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Movie has both tbag and desmond in
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It’s glad to see the familiar faces: tbag&desmond in the same movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_%282007_film%29
Though everything is unrelated, but those faces recall the good tv experience with them.
BTW, sawyer also appears in MIP4, lol
Convert video to ascii art with video 2 ascii art converter
Video 2 ascii art converter is a software that lets you convert video to ascii art. Within a few clicks, it will convert the video to ascii art animation and output in html format.
Screenshot:
Conversion process:
- Click on the “Select video” button to select the video you want to convert.
- Click on the “Convert” button and it will start the conversion process.
- For more, you can also: config the palette, set the forecolor/bgcolor in the output html, and change the width/height of the result ascii art output size.
- Open the output html file to see the animation displayed with ascii characters and you can also edit/upload the html to the website to share with your friends.
How does it work behind scene:
- Convert the video to gray scale picture
- and then map each pixel to the characters given in the palette by their brightness level .
Tips:
- Long length video will end up with a big output html file, it’s not efficient when playback. To be efficient, always cut the video to the size small enough to be useful, for example 1 minute, etc.
- Twist and increase the output width&height will have better looking result.
Acknowledgement:
For good palette characters, and valuable guidance:
http://www.jave.de/image2ascii/algorithms.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10949/ASCII-Art-Generator
good resource for graphical work: free vector
This website provide good free vector could be used in the graphical work.
http://www.webdesignhot.com/free-vector-graphics/
Free grunge corners and borders
http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/50-free-vector-grunge-corners
Nice patterns for ps work:
http://tileabl.es/packs
http://subtlepatterns.com/thumbnail-view/
created a banner but it’s too dark to be useful
look like there is way to catch up to be practical useful
web resource of ascii art
http://www.jave.de/ – an powerful editor&converter
http://www.figlet.org/ – Make big ascii art text based on ordinary text, it is font driven to map input to the result
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ – ascii art lib
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca – ascii art lib with the color
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10949/ASCII-Art-Generator – codeproject article on ascii art generator
turn off grid preview of visited websites in firefox new tab page
If you like me want to have a clean browser, and want to start from a the blank page without any content before you take any action, you can do this since firefox 13:
set the about:config item browser.newtabpage.enabled to false.
I learned it from another website after try a couple of search and finally know that it even has a name new tab page, for details please visit: http://techdows.com/2012/05/disable-firefox-13s-new-tab-page.html
Features like this is pretty annoy, and finally one day, you make a decision to deal with it. And glad there is a good solution to turn it off. The problem comes from that firefox gets auto updated once in a while, and these unwanted features just slipped in.
Aslo remember the last evil feature is it changed the convenient shortcut key ctrl+e used to set keyboard input focus to the search box. And fortunately it changed back after a few releases.
allow download of .htaccess from apache
In order to allow access to special file: .htaccess, add lines below to the site config:
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
install and config exim4 on debian
Sometimes when sendmail is not available, and build&install from source code would take quite some time. We can fall back to exim4 simply.
To install exim4:
apt-get install exim4
Config exim4 after installed:
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
It takes quite a few steps to finish the process, but doable, could be done below 5 minutes.
mkisofs is genisoimage in debian
Want to find where is mkisofs in debian, try genisoimage instead.