http://josh1.com/Content/icons/flame.ico http://josh1.com/Content/icons/flame.png 2009-07-12T19:26:00 Josh's place of work (and play) http://josh1.com/tags/xda/atom Oxite http://josh1.com/Content/icons/flame.png http://josh1.com/Blog/AlpineImageConverter 2009-07-14T12:12:11.813Z 2009-07-12T19:26:00Z Admin Hello everybody,<br/> <br/> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (last year on <a href="http://www.riotcreative.co.uk">here</a>) there was a tool for people who, like me, own a certain Alpine <a href="http://www.alpine-electronics.co.uk/products/details/digital-media-receiver/ida-x305.html">in car head unit</a>. A magical tool that enabled magical things (loose definition of magic being used here). A tool for the Alpine IDA-X100 and now the Alpine IDA-X305 (I'm told the latter works too, but alas I have none to test on).<br/> <br/> Basically, cutting all the nonsense, these head units have a nice LCD display on them, with a nice swooshy blue or red backdrop. The Alpine Image Converter enabled people to easily change the background image on these wonderful Alpine head units. All you had to do was upload your image and click "download". What could be simpler? Sneezing, perhaps. But that can come with added complications - this didn't. And sneezing doesn't make you look cool in your car, it just makes you steer wonky.<br/> <br/> After becoming quite a little surprise success, the server that used to power this tool collapsed under the strain - sort of. It ran out of space for the gallery photos. Oh by the way, in the new one there is a lovely gallery of uploaded pics for your browsing and downloading-in-Alpine-format pleasure.<br/> <br/> Since the days when the old image converter was launched I have moved on and am now doing my own thing on this website and as a result it seemed like a mighty good idea to move across the old, broken and weeping tool to a new home.<br/> <br/> And <a href="http://josh1.com/Projects/AlpineImageConverter/">here it is</a>. Tadaa.<br/> <br/> The new one works just like the old one, only now there is a gallery of uploaded photos, as I've previously mentioned. You can, of course, opt for your image to not be made public.<br/> <br/> So what are you waiting for? If you have the player, get on with it and change your background picture to something cool like a... a... I'm not cool enough to think of something cool. That's your job, so get on with it!