loud and clear so it can correctly sync up with your voice.

After you upload your photo, it takes a while for it to correctly wrap the face around. While its loading you can look around at the different clothing you can dress yourself as. Points are given every time you create a gizmoz or post a widget to your blog or Myspace. When you accumulate enough points you can spend them on special costumes and clothing. They also plan to allow you to buy Gizmoz points if your ready to jump in. I like Gizmoz’ kid friendly atmosphere, although I feel they may be going a bit too kid friendly with the Demo’s squeaky high pitched voice. I did not like that you have to register to make a face but it might weed out any spammers who use it. I don’t see much cons with the service other than long loading times for each time you change the voice.

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Pictogame’s premise is simple. Take a picture from your computer, edit what’s seen and choose a game. Thats all there is to it. There’s a bunch of different styles to choose from. From the standard busting blocks with a ball, kicking people, and busting zits. You can also choose the quiz game which selects random questions on a board. I like pictogame’s simplicity, it doesn’t take much effort to start creating your game. Unfortunately the quiz show doesn’t allow you to create your own questions and I’m sure if they allowed this, swarms of kids will flock to the site. Nevertheless its not bad but just needs improvement. Once your done you can post your game on myspace, you don’t have to sign up to pictogame when your ready to embed.

Click “Skip Signup” and it will send you directly to the embed code. You can also choose to login directly from the site but you should always be wary of giving sites your login information. You should paste this code by going to Myspace yourself.

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Dizzler is the new music player making the buzz around Technorati WTF, although I believe it was kind of spammish since there’s hundreds of stylish music players out there. The biggest difference with Dizzler is that uploading music to a website is no more. There’s no more xml feeds you have to create or finding a webhost that allows you to hotlink. Within the admin menu, you type a song and it will search for any available listings. After a selection of songs will come up. I tested it with my rare hard to find music and surprisingly it found 1 out of the 10 nu-jazz. Thats pretty good for me since I wasn’t expecting any. Choosing a song is when things get a little low quality. Some songs are standard Mp3 quality you’ve come to expect. Other songs sound like they were streamed for 56k modems. Not a very good thing in my book.

Aside from music, Dizzler also has videos, games, and customizable skins. Most of the skins take up a lot of room, you can customize each and every menu and button to fit your needs. Most of the time things won’t match so your better off just choosing a skin already made for you. You can also upload your own logo but the site failed to mention during the upload menu what size your logo should be before it gets highly distorted.

Tips for Dizzler! How to get a song to play first on Myspace!

Type the song you want to search. Click the Heart to Favorite it so that it can be added to your playlist. Click Menu and click Set as Default Song.

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