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

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.

Filed under: Internet, Web services

u?op ?p?sdn p??? no? u??

flipYou know how when you were a kid you would type 80085 into a calculator because it sort of kind of looked like another word? Maybe that was just us. But modern computers give you oh so many more ways to make plain text borderline unreadable.

For instance, there's absolutely no practical reason you would ever want to u?op ?p?sdn ?x?? ?no? d?1?. But this little text inverter application has inspired hundreds of digg users to write comments that are best read if you're standing on your head.

Sure, it's kind of cool looking, but you know what else is cool? Being able to read the comments. Still, if you want to drive your mom crazy with your next email home, flip your text upside down and pretend not to understand why she's having trouble reading it.

[via AppScout]

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