The Linux Journal recently published an article I wrote on Jean-Pierre Lemoine’s AVSynthesis, a program designed for artists working with the computer as a medium for the synthesis of image and sound. I’m fascinated by that program, so I decided to research the existence of similar software. This article presents the current findings from that research.
Analyst Evans Data Corporation has reported that only 8 percent of developers are targetting Windows Vista while 49 percent are still developing for Windows XP.
John Andrews, CEO & president of Evans Data, says developers are on a wait-and-see mode on Vista because of driver issues, software incompatibility and steep hardware requirements.
It’s pretty ironic since developer’s are on a wait and see mode expecting that software and driver compatibilities would vanish when in fact, 49% of these folks are contributing to delayed stability of Vista because of their continuous support for XP instead of targeting Vista right away.
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About SonicMood Bathes you in gentle tones played by selected instruments to calm and relax you, and block out background noise, while you work. It’s like “Mood Chimes”, notes which vary like chimes blown by the wind. The patterns never repeat and are gentle, soothing, and harmonious. There are 28 different sets of “chimes” using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others. Audio files of nature sounds are added to each of the 28 pre-defined Moods. You can alter those Moods or create your own. It’s ambient music at its best! |
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About Disco XT A professional music playback and DJ mixing software for the Mac. Integrates with iTunes. Use songs and playlists in your iTunes Library. No setup or importing of songs is required. With a touch of a button, you may put Disco XT to automix playback. In Automix Disco XT plays and fades songs together without any user intervention. If you want to take a break when mixing at a party, you can! Disco XT automatically detects and shows the tempo of your songs. You can detect incoming changes in song and inspect song ends with the waveform displays. Waveforms can be zoomed, which allows to see closer to the song for setting start points or loops, and then zoom out to see further in to the future. Listen to song with headphones without interfering with the output to your speakers. Cue tracks without anyone hearing while the music plays on! Use your microphone with Disco XT to talk over your mix. Give announcements and talk about upcoming songs. Use talkover button to attenuate music playback while talking. Records songs, transitions, effects, microphone and everything else to audio file. Share your mix with friends, burn it to CD or load to your iPod® or other portable media player. Records to AAC audio file. Load short audio clips to the sample decks. Show’s start tunes, end tunes, sound effects and more. You may have up to six different samples loaded at a time. Disco XT comes with high quality effects: reverb, 10-band equalizer, delay, limiter and filters. |
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About DX7 Librarian Any voice parameter can be changed on Editor window having direct connection with DX7 over MIDI. If your Macintosh have a connection with the Internet, you can access to DX7 voices database. Double clicking on a file in Database window, you can get the voice file on your Mac! You can submit your original voice file via e-mail just by choosing Submit item in File menu. Then the file will be appended into the Database within a few days. |
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About Records Master A secure file manager that allows you to collect important records (such as bank statements, credit card statements, investment records, bills, or receipts) or PDFs in a database and allow for: - easy addition of new files (importing), |
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About Schreiben Word Processor. Simple. Fast. Centric. Schreiben was my first application for Mac OS X. I needed a fast, clean and easy to use word processor which opens in the middle of the screen. I don‘t like the behaviour of other word processors you first have to center on the screen. Three years later Schreiben is still one of my favorite applications and because other developers let me learn from their code, I did not use Word for years now. Schreiben is based on the Cocoa Text System – so you can open and write RichText and Word Files. With version 3.0.1+ you can now open and save .docx (Word 2007) and .odt (Open Office Documents) and if needed export Word Documents with Pictures.You can create tables, drop and resize pictures or even write XML. Schreiben has got an integrated statistic (Character, Words, Lines) so you won´t miss your editors/teachers defaults. Schreiben can be used in Fullscreen View, supports Smart Quotes, automatically saving from documents with selectable interval and many formatting features that will help you creating well styled pages, writings, letters or even whole books. You can also store often used Snippets (so you don’t have to start from scratch if you want to write a letter for example)… |
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About Extransit Mobile Interaction Suite Uses a unique mobile client/serverbased technology to provide multi-user applications that runs on a server and are used from mobile devices. The suite consists of a server, a graphical development tool and a MIDlet that is downloaded to the target phones. The Strike Server is a development server, and run-time middleware, that provides on-line multi-user access for mobile clients, featuring OTA, push, mobile client wake up, remote editing and positioning among other things. It is designed to interact with the Catch Client MIDlet and the Pitch Studio graphical development tool. The Pitch Studio is a graphical development tool that takes down the process of designing mobile applications to a minimum. It features among other things; a WYSIWYG UI editor featuring on-line preview from a mobile phone, a large set of appearance and animation editors, theme import and an application integration tool. It is designed to interact with the Strike Server, and the Catch Client MIDlet. The Catch Client is a MIDlet used for on-line mobile applications. It has a feature-rich widget set with buttons, images, tables, game board, animated menus etc etc. It facilitates e.g. advanced animations, access to phone features, such as the camera and external GPS. It supports data push and wake-up from the server. It is interacts with the Strike Server and presents services designed with the Pitch Studio. |
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About Retrospect Designed for use in home and small offices, Retrospect Desktop provides protection for one local Apple Macintosh desktop or notebook and two other networked desktop or notebooks running Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, or Red Hat Linux computers. Retrospect Desktop can be expanded with additional client licenses. Desktop utilizes proven automated technology to provide easy administration, complete protection for networked computers and fast back-ups with 100% accurate restores. |
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About Messenger for Mac An integrated communications client that enables you to communicate with contacts within and outside your organization. Makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of real-time communications. |