5 Websites To Instantly Convert Text To Speech

Speech to text is usually the more popular sister to this technology, but can text to speech actually be used for any real benefit? Surely you may not enjoy reading huge passages of text. It helps the visually impaired, too. I’ve laid text-to-speech tracks over top of my Winamp playlist before, to memorize and study certain things. That’s a technique that I continue to use to this very day. Let me introduce you to five solutions if you’re interested in using text to speech in similar ways.

How To Create A Hidden Service Tor Site To Set Up An Anonymous Website Or Server

This tutorial will focus on setting up a hidden Tor site using the Savant web server – which Tor recommends – on Windows. The steps can also be applied to other operating systems and web servers.

How To Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen

How To Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen By Usman on Apr 09 2012 Leave a comment In the past, we covered a guide on Windows 8 Lock Screen and discussed some of its features. The newly added Lock Screen is basically designed for tablet PCs, allowing users to quickly view the applications notifications, battery status, date and time, WiFi status/dynamic network icon etc. Although Windows 8 lets you tweak both Start and Lock Screen UI elements, it doesn’t provide an option to permanently disable it. You may know that Microsoft Management Console snap-in called Local Group Policy Editor allows system administrator(s) to tweak system core components and change default behavior of native utilities. Using the LGPE, you can easily disable the Lock Screen for all PC users. By default, Windows 8 shows Lock Screen at startup, but when it’s disabled, it takes you directly to Logon screen to choose the user account to log in to Windows.

How To Create Wireless Ad Hoc Internet Connection In Windows 8

Apart from Start Orb and classic Start Menu, what most Windows 7 users, who decided to take Windows 8 for a spin, miss in Windows 8 is ability to create ad-hoc network. If you’re a power users, you might’ve noticed that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup ad hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices. Windows 7 ad hoc connection feature does nothing except creating a shared connection with separate IP address to register the device on the virtual network. This allows users to use router’s default or specified DNS server address to easily connect to internet. Even though Windows 8 comes with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature to allow devices to connect to yours PC internet connection, it doesn’t allow creating a wireless network connection to share the internet. In this post, we will look at some tools that let you easily create and manage ad-hoc connections in Windows 8.

Instagrille Brings Instagram to Your Windows PC

Instagrille is a Windows desktop app from Pokki, a platform that’s setting out to help developers create beautiful, connected apps based on standard Web languages such as HTML5.

Startups, This Is How Design Works

f you’re thinking of starting a company or already run your own, here’s a site that deserves a long look. ‘Startups, this is how design works‘ reflects on the growing importance of quality design in the products companies ship. Technical co-founders dominate the startup scene for many reasons, but when designers aren’t nearby, things can get messy.

Free Software To Record Screen || Free Software

Here are 5 free Software To record screen on your computer. These software are easy to use and allow you to record entire screen, a window or a specific part of the screen. Screen recorders are essential for creating software usage tutorials or instructional videos. With the help of these screen recorders you can create easily record your computer screen and create your own video tutorials. These are few best and free screen recorders among other available free screen recorders. Download these software to record screen for free.

How to Customize Any Folder or App Icon in Windows

Custom icons aren’t just for fun; they can also help you better identify oft-used folders and apps to save you time searching. Changing an app or folder’s icon is very easy in Windows. Here’s how to do it.

What Is The Java Virtual Machine & How Does It Work? [MakeUseOf Explains]

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a real name dropper when you’re programming in Java. Contrary to what the name indicates, the Java Virtual Machine can be encountered in relation with other programming languages as well.

Grey Mail: The New Email Nuisance To Hit Your Inbox

Grey mail is the new productivity killer, and it’s only going to get worse. What is grey mail, and how can Hotmail help you to get rid of it?