Flip Title lets you type u?op ?p?sdn!

by Jay Hathaway Nov 24th 2008

I always thought typing upside down was an obnoxious novelty trick, but I admit it can be pretty fun. Flip Title, a site that flips over any text you input, showed me that it can also be useful. Upside-down characters can be part of URLs or passwords for a little bit of extra security. They can also be part of usernames on some services, which makes it a pain in the butt for anyone to add you without using copy and paste.

Using the magic of Unicode, Flip Title totally flips your words, upside down and backward. If you want text that's upside-down and forward, you'll have to look elsewhere (or type everything backward into Flip Title). Despite the practical uses I described above, I'm still against anyone using upside-down text to annoy me in instant messages.

If you're looking for a text-flipping alternative to Flip Title, you might want to check out our earlier review of Reverse Fad's upside-down text tool.

Tags: flip-title, text, unicode, upside-down

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rohit Kapur said 12:25PM on 11-24-2008

˙ǝpɐɯ ǝq oʇ pɐɥ ʇuǝɯɯoɔ sıɥʇ

Rocketboy said 12:32PM on 11-24-2008

¿ʇı pıp

Rocketboy said 12:36PM on 11-24-2008

Here's a line from Flip Title:
ǝılɹɐɥɔ oʌɐɹq ɐɥdlɐ

And the regular old Flip:
ǝılɹɐɥɔ oʌɐɹq ɐɥdlɐ

Result? Flip does just as good of a job, but sʇuǝɯsıʇɹǝʌpɐ ʇnoɥʇıʍ

Jay Hathaway said 12:38PM on 11-24-2008

Ooh, good point. I hadn't seen the other flip at first, and I usually browse with ad blocking on, so I wouldn't have caught that. Thanks!

Rocketboy said 10:10AM on 11-25-2008

Alas, Chrome does not block adverts, so that was the first thing I noticed.

JJ said 2:52PM on 11-24-2008

¡uʍop ǝpısdn pǝʇsod ʇǝƃpɐƃuǝ uo sɹǝsn ǝsoɥʇ ʍoɥ ʍouʞ ı ʍou

There were a few people on Engadget posting comments like this and they never said how they did it. Finally, the secret's out. >_>;

flipper said 2:52PM on 11-24-2008

feeling great about it, checkout FlippingMania, a free uber coolly designed text flipping service that even helps you encrypt your mails. have a try at

http://flippingmania.blogspot.com

after all flipping is a great web app

samuel said 2:12PM on 11-25-2008

Hey check this out:

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