One of the best solutions to this problem is to store important notes online. While such applications do exist, many tend to be too fancy and bandwidth-hogging. Note-taking is meant to help you, not slow you down. Today I came across basic note-taking online service SimpleText.ws

It is a web tool designed to store ‘human sized’ text i.e. text which you write as notes, and not as lengthy thesis papers. While the site is secure, the author suggests people not to store any sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on the site – better safe than sorry.

To get started, create an account by clicking the ‘Sign In’ button on the homepage. If you have a Google account, you can use it to sign in. Here’s how the note panel looks like:

As you can see, the entire panel has a very simple text storage interface, much similar to Notepad. You can type your notes and not worry about losing them. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText.ws merges your changes so you’ll never lose data.

Features:

• Take notes and store them digitally.
• Simple and clutter free design.
• For basic writing and notes. No for huge files.
• Light Security. Not for sensitive information, credit cards, etc.
• Open source, suitable for self hosting, a public API.

Check out Simple Text @ www.SimpleText.ws

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• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
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• HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text
• Ayenotes: Free & Quick Note Taker

You can also quickly paste the copied text, by clicking on the middle button of your mouse. This add-on can be very useful for those whose daily work includes a lot of text copy-pasting.

Features:

• Extremely fast way to copy paste text chunks.
• Copy text to your clipboard simply by highlighting it.
• Desktop tool available as well.
• Free and easy to use.

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• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
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To convert, simply upload your image file (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF) which cannot exceed the size of 1MB. Resize and rotate it to achieve the best recognition results, and then click on “Send” button to start the process. Once completed, recognized text will be displayed at the bottom of the same page.

NewOCR supports 29 languages which include Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Features:

• Extract text from scanned documents or images.
• Unlimited uploads, no registration, 100% secure.
• Supported image file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF (any compression mode).
• Works with image files up to 1 MB in size.
• Multilingual support for 29 languages.
• Optimize image to achieve the best recognition results by resizing and rotation.
• Similar tools: OnlineOCR, FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out NewOCR @ www.newocr.com

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text

When all changes are made, CompareMyDocs provides a download link to a final version of document that incorporates all changes. You can download and save the document back to your computer as a Word document or RichText file. The site is completely free and doesn’t require sign up.

Demo video:

Features:

• Compare, recombine and merge documents online.
• Supported document formats: .doc, .docx and .rtf.
• Compare upto 6 versions of the same document.
• Save finalized version of document as a Word or RichText file.
• Quick, simple to use, free, and no registration.
• Similar tool: CompareMyFiles.

Check out CompareMyDocs @ www.secure2.textflow.com/comparemydocs (via Webware)

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• EtherPad: Collaborate On Text Docs Online In Real-Time
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• XY WriteIt : Collaborate on Text Documents with Others
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor
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ASCIIPaint provides you with an editor where you can pick a character and then easily draw lines, boxes and fill selected areas. Once ther ASCII is ready it can be shared via URL and saved onto your computer as a text file.

Features:

• Draw an ASCII art online.
• Provides an editor where you can easily select any character and then draw lines, boxes, and fill in selected areas.
• Share created arts with others.
• Save onto you computer as text commented in six different styles.
• Similar websites: Text-Image, ASCIIPoster and PicASCII.

Check out ASCIIPaint @ www.asciipaint.com

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To encrypt, simply enter your text and password into provided fields and then click on “Encrypt the message” button. There is also an option to set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.

Features:

• Encrypt your text right inside your browser.
• Your text will be password protected and encrypted with secure XXTEA block cipher algorithm.
• Set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.
• Currently you can encrypt no more than 32 kilobytes of data (10 printed pages of text) at one session.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar tools: Crypo, Encodor, InfoEncrypt and File Encryptor.

Check out SafeMess @ www.safemess.com

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Features:

• Manipulate your text online.
• Options: Uppercase, Initial Upper/ word, Reverse Words, Lowercase, Initial Upper/ Sentence, Reverse Letters, Flip Text , Strip Spaces, Camel Case.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar apps: TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

Check out UpperCaseIt @ www.uppercaseit.com

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FlipTitle: Flip Text Upside Down

Simply click on your preferred dummy text to see it on the right side. You can increase/decrease the size of the text by the number of words or characters and/or divide the text into paragraphs. In advanced options, there are settings to adjust font family, font size, style and more.

