Thursday, February 20, 2014

Screenreader is a google chrome extension (it's completely FREE) to read ebooks aloud, with single key presses to jump to next/previous sentence

Find it on the chrome web store screenreader standalone

 The idea is simple.Since reading ebooks while looking at the computer screen causes eystrain and headaches, the extension provides a very simple way to read aloud the text. You can
 jump from one sentence to another, read same sentence multiple times , jump to a particular point and read from there etc.Also importantly, using the software you can put your own pronounciations
 for words , as read "not equals" for "!="  etc. Also importanty you can specify pronounciations for unicode characters as alpha, beta etc. The program is targeted primarily at normal sighted people and not blind people.
 Infact i am using it myself to read any ebooks,tutorials etc. and give my eyes a rest(I can see quite well ). Infact using it you can avoid eye work almost completely(while reading only, of course) and avoid
 all of eye strain problems while working at computers. also you need not assume a constant pose( thus avoiding back problems etc). you can just lean your head down, since you are only listening.
 Just press a single key and you can jump to next sentence,prevois sentence, jump to sentence start, read word by word, i.e press a key once
 to read next word only etc.
Next version will have the option of holding down a specific key , for example ctrl key. This can be very useful in situations like when an application repeatedly requires a specific modifier key to be held and also helpful for certain games.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Auto Keypresser Introduction

Keypresser is simple program for generating repeated keypresses.It will keep on generating and sending keystrokes to the current active application.
it can be useful in situations where you want to generate repeated keypresses . Maybe like generating f5 repeatedly and keeping your web browser in foreground to refresh some website.
Detailed input info is given below:
Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter A, pass in the string "A" to the method. To represent more than one character, append each additional character to the one preceding it. To represent the letters A, B, and C, specify the parameter as "ABC".
The plus sign (+), caret (^), percent sign (%), tilde (~), and parentheses () have special meanings to SendKeys. To specify one of these characters, enclose it within braces ({}). For example, to specify the plus sign, use "{+}". To specify brace characters, use "{{}" and "{}}". Brackets ([ ]) have no special meaning to SendKeys, but you must enclose them in braces. In other applications, brackets do have a special meaning that might be significant when dynamic data exchange (DDE) occurs.
Caution noteCaution
To specify characters that aren't displayed when you press a key, such as ENTER or TAB, and keys that represent actions rather than characters, use the codes in the following table.
Key Code
BACKSPACE {BACKSPACE}, {BS}, or {BKSP}
BREAK {BREAK}
CAPS LOCK {CAPSLOCK}
DEL or DELETE {DELETE} or {DEL}
DOWN ARROW {DOWN}
END {END}
ENTER {ENTER}or ~
ESC {ESC}
HELP {HELP}
HOME {HOME}
INS or INSERT {INSERT} or {INS}
LEFT ARROW {LEFT}
NUM LOCK {NUMLOCK}
PAGE DOWN {PGDN}
PAGE UP {PGUP}
PRINT SCREEN {PRTSC} (reserved for future use)
RIGHT ARROW {RIGHT}
SCROLL LOCK {SCROLLLOCK}
TAB {TAB}
UP ARROW {UP}
F1 {F1}
F2 {F2}
F3 {F3}
F4 {F4}
F5 {F5}
F6 {F6}
F7 {F7}
F8 {F8}
F9 {F9}
F10 {F10}
F11 {F11}
F12 {F12}
F13 {F13}
F14 {F14}
F15 {F15}
F16 {F16}
Keypad add {ADD}
Keypad subtract {SUBTRACT}
Keypad multiply {MULTIPLY}
Keypad divide {DIVIDE}
To specify keys combined with any combination of the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys, precede the key code with one or more of the following codes.
Key Code
SHIFT +
CTRL ^
ALT %
To specify that any combination of SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT should be held down while several other keys are pressed, enclose the code for those keys in parentheses. For example, to specify to hold down SHIFT while E and C are pressed, use "+(EC)". To specify to hold down SHIFT while E is pressed, followed by C without SHIFT, use "+EC".
To specify repeating keys, use the form {key number}. You must put a space between key and number. For example, {LEFT 42} means press the LEFT ARROW key 42 times; {h 10} means press H 10 times.
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This was the introduction to auto keypresser. To view more
updates regarding it, click the Auto Keypresser label above.








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