issue 49 - AsiaLIFE Magazine

adarAnimate mebefunky.comThis fantastic – and free – website allows visitors to edit their photos in a numberof unique, creative ways. Once you upload a picture from your hard drive, there arethe usual tweaks available – contrast, saturation, various lighting effects, etc., butmore interesting are the custom add-ons. For example, you can make your picturelook like a Warhol painting, a stencil drawing or, and this is a personal favourite, acartoon, among dozens of other editing options. You can also add text bubblesand even props like a Christmas tree, allowing one to turn shots of steamy Saigoninto a winter wonderland.Mood musicmusicovery.comWe’ve all been there, scrolling through our iTunes library, looking for that songthat perfectly fits our mood at the time. Musicovery attempts to ease this processby allowing users to listen to a stream of songs based on their mood byusing a ‘pad’ that has four poles: Energetic, Calm, Dark, and Positive. You canclick in between these to combine moods, for example ‘Energetic Positive,’and a playlist to match will then be created. Musicovery is a bit like PandoraRadio in that you can also create ‘stations’ of your favourite artists, but unlikePandora this site actually works in Vietnam.News doesn’t have to be serioustheonion.comAn American parody news organization founded in 1988, The Onion viciouslysatirizes nearly everything involving news and current events. While thewebsite’s stories are somewhat U.S.-centric, especially regarding politics,there is a world news page, and surely anyone with a dark sense of humourcan appreciate headlines like “Casual Friday Claims Lives of 13 Nuclear WasteDisposal Technicians,” and “Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid DeadKids.” The site also publishes satirical videos as the “Onion News Network”.Very popular among U.S. college students, The Onion is always good for alaugh.82 asialife HCMC