emoticons

How to turn any photo into a mosaic of emoji emoticons

01/06/2021 by ALOK DAS

Humanity is constantly adding something new to its culture. Even classic pieces and shapes can be easily transformed into emojis. It may even seem that any emotions, images and actions will sooner or later find reflection in such a popular format.

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But programmer and designer Eric Lewis came up with an original idea. He decided not only to draw new emoji for the pictures or photographs we need, but to create a mosaic based on the original from primitive drawings. The free web-based tool Emoji Mosaic has caught the attention of many. At first, its creator only told friends about his site, but now the information spread on Twitter has made Emoji Mosaic famous.

The resource is very concise and represents one button, clicking on which will bring up a form for uploading a photo. And then, with the help of a special algorithm, a mosaic of emoji will be formed in a few seconds. The higher the resolution of the photograph and its clarity, the closer the processed picture will be to the original. The features of the original model will be better visible as the resulting mosaic is scaled down or further away. It’s really interesting to look at the result, seeing various emoticons instead of pixels.

Users began to experiment with might and main with an interesting resource, receiving, for example, the following pictures:

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How to change default folder icons to emoji emoticons in macOS

24/10/2020 by ALOK DAS

Blue folders on the desktop look too conservative. But why keep them that way if you can change it manually? This will help liven up the desktop, and make the folder icons much more fun, for example, in the form of emoticons.

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Filling your desktop with emoji icons instead of regular folders can be a fun and easy way to organize information on your iMac or MacBook.

Using emojis may sound frivolous, but along with GIFs, they have already become an important way of expressing yourself when people communicate through text messages and social media. Emoticons have already become a part of our daily life, being placed on items of clothing, blankets and pillows and even becoming heroes of a feature film.

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How to change folder icons to emoji on Mac

1. Search for the emoticons you need on the Emojipedia website or on any other resource and save the pictures on your computer.

2. Open the downloaded emoticon image in the application View…

To make the image transparent, click the markup icon (it looks like a pencil) and then select the magic wand tool, click on the background of the picture so that a moving path appears around it, and click Edit → Cut (in detail).

3. Click Edit -> Select All (or press the keyboard shortcut ⌘Cmd + A).

4. When the highlighted emoticon appears on the screen, press ⌘Cmd + C (copy).

5. Right-click the folder where you want to change the icon.

6. Click “Properties“.

7. In the window that appears, click on the blue folder icon and apply the keyboard shortcut ⌘Cmd + V (insert).

You should see your emoticons appear instead of the default folder image.

You can also delete the text in the folder name and replace it with a space. So only emoji will be displayed on the desktop, without any signatures to them.

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New in iOS 14: How to quickly search for the right emoji emoticons on iPhone by name

02/07/2020 by ALOK DAS

In iOS 14 (a detailed overview of new features), a convenient emoticon search option has appeared, which has long been included in the Mac operating system. But this tool does not work on the iPadOS, as it uses a different approach.

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Find emoticons on iPhone and iPod touch

When using the soft keyboard on your iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 14, click the emoticon button and you will see a new search box. It will appear above the keyboard. With it, you can search for emoticons that are most suitable for you by entering frequently used words or phrases, such as “mitt”, “heart” or “banana”.

As you enter the keyword, a scrollable visual list of the corresponding emoticons for selection will be formed. This will happen at a place where auto-replace options are usually offered. Click on the emoticon that matches your request to immediately insert it into the application you use.

To close the emoticon search, tap “x»On the right side of the text box.

If you estimate the number of emoticons available on iOS, then it is clearly inferior to the palette available on macOS. Yes, and on iOS you can not assign emojis to your loved ones. But at least people who rarely use emoji or have vision problems will not need to enlarge the image on the screen just for the sake of choosing a tiny character from a seemingly endless list.

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Inaccessibility on iPad

On the official Apple webpage with a preliminary introduction to the iPadOS, you can see that there are no anywhere to find emoticons on the iPad. The manufacturer can theoretically justify this by the fact that users should not have problems finding the right elements on the tablet’s big screen anyway. And this has its own logic.

