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The announcement of the YouTube custom player feature is already a while old and I even created a player, but never used it yet. I thought it is time to show it to you :). Here is a custom player with all my YouTube Videos (stuff I uploaded there) Update. I removed the one player, […]

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I came across a nice free tool that converts images to ASCII. It is called Photo2Text.com and produces very decent results. I have looked at a bunch of such converters since the early nineties and the results can vary a lot, depending on the quality of the algorithm that has to decide which text character […]

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Something else was even longer on my to-do list than the post about leveraging sites like deviantART for online marketing. It has been on my list for over one year now and I also got finally around to do it. What am I talking about? The article to the PCBoard BBS Software at Wikipedia. I […]

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I get often asked what tools I am using for my did my ASCII and ANSI Text art. Back to ASCII Art Academy I used first a tool called ANSIDraw which was a piece of junk. The maximum number of lines per ASCII or ANSI the program was able to support was 23 (which is […]

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I came across a nice php script called AnsiLove last week. The Script converts original ANSI and ASCII files to an Image in real-time. The characters are rendered correctly and the DOS Ansi colors are correct as well. The Font used is true to the original MS DOS font. I was delighted. The Script is […]