Convert any image to a text image of ASCII characters

Wow click here to check out a really cool site that lets you convert any image to a text image of ASCII characters! Look below to see what it let me make! It's my display pic here on the right, but made with different letters and characters

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Tips, Tricks, and Tools - Handy Computer Related Sites

Just a couple cool sites, useful tip, tricks, and tools

PCNames Domain Search - Search and instantly discover whether or not certain domain names are available or not

Calibrate Your Monitor - Find out instantly if your monitor is calibrated for optimal image display. This utility will let you know if you need to fine tune your monitor and it will guide you through the process in just a few easy steps.

Clean CSS, a Source for Web Designers - CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

Color Palette Generator - Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

Photo Bucket - Photobucket provides free video and photo sharing.

Wi-Fi Free Spot Directory - The Wi-Fi-FreeSpot™ Directory is a listing of locations that offer Free Wi-Fi. USA State-by-State listings come first with Europe and other regions of the World listed further down the page.

Autopatcher - Download free updates that normally may have not been free for various programs and yes even operating systems ... say windows.

Dead Fake - a site that lets you send free fake emails to anyone you like. Not only is it anonymous, you can make it appear to come from anyone you choose!

IP Tools - Track down anyone using their IP address, domain info, email address and more. Track down spammers, email abusers, visitors to your site, and more.

You Send It - send big files to friends or family without signing up to anything, just click, browse, and go!

Real-time HTML Editor - Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magically appear in the frame below.

Feel free to add your own (or ones you've found) handy computer related sites in the comments.

Cool Site

Check out this site, it's really weird

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Common Myths About Mac

Myth: Windows and Linux applications don’t run on a Mac.

Fact: You can run most anything on Macs, no matter what the platform.

Boot Camp from Apple, you can dual-boot your system into either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Alternatively, using virtualization software such as Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMWare, you can run Windows XP, Linux, or any other operating system simultaneously with Mac OS X.

Myth: Macs can’t run Microsoft Office.

Fact: Macs can run Microsoft Office, and the files you create on Mac are fully compatible with Windows.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X gives you full-featured Word, Powerpoint, and Excel with the same familiar interfaces. And for any Microsoft application that’s not yet available for Mac — like Microsoft Access or Project — you can run them on Intel-based Macs using Boot Camp or virtualization software like Parallels or VMWare.

Myth: Macs won’t fit into my network.

Fact: Mac OS X can talk to every major file server protocol on every major server platform on the market today.

Mac OS X includes the major networking protocols for accessing every major server platform, including Windows, Linux, and UNIX. Mac OS X is the most compatible operating system available today.

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Fact: Apple hardware and software offer tremendous value.

Owning a Mac offers the scientist a cost-effective solution and great return on investment. The Mac is designed for optimal productivity with exceptional price/performance and minimal investment for the most innovative computing features offered on any platform.

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Fact: Mac OS X is an open architecture, based on industry standards.

It’s based on an open source variant of FreeBSD UNIX and developed entirely with openness and interoperability in mind. Mac OS X incorporates the major open standards for directory services, programming and scripting languages, interprocess communications and arithmetic libraries.

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Fact: The Mac — it just works.

Mac users are up and running quickly thanks to the well-designed, intuitive user interface of Mac OS X. On the IT side, the Mac makes system administration so easy you can expand your existing compute infrastructure without increasing your IT staff.

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Fact: Mac OS X is based on UNIX, a platform renowned for its stability.

Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation integrating a Mach 3.0 microkernel and state-of-the-art FreeBSD 5 variant.

Myth: You can’t develop cross-platform applications on a Mac.

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Mac OS X is a superior development platform that includes a robust set of developer tools allowing you to develop and test cross-platform applications.

Myth: Apple only makes iPods.

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In addition to making iPods, Apple develops the technology to tackle the most demanding computational and visualization problems facing scientists today. In the MacBook Pro notebook, Mac Pro scientific workstation, and Xserve server, you’ll find the high-performance 64-bit computing, advanced graphics, and scalable memory and storage capacity needed to handle your big data requirements.

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Pando - Send 1Gb files over email » Techtites

This is so neat for anyone who sends big files to their friends over msn or whatever. Great little tool that makes everything a lot easier.
Pando - Send 1Gb files over email » Techtites

Apple iPhone

This is such a cool blog, it's a bunch of concept art that different people made that are all different ideas of what Apple's new iPhone might look like. As some of you know, the iPhone is rather big news right now and there are all sorts of rumours about ichat and ilife. It sounds very cool and wouldn't it be great if it was like an iPod, PDA, and cell phone all in one? Lots of hype. Click below to visit the iPhone Concept Blog, really some amazing stuff!

Click Here - Apple iPhone

getmooh.com - Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People

This site is really neat, it's all kinds of weird excuses and fake phone calls, you can have it call you and feed you an excuse word for word to help you get out of a situation. Some funny ones
getmooh.com - Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

Really cool site, check it out

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI