How to Convert Images to Pencil Sketches Online in Seconds Let's talk about the timeless and the undeniable appeal of a classic, hand-drawn, pencil sketch. There is something so personal, so classic, and so deeply artistic about it. It has a way of capturing the pure and the simple essence of a moment in a way that a normal, full-color photograph sometimes just can't. I am sure that many of us have looked at a beautiful photograph maybe it's a heartfelt portrait of a loved one, it could be a...
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How to Convert Base64 Strings to Images Online in Seconds Let's talk about a strange and a slightly mysterious sight that almost every web developer has encountered at some point in their career. You're digging through the source code of a website or a complex HTML email. You find the part of the code where an image is supposed to be, but instead of seeing a normal, friendly, and familiar link to a .jpg or a .png file, you are met with a massive and an intimidating wall of what...
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How to Convert Numbers into Words Online in Seconds Let's talk about a very specific and a surprisingly high-stakes writing task that most of us have had to face at some point. You are writing a cheque. You have carefully and neatly written the numerical value in that little box on the right-hand side: Rs. 152,850. Now comes the part that always makes you pause. You have to write that exact same number out, in words, on that long, blank line. A little bit of self-doubt starts to creep in....
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How to Convert CSV Files to JSON Online in Seconds Let's talk about one of the most common and most fundamental formats in the entire world of data. You've just been handed a big chunk of information. It's in a .csv file. That is, of course, the good old, the humble, and the incredibly useful, Comma-Separated Values file. It is the universal, the no-frills, and the plain-and-simple format for any kind of tabular data that has been exported from a spreadsheet or from a database. But here’s the problem. While...
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How to Convert XML Files to JSON Online in Seconds Let's talk about a tale of two languages. In the vast and ever-evolving world of digital data, there have long been two, competing superpowers, two dominant and distinct languages that are used for the purpose of structuring and of sharing information. On one side, you have the old and the venerable king: XML. It is powerful, it is strict, it is incredibly descriptive, and for many, many years, it has been the absolute backbone of large-scale, enterprise software systems. It...
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How to Generate Lorem Ipsum Text Online in Seconds Let's talk about a very specific and a very common moment in the creative process. You're a designer, and you are presenting a brand-new, and a very beautiful, website mockup to a client. The layout is perfect, the colors are stunning, and the font choices are elegant. But the final, written content for the website isn't ready yet. So, where all of the final text will eventually go, you have placed a block of what looks, to the untrained eye, like...
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How to Shorten URLs Online in Seconds Let's talk about a very modern and a very common digital eyesore. You're crafting the perfect social media post. The image is beautiful, the caption is witty and engaging. As the final touch, you go to paste in the link to the brilliant article that you are sharing. And what appears on your screen is an absolute monster. It is a three-line-long, completely unreadable jumble of random letters, of numbers, of question marks, and of percentage signs. It’s long, it's messy, it looks...
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