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TXT2PDF is a powerful and easy to use free program. It’s a converter from raw text files (.TXT) to nice Portable Document Format (.PDF) on all Windows Systems. It is being able to process up to 500 pages per second, and without the requirement of any third party tool like Adobe Distiller.

As most of our documents are text files. Usually, such as the reports from legacy applications, COBOL applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are all textual. TXT2PDFcan help you to take those old text files and turn them into PDF’s, which means you don’t even need to pass the data through PostScript first.
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Interlex is a free software that helps you learn vocabulary in a foreign language quickly and easily. The program is built around a simple idea: first you compile a list of words and phrases, then you test yourself until you have learnt them.

You can use Interlex to create bilingual vocabulary lists in any two of the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

Interlex provides a highly focused, interactive learning environment that allows you to improve your language skills rapidly. Creating your own Interlex files is an excellent way to explore a language and become familiar with new vocabulary. You can then commit this knowledge to long-term memory by testing yourself in a variety of ways. Words and phrases are carefully selected with reference to previous input, encouraging you to concentrate on those you find difficult. Feedback is immediate and informative, without any distracting special effects. The overall result is a tangible sense of progress that makes vocabulary learning a pleasure instead of a chore.

Features :
targeted testing in 4 different modes
multiple translations in native language
intelligent evaluation of alternative responses
informative feedback using text, colour and sound
powerful editor with Undo, Sort, Find and Print
automatic keyboard and font selection
selection of ready-to-use vocabulary files
wide range of user preference options
context-sensitive Help and daily tips

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Measuring 78.8mm × 39.7mm × 7.4mm, the Newsmy Nunu X05 Portable Media Player comes jam packed with only 2GB of storage space and a 1.5-inch LCD screen. The gadget also supports voice recorder. The Newsmy Nunu X05 PMP is priced at only $29 (after conversion).
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The MiLi Pro LCOS, LED-driven projector will turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a projector. All you have to do is to plug your iPhone or iPod Touch with the device. This mini projector has a 640×480 resolution with 10 lumens, VGA and RCA inputs, and a dock connector. The MiLi Pro iPhone projector will be released in September 2009. No word on pricing at this time.
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Nextar has launched its 43LT navigation system that provides free live traffic updates with its 3D graphics. The gadget also features a 4.3-inch display with 1.6 million points of interest, an SD memory card slot, text-to-speech functionality, audio and video playback, and the bundled live traffic receiver. You can purchase the Nextar Launches 43LT for around $169.99 MSRP.
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Designed by Nuno Teixeira, the Altec Lansing OMNI speakers look like tall vases. These speakers boast heavy construction to ensure lesser vibrations and superior sound quality. Each of these speakers comes with a woofer, a mid-range speaker and a tweeter. Sadly, it is only a concept. No word on when the Altec Lansing OMNI speakers will go into production.
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ASUS has rolled out two new gaming notebooks in the form of the G51Vx and G60Vx. The G51Vx features a smaller 15.6-inch FHD/HD LED LCD, meanwhile the G60Vx offers a bigger 16-inch HD LED backlight display. As for the rest of the specs remain the same for both notebooks, you’ll find an optional Intel Core 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo processor, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M with GDDR3 1GB VRAM, up to 4GB RAM, a max 1TB storage, an illuminated chiclet keyboard, instant gaming keys, a 2MP camera, a Blu-ray Combo, Windows Vista OS and Creative’s industry-defining EAX and CMSS audio technologies. Pricing and release date are still unknown at the moment.
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Market vendors in Sadr City spent yesterday morning clearing blood and body parts from pavements and stalls after a bomb blast that killed 78 people in the Shia area of Baghdad.

This bomb, after another in Kirkuk province at the weekend, in which 70 died, was the deadliest in Iraq for more than a year. Many fear that it heralds an intense period of violence as US troops withdraw from the cities before the June 30 deadline.

A limited number of US soldiers will remain to train local security forces.

“What the hell is the Government doing?” said the proprietor of an electronics shop. “The Iraqi Army do nothing at all. They spend their entire duty time fiddling with their mobile phones.”
A checkpoint near the market, which the previous night had allowed the motorcycle laden with explosives into the crowded area, was not manned properly, he said. The men on duty had let another similar vehicle, laden with vegetables, come through that morning without searching it.

He expected more violence as troops withdrew: “Things will increase because I can’t see any real measures the State is taking for me.”

Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, tried to reassure his compatriots and urged them to pass on any information of potential attacks to combat “a plan that aims to awaken sectarianism, create chaos, abort the political process and prevent Iraqi people from standing on their own feet”.

Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said there were no plans to change the withdrawal date.

At least 11 people died and nearly 50 were wounded by bomb attacks in Baghdad yesterday. In Fallujah a roadside bomb killed five policemen.
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SWAT: Curfew relaxation has been announced in different parts of Swat and Dir Lower as operation “ Rah-e-Rast” continued in Malakand Division.

According to Swat media center, curfew will be relaxed from 9:00 am till 3: pm in Shangla, Maidan and Khawaza Khela areas of Swat and in Dir Lower, curfew relaxed from 6: 00 am to 8:00 pm tehsil Maidan and Adeenzai.

Meanwhile, forces shelled militants’ strongholds in Swat’s tehsil Charbagh, Kabal and upper parts. Two houses and four shops of local commanders were demolished in Mulla Baba and Banar areas of Mingora.

On the other hand, one foreign militant was killed and three injured in a clash between national lashkar and militants in Ghazigai area of Dir Upper. People are migrating towards safer places and a camp has been set up in Malakand University Sharangal. Security forces from Timergira pounded militants’ hideouts in tehsil Maidan.
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Unless you’ve had an out-of-body expe rience, you’ve spent your whole life experiencing everything from the first-person perspective. But what if you could step outside your body temporarily and experience life from a more remote point of view? That’s a question that interested a design student named Marc Owens, who invented a device called the Avatar Machine in an attempt to create this kind of experience.

In terms of computer games and virtual environments, an avatar is a digital representation of a real human being. Avatars can be almost anything as long as an actual person controls them. By contrast, digital characters or creatures under the control of a computer are called bots.

If you’ve ever played a video game like World of Warcraft (WOW), Tomb Raider or Grand Theft Auto, you know about games that use a third-person perspective. In a third-person perspective game, you can see the character you’re playing. In most games like this, the standard camera position is above and behind the character, as if you were floating a few feet behind it. Owens designed the Avatar Machine to let users see themselves from this perspective as if they were characters within a virtual environment.
Owens has said that the MMORPG WOW specifically inspired his invention [source: Régine Debatty]. The device only really requires a harness and helmet, but Owens didn’t stop there — he designed a full costume. He added long spikes on the helmet as well as a red padded section on the upper back of the torso, brown arm bands, black gloves and puffy white pants. The costume resembles the sort of fantasy characters you’d encounter in WOW.
Another inspiration for Owens’ invention was his interest in human behavior within gaming environments. He wanted to see if people behaved differently when they observed themselves from a third-person perspective. He tested his invention in several locations, including Hyde Park in London, England. He observed that some people began to move like the characters in WOW — they’d take large steps and swing their arms with enthusiasm, much to the bemusement of pedestrians passing by.

In this article we’ll look at the components Owens used to create the machine as well as some potential practical applications of the device.
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