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xEQ 1.2 (Mac)

xEQ is a parametric EQ/Tone Control Audio Unit. It consists of Low and High shelf filters and three Peak/Cut filters. It is very useful for placing around distortion effects. Place one xEQ before your distortion effect to act as a preamp's tone control. Place another xEQ after your distortion effect...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Music Unfolding, xEQ, Distortion Effect, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-12-10

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Guitar FX BOX 2.8 (Windows)

Guitar FX BOX is acting just like a good collection of analog effect pedals. Just plug your guitar into the sound card input and your guitar will sing and scream. You can apply a wide range of high quality effects to guitar, voice, and other inputs real-time - I/O delay...

Tags: I/O, Microsoft Windows, Guitar, Sasa Gojkovic, Guitar FX BOX

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X

Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, ZBrush, performance, Upgrading Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, clean install, CS4, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Loomer Resound 1.3.4 (Mac)

Loomer Resound is a software audio delay effect processor that emulates the sound and operation of vintage magnetic-tape echo units. Whilst not a direct copy of any one particular model, it takes features from several of the classic delay devices, and unites them into a convincing and pleasingly retro sounding...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hardware, Loomer Resound

Software downloads 2009-08-12

Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

the RDFwas and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be rephrased in layman's terms as:Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.Why should they care?They are making tons of money. Such is the...

Tags: XML, RDF, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

Apple has grown to become one of the most influential tech companies on the planet. One trick that Apple has employed to great effect is the Reality Distortion Field RDF. But lately I can't help but feel that Apple has grown so big, so fast that it has outgrown the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Synthesizer 3.4 (Mobile)

Synthesizer turns your iPhone or iPod into a groovy synthesizer based on additive, subtractive, and FM sound synthesis. Synthesizer featuring, five harmonics, vibrato, chorus, pitch shift, attack, decay, sustain and release, frequency modulation, noise, distortion, cutoff, delay, bitcrusher, presets, and wave shape. Use your earphones for a better sound experience....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Mobile, Stefan Welebny, Digital Music, Smart Phones, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-09

Agares RackA3 1.0 (Windows)

Agares RackA3 is a collection of 6 VST effects. Featuring triple distortion, triple delay, triple reverb, triple pitch shifting, triple chorus, and triple phaser effects, the Agares RackA3 includes 6 VST effect units that are designed to provide the basic effects toolkit that every musician needs. The VST effects can...

Tags: Agares Media, Agares RackA3, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-20

Samsung SGH-A177 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-A177In case you haven't noticed, messaging phones are in. Once the domain of high-end smartphones, full alphabetic keyboards have trickled down over the past year into a broad variety of basic, midrange handsets. These messaging phones are built primarily for texting--POP3 e-mail is offered as an afterthought only...

Tags: Keyboards, Instant messaging, Groupware, space bar, AT&T Corp., A177, Samsung SGH-A177, phone, keyboard, messaging phone, messaging, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-06-11

Tonium Pacemaker (60GB)

Photo gallery: Tonium Pacemaker (60GB)When we reviewed the original Pacemaker in June of 2008, it topped our list of digital DJ toys, but the accompanying $800 price tag was hard to swallow. Revamped for 2009, the second-generation of the Pacemaker MP3 player includes all the features of the original (and...

Tags: Tonium Pacemaker

Product reviews 2009-05-05

Blue Cat's Dynamics 3.0 (Windows)

Blue Cat's Dynamics is a complete dynamics effect processor: it can be used as a compressor, limiter, gate, expander or even distortion unit. You can manage the dynamics response of the plug-in with a unique two-thresholds system. The plug-in includes an input filter as well as a side chain filter,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dynamics, Blue Cat Audio

Software downloads 2009-04-27

International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)

People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...

Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-09

PocketGuitar 1.2.1 (Mobile)

If you've ever wondered if you could play guitar with your iPhone, it just became possible. Enter PocketGuitar. Shinya Kastanis PocketGuitar lets you play acoustic, classical, electric, muted electric, bass, and ukulele from its very intuitive interface. The app also boasts distortion, delay, and chorus effects that you can apply...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Guitar, Shinya Kasatani, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-19

Psystar.com offline ...

Psystar.com offline ...It's dead, Jim.Nolo connecte.Psystar sold more than Apple clonesWhat would give Apple the right to terminate their entire web site because of one product they sell? If I object to something on Amazon's site do I have that same right?The Digg EffectntIt's up.I can get to it at...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Psystar.com, Psystar, Apple Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Analyst: 35% of iPhone 3G buyers will get it for $199

Analyst: 35% of iPhone 3G buyers will get it for $199BummerLooks like Apple went up against the Cell Phone carriers and lost. iPhone pricing is turning out to be as much of a mess as it is everywhere else in the cellphone industry.Too bad they couldn't pull off simple pricing...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, iPhone pricing, ATT, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G buyer, iPhone 3G, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Sennheiser HD 600

When Steve Guttenberg reviewed the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, he rightfully called them "fit for a king"--while noting that they retail for a correspondingly princely sum of $500. Thankfully, the HD 650s aren't the only model in Sennheiser's high-end audiophile line. The Sennheiser HD 600s can be bought at a...

Tags: Sennheiser, headphone

Product reviews 2008-05-13

Creative TravelSound i80 for iPod Nano

If you're an iPod owner searching for a way to share tunes, there's no shortage of iPod speakers from which to choose. The problem is distinguishing them from one another, and one of the easiest ways is to look for something with a unique or innovative design. Creative Labs manages...

Tags: backside, Creative TravelSound, speaker, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano

Product reviews 2008-04-22

Gateway FHD2400 (24-inch)

Despite a host of video connections, including HDMI, and HDCP support, the $550 Gateway FHD2400 is not a good multimedia display choice. This 24-inch LCD carries a reasonable $550 price and will suffice for basic productivity and gaming usage. The rich feature set includes an optional $50 speaker bar that...

Tags: Corporate communications, Gateway FHD2400, Gateway Inc., display, OSD

Product reviews 2008-03-25

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are YoursArthur C. Clarke : The beacon to the human race is no moreLike the rest of the world I was also very saddened by his death. He lived a full life and was the same shining personality till the end.As a kid whose...

Tags: Robots, Arthur C. Clarke, HAL

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasm

Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasmCompetition vs. consumersYour second pre-condition for evaluating the appropriateness of anti-trust regulation was "Whether the regulations actually result in better systems that benefit consumers."Worth noting that "better" is a subjective decision, and an ambitious regulator would in effect be asked to judge whether his power grab made the world a...

Tags: Web browsers, Regulations, Litigation, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-25