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TypeFront: Font Host for Your Website

Browsers have recently included downloadable font support. This means that web designers are no longer restricted to using default fonts in their designs. Now, browsers will be able to download any font and display it even if that particular font is not installed on the end-user’s computer.

TypeFront is a web font distribution platform for designers who are looking to take advantage of the new wave of downloadable font support in browsers. With this easy to use platform, a designer can simply upload a font that has been acquired under a web-friendly license. Upon identifying the domain the where the font will appear, a code will be provided that will allow the designer to call upon the uploaded font in CSS.

TypeFront supports TrueType (.ttf), OpenType (.otf) and Web Open Font Format (.woff) files.

This service is particularly useful if you don’t want others to grab your fonts from other hosts. Only the identified domain that you placed on your TypeFront account will be allowed to display the font. This will protect your font from being used by other websites without your permission. If you have spent certain amount of money to purchase the font that makes your website design rock, this is a good precaution to take to protect your precious font.

You can sign-up for a free service which allows you to upload one font with a 500 views per day limit. If that’s not enough for you or your website traffic, you can upgrade you font hosting plan based on your website’s traffic.

Tags: Downloadable Font Support, Font Host, Fonts, Type Front

SocialVisor: Twitter and Facebook Widget for People Who have a Life

Social Visor is a Twitter and Facebook application/client that allows you to access the said social networking sites right on your computer’s desktop. It acts as a scrolling ticker visor and appears on the top part of your screen.

Here’s a list of features that you can expect to find in SocialVisor:

- Group your friends regardless of whether they are on twitter, facebook or both.

- Find conversations that are happening between your friends on twitter. SocialVisor creates a list of conversations so that you can find and see what your friends are talking about.

- Access your direct messages, mentions, retweets and @ messages and be notified when new messages arrive.

- ‘Star’ tweets or facebook updates to save then for later.

- Forward tweets or facebook updates by email to anyone.

- Reply to tweets

- Comment on facebook updates

- Retweet a tweet

- Like or un-like a facebook update

- Post a link, we shorten links automagically so you needent worry about wasting precious characters.

- Share pictures, we’ll load them to twitpic and share the link to your picture.

- Share links and pictures with your twitter and facebook simultaneously.

- Post tweets & updates to twitter and facebook simtaneously.

- View your friends’ pictures right in SocialVisor.

- Autatically split your tweets if 140 characters just isn’t enough.

- Search twitter to find interesting people and content.

- Follow or un-follow anyone right from SocialVisor.

- View recent tweets for people you follow.

- View recent posts for any of your facebook friends

The application will allow you to use Twitter and Facebook without heading to your browser to check them out. It will reduce the time spent switching from window to window just to continue with your work and update your social account(s). With this tool you can do both without wasting too much time. You can easily read the updates that appear on top of your screen. This is the app to use for power users who doesn’t mind getting updates through a client. Maintain the level of productivity while working or doing something else while social networking.

Tags: application, Desktop App, Facebook, Social Client, Social Networking Client, Social Visor, twitter

CodeOrgan: Play Music using a Website’s Content

CodeOrgan is unique application that converts a website’s content into music. It analyses the body content of any web page and translates that content into music. Using a complex algorithm, CodeOrgan defines the key, synthesizer, and drum patter that is most appropriate for the page content.

How it works:

The algorithm scans the page contents and removes all characters not found in the musical scale ( A to G). Then, it analyses the remaining characters to find the most commonly used note. If the note is an even number, the whole page is translated in to the Major Pentatonic Scaleof that particular note. If the note is an odd number, it becomes Minor.

The second part of the process is for CodeOrgan to define which synthesizer to use. This is based upon the total number of characters used on the web page. The algorithm chooses from a total of 10 synthesizer effects. A particular synthesizer is chosen based on the percentage of the content.

Lastly, CodeOrgan selects a drum loop based upon the Ratio of characters on the page versus the number of characters that are actually musical notes – there currently 10 different drum loops to pick from.

If you want to get more out of your favorite website aside from its content, you should try CodeOrgan. All you need to do is grab the URL of the website and paste it on CodeOrgan. Wait a few moments as the algorithm scans the site and hear it play the beat of the content.

Tags: CodeOrgan, Music Player, website

FillAnyPDF: Free PDF Form Editor

Need to fill out a PDF form? Look no further, head over to FillAnyPDF. It’s an online tool that lets you Fill, Share and Save PDF forms online. There’s no software needed, all you need is your Browser and a PDF form to fill out. You can use any PDF form, even the non-interactive ones.

Better than a Fax

Do you ask anyone to print a form, fill it out, and fax it back? You can get more forms returned faster using FillAnyPdf.com. Just send them a link and they can fill it out and sign online. No printing or faxing needed.

This tool is great for sharing forms online that needs to be filled out by other people. It can be used to distribute survey forms and the like. You can invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. You can choose from a collection of free forms available on the website or upload your own PDF form and watch FillAnyPDF convert it to a format that people can fill out.

For people who are not worried about sharing personal data or information online, FillAnyPDF can prove to be a nifty tool for anyone who needs to gather data through PDF forms. You can even collect signatures through the service and find it a valuable time-saving resource.

FillAnyPdf Benefits

Forms filled faster

Easier to read

Returned more often

Data is searchable

Tags: FillAnyPDF, Form Editor, pdf, PDF Forms

Youblisher Makes PDF Documents Flippable

Youblisher is an online attempt to visually reproduce the experience of reading a book or a magazine in real life. Although it is not as close as reproducing the physical aspect of actually holding a real book, the result it gives is surprisingly astounding.

The service allows you to upload a PDF document or grab one online by providing a URL. All you need is an account and you can immediately experience reading an online document, Youblisher style. The visual reproduction of actually flipping through the pages of a magazine or a book is very remarkable. You’ll be able to flip pages back and forth as if you are reading an actual book with sounds to match.

Reading an actual book – the flipping of the pages with your fingers and holding its spine as you read is impossible to mimic online. What Youblisher has done is give us a better alternative in reading documents, books and magazines online.

Tags: documents, ebooks, Flippable, pdf, Youblisher

Tweetz.Tv : A Place to Watch Videos Mentioned on Twitter

Tweetz.TV is a Twtter app that lets you Televize your Twitter. It shows tweeted videos and allows you to view them in one place. Instead of scanning your Twitter timeline for video links, you can simply visit Tweetz.TV and view them instantly as soon as you log in using your Twitter account.

A TV is useless without channels, so the service offers three different channels. My TV is the channel that shows the videos that are posted by the people you follow. The Public TV channel is where the videos posted in the public timeline of Twitter appears. Finally, the Search TV channel lets you look for tweeted videos on a specific topic.

The service is like a filter for tweeted videos which actually lets you watch them. At the moment, Tweetz.TV only supports YouTube videos. You can look forward to seeing Vimeo and Dailymotion join the list of supported videos soon.

Tags: TV, Tweetz.TV, twitter, videos