I wanted to buy a special microfiber cloth from the Internet. It measures 40 x 35cm and I don’t have any idea how big is 40 x 35cm. I know it’s small, but how small is it? I can’t be really sure until I’ve got the measurement from a ruler or measuring tape. I tried looking for a measuring tape or even a ruler but I couldn’t find one. In fact, I can’t even remember when was the last time I used a ruler or measuring tape to measure something!
Desperate to know, I thought I might find something on the Internet that can teach me how to measure without using a ruler or measuring tape. Wonderful, I found a solution and now I don’t even need a ruler or measuring tape anymore to measure length, width and height!
JS Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.
Right clicking on the ruler gives you the ability to flip the ruler from horizontal to vertical, mark the exact center of the ruler with a vertical slash, move the ruler to the far left of your desktop screen and also setting the different measuring system to either pixels, inches, picas or centimeters(cm).
JS Screen Ruler is FREE but it also has a shareware version which offers more features such as rotate the ruler, set transparent background, capture active window size and customize color. I personally think that using the FREE version is good enough. Actually I found quite a lot of free on screen ruler but they all have nearly the same features.