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Note a thread in the Zoom Player group, "Do Post DX9 Video Cards Provide Any Advantages for Viewing Images and Videos?" http://forum.inmatrix.com/index.php?showtopic=9393 where one responder suggests that for non-game, picture and video viewing, the benefits of higher level video cards may be marginal.

The NT Windows systems include additional commands, using the tilde symbol, in the batch file language for setting environment variables to parts of a file path string, such as the name and the file extension. See http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1294869,00.html?int=off&Offer=WCMcplb18 under "variable substitution." See also http://www.rgagnon.com/gp/gp-0008.html It would seem that to someone knowledgeable it would be easy to write a console mode program to provide identical functionality by taking these strings as arguments and parsing them and setting the corresponding environment variable from them. I looked in the shareware sites and came up with zip. I doubted that I had hit the right keywords. I am at a loss to know what to call this functionality. Does anyone know of any such programs?

Does anyone have any recommendations for text to speech programs? There seem to be a lot of them with no apparent winners. The speech quality of most leaves me unimpressed I am currently using Monologue '97. I got a copy for $5 at the computer show. It doesn't display the reading position in text you can't quickly adjust the playback speed. After hearing some more recent programs, however, I would rate the speech quality of this 13-year old program as "excellent." The program and developer, First Byte, seems to have disappeared without a trace. I found a good program speech qualitywise "sayz me" http://www.datafurnace.net.au/sayzme/ that too disappeared, not complete at version 0.51. Is there some reason why good quality speech to text programs seem to disappear?

I tried to send a message to the site administrator through the contact us form. I could never get through. Problem 1. The picture codes. It took me four attempts at the pictures with the codes to get one through. One I know I entered what it looked like but the page said it was wrong. Two of them I had no idea of what some of the letters were, that after opening the image in a image editor and zooming it. Problem 2. After I got through problem 1 I got a message back saying my email address was not a valid email server. It was a very valid email address at which I get messages daily.