Alive Text to Speech

Alive Text to Speech is a text-to-speech software to read text in any application, and convert text to MP3, WAV, OGG or VOX files.

Alive Text to Speech also enables you to listen documents, emails, news articles or web pages without conversion. It supports schedule converting. It also allow advanced users to finish the conversion of text to mp3 with Command lines. You can change the different voices and the readout speed for conversion or listening, and download more voices from Internet.

Key Features:

1) Read text in any application, including Emails, web pages, news articles, PDF, Word or Excel Documents, etc.

2) Convert text to MP3, WAV, OGG, VOX files.

3) Convert text Files to MP3, WAV, OGG, VOX files.

4) Install Alive Text to Speech Toolbar in IE (Internet Explorer) Browser.

5) It is very simple and easy to use. Just right click on files in the Windows Explorer, select "Convert to MP3"(or WAV, OGG,VOX) and convert them using your predefined settings.

6) Command line supported.

7) Converting text to mp3 in batches.

8) Schedule converting support.

9) Microsoft text-to-speech engine.

10) High converting speed, wonderful output quality.

11) Windows Vista compatible

Site: http://www.alivemedia.net/textspeech.htm

SQL Server 2k5: How to Disable Management Studio's Splash Screen?

1. Right-click on the desktop.

2. Click New and select Shortcut.

3. Click the Browse button and go to the Sqlwb executable (”C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\Sqlwb.exe”).

4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in -nosplash.

5. Click Next.

6. Type a name for the shortcut.

7. Click Finish.

MS SQL 2k5: Steps to Reset sa Account Password

1. Open the SQL Server Management Studio.

2. Open a New Query.

3. Copy, paste, and execute the following:

GO
ALTER LOGIN [sa] WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master]
GO
USE [master]
GO
ALTER LOGIN [sa] WITH PASSWORD=N'NewPassword' MUST_CHANGE
GO

where NewPassword is the password you wish to use for the sa account.