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"Create a tag cloud from cells in your spreadsheet with the advanced word cloud gadget. Popular words are bigger and bolder. Choose the color, exclude common ."

"Wordle is a 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. "

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.

"While you can choose from numerous online PDF to Word converters, sometimes you'll actually want your own readily available software. Firstly, offline conversion tools are by and large much faster than their online counterparts, and secondly, your online conversion will remain online. Anything other than the odd document shouldn't be converted using an online tool, e.g. anything sensitive, business documents, and information you'd like to keep private."

"Step 1) Add words to your puzzle Step 2) Copy and paste the code into your website It's that easy to make free word search puzzles!"

"As the title indicates, converts a PDF to a Word Document. - Free - Windows"

asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.

Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols.Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.

"This lets you make word clouds based upon your Twitter updates."

" Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."

Similar to Jing by the looks of things

"SoundNote is the best way to take notes on your iPad. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio."

Type in a search term and your results come back coded by readability level The name "Twurdy" comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?". The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.

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"lets you create word clouds in various shapes, which you can then embed (or get a link to it)."

like wordle

"embedit.in is the easiest way to embed any document or any webpage in your blog, profile, or website. It works with PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other formats. It's totally free of charge. "

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What makes it stand out from the other PDF annotators in this list is that it allows you to share your marked-up PDF file with a shortened link, and even with embed codes! Once you share it, you can choose to let your viewers add comments to your document. The other unique feature is that you can collaborate with others so you can all view and annotate the file together, even if you're in remote locations. You can then see all of the changes made to the document in a sidebar. Crocodoc allows you to download the original file as well as the annotated version, which you can view in Sumatra, Evince or your favorite PDF reader, with annotations and all.

view images from around for the world based on the date and time you search them out.

Good for researching current events