Filed under: Text, Utilities, Web services, Freeware
Hidetext turns any text into an image
Sure, it's pretty easy to turn text into an image using Photoshop or just about any other graphics program. But if you want a quick and easy way to do it without having to use any external apps, try Hidetext, now in beta. The free service isn't designed for graphic designers. Rather, the idea behind it is that if you create graphics out of text, they become ungoogleable, and thereby can't be indexed by Google or other search engines. This way, the theory goes, you can put any text you want on the web and have at least a modicum of privacy, since search engines won't find it. Seems to me that a good robots.txt file, directories without links and that old chestnut htaccess would do the trick a lot more effectively, with minimal extra work. But I could see some utility in this if, for example, you want to include text in a blog posting that you'd rather not have spidered (like a list of email addresses). 
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Stublag said 4:57PM on 9-27-2005
It would be nice if there was a link provided for more information..?
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Bennor said 5:02PM on 9-27-2005
The url is www dot hidetext dot net...
Try using google!
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Robin said 7:45AM on 9-28-2005
http://www.hidetext.net/
Thanks be to google.
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