"To build on the last paragraph, we considered three different alternatives to canvas:

textarea
contentEditable
"line blocks"
The "control" argument above is one reason we dismissed textarea and contentEditable; further, we've seen a large number of other web editor implementations based on these approaches and based on playing with those and by the many horror stories floating around the Web from their authors, we were concerned that we couldn't overcome performance and compatibility problems, especially when editing large files."

"DashExpander is a Snippet Abbreviation expander. It saves you from typing countless keys for frequently used pieces of text. Abbreviation Expansion supports placeholders which can be edited before pasting, without disrupting your work. DashExpander is currently free while in beta and is in active development."

"Windows/Mac/Linux: The email arrived with tab breaks everywhere, excess spacing, strange Word-conversion characters, and you just don't have time for this. CleanHaven is there, on any system, to fix the text any way you need it, whether it's human or computer error. Paste in whatever text you've got, then pick from the drop-down menus and sections up top what you need fixed. CleanHaven knows how to patch up capitalization and spelling errors, sure, but can also sort items in alphabetical or numerical order, strip out excess spaces or tabs, quickly repair broken email or HTML copies, and otherwise do the things you'd grumble about while doing manually. There's also a find-and-replace function that's pretty powerful, and analysis options for seeing the frequency of words and phrases."

"Ever lost your phone and you go to call it to listen for the ringer and remember its on silent mode? If your like me (or my wife) you do it all the time. Now when you lose it you can use another phone to text a special message that you can set and it will turn silent mode off and the ringer volume all the way up so you can here it ring. You can also get the GPS location of your phone in latitude and longitude and a link to Google maps so you can even get directions to it."

Handy regex to extract URLs in text (break when followed by paren, includes https) "\(?\bhttps?://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_(|] "

"GOD TEXTS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS." 1. no1 b4 me. srsly. 2. dnt wrshp pix/idols 3. no omg's 4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r) 5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool 6. dnt kill ppl 7. :-X only w/ m8 8. dnt steal 9. dnt lie re: bf 10. dnt ogle ur bf's m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob. M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl. ttyl, JHWH. ps. wwjd?

"a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply. This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address. Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP format. The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour."

"=ARRAYFORMULA(SUBSTITUTE(CONCATENATE( TRIM(P6:P53)&IF(LEN(TRIM(P6:P53))=0,"",", "); ",");", ,";"")) "

good luck with this text google

"a browser based collaborative source code editor"

slick looking online team-editor

"Cooperative multi-user text editing over the internet. Every co-author can edit the shared document at any time, from any place, and at the same time! ... Multiple text cursors visible on the screen. Every user has their own color. Every cursor movement and text changes are simultaneously visible on the screen by all users."

Awesome... "toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

silly/handy tool to rotate text 180 degrees

highlighting the differences between vi and vim

Nice list! "Underlines cut right through the descenders in your typeface, making it harder to read. Instead of text-decoration: underline, use "border-bottom: solid 1px #00f;" to draw a line below your text instead of through it."

"Textorizer1 is now available as a downloadable application for Linux, Windows or Mac. It's by far the best version, with many more controls over the generated image. The online version is still available if you'd rather not install it. Ditto for textoriz

text replacement utility for linux

some web-based tools for text-wrangling: Filter Lines; Sort Lines; Reverse Lines; Shuffle Lines; Delete Duplicate Lines; Add Lines Numbers; etc.

for when I switch ;)

Converts PDF text quickly and accurately Handles all fonts and languages (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more)

AHK script to paste plain text

allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want.

allows you to record (English, French or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file.

Makes 1em high vertical spacing above and below all paragraphs (the "Normal paragraph" style) and lists (bulleted or numbered)

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Supports syntax highlighting.

My 15 minutes of Mac fame before the PC siren lured me away... (oh yes, "hand drawn" ASCII art :)

This javascript utility converts text into its ASCII equivalent.

a cross-platform application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix

repository for bundles ported for the e Text Editor from the MacroMates repository or for original bundles, commands, snippets, or syntaxes.

Summary of useful eyetracking research

a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud.

like writely, but posts directly to blogs (not blogger yet?)

text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work.

InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout

enable html temporarily when composing in thunderbird

source code editor for Windows

the free, open source, text editor with special features for coders

a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

Quicktext is an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird. It adds a menu under the subject from which you easily can insert standard texts that you have defined.

Cooperative multi-user text editing over the internet.

Draw words large in ascii