Play with Spatial Tools!

Have you discovered a fascinating spatial tool recently? As you play around with each, you might just discover one that brings new vibrancy your post's purpose. Here's a gallery I've assembled so far:

See what you look like on Wired Magazine. Here's Bob Hruzek in a Wired Magazine feature edition and it caught my eye. If you decide to make one, Bob says to be sure you have a digital photo of yourself ready when you... Create Your Own Wired Magazine Cover.

How about a Postage Stamp? Chris Cree asked a blogging friend Susan Reynolds to put his face on a stamp... First Class for sure!....


Ever wonder what your blog networks look like? There's a free tool available...Websites as Graphs. The graph you see when you wait about 15 minutes is an image of all your links and networks. Amazing when you consider it.... [I didn't wait that long!]

Here's a key to the color coding:
Blue: for links (the A tag)
Red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
Green: for the DIV tag
Violet: for images (the IMG tag)
Yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
Orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
Black: the HTML tag, the root nodegray: all other tags

Image and Graphics Editor: If you need a great free graphics editor, I suggest Photobie. I use it all the time. Here's what it provides you...

Unlike other commercial and free image editing softwares, Photobie is more like a homemade cookie, which has much more flavor. Photobie developers intend to build an easy-to-use and feature-packed tool for graphics amateurs. Although, it is not yet a perfect tool for professionals, it does contain many handy tools to help professionals to achieve simple tasks quickly.

Graphs: Need a great graph to make a point. Kids Zone makes it easy for all of us! I mapped out the variety of geographical visitors to Brain Based Biz. You have a choice of five different graph styles. What an effective way to make a point numerically.




Collage: Note the glass full of favorite beverage glasses on the right. Terry Starbucker tapped his spatial creativity when he lifted a toast, with a glassful of bloggers' beverage images. Each rose to Terry's challenge. He and Sandy Renshaw teamed to make this fantastic collage...

And, if you decide to present a slideshow on your blog, Sandy has a wonderful example in a recent post: Backyard Wildlife in Iowa. You'll find amazing options to set up your own show at Picture Trail.

Do you have a spatial tool folks'd enjoy? Please do share it! We can all use a little more spatial pizazz.