- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- OlmiChess 2.63, Plug and Play! — Chess is an intellectual pair game the humanity has known for thousands of years. But during the last 15 or 20 years, it seems, chess sometimes becomes a «solo» game with the second partner being soulless machine with playing abilities based on the «smart calculation» only, not on the intuition, complex associations or vivid imagination (like every chess master has). Thanks to the progress, computers and computer…
- Unreal Media Server 5.0, Media to Universe — Unreal Media Server is an almost-universal highly-customizable media streaming solution. It can be used with the equal ease either inside a LAN or for the Internet, in an on-demand or live modes, with any level of interactivity and any media format. On the server side, Unreal Media Server supports a huge multitude of media formats (for ex., sound: WMV, MP3, OGG, video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Apple mp4…), and…
- MidWavi Pro 2.98, What Can Be Done with Media Files? — «What can be done with media files?» — The question in the title is not rhetoric. I really want you to think about it: you have got multimedia data (CD-Audio, sounds as WAV and MP3, video in a multitude of formats, pictures in even a greater number of formats); now, what do you want to do with this media? The reason I am asking that is because MidWavi Pro can do really…
- MultiExtractor 2.70a, Media from Deep Internals — How often do you think «I’d like to have an icon set of this program for my use? I like the picture; may I extract it, please? The sound in presentation is cool, I want to get it,» and so on? Let’s ask more concrete question: do you want to have an ability to extract media (animations, pictures, sounds) from almost any complex format containing them such…
- VH Player — These days, the number of popular video codecs is so large that even the most experienced of us find it hard to tell whether the file that has just been downloaded from the Internet will play normally in any of the players installed in the system. The only way out is to keep downloading new codec packs and hope that they contain the right library. Fortunately, there are players out there that solve most of these problems and play…
- Flash Player Pro, Watch It Online, Watch It Locally — Even the simplest, most basic flash movie or animation gives a lot more excitement than the most sophisticated static document. The only trouble about this awesome technology is that all those exciting movies that can be watched online can hardly be saved to a local disk, so that we — or others — could watch them later. Flash Player Pro completely eliminates the problem of saving flash animations to disk; with…
- YouTube Music Downloader - a virtually endless supply of fresh music videos — A great number of modern devices, such as cell phones, portable consoles and MP3 players support video playback these days. However, we don’t always have time to grab videos from TV, compress them and convert into the necessary format. At the same time, millions of videos are available for free on Youtube and it would be imprudent not to use such an inexhaustible source of music. Ironically, Youtube uses its own…
- Softick Audio Gateway, Hand-Held Multimedia Goes Wireless — Originally invented as a digital replacement of the paper-based notebook, handheld computers have evolved into true digital assistants. Besides business, we widely use them for our personal pleasure — to play games, watch movies, and listen to favorite songs or audio books, replacing stand-alone game consoles, FM tuners, audio players, etc. With Softick Audio Gateway you can enjoy all that wirelessly. This audio streaming application runs…
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