I was inspired by a recent slashdot post that mentioned the Quicktime ASCII Movie Player. So I hacked up a quick Flex application and in no time i had what I like to call.

To quote, it’s watching movies “the way ubergeeks were truly meant to”

Basically it just samples pixels from a video and converts them to characters with a certain brightness. There are a few videos to check out, but unfortunately, due to YouTubes’ crossdomain policy, I can’t just let you choose any Youtube video to play. Here’s a screenshot

–Update: It looks like for certain versions of Flash player, the font size is really small, this makes video playback quite slow and jerky. I’ll be fixing this soon.

–Update: This has been fixed, video may still be a little laggy though. This is more of a bandwidth issue.

Multithreading. When I’m running a CPU intensive application and It’s spluttering along on one core, I despair at all that processing power going to waste.

I think the picture sums it up.

There’s been a bit of a flex component drought on the site lately, but I finally have the next one ready. It’s another gauge, but this time with blinkenlights. I’ve created a Light Gauge Explorer, where you can customize the gauge, or you can just skip to the Demo and see whats possible.

–Update: Source is now available here