Writing original material requires complete attention. For writers, distractions are very bothersome and counterproductive. Here to help you obtain a distraction-free writing interface from within your browser is a tool called Pillarbox. Pillarbox is a free to use tool that comes as a browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension provides you with a distraction-free [...]
Have you ever tried to guess whether the author of a piece was male or female? If yes, then your task has been made much easier thanks to a web service called HackerFactor Gender Guesser. HackerFactor Gender Guesser is a free to use web service that determines the gender of the author of a piece [...]
If you are a fan of Samuel L. Jackson and like the intimidating characters he usually plays, you are definitely going to appreciate Samuel L. Ipsum – a lorem ipsum generator that generates intimidating dummy text. Samuel L. Ipsum is an amusing web tool that helps generate intimidating dummy text. The tool is mainly inspired [...]
Connecting your phone to your computer so that you can type SMS texts through the keyboard is greatly convenient. While many mobile operating systems offer compatible desktop counterparts for such a connection, an alternative for Android phones is offered by a service called BrowserTexting. BrowserTexting’s function is to let you send SMS texts through your [...]
Reading website content and blogs on the small screen of your mobile phone isn’t usually a smooth experience. If the website has a good mobile version, then all well and good, but if it doesn’t, then reading with all that clutter on a cellphone screen is a pain. So Android users can try out this [...]
If you are one of those people who can’t seem to get their head around texting, DeskSMS will provide you with a wonderful solution. Once you install DeskSMS on your Android phone, it will forward all text messages to your Gmail account, your Gtalk and even to a Google Chrome extension. Alternatively, the tool provides [...]
Did you know that you can just as easily create fake iPhone text conversations screenshots, for the purpose of pranking other people? iFakeText is a web app that that lets you create a fake iPhone text message screenshot. The generated screenshot is highly customizable, and you can even choose your “carrier network”. To create a [...]
RandomText is probably the most feature-rich tool for designers to create dummy text. Partly because it allows you to geenrate dummy text in both Gibberish and the Lorem Ipsum format. You can use a slider bar to indicate the desired number of words and number of elements you need in your text such as h1,h2. [...]
A lot of what people write can be edited and shortened without losing its meaning. Since succinctness is an important factor in today’s communication, editing text has become a valuable service. Offering text editing online is a web service called Revisery. It is a web service created by MakeUseOf’s very own Erez Zukerman. The service [...]
Drawings made out of text characters are often amusing and impressive. Although there are numerous web tools that let you create such drawings, very few of these tools let you export your drawings to HTML. ASCII Flow includes this export-to-HTML feature. ASCII Flow also lets you create lines made up of text characters, and lets [...]
There is a difference between the writing styles of men and women. Now you can find out the gender of an author of a text instantly thanks to Gender Genie. It is an online service based on an algorithm, which analyzes and categorizes keywords within the text into feminine and masculine. Then it calculates the [...]
Lorem Ipsum, popularly known as “dummy text”, is usually used to fill text areas of website designs currently under construction. Numerous online dummy text generators let you create Lorem Ipsum according to your specifications. But if you would like to have a little fun with your Lorem Ipsum, you can add bacon and meat to [...]
If you consider yourself a writing purist where all you need is a “blank slate” online to write and publish your thoughts, then you should check out Scriffon. This minimalist tool allows anyone to write about anything and get published within seconds, removing the need for a blog or a tumblog. Scriffon’s concept is very [...]
Many graphics designers today find themselves working with CSS text. While coding up CSS text effects can be a time-consuming process, thankfully there are web tools that make the designer’s job much easier. One such tool is CSS Text Shadow – a site that generates the CSS code for various text shadow styles. CSS Text [...]
Textual representations and symbols on our computer use a variety of characters. To explore these characters, you need a source that displays them and provides details such as encoding, comments, and location. Unicodinator is precisely such a source. Unicodinator is a web tool that lets you visually navigate through Unicode blocks and codepoints 0000 through [...]
Teachers often wonder which students to pick when it comes to assigning tasks, picking volunteers, etc. Here to make their job a little easier and to make the selection more random is a web service called Random Name Selector. Random Name Selector is a free web app that selects a name randomly from the list [...]
Not all websites have fonts that can be conveniently read. Different people are comfortable with different types of fonts. Thanks to Readable, you can read text on any website in your preferred fonts and colors. Readable is a wonderful browser bookmarklet that lets you transform text on a site into a conveniently readable view. On [...]
Warped text is any text that follows an irregular path, be it a in a circular shape or a random elliptical one. It can give a really cool effect to your webpage but is usually pretty complicated to create. CSS Warp is a CSS text to path generator that you can use to create warped text without [...]
LittleIpsum is a lightweight lorem ipsum generator for mac Mac. This app makes pasting dummy texts much easier since you do not have to go a window interface to generate text. Instead, you only need to click the icon in the bar to copy it to the clipboard where you can paste it anywhere. LittleIpsim [...]
While PenIO cannot replace tools that let you create websites, it does give you one of the fastest ways to publish a simple text-based webpage. Once you give your page a name and choose a password, your webpage will be created as yourname.pen.io. You can click anywhere on the webpage to edit that section and [...]