Social Source Commons

FrontlineSMS provides an affordable, standalone turn-key solution to NGOs, allowing them to access 'group' SMS technology.

Hardcore text editor for Mac OS X.

An improved version of the vi editor

Handy utility to make it easy to clean up Internet text littered with extraneous characters and poor formatting.

Full-screen text editor.

Text Tree is an outline based writer's tool.

Text expansion utility

“Pdftotext” is a shell program for converting PDF (Portable Document Format / Adobe Acrobat) documents into plain text.

catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud.

Encrypts text files in an EXE format.

Records expanded text messages to replace predetermined abbreviations.

Blog editing and publishing software that integrates with NetNewsWire as well as most text editors.

mCommons allows you to integrate mobile messaging into your campaign strategy, your CRM, and your website.

Tool to convert paper documents into searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, page and content recognition, and cleanup tools.

Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages and runs under the MS Windows environment. Its features include syntax highlighting, WYSIWYG, auto-completion, multi document/view and more.

Upload scanned images of text to identify the font used in the text.

Tool for posting to Twitter via email.

Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!

Affordable complete solution for email blasting, text messaging, petitions, surveys, voting, and more. Integrates with various databases and is extremely user friendly.

An Open Source, self hosted web office.

A hosted service to make it easy to work in groups. Have group emails, text messages, folders, calendars, links and meetings. Designed to bring all of group communication pathways into a central, simple place, Wiggio provides a place for social collaboration.

Pingie will automatically alert you via text, email and/or IM when your favorite site posts an update within moments of its posting.

Gaupol is a software tool for the Windows operating system that translates subtitles on video from one language to another. Focused on being accessible to the user, Gaupol emphasizes simplicity and ease of use and can work in many subtitle file formats.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes

Previously Smultron, Fraise is a fork of the amazing open-source code editor for OSX

Hosted text-to-speech conversion platform, with free and paid versions. Converts uploaded Word and PDF files to audio, integrates with Wordpress and standard web pages to create audio casts on the fly.

Universal freeware editor

Text editor for software development

Computer based SMS management system

Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting.

TextSecure encrypts your text messages over the air and on your phone. It's almost identical to the normal text messaging application, and is just as easy to use.