ARG
ARG TOOLS
Often people ask me how I find the secrets in Alternate Reality Games [ARG]; I usually don’t tell them.
Using the base resources listed at Unfiction I have complied my own additional tools to create one of the most comprehensive ARG toolsets on the web. Since we know that Gemini Division, much like the previous series Afterworld, will have an ARG component, I thought I would allow everyone the same toolset from the beginning. I don’t know when it is going to start, but the tools below should help those who are interested. Good Luck Everyone.
RangerSergeant 08-21-08
Alphanumeric translators and converters
- ASCII chart : decimal, hex, and octal ASCII chart
- Base64 converter : encode and decode base64
- Binary translator : convert binary to english
- Decimal to sexagesimal : base10 to base 60 conversion
- Morse code translator : translate and listen to morse code
- Number base converter : convert a number from any base to any other
Code & Cipher charts & converters
- CipherClerk: apps to encode/decode just about every cipher out there
- Date Code Chart
- File vault : self-contained, single-use file encryption
- Flip USD: encoder and decoder
- HTML Lock : to view the source code of web pages encrypted using HTML Lock, save the page locally and add this text to the source code in the “body onload” tag and reload the page locally: alert(document.all[0].innerHTML)
- Leet (1337) Speak converter
- Morse code alphabet
- Morse code and phonetic alphabets
- ROT-X : rotate text through all alphabet rotations from 1 through 26 simultaneously
- Unicode Character Chart by language: UCC in just about every language on earth.
- Vigenere Cipher Applet: encrypt and decrypt messages using the Vigenere algorithm
- USD {Upside Down): encoder and decoder
Conversions
- Convert it! : math conversions and search engine
- Mega converter 2 : tons of conversions
- Online conversion : convert just about anything to anything else
Directories
- Area codes : US area code listing
- DNS Stuff : lookups for Whois, abuse records, spam database, reverse DNS, IPWhois, geographical IP, DNS, and CIDR/Netmask; traceroute, ping, URL deobfuscator, and decimal IP convertor
- DNS lookup : search Whois records
- Multiple keyword whois : search Whois records with multiple keywords
- Number finder : search US white pages
- The Ultimates: serch for names & phone numbers in the best places all at once.
- Zip codes : find zip codes for US addresses, all zip codes for a city or town, all cities and towns in a zip code, and zip+4 for companies
Locations
- Confluences : photo database for latitude/longitude integer degree intersections
- IP to lat/long : get coordinates by host name or IP
- Global lat/long : global latitude/longitude finder
- Maps : mapping and driving directions from Google
- Payphones - DC : locations of Washington DC phones
- Payphone project : locations worldwide
- Time zones : global time zones reference
References
- A complete list of online reference guides
- An online Reference specific search tool: this one allows you to search just about everything.
- Bartleby : search literature, reference and verse
- Bible gateway : search the bible in different versions and languages
- Bibliomania : search 2000+ books
- Dictionary and thesaurus : look up words
- Encyclopedia : search an encyclopedia
- IMDB: the internet movie database
- Leet [1337] Speak
- Lyric search : search song lyrics
- Project gutenberg : search classic public domain texts
- Quotation search : search literary quotes
- Sacred text archive : sacred texts from world religions
- Text Shorthand Dictionary: up-to-date listing to text shorthand
- Urban Dictionary: words you won’t find at Dictionary.com
steganography [?]
- Camouflage
- Jphide
- Camera/shy : the only steganographic tool that automatically scans for and delivers decrypted content straight from the Web
Wordsmithing
- Anagram finder
- Babelfish : translate words and web pages
- Google Translator: translate words and web pages
- InterTran: translates text between any two languages