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Musical Scales (msi)

Musical Scales is the best method for learning scales. It also helps you learn to improvise in specific keys while you train your ear to recognize those keys. It doesn't play chords but it does allow you to transpose the notes for any instrument. For Saxophone, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet,...

Tags: Instrument, Scale, Musical Scales, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-05-14

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Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

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Tags: Telephony, VOIP, open source, Asterisk, FreeSwitch

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

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Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Pioneer Kuro PDP-5020FD

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Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, PDP-5020FD

Product reviews 2008-07-18

Nintendo's announcements from E3 2008

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Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, News

Videos 2008-07-16

New hybrid delivery security architecture

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Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing

News items 2008-07-16

Hammering at cost with open source

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Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Canadian court shutters torrent tracker

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Tags: E-books, INTERNET, Intellectual property, Well Let, tracker, e-book, music

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer

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Tags: Yamaha Corp., Yamaha Tenori-On

Product reviews 2008-07-10

Westinghouse VK-40F580D

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Tags: Consumer electronics, standout, DVD, Westinghouse VK-40F580D, Westinghouse, DVD player, TV

Product reviews 2008-07-07

DJ your Independence Day party with your Mac

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Tags: Apple Macintosh, Radio, Apple iTunes, Music, Pandora, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

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Tags: grid parity

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

t-rox Studio (msi)

t-rox Studio is music transcription and editing software. Convert your favourite songs to musical notation for melody, guitar, piano, chords, bass and drums. Enrich playback with built-in software synthesizers and sampler. Export multi-track projects to wave files. Edit notes with the feature rich notation editor. Record audio and Midi. Version...

Tags: Software, StarNotation, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-26

Intermorphic Noatikl (zip)

Noatikl is a generative music that will help you generate new musical ideas. Noatikl uses techniques developed over the last 17 years through our work on the award-winning Koan generative music system. Use it to: generate new musical ideas; break composer's block; augment an existing musical work; create ambient sound...

Tags: Intermorphic, Noatikl, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-25

Mint 220 - Wireless Digital Music Station

The Mint 220 Wireless Digital Music Station offers us something that we haven't yet seen in an iPod speaker dock. Instead of combining iPod playback with a CD player or AM/FM alarm clock radio, the Mint 220 gives you the ability to wirelessly stream any audio from a PC or...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, wireless, Bass, Mint 220, dock

Product reviews 2008-06-24

Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month

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Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Bose Companion 2 Series II (graphite)

Bose makes a few different computer speaker packages, the least expensive of which is the Companion 2 Series II at $100. The package includes two compact speakers measuring 7.5 by 3.2 by 5.8 inches; both are angled slightly upward so the sound is aimed toward your head when you're sitting...

Tags: Arcade Fire, speaker, Bose

Product reviews 2008-06-20

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Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Oddball thinking about OOP

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Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Messaging, Analog, Programming, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Popcorn (zip)

Having conquered the musical world in Popscene, you must now turn your managerial skills to the movie industry. Here, soundtracks are the least of your concerns--as you preside over the scripts and footage that will yield a cinematic masterpiece. Unleash your camera on over 20 unique sets, and choreograph each...

Tags: Industry, Camera, MDickie, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-02