ASCII art is when you take graphics and convert them to text, but in such a way that the text resembles the image. TUAW has recently featured a multitude of interesting Mac applications having to do with ASCII art. I thought I’d post them, partly because I’ve got nothing better to do, and […]
Archive for May, 2007
Mac ASCII Fun
Published May 22nd, 2007 in Apple, Computers, Software, The Interwebs, Video and Video Games. 0 CommentsSony Doubles my PS3’s Functionality for Free
Published May 14th, 2007 in Gadgets, The Interwebs and Video Games. 2 CommentsSony is going to release a monumental update, firmware version 2.0, for the PS3, bringing many of the most-desired features of the current owners to life. Many such features added have been available on the PSP for a long time, so it is a wonder why they didn’t come on the PS3 to begin […]
Skype Internet Telelphone to be Sold at Wal-Mart
Published May 14th, 2007 in Phone, Software and The Interwebs. 0 CommentsSkype, a long-standing contender in the Internet Telephony market, has struck up a deal with Big Box-Mart Wal-Mart to sell Skype to the slow-to-catch-on Americans that shop there. This is because Skype has been unable to generate as great of a revenue in the United States than pretty much anywhere else, and needs to […]
Disturbing - FBI Gets Easy Access to all Data Travelling Over Broadband
Published May 13th, 2007 in Government, Politics and The Interwebs. 0 CommentsIn a disturbing reminder of so many “Big Brother” movies in which the government has control over everything we see and hear, tomorrow is the deadline for ISPs to install the government-mandated FBI spyware systems that make monitoring information sent over broadband internet connections even easier.� Of course, the monitoring requires a warrant, but now […]
Spool.fm - Occupying My Time for the Next Week
Published May 12th, 2007 in Music, Politics and The Interwebs. 1 CommentSpool.fm, similar to last.fm, is a social music website, except with a crucial difference: on last.fm, you could never choose exactly what you wanted to hear due to copyright laws, whereas Spool.fm allows you to search for the music you want to hear, drag it to a playlist, then play it in succession. Heck, […]
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