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27Dec/090

Free Text To Speech Software And Save Speech As MP3 or WAV

Sometime, busy people like business man does not have time to read their documents, words by words but need to find some one to read the documents for him. But it is impossible to do this when you want the document to be read when you are walking from one place to another.

It will be cool if you can convert your document files such as text files (.txt), word documents (.doc) or a web page (.html) into audiobooks in .mp3 or .wav format. And then you can listen to them using a MP3 player while you are walking or jogging.

14Nov/090

Windows SteadyState for Shared Computer

Have you ever encounter when your shared computer is full of downloaded and unwanted files? And the files are left at the hard disk without house keeping. In this case, Windows SteadyState can help you to maintain your shared computer in a consistent state.

Windows SteadyState

12Nov/092

How to Install Microsoft Office Document Imaging for Office 2007 in Windows Vista

MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging format) is a file format introduced by Microsoft. It is for storing raster images of scanned documents together with optional annotations or metadata which can include the text of the document, generated by OCR. Office 2007's installation, by default, doesn't install Microsoft Document Imaging Viewer.

Microsoft Office Document Imaging

8Aug/090

Change Other User’s Passwords in Command Prompt in Windows Vista

Instead of clicking "Start" button, then click on "Control Panel", then click on "User Account", click on "Manage other accounts", and finally click on a user account to change his or her password, you have a simpler way to change other user's password.

Simple open a command prompt and type in the following command:

net use "User name" *

And hit enter, type in the new password and hit enter. Enter the same password for the second time and hit enter. That's all you need to do to change other user's password. How simple is it?

* Please note that you must have administrative right to change other user's password.

4Jul/090

Windows Vista’s Hidden Aurora Animation

Since the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft loves Aurora's. In Windows Vista, there is hidden Aurora animation that you can simply activate by type a simple command.

Windows Vista's hidden Aurora animation

26Jun/090

Free Up 10 Giga Bytes of Hard Drive Space After Installing Windows Vista SP2

Downloaded Windows Vista SP2 and installed it in my laptop. My laptop hard drive freed up 10 Giga bytes of disk space. So far I doesn't encounter any problem after the upgrade. Hopefully it won't cause any problem later.

21Jun/090

Display a Text Message On Your Windows Vista Logon Screen

You can put a notice on your Windows Vista logon screen so that each time when your PC is booted up, it displays a notice to the person who boot up the PC. You can put two lines of text: the caption and the message that describes the caption.

12Jun/090

Free Up Hard Drive Space By Installing Windows Vista SP2

Other than fixing various bugs and improvement in performance, some of the PC World forum users report that seeing big chunks of their hard drives freed up after installing Vista Service Pack 2.

Windows Vista

29May/090

How to Enable Hibernate in Windows Vista

Do you realize that Windows Vista does not have the hibernate feature? Instead of hibernate, in Windows Vista, you can only put your PC or laptop in “Sleep” mode (or standby mode in Windows XP) where Windows Vista keeps your session in memory and your PC or laptop in a low power state. So that you can quickly resumes work when you need it.

What is hibernate mode in Windows? Unlike "Sleep" mode, hibernate mode put your session in physical disk (hard disk) and switch off your computer totally. Windows can let you quickly resume your work by loading the session from physical disk without needing to reload the whole operating system.

Enable Hibernate in Windows Vista

17May/090

Is Your PC Ready for Windows 7?

According to Microsoft website, if you are running Windows Vista on your PC, then you should not have any problem running Windows 7 on your PC too.

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor