The Toolerax Blog — Page 2
Practical guides and tips to get the most out of our tools — and the concepts behind them.
How to Choose a Color Palette
Complementary, analogous and triadic schemes explained, plus the 60-30-10 rule, tints and shades, and how to keep your palette accessible.
Read articleWhat Is the Average Reading Speed?
The average reading speed in words per minute, how it varies by age and material, why speed reading claims are misleading, and how to time a speech.
Read articleWhat Is Keyword Density?
What keyword density means, how to calculate it, why there is no magic percentage, what keyword stuffing looks like, and what to focus on instead.
Read articleRegular Expressions for Beginners
Learn regex from scratch: the core symbols, quantifiers, character classes, capture groups, greedy vs lazy matching, and the mistakes every beginner makes.
Read articleBMR vs TDEE: How Many Calories You Need
Understand BMR, TDEE and activity multipliers, how the Mifflin-St Jeor formula works, and how to set calorie targets to lose, maintain or gain weight.
Read articleHow Text Becomes Binary
How computers turn letters into bits: ASCII, why a byte is 8 bits, how UTF-8 handles every language and emoji, and why you sometimes see garbled characters.
Read articleHow to Convert JSON to CSV
Convert JSON to CSV correctly: how arrays of objects map to rows and columns, how to flatten nested objects, and how CSV escaping keeps commas from breaking your data.
Read articleHow to Calculate a Discount
The discount formula, mental shortcuts, working backwards to the original price, why 20% + 10% is not 30% off, and the sale tricks worth seeing through.
Read articleUnderstanding Aspect Ratios
What aspect ratio means, how to calculate and resize proportionally, why letterboxing exists, safe zones, and the right ratio for every platform.
Read articleHow Roman Numerals Work
The seven Roman numeral symbols, subtractive notation, how to read and write any year, why IIII appears on clocks, and why the system has no zero.
Read articleMarkdown Syntax Guide
A practical Markdown cheat sheet — headings, emphasis, lists, links, images, code, blockquotes and tables — plus why Markdown became the web's writing format.
Read articleKB, MB, GB & TB Explained
Data storage units explained: bits vs bytes, KB vs KiB, why a 1 TB drive shows as 931 GB, why your internet speed isn't what you think, and a size reference.
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