ConvertPDFToWord.net is an online service which can convert your PDF documents to Word documents on the fly. Simple upload your PDF and it will automatically convert to word format.
Using this service, you can you can easily grab the content or text from the PDF file. This service support other languages too.
There are some other similar services:
InfoTag Magic is a freeware which provide quick preview of data for audio files such as MP3, WMA, Ogg, and text files such as TXT, LOG, INI, and etc.
InfoTag Magic will installed as a shell extension, which will display the preview when mouse pointer is hover over the files in Windows Explorer. Without InfoTag Magic, you have to right-click the files and choose the Properties to read the file information.
This application works well with different audio format and text files. The supported audio formats are MP3, WMA, Monkey’s Audio, and Ogg Vorbis while the text files supported are TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK and QUE.
When you mouse over the text files, the first five lines of that file will be displayed as a tooltip message next to the mouse pointer. Below is the screenshots taken for both audio and text files:
Codepad is an online service which allow user to check codes online, without install any compiler.
Copy and paste your code in the text area provided and then choose your programming language. After that, hit the Paste and Run button and Codepad will try to compile and run your code.
You will get a short link which point to your code (your link will exists for 24 hours). If you want your link to exists permanently, you need to register an account.
Currently, Codepad supports C, C++, D, Haskell, Lua, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Scheme, and Tcl.
This service is very useful for user who want to compile a sample program but their computer doesn’t install the compiler.
Firefox comes with spell checking feature, which able to check our spelling error in text boxes. But, there are some fields which Firefox never check, for example the input textbox for username or email address.
We need to change the settings in Firefox so that it enable spell-checking for all text fields. I found this article that talk about this.
First, open your Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter. After that, type layout.spellcheckDefault in the filter field and change the value to 2 (the default value is 1). You may need to restart your Firefox after this.
Done! Now the spell checking feature is enabled for all text fields.
MyLiveSignature provide a free service for users to create their signature online, without using any external tools.
A lot of forums user will include their signature at the bottom of their posts. Some of them are simple text but some of them are well designed graphic. If you want a simple text signature with some font styles applied, you can try MyLiveSignature.
MyLiveSignature provide both free and paid services (most of them are paid services). The free service allow you to create text signature only. To create your signature, follow these 5 steps:
After that, you will get your signature in PNG format and also a unique ID. I am not sure the usage of the unique ID, probably for the paid service?
This is the sample signature that i had created:
Note: Some IE users will get a black background for PNG format image. So please convert the image to JPG format before use it.
There are a lot of services which play around with ASCII code. For example, hide image behind text, convert image to ASCII code, create ASCII text, and etc. ASCII Art Generator is a website which provide conversion of image to ASCII and text to ASCII.
In my previous article, i had introduce a service which can hide an image behind text. Basically, both of them using ASCII to represent the image. ASCII Art Generator is an interesting web application because you can generate beautiful ASCII art by providing them an image.
Choose Show in html and Show in color before you start convert your image to ASCII art. The example above show the result of the conversion. You can then share the ASCII art by copy and paste the HTML code to your blog/website.
Oh ya, if you want to upload your own image, you have to upload to the free image hosting server and then paste the URL of the image. I wonder why they don’t let users to upload image?
PDFTextOnline is a free converter which provide PDF to text conversion. It can extract text from a PDF document and you can download the output as a zip file to your own computer.
There are a lot of desktop applications that move into web applications. One of the example is Google Docs, which let users cerate or edit word documents online. Now, we can even extract text online.
We read a lot of PDF documents and sometimes we may want to copy text/image from the documents. With PDFTextOnline, you can quickly extract the text in the PDF documents. It will remains the pages, but the extracted text’s style looks different with the original document.
To use the service, simply upload your PDF document, wait for a while and you will get the result. They provide 2 options which let users choose the Font type and Page Layout.
This service is very useful especially when you are surfing through others computer which don’t have PDF editing tools. There are few advantages of this web application:
Erik Kastner had create an interesting tool which can hide any image behind some text. You provide the URL of the image and the website will generate the code for you.
When people open the website that contains the generated code, all they see is just few lines of plain text. They can only view the image when they highlight the text.
First, get the URL of the image that you want to hide behind the text. Then provide some text for the image. After that, choose the number of colors and the width of your output image. The higher number of colors will make the image look more “real” with the original image, but it will make the generate code longer.
The website actually converts the image to ACSII text and style them with CSS. It only works with Safari and Firefox which support CSS3. I don’t know whether IE7 support it or not, as i don’t have IE7 installed on my computer.
This tutorial will discuss about how to hide a text file in a jpeg/bitmap image file. It can be done without any other application.
Sometimes, we save our email-account and password inside a text file, but we scare other people get the file and then access our email. So, we always thinking method to protect our own password. We may use some password manager to save all the password with a master password. But, what happen is we lost the master password or other people manage to hack the master password? So, why not we hide the important information inside an image file?
Now, your informations are safe enough, because you are the only person which know which image contains the informations. Even they can access the file, they won’t open an image with notepad, right?
Advice: It is better to choose smaller size image, else you need longer time to open it using notepad.
