Vozme: Text to Speech Converter

Do you get tired of reading and want to listen to a blog article or an e-book on your MP3 player? Here’s something that will take care of that problem.

Vozme is a free online tool that converts any text into speech, which you can listen online or download as a MP3 file. It supports two languages, English and Spanish.

Converting a text to speech is very easy. Simply copy and paste the text from anywhere into the text box, select male or female voice and press the Create MP3 button!

You can also add this converter on your blog from their Webmasters menu. WordPress users get a plugin for conversion. Or to convert any web page into speech, add their bookmarklet for quick and easy access to it.

Vozme: Text to Speech Converter

Windows 7 Build 7022 Leaked, IE8 RC1 Included

Just when the time is running out and the limited Windows 7 Beta download period from Microsoft is coming to an end, we just got another leak and this time it’s Windows 7 (build 7022).

It has been reported that some ‘friendly’ individuals from Microsoft Ukraine have leaked the new build, called Build 7022.winmain.090115-1850, over the Internet. This build was compiled almost a month ago, on January 15, 2009.

There have been no significant changes in the build 7022, except that Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate now comes installed in it. Also the background colour of the left task pane has beem changed. You can see the screenshot below.

Download Windows 7 Beta Build 7022 ISO Torrent

You can get the torrent from the Russian forum from here: Download Windows 7 Beta (Build 7022) ISO

Yellowsn0w 0.9.8 to Unlock iPhone 2.2.1

Yellowsn0w is the tool that was released on the New Year and this tool is capable of unlocking iPhone 3G firmware 2.2. After the release of iPhone firmware 2.2.1, there was no tool to unlock it, but the iPhone Dev Team tweeted a couple of hours back about the release of Yellowsn0w 0.9.8.

Yellowsn0w 0.9.8 can unlock iPhone 2.2.1. This news have still not made to the iPhone Dev Team’s blog, but the tweet showed that soon the official tool update will be out and available for download.

Along with the unlock feature, Yellowsn0w 0.9.8 also comes out with some fixes, specifically the wifi issue that many users had on their iPhone 3G.

So far, there have been no links to download Yellowsn0w 0.9.8. But as soon as they appear on the official blog, I’ll update them here.

Download Yellowsn0w 0.9.8 to Unlock iPhone 2.2.1

Download Yellosn0w to unlock iPhone 3G with baseband 02.28.0 from cydia/Installer Link

Cydia Repos:
http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/

Installer sources:
http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

Cool Google Talk Themes

GTalk users are increasing day by day. Maybe because of its simplicity. A large number of bloggers use GTalk to interact with their fans and blog friends. Well, I’m also no different. :P I also use GTalk to catch up with all my friends and fans. Few days ago, I Google’d for some GTalk themes and stumbled across a cool site that offered free GTalk themes.

I got the same themes sometime ago through an underground forum, but the author of the post didn’t post the source, so I wasn’t sure where he got them from. But now when I know the it, I have been able to get a few cool themes that you will surely love using on GTalk.

Enough time wasted, eh? Let’s get on with the themes part. :)

NOTE: If you don’t know how or where to install GTalk themes, please read this first!

CandyBars

A port of the Candybars theme used in Adium.

Download: CandyBars.zip (Mirror)

Forum

A theme with a ‘forum’ appearance to it.

Download: Forum.zip (Mirror)

Digital Ecstasy

A colorful glossy theme for your Google Talk!

Download: DigitalEcstasy.exe (Mirror)

Joy

A nice blue and green theme. One of my favorites! :D

Download: Joy.zip (Mirror)

DOS Box

For those who can’t get enough of the MS-DOS Command Prompt or the Linux terminal.

Download: DOSBox.zip (Mirror)

Lidibrium

A very slick theme, similar to Candybars.

Download: Lidibrium.zip (Mirror)

Gemstone

A shiny theme from Shoop

Download: Gemstone.zip (Mirror)

Spotlight

Make Google Talk look like Mac OS X Spotlight

Download: Spotlight.zip (Mirror)

Finish…! These were my picks of the day. You can find more themes at Customize Talk. For some reason, the site’s server keeps going down so I have included a mirror for every theme. I hope you liked the above themes.

How To Change/Install Themes In Google Talk

What’s up readers? How was your weekend? :D I hope you had a great one. Last time, I wrote about GTalk (Google Talk) was when I found how to unblock blocked contacts in it. This time, I’m going to tell you how you can change or install new themes in GTalk.

Remember, themes are not skins. Gmail themes only change the layout of the conversation window. Where as skins change the entire design of the application.

How To Change Themes In GTalk

Just follow the steps below and you will have a new theme in no time:

1. Open GTalk.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Click Appearance.
4. Below Chat Theme, you’ll see a drop box. Choose whatever theme you want.
5. Click OK and start chatting with someone to try the new theme.

There are about 10 pre-installed themes in GTalk, excluding the default one. I like the “orkut Picture” theme.

How To Install Themes In GTalk

Already knew change themes and tired of the default ones? Wanna install custom themes? Just follow the following steps:

1. Make sure you have the skin (usually as ZIP file).

2. Extract the files anywhere in your PC. (I don’t think I need to explain how to extract files :P Just do it with Winzip or any other good app.)

3. Copy the theme folder and paste it in:

C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMELocal Settings
Application DataGoogleGoogle Talkthemesuserchat

USERNAME is your Windows user account name. If the chat folder (in the end) is not in the user folder, then create one and paste the theme folder in it.

4. That’s all! Now open GTalk, go to Settings > Appearance > Chat Theme and apply your new theme.

TinyURL Generator Creates Shortened URLs in a Snap, Automagically!

Windows, Linux, Mac (Firefox only): TinyURL Generator is a Firefox addon that once installed makes it really easy to create shortened URLs (using TinyURL.com) of any page you are currently reading.

After installation, it adds a little icon to the right end of Firefox status bar. While browsing any page, click on that icon to generate the shortened URL of that page. The icon will turn into a green tick and your shortened URL will be copied to the clipboard. Hit Ctrl + V and see your new shortened address.

This will be a great addon for regular twitters who use the Twitter’s web interface. As this addon automatically copies the shortened URL into clipboard, all one have to do is hit the icon and paste the URL into your mail client/IM window/browser.

Note that this is an experimental addon and hence will require an account at Mozilla addons to install. For those who do not have an account, we have uploaded the addon to box.net too.

TinyURL Generator | Alternate direct download link (box.net)

Windows Media Player 12 Beta 1

Yes, people! The first Beta is out! Download the first beta release of the most-awaited player of the year by Microsoft - Windows Media Player 12 :) Keep checking out this page for more updates. Subscribe to our feeds to know the latest news first!

Screenshot:

Download: Click here! ( RapidShare link, non-English version only)

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7 Best VLC Media Player Skins

I use VLC Player for playing videos that others player don’ stupport. The default VLC Player skin is not good. The player looks dead with that. So to give life to it, I have nice collection of skins that I use.

Below are the best ones I have.

WMP11

Download from here.

Blissta

Download from here.

MediaPlayer

Download from here.

D-GFX Dark Skin

Download from here.

PsVLC

Download from here.

Default Remix

Download from here.Now the next skin is the one I’m using currently and is the best so far. :)

Askin

Download this one from here.

These were the skins I found inetersting. If they are any other good ones which I have missed out, then feel free to add them below.