Sep 04

An issue near and dear to my heart, both personally and professionally is that of spam. Not the lunch meat, which, when prepared correctly, I happen to enjoy, but that bane of email, the unsolicited commercial email (UCE). At what point does legitimate communication cross the line to become junk.

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Sep 04

I have six basic different uses for free, open-source software: 1) my law office practice; 2) managing and editing video for the Digital Tipping Point Project; 3) running a 25-seat Edubuntu lab at a public middle school as a volunteer in San Francisco; 4) placing ACCRC.org Linux computers in classrooms; 5) giving out ACCRC.org Ubuntu computers to friends, neighbors and the children who attend that

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Sep 03

Email is one of the least private and least secure forms of communication, although few people realize this. MixMaster is one way to allow secure, anonymous communication even over the very public medium of email. This tutorial will get you started with MixMaster quickly and easily.

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Sep 03

If you’ve never looked at Eclipse and you work with multiple programming languages or multiple platforms, take some time to try Eclipse.

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Sep 03

What does it mean to be open.

My copy of Oxford defines open as: unconcealed circumstances or condition. Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.

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Sep 03
About Pianoteq
Pianoteq is a physically modelled piano. Its tiny footprint (just 15 MB), playability (models all 127 midi velocities) and flexibility (offering unique physical parameters) makes it truly unique and superior to the sampled based variants. Pianoteq is supplied as a standalone instrument and as a VST, AudioUnits and RTAS plugin.

Sep 03
About Switch File Format Converter for Mac
A sound file converter for Mac. It can convert audio files from many sources into mp3 or wav format. Switch Converter is very easy to use. Just add the files you want to convert to the list, select the format you want to use, and then click the convert button.

Features:

- Simple and intuitive interface.

- Converts a variety of different audio file formats (including WMA, MOV, AIFF formats) into MP3 or WAV format.

- MPEG Layer-3 encoding done using the LAME codec, providing complete control over mode and bitrate selection.

- Wave encoding allows configuration of encoding technique, bit rate, sampling rate and number of channels.

- Ability to play tracks prior to conversion.

Sep 03
About AudioLobe
Allows you to independently alter the playback speed and pitch rate of audio and video files. If you are a musician or interested in audio this means you can slow down complex sequences of audio without the vocal or instruments sounding unintelligible.

Great for learning difficult notes in a musical sequence. For example, you could set a section of the audio to loop at whatever playback speed you want and easily follow what is happening, without having pitch changes. AudioLobe 3 adds the ability to save files with altered play speeds, and a major update to the interface.

Sep 03
About automat1
A polyphonic stereo subtractive AudioUnit synthesizer.

- subtractive synthesis

- antialiased oscillators with hard-sync

- filters and amplifier with ADSR

- modulators with tempo sync

- waveshaper / eq

- stereo-delay with filter and tempo sync

- modulated spatial effect

- poly-, unisono and legato-mode

- random preset generation

- midi learn