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Text Aloud - with ATT Voices by Next Up

Submitted by lblackbu on September 3, 2007 - 1:56am

Program: Text Aloud

License: Must be purchased - program is $29.95
ATT Natural Voices - Crystal and Mike, US English Voices - $35.00

Description: User highlights text and Program reads it.

Website: http://www.nextuptech.com/

Other: This is a great product which I would love to take it with me.

It reads the text one highlights. It's been such a great tool for me to help my email understandable and also great for when I am too tired to read. The ATT Voices are a must for this program.

YouTube Catcher

Submitted by millarrp on September 3, 2007 - 1:07am

I was looking through sourceforge.net to see if there was any apps for downloading video from video sites (youtube, google videos, etc.) and I stumbled across this app.

the sourceforge.net page I originally found it on is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/youtubecatcher/

and the projects home page is: http://ytc.dsnetwd.com/

It claims to be able to download from multiple video sites including:

Linley's Dungeon Crawl

Submitted by NeSS Esqa on September 2, 2007 - 4:00pm

This is a roguelike game in the same line as NetHack.
(original Website) http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/?d
(Wikipedia link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linley's_Dungeon_Crawl

There is a tile version of this game here: http://crawlj.sourceforge.jp/down_e.html
The tile version is portable. (as far as I can tell)

Since the main version of Dungeon Crawl has stalled, a project has risen to continue development of it. It is called Stone Soup, and it also has a tile version.
(Stone Soup) http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/

Fast Explorer 2007

Submitted by fastboy on September 1, 2007 - 8:57am

Please consider Fast Explorer 2007 to include into Portableapps.com listing.

Fast Explorer is an utility to manage context menus items of shell's file
objects and virtual objects displayed in a file manager, such as Explorer. It can be used to integrate portable apps into target PC seamless and without consequences (stealthy).

Quotation:
"Context menu options are not provided by portable applications as they
are not installed on the host PC. FE provides this ability for portable
applications. Each user is therefore able to construct their preferred

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