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What's New

November 29, 2022 - The site was having navigation issues for a while. They've now been fixed.

April 4, 2022 - Added HTML Footnote generator tool.

March 23, 2022 - Added Name Generator tool.

September 14, 2021 - Added an exclusive font, Pixel Five.

June 23, 2019 - Added new Standard Hue names page.
Significant update to Coder Sans Mono font, improving legibility.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Online Tools & Reference

📋ASCII Table
A complete ASCII table for reference.

📋Cross Multiplication
A cross multiplication calculator and quick reference guide.

📋Name Generator
A unique online character name generator.

📋Number Converter
An numeric base/radix converter and quick reference guide.

📋Shell Reference
A comprehensive reference guide for Unix shell commands.

📋String Converter
A string converter and quick reference guide.

📋Standard Hue Names
A list of standard hue names, from primary to septenary.

📋The Golden Ratio
A Golden Ratio calculator, template, and quick reference guide.

Fonts

📄Coder Sans Mono
A free, open source programming font.

📄Pixel Five
A free, open source micro-sized font.

Colors

💾Adobe Swatch Libraries
Some custom Adobe Swatch Libraries in .ase format.

Mac Tools

💾BBEdit Text Filters
A set of BBEdit/TextWrangler text filters to automate some common actions in web development. Minify JavaScript and Tidy Up CSS, HTML, JS, JSON, PHP, and XML.

💾Connect VPN
Automate VPN connection with optional PIN and RSA token support. Includes AppleScript source code.

💾Desktop Icon Position
Quickly save and load the position of all desktop icons. A workaround for a Mac bug where desktop icons may be rearranged by the system. Includes AppleScript source code.

💾Disable Help Key
Disables the Help/Insert key on Intel Macs. This prevents accidental activation of a Help window when reaching for the Backspace key. Includes REALbasic source code.

💾DPI
Get the physical dimensions, supported resolutions, aspect ratio, and/or DPI of any connected display.

💾Hide All Toolbars
Quickly remove the toolbars from all open Finder windows.
Command-drag the app to the toolbar in any window for quick access.

💾Illustrator QuickLook Plugin
A QuickLook plugin for Mac, for adding QuickLook functionality and Finder icon previews for Adobe Illustrator (AI) files.

💾Install Custom Host Files
Backup and replace the system hosts file with one in the same folder as the script.

💾Keep Awake
Keep your Mac from idling or going to sleep. Useful for keeping a remote computer accessible.

💾Network Reset
Quickly reset the network interface (Ethernet/en0 and WiFi/en1).

💾Remote Management Reset
Quickly reset the remote management interface (more info).

💾Reveal Home Library
Reveal the Home Library folder, which is hidden by default in recent releases of Mac OS X.

💾Sleep Display
Instantly put the display to sleep.

Works in Progress

📋Mobile Text Editor
Mobile text editor experiment.

Commentary

🆚What is Free Software?
A closer look at the term.

Contact

Bitfume is a software and design site maintained by Adam Bjornson. Feel free to contact him with any questions or comments, or check out his online portfolio for more of his design work.