April 25, 2003

Keystrokes Pronouncer 1.0

What is Keystrokes Pronouncer? “You want your Macintosh to pronounce each key you press on your keyboard? Then Function Keys Mapper is what you need!” Now, we’re not sure where that “Function Keys Mapper” came from, but we’re pretty sure it’s not what we need.

This pile of regurgitated tripe-ware is so really basic that we feel compelled to review it. What possible use could it be? We suppose it could be useful if you forgot how to pronounce that dastardly K (who really needs it anyway?) but it neglects to respect the modifier keys, negating the one good use we can think of: Learning how to pronounce ψ.

We do have to admit that it’s rather fun to slap the keyboard a bit while this app is running, especially keys like [ / and *. So echo-y.

Weighing in at a hefty 2.3 MB (uncompressed), KeyPron hardly “takes very little . . . disk space,” as the documentation claims. Perhaps we would be more inclined to pay $10 (970 Sri Lanka Rupee) if it pronounced what we intended to type, anticipating our next move with the audacity of John Moltz’s rampant falsification of inter-Apple executive dialog.

AlphaOmega Software, for continuing your grand tradition of useless software creation, we award you a shite-spangled 9.9.

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The AlphaOmega website is truly a thing of beauty. I am humbled.

But if you really want to spice it up, have it translated into Portuguese. You won't understand it (unless you speak Portuguese obviously), but it's much more fun.

Posted by: aussie boy on April 25, 2003 08:57 PM

Type "i m a ,e" at the right pace and it will say "I am a commie!!!"
GREAT APP.
*****
A+++++ seller.

Posted by: Brian on April 25, 2003 10:15 PM

Like Brian, I started playing Stupid Spelling Tricks(tm) and did find it fun, for two seconds.
"ruez"?
"dduzu"?
"24t nt42 unme nmenu"...

Not to mention the fact that '`' sounds like heartburn medication...
And that the sound of typing "..." would be great in the next production of "Echo of the Tampax Era"...

Posted by: Lex on April 25, 2003 10:55 PM

Here I sit upon my bed,
A raven raving in my head,
And then it hits me -- frig me dead!
The keyboard. It's the keyboard.

I felt I had to do a pee.
My keyboard countered -- so did he!
I tried to break him 'pon my knee.
The keyboard. It's the keyboard.

So now my iMac lies asunder,
Midst the broken glass and chunder
While my bowels growl and thunder ...
The keyboard. It's the keyboard.

And still the gibber gibbers on,
Despite the iMac being gone.
This software is a frigging con!
The keyboard. It's the keyboard.

Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe on April 25, 2003 11:46 PM

This app is dangerous. While I was typing "pretty purple puppies play", it kept telling me to "pee, pee, pee, pee, pee, pee, pee, pee". So I did. Who's going to pay to clean my chair?

Posted by: aussie boy on April 26, 2003 02:47 AM

It's a psi and is pronounced "Sigh"

Posted by: Diggory on April 26, 2003 06:31 AM

http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

And--You... Thought... Voicemail... Was... Bad!

Posted by: Double Worsted on April 26, 2003 01:20 PM

This might seem like a stupid question, but what does this have to do with Austrailian Barbecue?

Posted by: Willie Bee on April 26, 2003 10:24 PM

I'm so very glad you asked that question, Willie Bee (and even managed use correct spelling and punctuation).

I think the simple answer is that the author of the software should have his tender buttocks filleted, marinated in a delightful blend of honey, garlic and soy sauce for at least two hours (but preferably overnight), and then grilled on a barbie until it curls up, blackens, bursts into flame, and ultimately drifts away in the breeze, a small puff of ash -- with much the same value as his dross application.

Alternatively, he could serve two to five in a minimum-security facility for attempting to pervert the course of intelligence.

Yours sincerely
Mrs Eunice McGilvray, Celebrity Chef, Euabalong CWA*

NOTE: * Country Women's Association

Posted by: aussie boy on April 27, 2003 12:57 AM

Actually the software will be great for those of us that have to enter data. The app will help to reduce entry errors but will probably drive me crazy.

s.

Posted by: databoy on April 27, 2003 11:33 AM

Er.. could be useful for learning touch-typists; for children learning what the keys are; for people adjusting to a foreign keyboard (assuming it does the key mapping for a foreign keyboard..) A pity to really not pause a bit to think. There's much worse stuff out there.

Posted by: Charles on April 28, 2003 03:46 PM

Charles, Charles, Charles. I think you've mistaken this for a serious place of review. It's a pisstake, old bean. If you take off all your clothes, bend over and look right up your bum, I think you might find a sense of humour up there somewhere. Probably between the internal haemorrhoids and that nasty stress-related ulcer.

The world could be such a happy place if we all just learnt to laugh at bottoms. And farts.

Your assignment, Charles, is to look up the following words in a dictionary: inane; puerile; childish; fun; antidisestablishmentarianism. (OK, so the last one has nothing to do with anything, but I just like to practise spelling it now and again.)

Posted by: on April 28, 2003 06:06 PM

Uh oh! Forgot to sign my previous effort. Sorry, Charles. I'm not one for anonymous attacks, and I genuinely apologise for not putting my name to it.

The rest of it, though ...

Posted by: aussie boy on April 28, 2003 06:07 PM
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