Nevertheless, although there are more scrollable emoticons on the Apple Emoji keyboard than on the iPhone, it remains a fact that it is impossible to find emojis in iPadOS simply by its name.

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iPad gets a menu with emoticons in the on-screen keyboard

At the same time, iPad users can use the new on-screen keyboard with emoji in iPadOS 14. However, it is only available when an external keyboard is connected to the tablet. Just click on the keyboard symbol on the toolbar for editing text and AutoCorrect located at the bottom of the screen, and then select the emoticon icon on the pop-up menu. This will cause the pop-up menu with emoji to appear on iPadOS 14.

The menu allows you to scroll through the available categories and find the emoticons you need without the appearance of a full-sized keyboard with emoticons, which slightly interferes with the work. Selecting an element immediately leads to the disappearance of the entire palette of emoticons, which does not seem to be the best solution – you must call the menu several times if you want to find and enter several such characters at the same time.

If you think that access to this menu with emoji is too difficult, then you can try to compare this option with the one available on iPadOS 13 and earlier. There it was necessary to press a special key combination to instantly switch to the keyboard with emoji:

Control (^) + Space

Of course, all this only works when using an external keyboard with the iPad.

If you do not work with several languages, then in this way you could switch keyboards instantly. Using this method, use the up and down buttons to select a keyboard with emoji from a small pop-up menu or press the Space bar to cycle through the available installed keyboards. And on macOS, choosing a keyboard with emoji is directly tied to a key combination Control (^) + Command (⌘) + Space.

It is worth saying that the same key combination for iPadOS 13 works in iPadOS 14, which looks quite logical. There’s just one caveat: launching the emoji keyboard through the Control (^) + Space bar on the iPadOS brings up an intermediate window instead of the full-sized keyboard immediately appearing.

Again, the pop-up menu for emojis in iPadOS 14 is only available when using a physical external keyboard with the tablet. When typing on the on-screen keyboard in iPadOS 14, switching to a keyboard with emoji will result in the same full-size keyboard for emoticons as in iPadOS 13 and earlier.

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More emoticons in iOS and iPadOS 14

iOS and iPadOS 14 have noteworthy emoji options. So, in the Messages application, you can use emoji or memoji as an image for a group conversation, which is used by all members of the group. Similarly, the Reminders app allows you to personalize the look of your list using emojis.

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Learn more with Emoji

Emoji for emoticons and emoji is a kind of Wikipedia analogue. This site analyzes the emoticons available in different systems and shares available information about each of them. Such a collection of emojis is complete and comprehensive, however, the elements there may seem too many if you just need to quickly put a simple emoticon.

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Do you like these emoticon improvements?

Do you like the ability to search for emojis in iOS 14?

Previously, there was simply no way to find the right emoticons by entering names and words, how it works successfully on a Mac. But now in iOS 14, users finally got the long-awaited opportunity.

What about the emoticon pop-up on the iPad? A serious complaint to him is the disappearance after selecting an emoji, without waiting for the user to click outside the borders of the window. Tell us how you find the right emoji for yourself from the many possible options.

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How to enable or disable emoji emoticons on iPhone

18/06/2020 by ALOK DAS

The graphic language of communication, which has become popular around the world with the light of an unknown Japanese, allows you to express this or that emotion with one touch of the screen, however, in business communication, for example, such frivolities are not allowed, and the presence of a separate emoji keyboard only complicates typing.

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The appearance of a separate button for activating emoticons was expected from the moment of the announcement of iOS 8, however, Apple developers are likely to postpone the solution to this problem due to regional differences, because difficulties arise only for native speakers who do not use Latin characters. In particular, most residents of the countries of the former USSR regularly have to switch from the Latin layout to the Cyrillic alphabet, simultaneously “flipping through” emoji.

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How to disable emoji emoticons on iPhone

However, disabling the extra layout of the virtual keyboard with Emoji emoticons is quite simple – just go to the menu Settings → The main → Keyboardsand then swipe left to “Emoji and click “Delete »or use the “Edit in the upper right corner.

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How to enable emoji emoticons on iPhone

To return the graphic keyboard, go to the same section of the menu and select “New keyboards »where in the list of available find Emoji.

