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Spread Helps You Speed Read Selected Text From Any Website [Chrome]

Speed reading is a technique that attempts to increase rate of reading without greatly reducing comprehension or retention. There are many apps out there that claim to speed up your reading, or at least teach you how to do that, However, most of these solutions are either paid or too complicated. Spread, a Chrome extension, [...] (more…)

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Textaizer Pro: One Text Mosaic & ASCII Art Generator To Rule Them All

For those of you who aren’t familiar with ASCII art, it’s a form of graphic designing wherein a photo is made entirely out of the characters from the ASCII chart. Basically, it is text-based visual art that can be created with any text editor. However, manually creating ASCII art takes up a lot of time [...] (more…)

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View Character, Word & Paragraph Count For Selected Text From Mac Context Menu [Tip]

Counting the number of words in a file is probably something you do when you’re in college and you have a paper of a specific length to turn in. There are few other occasions when you would actually need to count the number of characters or words in a file, but if you do, there [...] (more…)

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TXTcrypt: Encrypt Private Text Messages Before Sending Them [Mac]

If you enjoyed making up your own language as a kid and using it in front of your parents to make them think you were up to something, and for some reason, haven’t outgrown this fascination, it might appeal to you to code the messages you send. Whether this, or because your life’s circumstances are [...] (more…)

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Copy A Text File’s Content To Clipboard From Its Right-Click Context Menu

If you have to copy the contents of a lot of text files, opening each file, selecting the text and then copying it adds up to quite a lot of steps for something that is very simple in nature. We have covered quite a few Windows shell extensions that allow you to perform time consuming tasks in a [...] (more…)

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OCR To Word: Extract Text From Scanned Images & Save As MS Word (DOCX) Or TXT File

Many of us are waiting for technology smart enough to let us download a car, but in the meanwhile, we’ll have to settle with taking pictures and printing them or scanning our old photographs to preserve them beyond their physical existence. For most people who own a scanner, its use is limited to scanning items. [...] (more…)

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Bookmark Text Within A Webpage For Later Viewing [Chrome]

Simple Text Bookmark is a smart Chrome extension that lets you annotate, archive and bookmark text from websites. With it, you can select or clip portions of a website and save them as bookmarks for later viewing. When you return to the resource at a later time, the notes and highlights are right where you [...] (more…)

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Message Transformer: Convert Text To Mirrored, Pig Latin Or Hackerized Form [iOS]

If you use an iPhone, or any other iOS device for that matter, you are probably familiar with text editing apps other than the stock Notes one. People use their iDevices for a lot of purposes, not the least of which is communicating with others via written text. Moreover, users like to employ their iPhones [...] (more…)

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[Giveaway] CopyLess For Mac: Manage & View Clipboard Content By App [Paid]

Clipboard managers aren’t hard to find, and they are extremely useful since they let you get a whole lot more out of your default clipboard. Most clipboard managers focus on text snippets and there are few that will allow you to copy images and more. CopyLess is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac [...] (more…)

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Pictotool: Create Customizable & Funny Pictograms For Use On The Web

Looking for some fun images and pictograms to post on your Facebook, website or blog? Pictotool is a web tool that can create interesting and fun images with pictograms and text that you can easily customize. It’s a free and simple to use image creation tool that lets you combine text and graphics to create unique, [...] (more…)

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How To Search And Replace Text In Multiple Files Simultaneously

If you need to search and replace text in a lot of files, opening each file separately, finding the text string that needs to be changed, and then replacing it manually requires a lot of time and effort. Instead of doing the whole exercise manually, wouldn’t it be better if you could quickly search and [...] (more…)

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Remove Gmail’s New Icon-Based Toolbar & Bring Back Text Buttons [Tip]

Google made a number of changes to Gmail, which included a modification to the toolbar above conversations, where the text was replaced with icons. While some people liked this change, others felt that the text allowed them to easily distinguish between the different buttons, and it was easier to identify each button’s functionality. Lots of [...] (more…)

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ICQ Brings Its Official Messenger To Windows Phone 7

There was a time when Facebook didn’t exist, and the internet was ruled by the likes of Orkut, mIRC and ICQ. Times have changed, and those services are still around, although they are nowhere near as popular as they once were. It’s still nice though, whenever you see those services doing something new, as is [...] (more…)

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Real-Time Photo, Text & Voice Sharing App Coco Voice Comes To Android

Coco Voice is a free cross-platform IM client for Android and iOS-powered devices that allows users to share text, photo and voice messages with each other in real-time over the internet. Initially available only in the iTunes App Store, the app has just made its way into the Android Market, sporting all the cool features [...] (more…)

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Print-it-Easy: Quickly Print Text Snippets Without Saving Them [Mac]

Have you ever needed to print text super quick? Text like an address to paste on a package or perhaps a phone number, the name of a book, reference to a journal? Basically, anything that you need to print but will be as likely to use again as you are to watch Twilight. If you’re [...] (more…)