The ASCII Generator lets you easily create those text designs that you always see in downloaded .nfo files. Just pop your text in the box and hit the button, and it’ll generate… you can also choose the "all fonts" item to see a list of every "font face".
Ever get tired of clicking? Are you an ubergeek? If so, you should check out the latest version of the Mouseless Browsing extension, which lets you easily browse using just the keyboard. This update makes it work in Gmail, which was the reason I wasn’t using it before.
If you’ve worked with image editors or just researched video cards for gaming purposes you’ve probably heard the term "Anti-Aliasing"… but what does that mean in geek terms?
This article gives you a great explanation of the actual algorithm and how that determines the pixels on the screen. Well worth a read for ubergeeks.
Some of us are command line junkies… it may not make sense, but we prefer to do everything from the shell if possible. We even know that ack is better than grep or how to kill Windows with just 3 keystrokes, after all.
Today’s fun tool is called Tofu, and it’s a dirt simple To-Do list manager implemented as a simple Perl script, meaning it will probably work for people using Windows (although you wouldn’t get colors).
If you are still a fan of old-school batch files, or you want to start up a command line application but don’t want to see the window, you might want to take a look at the simple Hidden Start, or HStart utility, which lets you easily do just that.
If you are a command line junkie, you should think about switching from grep to ack. It can even do color-coded results if you are using it on Linux.
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