Features:

• Dummy text generator.
• 10 different dummy texts available.
• Option to increase/decrease the size of text by number of words or characters.
• Divide text into paragraphs.
• Similar tools: Lorem2 and AdhesionText.

Check out BlindTextGenerator @ www.blindtextgenerator.com

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• AdhesionText: Dummy Text Generator
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Fliptext can come in useful when you need to create strong passwords, encrypt download links or post messages online so that only few people can read it. Similarly, you can “unflip” any text written upside down using this tool.

Features:

• Flip your text upside down and backwards.
• Free, no registration needed to flip the text.
• Similar online tools: FlipMyText and FlipTitle.

Check out Fliptext.org @ www.fliptext.org

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• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• FlipTitle: Flip Text Upside Down
• FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down
• CountOnIt: Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files

Features

• Quickly and easily compare code online.
• Just copy, paste and hit compare.
• Compare side-by-side or inline.
• Also remove empty lines and extra white spaces from the text.
• Similar tool: CompareMyFiles.

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• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
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Here is how it works:

1. Download and print provided font template.
2. Fill in the template with your own handwriting following simple guidelines.
3. Scan completed template and save it in PNG or GIF format.
4. Upload the scanned image to FontCapture.com
5. Finally preview the template and get back your own, ready to use font.

Features:

• Create fonts from your own handwriting.
• No download or installation needed.
• Scanner and printer required.
• Create as many fonts as you like.
• No sign up required to create the font.
• Similar web tools: YourFonts, FontStruct and BitFontMaker.

Check out FontCapture @ www.fontcapture.com (via Lifehacker)

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There could be many uses of this tool like for masking your email address, sending confidential info on IMs, posting things on forums which you won’t like search engines to discover and more. It doesn’t require sign up and is easy to use.

Features

• Quickly convert text into pictures online.
• Customize the font type, color and size of the text.
• Get the direct url, forum url and the HTML code of the image.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Check out TxtNinja @ www.txtninja.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

Features:

• Collection of browser based text editing tools.
• Huge number of nice tools available.
• Use any of the tools without the need to sign up.
• Javascript should be enabled in the browser.
• Free and no sign up.

You can also check other similar apps that we have profiled earlier such as TextTop.us, Text Utilities, TextFixer, Alphabetizer, Textop.us and Textris.

Check out MyTextTools @  www.mytexttools.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• CountOnIt: Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files
• CompareMyFiles: Compare Two Text Files Online
• Citatoe: Store Your Favourite Quotes & Citations Online

All you have to do is paste a list of names onto provided field and then click on the “Pick Random Line” button. The application will then randomly pick and display the name.

Features:

• Helps you randomly pick a winner from a list of names.
• Save picked names during session.
• Option to pre-randomize the list.
• Similar web tool: Random Name Picker.

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The application is free and easy to use. To start,  simply register on the site and upload your image, pick a the language and output format and hit “Recognize”. Once the file is converted you can save it on to your computer. Currently you may process up to 50 pages a day with each file being under 10 mb.

Features:

• Online image text extraction tool.
• Lets you process 50 pages a day for free.
• Supported input image formats: BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG/JPEG, PNG and TIFF/TIF.
• Supported output file formats: Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, and TXT and PDF.
• The file must not be larger than 10 MB.
• Multilingual recognition: Russian, English, German and French.
• Simple and clutter free design.
• Similar apps: Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out FineReaderOnline @ www.finereaderonline.com

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• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text

To start, simply go to the site, enter your text and click on feature that you want to apply.

Here is the full list of thing you can do:

• Encode and Decode: URL, URl comp, UTF 8 and base64
• Case Convert: UPPERCASE, lowercase, sWITCH cASE, CameCase and TitleCase.
• Hush your text:  SHA-1, MD5, MD4 Hexadecimal, String bytes and Base64 bytes.
• Evaluate and apply javascript function to the whole text, and  make bookmarlklet.
• Base convert your text in to string, hexadecimal and binary code.
• Find, regexp & replace.
• Other: Trim, Trim lines, Fix Quotes and get Text Statistics.

You can also check other similar apps that we have profiled earlier i.e. TextTop.us, TextFixer, Alphabetizer and Textris.

