Harddisk Search and Stats   
http://www.freebyte.com

Harddisk Search & Stats is a very powerful Search Engine for your harddisk which is free for commercial and non-commercial use. It enables you to conveniently search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously (such as: .txt, .html, .ini, .php, .mbx, .pas, .bas, .c, .cpp files). Harddisk Search & Stats is ideal for those who are handling text files, such as programmers, web developers, computer professionals, system managers and other demanding users. An advantage of Harddisk Search & Stats is that - unlike most other search engines - it does perform any time-consuming indexing of your harddisk. It can directly search text-based files in all levels of a folder (recursive), or just one level, or your entire harddisk. Harddisk Search & Stats Search can search inside files, and search for files (using the file name) or combine both methods. When searching inside files, you can specify as many search terms you want, and there is no limit to the number of file types you can add for searching. For each search-term entered, the program will display an additional column in the search results. More features: search files according to file type, search files according to filename, search using wildcards, search files according to file date, search files according to file size, sort and reverse-sort the search-result list according to: file location, file name, file type, file size, file date, occurrence of each search term; import file types from a folder, view/search individual files with the internal or an external viewer, zero-installation, easy uninstallation, Harddisk Search and Stats does not write anything into the registry, and it runs directly from CD-Rom, floppy or USB disk.

RenameFromList   
http://www.softcns.com

Import file lists from plain text source files and rename multiple files. Imported file names are automatically filtered for illegal characters and path information. Side by side comparision available before renaming starts. You can edit new file name entries and change extensions before starting the renaming operation. Filter files by size, date and pattern and sort by name, date or size. Support now added for delimited plain text file lists of old and new file names.

Text To Wave ActiveX Server DLL   
http://www.research-lab.com

Text To Wave ActiveX DLL allows programmers to convert any readable text to a spoken wave file or a mp3 file. The conversion can be in 19 different voices. Apart from allowing programming in any language platform, the DLL is a highly useful utility, as in reading web pages and or sending mp3 mails. Also found very useful in preparation of short multimedia presentations without use of high volume installations on your users PC.You may use this as a service on a web page (automatic). Can even make your web site speak. How ? simple, via wave files delivered to browsers.Total Telephony and Server-Side Support. What's new in 2.0? Mp3 Conversion, 80+ Audio Format Conversion, Multithreading for Telephony/Internet Server, XML Scripting, 80 + Output Audio Formats. MTS/COM+ Transaction Support for Windows NT/2000/Advanced Server Server Side Execution or Active Server Page Samples, Chinese TTS Engine SAPI 5.1 Third Party Engine Support and now has a much Improved documentation.

Text To Mp3   
http://www.research-lab.com

Text To Wave Concept: Converts Text to Wave, MP3 or WMA Files and helps design a read aloud MP3 book for you. Available in 11 major langauges this software tool helps solve a lot of your daily problems with electronic text. Using a mp3 player you may now listen to documents, read E-mails or web pages downloaded over the internet . Convert heavy CD literature or virtually any text in any of your subjects. You may also convert your voice to mp3 and send it over by email Super stuff for home, school or office use. One great feature of this application is setting the readout speed. This helps immensely in text understanding cases, especially for schools or educational institutions. The application is very easy to operate. In a few steps you can convert a text page to a mp3 file and save the file in a specified directory. Convert all of the pages and save all the mp3 files as a play list book. Open the list whenever you desire and listen aloud all pages. You may stop, pause and resume the playback

Text Workbench   
http://www.silveragesoftware.com

Multi-purpose search and replace tool with full Unicode support, Text Workbench will increase your productivity and save many hours of manual editing that you spend daily for updating all your files of any type either at your local disks or via FTP. It is a powerful unified solution for web masters, software and web developers, technical writers, office managers and anyone else who wants to search and/or replace text in many files quickly and easily. Text Workbench provides you with a rich set of content editing capabilities, including search filters, regular expressions and search scenarios support, file renamer, image browser, embedded text editor with syntax highlighting and folder selector. All this is delivered in a clear, well-rounded user-interface that enables you to jumpstart your first replacement job in a couple of minutes.