For more Apple IIe iPhone pictures, see: Apple IIe iPhone – Ivan Epling.
–jeroen
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Retro: Apple IIe iPhone – Ivan Epling
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/27
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Need to draw an ASCII diagram? ASCIIFlow is awesome:… (via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09
ASCIIFlow.com: Brilliant!
And from the comments PlantUML which generates UML diagrams from text, of which the sequence diagrams can also be generated as ASCII (the others only as images).
Finally there is ditaa which goes from ASCII diagrams to images. The complete circle is done (:
--jeroen
via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Need to draw an ASCII diagram? ASCIIFlow is awesome:….
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Many people missed the 8-bit street view at Google Maps Quest on April 1st #1april #april1st
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/01
Many people mentioned the April 1st prank by Google: 8-bit maps, and a NES Google Maps cartridge (quote at 0:55: blow on the cartridge to fix bugs ROFL!)
Today Google Maps has a quest mode, rendering the maps in Nintendo NES “quality”.
Few people really used it, and missed the glorious 8-bit streetview, and the really nice landmarks that you see when you zoom in to a scale of 500 meter or better.
You can even link to the 8-bit maps and to the 8-bit street view!.
Click on the images for larger versions (:
--jeroen
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ASCII art: when old skool is modern again.
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/02
When old skool is modern again :)
The last few months, I observe more and more ASCII art, especially on social media like FaceBook, Twitter, etc.
The most recent was this one from our neighbours – thanks guys – (it doesn’t do very good justice to the original, as it needs less linespacing, and works best with an Arial font):
. °.˛*.˛.°★。˛°.★*. * Fijne Kerstdagen en *★* *˛.
. ˛ °_██_*。*./ ♥ \ .˛* .˛. *.★ een geweldig 2012**★ 。
. ˛. (´• ̮•)*˛°*/.♫.♫\*˛.* ˛_Π_____. * * * ★ toegewenst 。
. .°( . • . ) ˛°./• ‘♫ ‘ •\.˛*./______/~＼.˛* .。˛ * *★* Someone &
. *(…’•’.. ) *˛╬╬╬╬╬˛°.｜田田 ｜門｜╬╬╬╬╬*★★*★ ★ Someone
. ¯˜”*°••°*”˜¯`´¯˜”*°••°*”˜¯ ` ´¯˜”*°´¯˜”*°••°*”˜¯`´¯˜” *
Since many characters are not ASCII at all, maybe Typewriter Art fits better.
Anyway: I like the new revival of these kinds of arts.
They remind being a lot younger and playing around with characters to see what graphical information I could put in a limited space. You can use this to present information too, as [W/A] this progress bar shows how busy the public traffic is.
They also remind me how much real artists can do in little space. Given the limited space especially on Twitter and Mobile Systems, and the common feature among those is still text, ASCII art makes a lot of sense again :)
Some references to give you an idea how bad I was at it, and how good others :)
Check out [Wayback/Archive] http://cd.textfiles.com/hackchronii/VIRUSL4/VIRUSL4.46 and search for “Pluimers” (sitenote: I was nicknamed by the chinese cook in the restaurant kitchen I worked a few years before that, though the cook pronounced “Charlie” as “Cha-li”, and I nicked it to Charly to avoid conflicts).
A bit later I condensed it a bit (look for “rulfc1” at [Wayback/Archive] http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/Info/info-ibmpc). [Wayback/Archive] Others were way better at Email Art and [not archived] Signature Art than I was.
Those were days where you would mostly communicate with text. And even that wasn’t a long time ago when you imagine that the oldest known form of Typewriter Art is from 1898!
--jeroen
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Mac practical joke: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/10
Press Ctrl–Option–Command–8 in your colleagues keyboard and watch them getting their inverted colours back :)
It is like the 3-finger salute on Windows, but much much nicer, as the inversion is all done on the GPU hardware :)
–jeroen
Via: How to Invert Colors on a Mac – wikiHow.
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