February 28th, 2008
internet . signature . technology
Signature Upgrade
Check out my new signature:
You might think I’ve been practicing for a while to get this just right…
Can you imagine a room full of crumpled up paper, scattered all around, everywhere but in the circular trash bin?
Well, if you can, you’d have to imagine it somewhere else – not here. See, that’s my name, but it isn’t my signature. But, it is a signature of my name…
I ran into this site, mylivesignature.com, via lifehacker.com, and so gave it a whirl.
Kinda fun, and the result – well if you know me, not very believable. I don’t write quite this cool, and well, it is a tad bit foofy for me, though there are 120 or so other fonts to choose from.
First enter your name, choose a font, then select some size, slant, and ink characteristics, and voila, an image to be used online – like in a blog. They also provide a Word Processing document version – I haven’t tried it though.
Doesn’t seem like the site solves a major problem in people’s lives – though I did just do this the “old-fashioned” way recently for my wife, who needed her signature in a word document. I had her sign a piece of paper which I scanned and tweaked with Adobe Photoshop. Not terribly difficult, but for folks not adept at Photoshop, this is an alternative.
It’s just not really your signature, but a signature of yours.
Also, they’ll sell you an animated version of a signature you create. That (along w/ Google Adsense) explains how they keep the lights on over there. I’m impressed – pretty cool.
Give it a try! Enjoy!
