Showing posts with label Monday ten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monday ten. Show all posts

Monday, October 08, 2007

Text Ten

Ten Things to Help with Your Text

Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.

1. Recover your keystrokes with Emsa Save My Work freeware.

2. The freeware version of iDailyDiary is a note-taking/journaling program has a rich text editor that can insert graphics, URL, Hypertext links and links to other diary pages.

3. Keep your text in user defined categories with Wicked Orange's Notes freeware.

4. Paddy freeware (scroll down) is "a small text file viewer with some configuration options for colors and fonts" that "can also be used with Linux type files."

5. PDF Text Reader freeware converts .pdf files to .txt files.

6. Extract text from .pdf, .doc, .rtf, .chm, and .html files with Text Mining Tool freeware.

7. Text Crawler freeware allows you to "instantly find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders."

8. "Easily split a selected text file into any number of text files" with Text Split freeware.

9. Tom's eTextReader freeware allows you to read text files onscreen in book format, select window size and font size/styles, edit the text and bookmark it.

10. Merge multiple text files into a single file with TXTCollector freeware.

"The first book is free" -- for the readers out there, author/playwright Richard Engling has offered his SF novel Body Mortgage for free download here.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Unrelated Ten

Ten Things That Defied Categorization

Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.

1. The Library of Congress American Memory project "provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

2. Also from the LoC, France in America /France en Amérique, a "bilingual digital library" that explores "the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century."

3. FreeMusicZilla freeware allows you to download music from social music services like Last.fm, IMEEM, and Pandora at no cost.

4. Store and manage your bookmarks better with Link Collector freeware.

5. Use plain language to talk to Microsoft Word with Natural Word freeware.

6. Play with your web page colors with PagePainter and SwatchBook freeware.

7. For all the other would-that-everything-could-take-place-in-a-featureless-void writers, Manon at Serendipity has a room description generator.

8. Sources and Experts List compiled by Kitty Bennett for the newsroom of the St. Petersburg Times.

9. For those who think we #7's are weird -- decorate your fictional interiors to your heart's content with Sweet Home 3D freeware.

10. Generate variously-styled vampire names for your undead crew over at Seventh Sanctum's vampire name generator.

Some of what's upcoming this week on PBW:

Bypassing the Blues

Observations on Gang Blogging

RW: In the Pink

Missing in action post: Voice vs. Style