If you are looking on how to convert images into ASCII characters, you have came to the right place. I will show you where you can convert any image like this,
to become like this,
Cool isn’t it? What I know is, the script will first scan the image and then it replaces the pixels in the image into ASCII characters. If you want to convert your image to ASCII characters like above, you can go make it yourself at Make ASCII . There are two methods that you can use, whether you upload the image from your computer or direct from URL.
I have installed many softwares lately and was shocked when found out that my right-click context menu has many applications. Most of them are not even use. Some softwares allow you to disable the context menu from its options settings. But some of them don’t have the options and not allow you to remove the applications from the context menu.
I thought to remove the applications from the context menu requires special software. Unfortunately, I was wrong. You can do that directly from registry.
When we are talking about registry, many of us are scared because registry is the core of our system. If we messing up the registry, we are actually messing up our operating system. Therefore, please make a backup of your registry before you continue. You don’t want to reformat your PC would you?
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I am very a systematic person (I guess I am). If something is not in order, I will rearrange it. This also apply to my drives letter in My Computer. Sometimes my Windows XP will change my USB drive letter and not in alphabetically order. Sometimes the Mobile Connect drive letter is J: and sometimes it is K:. Depending on which device it detects first.
I prefer for the Mobile Connect drive letter to stick with J: so if I insert a thumb drive, Windows will set the drive letter accordingly. J:, K:, L: and so on. But if Mobile Connect drive letter is not J:, I will change the drive letter by using Computer Managementtool.
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I really want to use Ubuntu. When new version is out, I will request free CDs from Ubuntu Shipit and will receive the CDs after two weeks from the request date. But yesterday, after struggling to install new hard drive into my PC, then I was successfully install Ubuntu and make it dual boot with my Windows XP.
My Ubuntu specs
It is really difficult for me to set them to dual boot from two different hard drive. My old hard drive has Windows XP installed and the new hard drive which 320Gb size, installed with Ubuntu. I only allocate 20Gb for Ubuntu. The rest of the empty space is for files storage.
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My website was once hacked by a hacker from Saudi Arabia. He managed to get into the server and replaced the index.php file with his own index file. I don’t know how he can get into my server but I have learnt many things from that bad experience.
Always upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version - It is really recommended to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version. It is because each new version contains bug fixes and patches to vulnerabilities that exist in the older version. So make sure that you upgrade your Wordpress when the latest version is out.
Files and folders permission - In Wordpress, we need to set permission to certain files or folders to make it works properly. Especially when using plugins that need special CHMOD 777 permission. When you doing this, make sure that you give permission to the correct files and folders only. We don’t want other peoples can upload and run script through our server, right?
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To clean your CRT monitor or LCD screen is not like cleaning your face mirror. Monitor and LCD is an electronic product so you must clean the screen with care, or you will scratch it and harm it. Before you can start doing your job, you need to get the correct tools first. Here is what we need:
1. Dry soft cloths (no tissue paper please)
2. Water (I prefer using water than using other chemical to clean my monitor)
3. Compressed air
Clean your CRT monitor
Clean CRT monitor is easier than cleaning LCD screen. CRT monitor has glass screen so you just need to wipe the screen out. After you switch off the monitor, spray the screen with compressed air to remove the dust from the screen. This dust will leave tiny scratch if you not remove it from the screen. Next, spray the water on to a dry cloth and wipe the monitor screen with it. Don’t ever spray the water directly to the screen. We don’t want to make any trouble, do you? After you wipe the screen with the cloth, then wipe the screen dry with another dry cloth.
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If you have many ads or affiliate banners and you want to rotate them on your website, here is the way on how to do it. But make sure your server supports PHP because we are using PHP script here.
First, you need to create a blank PHP file and name it as rotateads.php. Then copy this code and paste it in.
<?php
$bannerCounter = 1;
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
$bannerAdTotals = $bannerCounter - 1;
if($bannerAdTotals>1)
{
mt_srand((double)microtime() * 1234567);
$bannerPicked = mt_rand(1, $bannerAdTotals);
}
else
{
$bannerPicked = 1;
}
$bannerAd = $bannerCode[$bannerPicked];
echo $bannerAd;
?>
As you can see at the above code, you need to replace “replace with your ad code ” with your own ad or banner code. If you want to put more ad in the rotation, just add these two more lines
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
below the previous one.
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If you want to make your document more safe, you can use this trick to print out your documents using invisible ink from your inkjet printer. But first, things that you need are:
- Empty inkjet printer catridge
- 4 invisible ink pens
- UV light
Ok, I already have the things needed. So what’s next? Watch this video.
I was trying to setup WHMCS, a complete client management solution at localhost at the office. This thing needs cURL enabled before I can proceed to install the script. Because WHMCS is new to me and because my boss wants me to integrate WHMCS in their new website, so I need to use it and study how it works. But first, I must handle the cURL problem.
XAMPP as some of you may already know, it is an application that you can use to make your computer acts like a server. It is really useful if you want to play with PHP files, test scripts, do mySQL queries, etc. You also can run Wordpress in XAMPP. Almost of the time I use XAMPP to develop and test my Wordpress themes locally.
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Some of you may already know what is RSS feed and know how to subscribe them. But I’m sure some of you don’t know what exactly RSS feed and how you can use them as a loyal reader or visitor. But I will not discuss what is RSS here because you can learn it by asking Mr Google or you can read directly from here.
So, in this post I will teach you or I will guide you on how to subscribe RSS feed. But first, you need to get a RSS link and a feed aggregator or some peoples call them as a feed reader.
To get RSS link, usually it marks with these images or just a text like this.
RSS Feed
Just copy the URL and paste it in your feed reader. In this how-to, I will use two softwares as for the example. FeedReader (freeware) and FeedDemon (shareware). So, we will have two sections here.
Let’s start our how-to with FeedReader. 
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