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There is no download and no registration required. Doing a right-click on the underlined word shows you the suggestions to fix the text.

Features:

• Online grammar and spelling checker.
• Suggests styling as well.
• No registration or download required.
• Light-weight and easy to use interface.
• Similar sites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

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• Spellify: Automatic Spell Checking
• SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool
• Common Errors In English: Lists Commonly Misused English Words
• Apostrophe.me: Shows How To Use an Apostrophe

Additionally you can also manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.

Features:

• Spell check text or a single word online.
• Include up to 20,000 characters at once to check for spelling mistakes.
• Get spelling suggestions and apply them to your text.
• Manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.
• Similar websites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out SpellCheck @ www.spellcheck.net

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• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
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Ready fonts can be downloaded or published on BiTFont Museum for others to see. BiTFont Museum is a large text font gallery that hosts fonts created by users like you. The fonts are free to download.

Features:

• Ue pixel font creator to create your own font online.
• Create fronts from scratch or import and edit existing fonts.
• Preview each character as you go along.
• Save ready fonts to your computer.
• View fonts of others and download whatever you like.
• Similar websites: FontStruct and YourFonts.

Check out BitfontMaker @ www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font

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• FontCapture: Turn Your Handwriting into Font For Free
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image
• Typekit: Online Font Library For Your Website

LiveTyping text recorder is free and doesn’t require any registration. Although it should be mentioned that registered can also store their livetypings online and replay them at anytime later.

To start simply start typing the text into provided field. Then customize the text font, size, speed and click on “ENLIVEN” button. Your recording will be processed and replayed for you online.

Features:

• Record your typing.
• Customize text font, size, speed of recordings.
• Share them by forwarding a link or embedding on your site and blog.
• Store all your recordings in one place online (registration needed).
• Similar site: FuzzMail.

Check out LiveTyping @ www.livetyping.com (via Profy)

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You can access the text anytime online or share it with others by forwarding the URL.

Features:

• Share text snippets online.
• Free, instant, no sign up.
• Paste your text and access it online.
• Share the text with others by forwarding its URL.

Check out HeyPasteIT @ www.heypasteit.com

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• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• J.otDown: Simple Web Based Notepad
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad
• SimpleText: Take Notes & Store Them Online

The application currently supports a PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG files and can recognize 6 languages (English, German, french, Italian, Dutch and Spanish).

Free-ORC is completely free and the only restrictions are:

- input images must not be larger than 2MB,
- not wider or higher than 5000 pixels and
- at most 10 image uploads per hour.

Features:

• Extract text from photos and scanned documents.
• Images must not be larger than 2MB in size.
• Supports a PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG files.
• Can recognize 6 languages (English, German, french, Italian, Dutch and Spanish).
• Free and no registration.
• Also have a look at OCRTerminal that can convert scanned documents to text.

Check out Free-ORC @ www.free-ocr.com

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• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• OnlineOCR: Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Text

Apart from flip text, it also provides you with great tools for performing different operations. The wide range of tools include HTML Editor, 3D Text, Tattoo Maker, Word Count, Acronyms, Ice Text, Symbols, Text Reverse, CSS codes etc.

Features:

• Flip text upside down.
• Other tools include Word Count, Acronyms, Ice Text, Symbols, Text Reverse etc.
• Free and easy to use, no registration required.
• Other sites where you can flip text online: TextTop.us and FlipTitle.

Check out FlipMyText @ www.flipmytext.com/ (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas )

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• Write Like An Egyptian
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• TinyTags: Create Tag Graphic With Your Own Text
• Fliptext.org: Write Text Upside Down And Backwards
• CountOnIt: Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files

When you’re done, you may print out your graffiti text and/or share it online with others by publishing it in the site’s Image Gallery which contains real-life graffiti images.

Features:

• Cool graffiti text maker.
• Apply different effects, change text size, play around with colors, and more.
• Print out your graffiti text or publish and share it in the Image Gallery.
• Check out real-life graffiti images.

Go to GraffitiCreator @ www.graffiticreator.net

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• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• PsykoPaint: Turns Your Pictures Into Awesome Paintings
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• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

You can access and edit your text later at the permanent link provided in the address bar of your browser (ex: http://j.otdown.com/23Apr09/cfg4xf/zb) or share the read-only version of the text with others by clicking the “Share” button.

