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Free webapp Hearwho converts text you enter into an MP3 audio file you can download. Select from a male or female voice, English or Spanish text conversion, and choose the quality of the resulting...

If you've got a big heap o' text to drop on your blog, in Twitter, or any chat program that doesn't really love paragraph pasting, TinyPaste is a reasonable solution. Like TinyURL, the one-click tool...

Stylish Java applet Wordle creates custom word clouds out of any text you throw at it. You can also have it parse your Del.icio.us tags for a cloud, but either way, the real fun is in customizing the...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): If you find yourself regularly selecting, copying, and then pasting text from your browser into emails, Email This! is a definite time saver. A right-click (or toolbar)...

If you saw Adam's recent Hive Five roundup of text editors, you might have noticed that Vim, a child of Unix/Linux favorite Vi, still carries a lot of favor among coders and back-to-basics text...

Need to make all-caps text a little less shout-y? Don't feel like going through a ream of lines and fixing all the capitalization? TextOpus, a free text-filtering web app, is a great place to start....

Need to send a line of text too long for an instant message, but don't feel like dashing off an email? Find some text you want access to later while using someone else's computer or a remote...