Chris Strammiello from ScanSoft and Author, Preston Gralla from OReilly to be featured on this weeks Lets Talk Computers ®

Guests from ScanSoft and OReilly will appear on radio talk show "Let's Talk Computers. With offices worldwide, ScanSoft, Inc. is the leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes. O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. Lets Talk Computers ranks as one of the longest-running computer radio talk shows, and airs on multiple radio stations weekly - and 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Internet.

Chris Strammiello from ScanSoft and Author, Preston Gralla from OReilly to be featured on this weeks Lets Talk Computers ®

NASHVILLE, TN (PRWEB) October 31, 2003 -- Guests from ScanSoft and OReilly will appear on radio talk show "Let's Talk Computers. With offices worldwide, ScanSoft, Inc. is the leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes. O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. Lets Talk Computers ranks as one of the longest-running computer radio talk shows, and airs on multiple radio stations weekly - and 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Internet.    

ScanSoft (Nasdaq: SSFT), http://www.scansoft.com, develops award-winning document automation solutions, including OCR (optical character recognition), eForm design and personal document management applications. Chris Strammiello, Director of Product Marketing discusses the ScanSoft PDF Converter and OmniPage Pro 12 Office. ScanSoft PDF Converter for Microsoft Word immediately converts PDF documents into an editable Microsoft Word 2003 document. OmniPage Pro 12 Office is a powerful productivity application that delivers accurate document conversion, turning PDF and paper - letters, contracts, tables, manuals - into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents.

Windows XP Hacks is the latest in O'Reilly's, http://www.oreilly.com, new Hacks Series which aims to begin reclaiming the term "hacking" for the good guys. Their new Hacks books are written in the spirit of the true hackers -- the people who drive innovation. Author, Preston Gralla discusses his new Windows XP Hacks, which offers tips, tools, and know-how to fine-tune Windows XP. The book delves into XP topics such as controlling the control panel, changing unchangeable icons, removing uninstallable XP components, stopping pop-up ads, taking a bite out of cookies, speeding up file downloads, protecting yourself with firewalls and proxy servers, and more.

Listen to the interviews at:
ScanSoft         http://www.lets-talk-computers.net/guests/scansoft/converter
OReilly      http://www.lets-talk-computers.net/guests/oreilly/xp_hacks

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