- Cutter 1.42. Let Your Computer Compute — Back in the sixties, there were many scientists and journalists (both pessimistic and optimistic ones) supposing computers in near future would do artistic work. They still don’t, so, in today’s world there is a widespread pragmatic sight: computer certainly can’t do the art, but a human artist with a computer can sometimes do outstanding things, primarily because a computer would automate all the repetitive and…
- Pizzicato: Can You Write In Music? — Pizzicato is music writing software. «Writing» here means literally what it says: Pizzicato allows writing any music down, note by note, into staff and then playing the music you have written. It sounds simple, but Pizzicato is really multi-purpose, multi-possibility software. First, it is useful for studying the common principles: it allows writing specific notes, also by music keyboard (or a virtual one), creating simple…
- OscilloMeter 5.57. Computer As Tool — Many years have passed since computers were invented as tools for scientific research and engineering tasks. The lucky invention has been widely accepted; it has changed our world and the course of progress completely. Now computers play the role of rather an «everyday tech», «personal communicator» or «stationery» than a serious engineering tool. Sometimes, we don’t even remember that…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- FLV Downloader 1.01, See It On Your Own Computer — Suddenly, flash video became the heart of modern Internet. Rare blogs or commercial sites can live without those rectangle with «play» and «pause» buttons. YouTube and sites like it are incredibly popular, the thing nobody could imagine two years ago. The only problem with a Flash video in the Internet is the Internet itself: that means, if you want to see again the movie you saw last week, you should have the page…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
- TextTransformer 1.4.1, The Last Text Processor You Need — TextTransformer is described as a tool for transforming texts (you bet!). But, in fact, this short description is almost humiliating for this great tool! Because real possibilities of TextTransformer are stretched from trivial word replacements in the text file to creation of new scripting languages (read it twice, guy; it’s true). The trick is: you need some kind of programmer’s mindset to use…
- Engraver II - create great-looking engraving effects in a couple of mouse clicks — Engraving is one of the oldest visual art techniques and is widely used to add a flair of antiquity to images and photos by a great number of digital artists. However, reproducing this effect manually can be a nut hard to crack for novices and even confident Photoshop users. If you are looking for a way to add high-quality and fully configurable engraving effects to your images and photos in Photoshop and…
- Forte - a perfect notation tool to complement your music talent! — Although romantic types often say that music exists in our heart and soul, in reality it exists in the form of music notation. Every serious musician or composer is well aware how important it is to have accurate, well-readable notations that can be reused, shared and published quickly and without much fuss. More than that, creation of good notations is tedious work that requires ultimate knowledge and attention. If you know…
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