Sometimes people tend to be some kind of fussy, concerning the order of almost anything. Peolpe who know me personally will have recognized that I’m belonging to this group of persons. I have to have everything in place (especially referring to my desktop, hdd and.. well yes, almost anything else).
This also ranges up to my operating system. I hate Microsoft for not having implemented a feature to change the order of my taskbar buttons. If you ever used a browser, capable of tabbing (like the new Internet Explorer 7, but I prefer Mozilla Firefox) you will know the feature of rearranging all existing tabs via drag & drop. After searching the web for some time I found several tools providing this functionality. Unfortunately many of them are not freeware (I don’t want to spend money for such a “trivial” feature) or are limited in usability. Some programs only had a list of running applications you could change the order of and not a drag & drop support on the taskbar itself.
First of all: some of you’ve maybe seen it already. I’m changing my blog again. This time it’s not only the layout but the language, too. Because of my bad Spanish knowledges I’m currently testing my (almost forgotten) English skills. I have translated two German pages into English so far (which are: Donations and About) and I must admit, I am not willing to translate all my previous posts into English, because I am too lazy and often it just wouldn’t make any sense, because of some word jokes.
As you can see I have made some changes on the layout of the page. In my opinion the old look was nice, but a torture to your eyes. The whole design was a little bit to dark (especially the boring gray background behind the main content [not the gorgeous picture of me in the back]) and angled and just not soft to see. Therefore I decided to switch to this design. I didn’t find it by myself, but a colleague, establishing his blog (INsanityDesign) showed it to me. I just changed the colors a little bit, because I like blue more than green. Moreover I integrated 3 header pictures, instead of the one distributed with the original theme MistyLook, which can be found at wpthemes.info. The pictures on top of this page were originally located at stock.xchng (just take a look at the pictures, taken by StevenFE).
Mosaic is a small utility that allows you to convert image files to html code.
Functionality
Ever wondered how hackers created the Turkish flag at my one of my previous index.html files? One way to create (precise) ASCII art is to do it manually. But nobody wants to read an image pixel by pixel, extract each pixel’s color information and put it into html code. For these kind of operations mankind invented the computer. Mosaic does exactly this. It iterates over an input image pixel by pixel and reads the color value and prints the “pixel” as text (random binary, random number, random letter [A-Z] or specified text) into a html document, which is valid css and xhtml.
Features
Import of JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG files
Possibilty to resize images before generating html
Specify text to be output (random binary numbers, random numbers, random letters [A-Z] or any text)
