Tools / Misc. Programs

These are system tools and little widgets to make your life a little easier maintaining your computer.  This is also the catch-all category for any software that either doesn't fit anywhere else or that is waiting to get it's very own category on the main menu. 

 

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SayZ Me   [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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Sayz Me is a free text-to-speech reader for Windows. Text is typed in or copied from the clipboard and then read aloud. Words are highlighted as they are spoken. Select voice, adjust reading speed, voice pitch, font, font size and color. Hides in the system tray. Very simple and easy to use. Freeware. BSD style license.

Best of all Sayz Me is completely free. Spyware free. Adware free. Nag screen free. But wait... there's more! Not only do you get this text to voice software for the bargin price of zero dollars, but we have thrown in the rights to use, copy, study, modify and redistributed Sayz Me without restriction. "Free" as in beer may be good... but "Free" as in speech is even better! You can read the story of how this project came to life and why it is free in the About section.

Sayz Me includes text to voice functionality and accessability features which allow you to adjust the font size and color to assist reading. In documentation you can read up on the system requirements, installation instructions and there is a quick help guide. If you find the standard microsoft voices are a bit too bland then we can point you in the right direction for Additional Voices.

Shutdown Timer   [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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Daxtar's Shutdown Timer is a minimalistic tool to schedule your System's Shutdown via GUI or comand-line. The Tool docks at the Windows System Tray to give you easy and quick GUI access. written by Martin Bachem

Smartision Screen Copy    [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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smartision ScreenCopy is a freeware and opensource screenshot tool for Windows developed in Borland Delphi. It has many features like Auto-Screenshot and an included Gallery Generator.

Features

Filename generation from variables:

   Example: C:\documents\screenshots\ <%caption> \shot- <%date> -- <%time> .jpg

   Example result: C:\documents\screenshots\ Paint \shot- 2002-05-29 -- 21-06-04 .jpg

Startup Manager    [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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Startup Manager is a program that provides you the possibility to manage the Windows startup procedure. It offers you the possibility to control which programs automatically start up and more.

SuperCopier   [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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SuperCopier was entirely rewritten, but here’s the main points:

This is a Beta version so You are encouraged to report bugs in THIS forum section. Please read the sticky message before posting.

TestDisk   [ Download Page ]   [ Home Page ]

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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

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