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Click Here to download the program ( 521kb ) Description: ------------ A program to help you accelerate the speed at which you can
read text. Words are presented to you one at a time, in the same position,
stopping your eyes from having to shift and refocus on every word as they
would on a normal paragraph or line. Also the human brain is much more suited for handling a serial
stream of data. Infact the only way your brain handles
text is by breaking it up into a serial stream before parsing and interpeting it. Speed Reader pre-processes and serializes
text, saving your brain from having to do it itself. Puncuation is handled, an extra
pause between words occurs for commas, and semi-colons;(
",;"). And an extra two pauses occurs for periods, question marks, exclaimation
marks and speech marks.(".?!""). These extra pauses allow you
to take a mental breath. To read a file containing plain text, using Speed Reader, simply
open the file using the open button. If you want to open a
MSword .doc file, change the filetype
to ".doc" in the open file dialog. No support for opening PDF files directly yet, but you can
open them in adobe reader, press Ctrl+A
then Ctrl+C, to copy the documents text onto the
clipboard. Then use the Paste from clipboard button in Speed Reader to input the
text into the program. Version History --------------- 1.1 - ( Current Release 1.0 - (June 2003) +Fullscreen mode. +Entire program has complete Exception handling, and will � now
exit quietly. +"IO E:INI Exception error" fixed, in both exit
and start � cases. +Entire word parser recoded. +"jerkiness" on short lines now fixed, entire
program is � now
more efficient due to a small buffer implementation. +General program updated graphically, better speed, look � and
feel, overall much better presentation. +Added basic MS word file parser,
seems to work okay. � If read errors
occur just copy your text onto the � clipboard and use
speed reader's paste from clipboard � button. 0.5-beta - (March 2003) First release, very rough around the edges, loved throwing
IO and array bounds errors. |