Features:

• Simple Internet notepad.
• Start typing, your text is saved automatically when you take a break.
• Access and edit your text from the permanent link you see in your browser’s address bar.
• Share the read-only version with other people.
• Other web-based notepad apps: JottIt, Npad and Luminotes.

Check out J.otDown @ http://j.otdown.com

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• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• HeyPasteIt: Simplest App For Sharing Text
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad
• SimpleText: Take Notes & Store Them Online

It’s a simple website where either you could type in a line or paste multiple paragraphs in its extended version, and it would immediately provide suggestions for misspelled words. And it does spell check in multiple languages too.

Features

• Automatic online spell check.
• Paste or type text or multiple paragraphs.
• Immediate pop up of correct words/suggestions.
• Support for different languages.
• Download and use it on your website to spell check filled web forms.
• Similar tools: Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out Spellify @ www.spellify.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool
• AfterTheDeadline: Ouick Grammar Checking Site
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WriteBoard: A Collaborative Text Editor

WriteBoard was created by 37signals a company known for developing highly popular productivity and task manager apps like BaseCamp.

Getting started is easy, simply name your writeboard, add password & email and then click on the “Create the Whiteboard” button. Once the whiteboard is created you can easily invite others to contribute by forwarding them a URL.

Features

• Collaborative text editor which lets you to collaborate on a text document online.
• Compare different versions of the same document.
• Easily roll back to a previous version.
• Subscribe to RSS feed of the document to get notified of the changes.
• Similar tools: EtherPad, XY WriteIt, Co-ment and ShowDocument.

Check out Writeboard @ www.writeboard.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• MyTextFile: Minimalist Online Text Editor
• MonkeyTex : Online LaTex Editor
• EtherPad: Collaborate On Text Docs Online In Real-Time

PasteHTML lets you do just that; it’s a free service that lets you easily publish html pages online without registration. Copy and paste your HTML code into the text area, fill out the captcha and click on the “Create page” link to publish it online. Thats’ it.

Features:

• Free tool for publishing HTML pages and text online.
• Service is free, pages have no ads and are kept online for as long as necessary.
• Publish as many pages as you need.

Check out PasteHTML @ www.pastehtml.com

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• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online
• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others

You can apply different fonts to the text sample and compare them in plain view, bold, italic and more. Change the sample text, text size, alignment, colour, decoration etc., in each of 3 text columns and see the difference.

Features:

• Compare fonts side by side online.
• Edit the sample text in the text area or insert your own text.
• Change text size, alignment, color, decoration, word space etc.,
• Apply settings from one column to another
• Free, instant comparison.
• Similar tool: FontPicker.

Check out TypeTester @ www.typetester.org

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• FontCapture: Turn Your Handwriting into Font For Free
• BitFontMaker: Online Pixel Font Creator
• 1001FreeFonts: Free Quality Fonts For Windows & Mac
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image

Features:

• Create Adobe PDF files from text file for free.
• Download ans save generated PDF files to your computer.
• For more PDF tools check out PDF section.

Check out Text2PDF @ www.text2pdf.co.cc

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• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online

You can also use it as an online writer where you type and avoid keying errors by listening to your text, or simply use it to improve your typing speed and spelling.

Features:

• Hear what you type.
• Can reads the text as you type or per line.
• Make it read the whole text or just the highlighted part.
• Doesn’t require sign up.

Check out Text-to-Speech @ speech.japplis.com

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• Write Like An Egyptian

The application is provided by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Features:

• Write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• Hieroglyphs presented in a vertical form.
• Save name image on to your computer.
• Free tool, provided by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology.

Try Write Like an Egyptian @ www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi (via Labnol)

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Modify image width, text colour, text font size and the background colour. When you are done, save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Features:

• Scrolling text generator that lets you create GIF image file with your own scrolling typewriter text.
• Modify image width, text font size, text and background colours
• Save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Check out Screedbot @ www.wigflip.com/screedbot

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Once image is created you can download it onto your computer or save onto your ImageShack or Flickr accounts. To make your text bigger, break it up in different places.

Features:

• Create customized graphic tags with your own text.
• Choose tag color, size and direction.
• Break up the text line to make the letters bigger.
• Save onto computer or your Flickr and ImageShack accounts.

