Here’s my nerdy DIY tool and tip for the day: With a single sheet of A4 (or letter) paper, you can fold a sleeve for any CD or DVD. This is ideal for those CDs lying around where they shouldn’t, and also for gifts of pirated software and music (harr harr).
I’ve made a web-app (CGI) that will generate a PDF with folding lines and labeling text, including titles, descriptions and track listings, that you can print out and fold to protect your most beloved optical media in a unique yet stylish fashion. Click here to go to the webapp, please come back to this posting to leave a comment!
- Update: see the new folding guide!
- Update: thanks to a suggestion by Stefan van der Walt, the CGI now suggests a filename based on your title.
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Wow…that’s amazing!
Where did you get the idea (-;?
Still…I would prefer if a good friend personalized the dvd rap and making it a very special gift for a very special friend by folding it in his own very special and unique way, don’t you…?
Laters
But of course!
However, in my case, because I made the script that generates the PDF, it counts as personalized and very special. :P
Simply love these! I’ve been using this one so far:
http://www.tgries.de/origami/
It would be great if the CGI download could give a filename hint to the browser, e.g.
print “Content-Type:application/x-download”
print “Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=%s\n” % filename
Hi there Stefan!
Yeah, that’s probably the more well-known design, but I kept on botching the funny “mountain” fold, so I chose a more simple version.
Aaah, thanks for the tip! I had:
print ‘Content-Type: inline; filename=%s\n’ % (filename,)
Which doesn’t work. :) I’ll integrate your suggestion…
Works like a charm — thanks!
The plan from the other URL mentioned also lack some common sense. Why would I use an iterative folding algorithm (folding at home? :P) to divide a piece of paper in 5ths when I can just insert the CD and fold the paper around. Oh well, now I’ll just print them :-)
Feature request: die deng werk nie so lekker met lyste nie.
As jy doen:
1. item 1
2. item 2
dan strip hy die newlines, maar as jy doen
1. item 1
2. item 2
dan strip hy nie die newlines nie maar dan vat my teks te veel plek op.
Yo Albert!
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature! :)
Dis omdat jy moet doen:
* 1. item 1
* 2. item 2
Die sterretjie sê dat hy die reels onder mekaar moet sit (i.e. nie moet fill nie). Hy haal die sterretjies self weg.
Is dit so ok?
A WWW CD WML CGI PDF thingy!
There is too much awesomeness in this. Too much.
What does it do exactly?
One would think that being a WWW-CD-WML-CGI-PDF-thingy is challenge enough in itself, but I see the demands of modern living ever increase.