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Caroline Fabès

Unipasta, a Unicode browser

When writ­ing in French I’m always look­ing for char­ac­ters that can’t be eas­ily typed with a key­board (like œ, for exam­ple). I used to go to copypastecharacter.com for its sim­plic­ity: just go to that page, click on a char­ac­ter and boom, it’s in your clip­board, ready to be pasted!

But I wanted some­thing more powerful/thorough that would remem­ber my fre­quently used char­ac­ters. So I wrote Uni­pasta!

Unipasta

Here’s what you should know about it:

  1. Every input under the selected char­ac­ter (char, code and hex) can be edited and will update each other. Eas­ily jump to any character!
  2. The font met­rics (base­line, x-height and cap-height) are auto-calculated and will help you know where the char lives;
  3. Click on the “More Info” link to jump to fileformat.info and access a lot of details about the selected character;
  4. Every char­ac­ter your click will be auto­mat­i­cally copied to your clip­board, handy!
  5. Use the “Recent char­ac­ters” list to quickly access your favorite ones (lat­est used will always be listed first).

If you think some miss­ing Uni­code blocks are impor­tant to you or if you’d like to add a new char­ac­ter list­ing, just ask for it!

Shrink O’Mobile

Remem­ber Shrink O’Matic, the “oh, so easy to use” image shrinker for Win­dows, Mac and Linux? Intro­duc­ing Shrink O’Mobile, the “oh, so easy to use” image shrinker for Android!

Because cam­eras on phones take big pic­tures and because you might want to send smaller/lighter versions, Shrink O’Mobile is here to help out. Just launch the app, choose the way you want your image to be shrunk, pick your image and BOOM! Your fresh, smaller, new ver­sion is instantly stored in your cam­era roll. Easy as pie.

And did I men­tion the app is free? It is.

Rita

Type Tip

I just launched a Tum­blr about the font cre­ation process I recently started. Should be inter­est­ing to any­one lov­ing fonts as I will study some of their aspects and be as visual as I can. Should be.

Here it is, folks: Type Tip. Learn more on the About page.

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