List of ARG tools

This list is a short summary of different game resources used or suggested by some of the players. It is by no means exhaustive and undoubtedly many players have a number of other tools yet to be disclosed.

Anagram Tools

• Anagram elimination tool
• Anagram Site
• WordSmith's Internet Anagram Server
• Anagram Artist

Cipher Tools

• Rumkin's Ciphers & Codes Tools

Translation Tools

• Morse Code Translation
• Binary Translator
• InterTran Language Translator
  • InterTran for your site
• Binary, Hex, and Octal translation

Writing Systems/Identification

• Omniglot - Modern, arcane, and obscure writing systems

Sound Editing

• Audacity (note: you can select your source to be straight from the webpage stream)

Graphics Manipulation

• irfanview
• Photoshop

Video Manipulation

• Keepvid -- Easily extract the flv files at youtube and other sites.
• VideoDownloader
  • Riva FLV Encoder (note: can extract video to stills or other video formats)

Textual Deciphering

• Writely

Posting

Web Adresses

• TinyURL

Purpose & Result: Create shorter URL links by generating a random combination of letters and/or numbers based on the url submitted
i.e., a given URL will generate the same Tinyurl link each time.

Images

• ImageShack
• PhotoBucket

Videos

• YouTube
• Revver

Audio

• SaveFile

Text

• Writely

Chat

• IRC Tutorial
• Freenode
• irc.freenode.net

Religious Textual References

• Gideon Bible (Christian)(chosen due to its use in a CiW clue)
• Internet Sacred Text Archive - Holy books/texts from numerous religions/sects available online.

• Thelemic
• H.P. Lovecraft

Mapping Tools

• Google Maps