How To Convert Text Into Audio Using Notepad

This is simple notepad trick that convert any text to audio with just a click.
1) Open Notepad , and copy/paste following code

Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text for conversion–www.hackspc.com.com","PC Hacks Text-To-Audio Converter")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak msg

2) Save as your_file_name.vbs

3)Now open the saved file and key in the text you want to convert and click OK.

Docks for Windows – A taskbar feature similar to Mac OS X

It’s a simple but a nicely designed feature of a graphical interface used in Mac OS X, but inside Windows. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a preview;


So, to put it simply, Dock is an interactive taskbar, which allows you to put icons, shortcuts and files. They provide a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. People like using it because of its futuristic design style and also because you can put in it the programs you use on daily bases. Apple first applied this on for Mac in 1999, and people liked it, so all OS-es now use a similar thing
By googling you can find many Dock version, but these are the most popular Docks;
Classic:
RocketDock – In-line, simple, nice design -> personal favourite :)
ObjectDock – Also In-line, but not as many options as RocketDock
Circle:
Pie Dock – a dock in a circle, personally prefer in-line, but you know what they say; There’s no disputing about taste

Orbit Dock
If you’re using Rocket Dock, you’ll find out that it has many interesting and fun features, such as a gigantic library of icons for every program possible, so whatever design of the RocketDock you choose(and it has many), you’ll always find the appropriate icon-design. To add a shortcut to it, just drag and drop it, easy and simple. And also if you’re running a program, you can minimize it not just to your regular Windows taskbar, but also to your Dock. The best thing is, if you watch a movie, and you minimize it while it’s still playing, you can continue watching it minimized in the dock.

How To Recover Deleted Files

Uneraser.
For example, I delete movie file on Local Disk (E:) , how to recover movie file?. It is simple

1. Run Uneraser , then select wizard , as shown below

2. When the wizard appears select “Do a lost files scan”, then click Next , as shown below

3. Select partition , where is deleted data, then click Next

4. Uneraser find my deleted movie

5. Now, just save your recover file, as shown below

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Vista Start Menu for XP

If you’ve ever used Windows Vista, you’ve probably noticed that there is a great start menu, especially the search engine, which very quickly finds all the files on your computer because it uses the indexing technique.

If you have Windows XP and you also want to use a search engine from Windows Vista, it is possible. Just download Vista Start Menu for XP from this link. Vista Start Menu looks like this:

Customize Images With SageThumbs

With SageThumbs you can easily customize every image on your computer. Just right click on image and you will find many options for image customization. For example you can change the image size, convert the image , send image by email and many more with a simple right click on the image .
Download SageThumbs on this link, it is totally free;


 

Change Your Keyboard Keys With SharpKeys

SharpKeys is simple and small (size:355 KB) software built as a registry hack, which can easily change your keyboard keys. For example, if you accidentally hit Caps Lock often, you could use this utility to map Caps Lock to a Shift key or even turn it off completely. With SharpKeys you can make many interesting things like harmless pranks on your friend’s computer. Just install SharpKeys and change numbers or letters on friends PC and and watch your friend freak out:).
Download SharpKey from this link (it´s free) and install it.
Open SharpKey and click Add. After this will open window, with two side, from key to key. There are list of key that you can change, but you can type your own key, click type key.

Press button on your keyboard and change it.


Restart your computer and change will take effect.

Best Free Screen Session Recorder

You probably sometimes spend hours explaining to someone, over the internet how to do something. Instead of typing at people, you can create screen recordings for them and shown them what you´re talking about.. Especially if you have your own site and write tutorials, then it´s very useful to create video tutorials. For that you need a screen recorder.I´ve tested a few free screen recorder and make a list of the best.
1. CamStudio
Cam Studio is easy to use, small size , pretty good screen quality and can record your screen session to .avi files or to .swf . For sure, the best free screen recorder, at least by my opinion.
Website: http://camstudio.org/
Download page: http://www.camstudio.org/CamStudio20.exe
File size: 1.33MB
Supported: Windows 98 – XP

Here is a video recorded with CamStudio, check it out:
2. Wink
Wink offer a lot of options ( add image , audio,textbox…it´s something like windows movie maker that can record screen), but has few limitation; you can record the screen only to .swf, also is complicated to use

Website: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Download page: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php
File size: 3.1 MB
Supported: Windows 98 – Vista

3. Jing
Jing is simple application that can capture video and image. Unfortunately, record only to swf. files.
Website: http://www.jingproject.com
Download page: http://download.techsmith.com/jing/windows/jing_setup.exe
File size: 4.86 MB
Supported: Windows XP – Vista and Mac OS X

Add A Youtube Video To Your PowerPoint Presentation

If you work presentation in Powerpoint, then is very useful add videos to make presentation much interesting and to keep the attention of the audience. Let´s say you need to add video from youtube.com, for beginning , you should download video and convert in a format you can use in Powerpoint. There are many ways to do it, I personally use kickyoutube; the best way to download and convert video form youtube, at least by my opinion. For more information, read my post “ Download And Convert Youtube Videos With Kickyoutube ”
Adding the video to your presentation is easy.Just follow steps below.
1.Save the video in the same folder as your presentation since you’ll need to take it along with you if you’re transferring the presentation to a portable device
2.Launch Microsoft PowerPoint and navigate to Insert->Movies and Sounds->Movie From File

3.Insert Video Clip

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Download YouTube Video to MP3 audio files

This is a simple way to download music from youtube. It could be done with DVDVideoSoft. Just download  DVDVideoSoft and install it. After installing it , copy the url of the video from youtube and DVDVideoSoft will convert the YouTube’s Video to MP3 audio file. On this link you can download DVDVideoSoft.
It looks like this.

What Is Date Cracker 2000 And How To Use It

*This post is to be used for educational purposes only
Data Cracker 2000 is an application which can easily remove the date protection(i.e. trail protection) from many software. It is very useful for shareware or trial versions of software which expire after a specific date. When you crack the software with Date Cracker 2000, the software will always show something like “There are 90 days remaining in your trial period” and the software will actually last forever :). Some programs have good protection and it isn’t possible to remove their date protection . Date Cracker->

How to use Date Cracker? It is very simple.Just follow these instructions:
1. Download Date Cracker from this link and install it
2. When you open Date cracker you will see on the right side Add button , click it
3. NOw a window will appear where you must type the Program Description ( for example Folder Lock 6), as shown below

4. In Simulated Run Date type the expiration date, like 25. 11.  2009 ;


5. On the bottom of Date Cracker window , you will see … , click it , and choose executable files as shown below

6. Click Run , that is it !

Remove all drives from My Computer

If you got a hold of your friend’s computer and you want to scare him, this is a great tip for you. With a bit of Registry manipulation we can easily make drives (Floopy, harddisks, …) invisible;
1. Select Start , then Run, Start->Run

2.In Run option type regedit

3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft->Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies-> Explorer

4. In Explorer folder create Dword Value, right click – > new -> DWORD Value, set name for example NoDrive, then modify value in 3FFFFFF


Click OK, after this drives in My Computer will become invisible If you want to make drives visible again, just delete DWORD Value.
*When working in the Registry Editor, be very careful, because any error can cause problems in the functioning of the operating system!!!

Locking your computer using sys.key

Sys.key is an interesting way to lock your computer;
1.Go to START>RUN… Type in “syskey”;

2. When the next window appears click UPDATE

3. Make sure that in the next window you select the next options

4. Before you click OK, insert the Floppy diskette;

5. Now just exit the program and restart your computer.
What we actually did with this simple tweak is a physical key you put inside a computer whenever you want to use it, the key being the diskette. It’s kinda fancy…