Archive for September, 2009

API Key Requests

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Please be patient waiting for a reply to your API key request. We have received dozens of key requests and are handling them as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your patience!

The Sims Family Generator

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

We’ve received several requests for a method to easily generate names for an entire family. To satisfy these requests, we’ve created The Sims Family Generator.

Choose how many people you want in your family (1 to 10 family members), what nationality to use, and we instantly generate your family!

Click here and try it out!

Free API Launched

Friday, September 11th, 2009

We have finally launched our free API. For full details and to apply for an API key, please visit our API page.

Create a Book Cover

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

A fun use of the Fake Name Generator has been spreading through the blogosphere, and we wanted to make sure all of our visitors had a chance to hear about it.

Step 1 – Author: Get a fake name from the Fake Name Generator.

Step 2 – Title: Get a random verb from the Fake Name Generator verb page.

Step 3 – Cover Art: Search for your random verb at flickrCC.

Step 4 – Putting it Together: Use some photo editing software, like PicMonkey or Photoshop, to throw it all together.

Step 5 – Publish: Put your new book cover on your blog along with these instructions!

Here is our new book cover:

Bang!

Note: Our cover is a derivative work of Summer Start on Flickr.

Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and German

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

The home page of the Fake Name Generator (and selected parts of other pages) is now available in:

  • English
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • German

We hired professional translators to help with this so there wouldn’t be any garbled machine translation issues.

Please let us know what you think!