This isn’t useful or productive at all – it’s just fun. In VLC’s preferences in the Video section / Output, there is the option to have video rendered as color ASCII:After you choose this setting, restart the player and any video played will look like this:To put it back the way it was, go back to where you chose Color ASCII output...

One of the very few e-mail signatures that I don’t consider a complete waste of space is ASCII art. This is because getting a signature where letters form a picture or cartoon-like figure is not easy and difficult to get right. If old-school ASCII is your thing, there is a Java application (runs on any OS that supports Java such as Windows/OS X/Linux)...

Something every developer should have handy is a chart of the ASCII character code table. If you do not have resource for this already, check out the ASCII Table web site. This site is very straightforward and includes both the standard ASCII set as well as the extended character codes. While the chart is ‘protected’ from being able to simply save...