Tag: SPEEDREADING

Want to make text on webpages more readable without zooming everything else or editing your default fonts via the wrench menu? Have a look at ChromeVis, a new Chrome extension from the folks at Google that acts like a magnifier for the text you select on a page. Since this is an official Google extension, it's no surprise that ChromeVis supports several keyboard shortcuts. The lens area can be ...

With the number of laptops I reinstall Windows on every day constantly on the rise, I've been looking for applications that might help boost my pitiful short-term memory - for some reason, my boss frowns upon me playing Brain Age at work. And since 6AM isn't the best time to be shouting at something in my house (toddler, wife, etc.), I need something a bit more quiet to help me practice. Speed ...

I've been an on again off again speed reader for some time. Every couple of years I find myself in the book store going through the discount bin and finding, buying, and reading yet another speed reading book. I'm addicted to the idea of speed reading, even if the art itself somewhat escapes me. Spreeder and Zap Reader are two tools designed to help you improve your speed reading ability on the ...

Just like ZAP Reader, Spreeder is an online speed-reading application that will help train your brain to read faster. Although they function very much the same, Spreeder's main goal in life isn't simply to allow you to read articles online more quickly; Spreeder wants to make you into a faster reader in general. Basically, using a speed-reading application like Spreeder forces you to drop the ...

Want to read faster? Try ZAP Reader. It's a free web app that will, in theory, as much as quadruple your reading speed. It works like this: You find some text you want to read fast, you paste it into ZAP Reader and hit Play, and ZAP Reader starts flashing the words on the screen. You can control the speed it goes at (it starts at 30 words per minute) and pause it, and you can skip backward or ...