Posted by Aaron Cravy on March 30th, 2007 in INTERNET, Macintosh, SOFTWARE
Google’s Picasa is a powerful tool for most of your digital photography needs and best of all, it is free! Picasa has many similar features as my favorite photo manager, iPhoto by Apple. It also has a number of unique features that are causing me to think twice about which software I will be using [...]
Posted by Aaron Cravy on March 24th, 2007 in Macintosh, SOFTWARE
Have you ever had audio files that you needed to convert to another format in order to make them more useful? I know that I often need to change WAV files to MP3 or WMA files to WAV and I needed a tool that could do that easily. In searching on the Internet, I came [...]
Posted by Richard Cravy on March 20th, 2007 in Macintosh, SOFTWARE
Have you ever wanted to work on an audio file, or even create a customized audio file from a tape, CD, or microphone? Let me recommend my favorite audio editing software. It’s called Audacity and is available from http://audacity.sourceforge.net. There are versions available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and all are free.
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Posted by Richard Cravy on March 16th, 2007 in INTERNET, Miscellaneous
This past winter we had an unusually heavy snowfall in Lubbock, Texas. Using my wife’s small digital camera I shot several minutes of video of the snow falling. To share it with friends and family who might not believe otherwise, I logged in to www.videoegg.com and uploaded two video clips, edited them a little and [...]
Posted by Richard Cravy on March 15th, 2007 in Macintosh, SOFTWARE
www.softwarefor.org is the website for downloading Windows PC and Mac CD image files (.iso) which can then be burned to CD using CD recording software. As it says on the website, “Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs [...]