Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source
Compile stats for text and HTML docs with Text Stat
by Brad Linder Mar 21st 2008 at 6:00PM
Text Stat is a lightweight, open source Windows application that will let you analyze any TXT or HTML file. In addition to those stats, you Text Stat will spit out a whole bunch of numbers that you'll probably never need to know, including the average number of syllables per word, the average number of words per sentence, and a Flesch score, which basically tells you how difficult the article is to read.
[via gHacks]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Todd said 6:16PM on 3-21-2008
Whoa cool!
I have people I pay to write blog posts so this is a very useful tool for me. Thanks!
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quanta said 8:18PM on 3-21-2008
Pretty neat, although some people might remember how all these features were built into WordPerfect 6.0 (with Grammatik!) back in the mid-1990s.
The more things change...
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Peter N Roth said 11:47AM on 3-22-2008
And, with fewer statistics, in Microsoft Word as far back as I can remember. Alt+F8 "Statistics"
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