Akshay Jain

We all have seen those cool emails which contain images of celebrities by as text. They look really cool and I just wanted to post a little script which will let you achieve the exact same effect on any image that you want.

This is technically called a “ASCII Generator” or “ASCII Art”

Here is the page where you can test this out: ASCII ART

A little example to demonstrate its capabilities:

To copy this image, simply select the text in the image and you are ready to create those funky looking emails/forum signatures or anything else.

Enjoy!

This is a sequel to the earlier post that I had made yesterday regarding the “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ” that was the top result in Google Trends yesterday.

Today, there is one more weird result among the top 10 results. The result is “how to poop at work”. Now my question is: What happened today that people are searching for this particular search term. Google News search for this shows nothing of significance, which makes me suspicious regarding what is exactly wrong with Google Trends.

Here is the official word from Google that Los Angeles Times blog has received.

The Hot Trends list is automatically generated by machines and algorithms that detect hot or breaking queries. In this case, it appears that the html code for this query was posted on a popular internet bulletin board, which led to quite a few people searching to find out more about this symbol. The Hot Trends list reflected that surge due to people searching with this query.

Now, this is an interesting thing, because Google is infact denying that there was any tampering with hte Google Trends webpage per say. It implies to some extent that Google is accepting that there “WERE” those many searches being done for the “Swastika” symbol and the “F*** you google” which leads credence to my hypothesis that there is some mass-bot or attack under way because I can in no way think that all Americans will suddenly wake up one day and search for a (卐)? (Ya this is the Swastika symbol which everyone was searching. If it had been the word, “Swastika” then I would have probably accepted it but the symbol? No WAY!

Now, coming to this latest “how to poop at work” search, I fail to understand why are people searching for it.

Last time I got loads of comments that it was “EbaumsWorld” behind this. (This seems to be some online forum) But I fail to believe that any single forum however large it might be has the potential to gain the first spot in Google.

Let’s see how this goes.

I was just playing around with PHPLD (PHP Link Directory Script) recently and the most annoying feature in that great script is the lack of a “APPROVE-ALL” button. While, I can understand that such a feature has not been given by default in order to curtail “spam” as lazy people like me would just approve all links without having to look through each one of them.

That would mean more number of Viagra,Pharmacy,Arms, Porn sort of stuff getting listed in directories by the owner who are too lazy manually approve them.

So, here is a nifty piece of code, that you need to put in your “admin” directory and just run this file from you browser. It will automatically “Approve” all pending links.

NOTE: You should keep in mind that this is to be used only after you have manually seen that there are no spam links, otherwise, this code can mean reduction of quality of your directories.

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<?php
 
//PHPLD APPROVE ALL LINKS code snippet
// CReated by Akshay Jain http://akshayjain.org
//You are free to use this code as you want. Please do not remove the above credits.
 
$db_server   = 'localhost';      //leave this unchanched if u dont know what this is.
$db_name     = 'yourdatabasenamegoeshere';
$db_username = 'database username goes here';
$db_password = 'database password goes here';
 
 $dbconnection = @mysql_connect($db_server,$db_username,$db_password);
 $db = mysql_select_db($db_name);
 
$result = mysql_query("UPDATE PLD_LINK SET status='2' WHERE status='1'")
or die(mysql_error());  
 
?>

You can download this code from here: CODE
Note: Please rename this file to .php instead of .txt before uploading.