Fun program to create words/acronyms out of numbers?

[fitwell]

This is probably a funny request, but it would be neat to find a fun
program that creates words out of a series of numbers with the
variations possible listed.

What I need this for is to take a phone number and to create an
acronym out of that number. I'd like a program to do that since, like
with those anagram word games, it's always so much faster when the
computer does all the work! <g>

So, i.e., 2 has usable letters of A, B, C as per out telephone touch
pad. 6 has the letters D, E and F, etc. Hoping that someone knows of
one of those quirky little freewares out there that can do this. Tx.

 

[Lou]

This is probably a funny request, but it would be neat to find a fun
program that creates words out of a series of numbers with the
variations possible listed.

What I need this for is to take a phone number and to create an
acronym out of that number. I'd like a program to do that since, like
with those anagram word games, it's always so much faster when the
computer does all the work! <g>

So, i.e., 2 has usable letters of A, B, C as per out telephone touch
pad. 6 has the letters D, E and F, etc. Hoping that someone knows of
one of those quirky little freewares out there that can do this. Tx.

http://www.phonespell.org/

For excel
http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2004/05/13/remembering-telephone-numbers/

Lou

 

[fitwell]

http://www.phonespell.org/

For excel
http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2004/05/13/remembering-telephone-numbers/

Lou

Thanks. Though the first webpage couldn't find a mnemonic for the tel
# in question, it did make me find a better phrase to use in googling:
"phone-number mnemonic". All of a sudden, I get hits!

I found something that sounds exactly what I need though it's not for
my OS. It has a tar extension, which I know is not windows though I
can't remember for which OS it usu. is. It's called Letterize:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/letterize/

And tapping into the type of thing that 1-800 #'s need, there are
various articles, of which here are some:
http://successdoctor.com/articles/how_to_make_your_phone_number_memorable.htm
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Szauter1.html



And pages like the phonespell one above:
http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317832/us317886/us65184/us1147024/
http://www.bitfire.com/words/search/
http://www.phonetic.com/

 

[Lou]

Thanks. Though the first webpage couldn't find a mnemonic for the tel
# in question, it did make me find a better phrase to use in googling:
"phone-number mnemonic". All of a sudden, I get hits!

I found something that sounds exactly what I need though it's not for
my OS. It has a tar extension, which I know is not windows though I
can't remember for which OS it usu. is. It's called Letterize:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/letterize/

And tapping into the type of thing that 1-800 #'s need, there are
various articles, of which here are some:
http://successdoctor.com/articles/how_to_make_your_phone_number_memorable.htm
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Szauter1.html

And pages like the phonespell one above:
http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317832/us317886/us65184/us1147024/
http://www.bitfire.com/words/search/
http://www.phonetic.com/

I believe tar is for mac but there is also a decompression program for windows
now. Perhaps someone can post a link?

Lou

 

[fitwell]

I believe tar is for mac but there is also a decompression program for windows
now. Perhaps someone can post a link?

But wonder if the program would work at all. Interesting question.
If tar is a Mac format, I was under the impressing that unless the app
itself is cross-platform, it wouldn't work in Windows? Am I wrong
about that?

 

[David]

But wonder if the program would work at all. Interesting question.
If tar is a Mac format, I was under the impressing that unless the app
itself is cross-platform, it wouldn't work in Windows? Am I wrong
about that?

Tar is a Linux format.
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[Gary R. Schmidt]

David wrote:
[SNIP}

Tar is a Linux format.

Wrong.

tar (Tape ARchive) is a thoroughly portable form of grouping files
together, has been around for decades, and implementations of it have
been available for just about every OS under the sun.

It came from the UNIX world.

I've used it on many, many, many UNIX systems and variants, MPE systems,
AOS/VS, PC/MS-DOS, VMS, Mac, Windows 3.x, Win32... If the system didn't
have it, it was trivial to get it running.

Cygwin has a good implementation of GNU-tar. No doubt there are others.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[David]

David wrote:
[SNIP}

Tar is a Linux format.

Wrong.

Not wrong just incomplete.

tar (Tape ARchive) is a thoroughly portable form of grouping files
together, has been around for decades, and implementations of it have
been available for just about every OS under the sun.

It came from the UNIX world.

OK. Linux is part of the UNIX world.

I've used it on many, many, many UNIX systems and variants, MPE systems,
AOS/VS, PC/MS-DOS, VMS, Mac, Windows 3.x, Win32... If the system didn't
have it, it was trivial to get it running.

Cygwin has a good implementation of GNU-tar. No doubt there are others.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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