After that, the panel with Emoji emoticons can be called up by clicking on the globe icon on the keyboard several times (depending on the number of keyboards installed).

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Emoji on Mac: 4 easy ways to use emoticons on macOS

18/06/2020 by ALOK DAS

Add emoji emoticons to the text on iPhone and iPad is very simple – choose the right keyboard and voila! What can not be said when working on a Mac. In this article we will talk about the easiest ways to insert emoticons into text in macOS.

There is no emoji on the standard Mac keyboard, and since you are so much an avid emoticon lover, it’s time to buy an Emoji Keyboard and never again be tormented. But if such a purchase does not suit, then there are several easy ways to solve this problem.

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Using a macOS virtual keyboard with emoji

macOS has a full-time keyboard, stuffed with all sorts of icons. To quickly launch it, use the key combination Command (⌘) + Control (⌃) + Space, well, if you remember such a shortcut for you it seems a difficult task, then simply start the menu in each application Edit → Emoji and characters.

Alternatively go to the menu  → System settings … → Keyboard and in the “Keyboard” tab and check the box next to “Show the Keyboard and Emoji panels in the menu bar”.

After that, in the menu bar, all that remains is to tap on the language switching icon and select “Show Emoji & Symbols panel“.

To launch an extended version of the keyboard, rather than a compact menu, click on the icon in the upper right corner of the menu with symbols. A much larger list of emojis and characters will appear.

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Set replacement settings

If you use only a couple of your favorite emojis, then it’s time to set up auto-replacement of some words or phrases for emoticons. To do this, open the menu  → System Settings … → Keyboard and in the tab “Text” In the lower left corner, click the plus sign to create a new shortcut.

In field “Replace“Enter the source word or a convenient combination of letters, and in the field”Replaced by»Insert the emoticon of interest (use the already learned combination Command (⌘) + Control (⌃) + Space)

From now on “! Smile”, the system will automatically replace the word with the corresponding smiley.

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Copy and paste

The simplest method of “copy-paste” has not yet been canceled. You can easily find the emoticon of interest on the network, copy and paste it anywhere. For those who are interested in truly unique emojis or just a huge list of emoticons, welcome to the GetEmoji website.

There is a giant list of icons sorted by thematic category, and convenient search by name or key description.

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Installing third-party applications

Use the paid or free apps from the Mac App Store to conveniently work with emojis and emoticons. Emoji and Emoji + are good options, but this is if there is a desire and the opportunity to fork out. There is also a considerable amount of free alternatives. Just search the Mac App Store for emoji.

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How to write any link using emoji emoticons

04/05/2020 by ALOK DAS

A few years ago, Facebook product designer George Kedenberg launched a service called Linkmoji, which allows you to transform any link into a set of emoticons that will lead the user to the desired page.

Linkmoji’s operating principle will seem familiar to those who have ever dealt with the Bitly link shortening service.

The link includes “http: //”, the sequence of emoticons, and the domain is “.ws”. For example, the address of Linkmoji itself is displayed as http: //www.🍕💩.ws (poop pizza). Our site, in turn, received the following link: http: //🦏🌈🥂😜🎩⚽🎤😉.🍕💩.ws

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If the option proposed by the site was not to your liking, you can use the link builder, where you can independently choose any emoji emoticons for the link. Here, for example, is the second version of the link to yablyk.com – http: //⌚💻📺💪🎬🍏.🍕💩.ws

Note that the number of characters in a link is strictly limited to seven characters. In addition, not all the most spectacular sequences may be available, as they are already used by other users.

Over the 3 years of existence Linkmoji has remained a fan project, without having received serious practical application. But this site is a great option for those who are already tired of boring links to Vkontakte profiles http: //👩🍻🍭🏀🗻🏳🍜🦊.🍕💩.ws, Twitter http: // 🥓🏀🥕👍🐫🏈🐸📺 .🍕💩.ws or a link to your favorite iOS application http: //🎩🍜🐓🍈🌂🦊🎤🍵.🍕💩.ws.

Create your link on Linkmoji website

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