gHacks technology news » online tool http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:26:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13851 visual thesaurusVocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the text.

The online service will compute a list of words that have been found in the text and categorize them in multiple ways. The words are for example sorted by relevancy and subject. A click on any word will also display the relationship to other words in the text, a definition of the word and example usage from the text.

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A word cloud is displayed that is showing all words that have been discovered in the text. It is possible to filter words by relevancy or subject which can reduce the amount of words quite a bit. The subject filter is interesting as it displays word that fall into subjects such as math, science or art.

VocabGrabber has been designed to create a vocabulary list which can be a great help to understand and learn the text that has been pasted into the web form. It is currently only working with text that has been written in English.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/feed/ 2 Random date and time value generator http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:58:17 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/ There are tons of applications and other instances where you need to either test using dates, or you actually need random dates. If you want to write posts on your blog ahead of time, and post them randomly between the 1st of March and the 2nd of April, the random date and time value generator is the tool for you.

I love that this is such a simple tool, yet so powerful and customizable. You can enter exact start and end dates (down to seconds), select the number of dates you need, and you can even alter the format to your liking. This is great for international users, and for testing different input methods as well.

The data is then presented in simple text form, one date after another. This makes populating Excel tables super easy, no formatting to worry about, just copy paste. I wish they would make many more tools like this, this date generator is something that has saved me many hours of work.

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