Check out TinyTags @ www.wigflip.com/tinytags

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• You Don’t Know Jack

If you are a computer programmer this is an ideal tool to paste code snippets and share with your programmer friends, as it supports most of the popular scripting and markup languages.

Features:

• Simple text sharing tool.
• Paste text and share the link with your friends
• Control (optionally) who can view/edit the text by putting a password.
• View history of paste edits, compare changes.
• Create a new fork paste with its own link, from an existing paste
• Use it to share programming code snippets.
• Supports many programming markup and scripting languages (C++, Delphi, HTML, CSS, PHP etc.)
• Free, no registration.
• Missing: Browser add-on or bookmarklet for copying text would be really useful.
• Similar sites: Txtb.in, cl1p and TextSave.

Check out FriendPaste @ www.friendpaste.com

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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• Mooshell: Edit & Debug Mootools Scripts Online
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• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

While on Shutterborg, your browser’s contextual (right-click) menu will be replaced by the editor’s new menu. To bring up the standard text box menu, you need to hold down the SHIFT key while right-clicking. Some of the handy options on the editor include: Drawing Tool, Design/Code view, Auto-Clean HTML and Quick Keys. It currently supports all common JavaScript-capable web browsers, including: Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 6+.

Features:

• Online word processor free.
• Lets you edit PDF, Microsoft Word, rich or plain text documents.
• Handy formatting options on the editor include: Drawing tool, Design/Code view, Auto-Clean HTML, insert picture, text alignment, full screen view, highlighter color and quick keys.
• New contextual (right-click) menu for easy document editing.
• Supports all common JavaScript-capable web browsers.
• Similar tools: Google Docs and Zoho

Check out Shutterborg @ www.shutterb.org (by Srikanth AD from The Next Web)

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• Google Document Search Utility

To store your text online simply paste it into provided field and click on the “Host it” button. You will then get the URL that can be used to access and share it with others.

Additionally you can add password protection, use preformatted text and even make links in your text clickable.

Features:

• Host plain text online.
• Limit of 50,000 character per URL.
• Share text by forwarding a URL.
• Password protect your text.
• Use preformatted text and make links in your text clickable.
• Free and no registration.

Check out FreeTextHost @ www.freetexthost.com

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You simply download and print provided font template sheet. Fill in each character in your own handwriting and then scan and upload the template on to YourFonts.com. After that you can preview your own font online and if you like it download and use it on your computer. As simple as that.

Features:

• Free font creator for creating fronts from handwriting.
• Create as many fonts as you like.
• Easy to follow seven step process.
• Download and use created fonts no your computer.
• Check out gallery of fonts created by other users.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar sites: FontStruct as well as our recent article, Two Free Tools To Make Your Very Own Fonts.

Check out YourFonts @ www.yourfonts.com

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The process is straightforward simply go to the site, select both files and click on “Compare Files” button. The application will compare files side by side and show you lines where they are different.

Features:

• Comparing two text files online.
• Compare as many files as you want.
• No registration needed.
• Dead simple to use

CompareMyFiles @ www.comparemyfiles.com

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By using AyeNotes’ shorthand to longhand text expansion, users can jot down commonly used phrases, templates, or strings quickly and in a standardized way online. The ability to make these expansions on the fly can also be customized to help users create documents in simple markup or assist the user in avoiding common typos that they are prone to. The possibilities are limitless.

AyeNotes uses a highly optimized interface that consists of only two main windows and virtually no images. Users can organize clips by context and also categorize notes by tags. When a user begins authoring a note in a particular context the clips available for that context along with the appropriate shorthand is displayed as the user starts typing the note. AyeNotes is not a rich-text note taking editor, but a fast, simple and universally accessible note taking platform.

Features:

• Fast note taking tool for taking and storing notes online.
• Expands pre-configured shorthand strings into longhand clips.
• Configurable auto-save features prevents lost data.
• Organize and find notes quickly using tags.
• Download notes in Multi-Markdown format.
• E-mail notes to other users.
• Keystrokes (ctrl-s for save, ctrl-e for email, etc) for common tasks supported.
• Unlimited note and clip storage.
• Hover over clip and note titles to preview contents.
• iPhone application coming soon.
• Free and no limitations.
• Similar Sites: Webnote and txtb.in.

Check out Ayenotes @ www.ayenotes.com

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