How to type upside-down (and when it’s not a good idea)

Want to know how to bamboozle your friends with upside-down emails and Facebook and Twitter status updates? It’s probably easier than you think. Here’s the skinny. Simply visit www.typeupsidedown.com, type is the text that you’d like to be inverted and … well, that’s all there is to it! The text you type is automatically flipped and can then be copied and pasted into emails, web forms, instant messages and pretty much anywhere else you want to put it.

Cool, eh?

Typeupsidedown.com say you can use their website to create very strong passwords, but a word of caution about that is in order. The website doesn’t actually generate upside-down letters, per se – what it actually does is convert each letter that you type into a symbol or character that resembles the inverted form of that letter. Consequently, you’d need to visit typeupsidedown.com each time you wanted to produce your (supposedly) upside-down password in order to be able to copy and paste it – and you’d be stuck were ever the website to cease to be! While there are a number of other text-flipping websites, they may or may not use the exact same symbol for each inverted letter.

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