Below is a list of all sorts of online applications that let you tweak, twist, torment and otherwise manipulate text in some fashion. So without further ado…

For the Myspace Crowd:

http://www.sparklee.com/
Glitter text for the gaudy-enthusiast. Need I say more?

http://www.marqueetextlive.com/
If you really, really miss the old Web 0.5 Beta days, then you’ll love creating Marquee Text that scrolls annoying across the page. Also good for the Myspacer’s ya know.

For the Slightly Less Annoying Than Myspacer’s Crowd:

http://www.wishafriend.com/pf/mt/
If you took the red pill, then you obviously want to display your message as green, scrolling Matrix Text.

http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp
Ninja text. If you want a little animated Ninja to write out a message, for your visitors, then this is the one you want.

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
Text as ASCII – Seems redundant to me, but if you want to turn your perfectly readable text into nearly unreadable ASCII art, this will do the job.

http://text-image.com/
Create text-images from photos. Kinda weird, but kinda cool too.

For the Almost A Real Business Crowd:

http://cooltext.com/
CoolText graphics generator for creating logos and buttons from text

http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/
Lorem ipsum generator with a twist. Choose Lorem ipsum or one of several other auto-generated “languages” for your “fill up the space” layout needs.

For the Wanna-be Musicians Out There:

http://p22.com/musicfont/
Make your text sing! Well, or at least generate a musical composition that is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file from the text you enter. Type your text, set the Beats Per Minute, choose an instrument, and have your words turned into music, with both sound and sheet music for you to use.

For the Eggheads and Word Nerds:

http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php
Analyze text for word count, unique words, number of sentences, average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. Whoops, sorry, almost fell asleep there, but this is bound to be exciting for someone out there.

http://textalyser.net/
If that didn’t put you to sleep, try this one. More facts and figures to determine all kinds of stuff about your text, such as analysis of words groups, getting keyword density, analyzing word/phrase prominence, and determining the readability level. Lots more stuff, too, but I’m out of breath now.

http://www.neoformix.com/2007/ATextExplorer.html
If you’ve ever wanted to graph the relationship of words with pretty, colorful bubbles, then this text visualiztion tool might turn you on.

For the Web 2.0′ers:

http://wordle.net/
Word Clouds as art might be more your style. Creates “word clouds” from your text with greater prominence given to words that appear more frequently in the text. Tweak the resulting cloud with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes and save the image to be used anywhere you like.

For Those Wearing Tinfoil Hats:

http://metaatem.net/highlite/
If you feel the need to be sneaky, this one lets you hide an image in html (and vice versa)…or something like that. I got confused playing with it, but it’s definitely interesting.

http://www.coderlab.us/playground/email_encoder.php
Turn your email address into an image or encode it so those nasty bot harvesters don’t add your email address to their spam lists.

http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/htmlhashing.htm
Oh, while you’re attempting to foil the bots of the world, you might want to obfuscate (don’t you just love that word?) any bit of text or html. Obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate. That should be the word of the day.

http://infoencrypt.com/
Ok, to continue on with the theme of secret decoder rings and such, this site lets you encrypt text that can only be unencrypted by those who possess the oh-so-secret password. Shhhhh…

For Those That Need To Get Busy (with text):

http://www.beetleinabox.com/mkv_input.html
Got some text that needs to have some characters stripped out of it? Throw it into the Markov Text Synthesizer, and have it remove line breaks, tabs, numbers, underscores, dots, commas, brackets, # signs, and much more. Just check off the bits you want removed, and it goes from there.

http://www.linkrr.com/
Someone gave you a .txt file filled with URLs, didn’t they? And you wish you could just click on them and be automagically trasnsported to the sites, but unfortunately, those links are clickable. Well, they can be with linkrr. Just copy/paste them into the form and voila, all are rendered clickable, and you can even open them all with one click. The site mentions that it’s great for downloading multi-part files from file hosting services, and I imagine that might indeed be useful.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
Speaking of friends who give you thinks that are awkward to deal with, how about the friend that gives you the url of a pdf file and wants you to do something with the text within it. Never fear, Adobe has a pdf to text (or html) converter that can come to the rescue.

For The Manic Multitaskers:

http://textop.us/
Looking for a swiss-army-knife text manipulation site? TextOpus has that covered, with its vast array of tools for tweaking text. Here’s a few of the many: reverse text, encrypt text, strip tags and characters from text, sort lines, add line numbers, capitalize first letters, and lots more.

For The Robotic:

http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en
If you’ve ever wanted to hear a funny male or female robotic voice speak your text, and be able to save that as an mp3 file, then vozMe has you covered. They even have these funny voices available in several languages! (Note that I’m calling them funny voices, but I don’t think that they are intended to be funny).

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