Text Cleanup & Whitespace Fixer: tidying text that arrived in pieces
Doubled spaces, hard line breaks, padded indents. What each cleanup rule actually does, and which combination to switch on for the text in front of you.
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Letter Case Converter: matching the case to where the text will live
Ten cases in one box. How to pick the right one for a slug, a variable or a heading — and what the converter does to your punctuation along the way.
Read the articleWord Counter & Reading Time: what each number actually measures
Six counts, two time estimates and a list of the words you keep leaning on. How they are calculated, and how to read them without fooling yourself.
Read the articleJSON Formatter & Validator: reading, checking and reshaping JSON
Format it, minify it, sort it, and find out exactly where it breaks. A walk through every control, and what the tool deliberately refuses to accept.
Read the articleBase64 Encode & Decode: passing text through systems that only accept ASCII
What Base64 is for, why the padding is there, and how to keep the round trip clean when the text contains anything other than plain Latin letters.
Read the articleURL Encode & Decode: escaping values without breaking the URL
Two ways to escape, one way to read an address. When to encode a whole URL, when to encode a single value, and how to see what a link is actually carrying.
Read the articleHTML, CSS & JavaScript Minifier: seeing what the whitespace costs you
Strip comments and indentation from a file and watch the size drop. How each language is handled, and where this kind of minifier stops.
Read the articleCSV Data Integrity Auditor: finding the values that change on import
Precision loss, leading zeros, ambiguous dates and ragged rows. What each check looks for, and how to read the report before a spreadsheet rewrites your file.
Read the articleWebfont Coverage & Overlap Advisor: finding the characters two fonts both claim
Overlapping unicode ranges, duplicate faces and characters a font promises but does not contain. How to read the font rules in a stylesheet and check them against the real files.
Read the articleImage Compressor & Resizer: getting a photo under the size limit
Compress or resize a JPEG, PNG or WebP in the browser and compare the sizes before you download. Choosing a quality setting that keeps the picture looking right.
Read the articleImages to PDF Converter: turning a pile of photos into one document
Combine images into a single PDF, reorder the pages and choose the page size and orientation. What happens to each picture once the document is built.
Read the articleQR Code Generator: making a code that still scans after printing
Turn a link or a note into a downloadable QR code. Size, error correction and colour — and the practical rules that decide whether it scans at all.
Read the articleBinary File Inspector: looking inside a file before you trust it
Magic numbers, chunk tables, entropy and a SHA-256 digest. What the inspector reads out of images, archives, PDFs and fonts, and what it deliberately does not claim.
Read the articleCaption & Subtitle QC Validator: checking a subtitle file against delivery rules
Reading speed, line length, overlaps and gaps, measured against published delivery profiles. What each limit means, where the numbers come from, and how to read the report.
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