InstantStorm is a freeware that allows you to create screensavers from flash movies, with the project wizard its as simple as one, two, three.
InstantStorm has many features and options, it allows you to create an installer for the screensaver where you can have a password and your own custom installer image and text. You will be able to create shortcuts for your desktop and start menu, and if your flash movie requires external files InstantForm will include them in the installer.
“Make3D” is an algorithm developed by two Stanford computer scientists, which can convert any 2D image to 3D model, the model is made in flash so you can fly around and explore the generated 3D model.
“The algorithm uses a variety of visual cues that humans use for estimating the 3-D aspects of a scene, If we look at a grass field, we can see that the texture changes in a particular way as it becomes more distant.” said Ashutosh Saxena, a doctoral student in computer science who developed the Make3d website with Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science.
After all the website is impressive although still in experimental phase and has few bugs, but you can fully convert any image from 2D to 3D but it is best to convert a scenery image rather than an image that includes people because it still does not work well with people.
Here is a video to give you an idea what its all about:
We have to admit something in the start, that it is pretty sad that we are about to enter 2008 and we still do not have a proper text-to-speech application. In this world full of technological advancements, still the text-to-speech is not advancing to reach to a normal human voice. All what we get is a very edgy robotic voice, the quality varies between different applications, but they all have one thing in common, that it does not sound real.
That being said, there are some websites who provide text-to-speech services, different kind of services, also those have variations in quality. PediaPhon is one of those kind of web applications, it lets you listen to Wikipedia articles, simply search for any topic and listen, it offers you three options:
Generate an MP3 file and download it and listen to it on your PC or portable player.
Listen online streaming using Windows Media Player.
Listen online using JAVA.
This is a very interesting, useful application, but the voice being used just does not help it. I tried it on couple of different topics and I couldn’t keep listening for more than half a minute.
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InstantStorm is a freeware that allows you to create screensavers from flash movies, with the project wizard its as simple as one, two, three. 
We have to admit something in the start, that it is pretty sad that we are about to enter 2008 and we still do not have a proper text-to-speech application. In this world full of technological advancements, still the text-to-speech is not advancing to reach to a normal human voice. All what we get is a very edgy robotic voice, the quality varies between different applications, but they all have one thing in common, that it does not sound real.
The same amazing FREE software that allows you to convert any document to PDF by printing it to the PrimoPDF printer. It was not available on Windows Vista, now fully supported. In addition to that now you can also merge PDF files upon conversion. PrimoPDF is a real freeware not a trial download.