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Getting Adobe Reader to Read to You
02125 days
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in Personal
I find myself reading more and more PDF eBooks lately, and I am impressed by the accessibility functionality built into Adobe Reader that lets it read the book to me. Sometimes I listen to it speak while I read; trying to utilize as many learning faculties as possible simultaneously in order to increase retention. Here’s how you can do it too:
View > Read Out Load > Read to End of Document
View > Automatically Scroll
It uses the built-in speech engine in XP which is Microsoft SAM, which is pretty old as many of us techies can recall but you can actually download new SAPI 5 voices that sound great. For example, Cepstral Text-to-Speech has several neat voices like Shouty (Drill Sargeant), Whispery (Scary Movie), and Dog (Animal Translation).
Depending on the kind of reader you are, or your mood, it’s a lot of fun.
LinkedIn Addiction
12126 days
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in Social Networking
I have recently found LinkedIn to be strangely addicting. According to Alexa’s Movers & Shakers it is #70 on the web. So the good news is, I’m not alone!
List Authors Widget 1.0
502156 days
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in WordPress Plugins
Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.
Removing the Dotted Outline from Focused Links
152161 days
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in JavaScript
Have you ever noticed the dotted outline that appears around links as you click on them? That is an accessibility feature for people who can’t use the mouse for whatever reason. It is supposed to show where the current focus is when you use the TAB key to move through a document, and does a fantastic job.
But why does it appear when you are using the mouse to click on a link?
Rate-in-Place 1.0
82172 days
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in WordPress Plugins
Now you can not only display a rating for each one of the Links in your Blogroll, but you can update the rating right from the front page (logged-in with editing privledges, of course) with AJAX!