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PDFCreator

2010-12-14T21:15:00.002Z

Internet Video Converter

2010-12-11T23:46:00.000Z

TreeSize Free

2010-12-11T16:01:00.000Z

USBDeview

2010-12-11T15:58:00.000Z

IconRestorer

2010-12-11T15:55:00.002Z

allSnap

2010-11-24T10:40:00.001Z

WinMerge

2010-11-16T16:25:00.002Z

Brian Apps: Sizer

2010-11-15T14:45:00.001Z

DigitalVolcano: Duplicate Cleaner

2010-11-15T14:42:00.001Z

Cockos: PathSync

2010-11-15T14:41:00.000Z

John’s Background Switcher

2010-11-12T09:44:00.001Z

TinEye - Reverse Image Search

2010-09-17T13:22:00.003+01:00

flowplayer

2010-05-06T14:16:00.000+01:00

DIY: Home Theatre 3D Stereoscopic Projection + Silver Screen for 3D

2010-03-13T16:39:00.001Z

Synth-Project

2010-03-11T17:30:00.001Z

NVIDIA® GeForce® 300M Series Notebook GPUs

2010-02-09T14:41:00.002Z

Pandorapedia

2010-01-29T20:35:00.002Z

Wavosaur: Free sound editor

2010-01-02T11:47:00.002Z

MUPPET DOPPELGANGER

2009-12-19T23:03:00.001Z

Wolfram Mathematica 7

2009-12-16T22:03:00.001Z

Built-in Digital Image Processing & Analysis

Spectrasonics: Propellerheads Reason 1.0 review

2009-12-04T15:52:00.004Z

About Reason 1.0: «"Is Reason still as jaw-droppingly cool as it first seemed when it was introduced almost a year ago at Winter NAMM 2000?"

The Answer: Your jaw is about to come completely off!

I'll even go as far to say that Reason is as much of a milestone event in the development of electronic music as the ADAT and the VS-880 were for personal recording.»

Eheheh ^^

About the Subtractor: «This is a great synth in the analog modeling mode. It has a clear character that is a bit Nord-like, but it is actually much more versatile. It is also slightly reminiscent of the Roland Jupiters, Junos and SH series. It isn't as beefy or aggressive as the Moog or Virus sound, but it still works well for Basses and Leads. [...] Subtractor has a couple of trick little things that dramatically increase its sound creation possibilities. One is a huge array of waveforms that go far beyond the standard analog waves, deep into PPG territory and beyond. It even does some very convincing DX-like FM synth colors. Another innovation is that the phase of each Oscillator can be modulated. This doesn't seem that sexy until you hear it. It's like having PWM on steroids for every wave! Very interesting possibilities are there for combining this with Ring Mod and FM techniques.» =D

About the Reason 1.0 Effects: «The reverb, delay, distortion, chorus/flanger, phaser, envelope filter and compressor units are ALL as good or better than any Pro Tools or VST/Logic plugs I've used! They are simply excellent and highly musical sounding. [...]. Reason's FX units are of course much more powerful than any of the standard plug-in FX, simply because they can be quickly patched in a myriad of clever ways that haven't been possible before.»

To put in perspective, all this relates to what was available in 2001 ;)

About the Matrix: «This is a terrific software version of the old Moog/Arp modular analog step sequencers that put Giorgio Moroder, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk on the map. It can be used for many applications including modulating parameters in numerous Reason modules too.» =)

About the NN-19 Sample player: «This is the weakest and most disappointing of all the devices in Reason for a couple of key points:

1. No Velocity Switching at all. (ouch!....forget about any realistic instrument sounds...even the old Akai S-900 and the Roland Sound Canvas have velocity switching!)

2. Reason's sampler doesn't read any of the industry-standard sound library formats like Akai or Roland. For right now, it's just garden variety basic AIFF and Wave support.

3. Nothing too inspiring in the factory sample-set. The included sample library is serviceable, and nothing is blatantly bad sounding, but it's not too exciting either.....(admittedly, we're pretty biased and picky about sampled sounds since that's our business!)

4. Auto-mapping of samples is not as good as in EXS24, GIGA or Unity. The Octave shift parameter is also implemented incorrectly (Reason shifts the map's tuning instead of the MIDI Transposition) and coarse tuning is only adjustable in positive values.....weird...

So basically, this is a sampler for a Techno guy, not for a Composer-type guy. It's fine for loops and phrases and some very basic instrument sounds. But contrary to the claims made at the 2000 Winter NAMM demo, Reason's sampler is not even close to a replacement for something like Unity, EXS24, Gigastudio or a pro-level hardware sampler.....at least that's the case in version 1.0 of Reason.

In fairness, there are some very good points, too. The Legato and Portamento modes work perfectly (exactly like the Roland XV-5080), the multimode filters sound excellent, the Spread panning feature is very useful and like all of the Reason devices, the sampler is extremely easy to use.

Unfortunately, this is the only area where it seems that a poor tradeoff was made towards user-friendliness INSTEAD of power features that are absolutely necessary for developing and using high-quality sampled sounds. Sadly, you currently can't use any of our Spectrasonics CD-ROMs with it :-(» :>

Now I'm curious to see a review of NN-XT made by the same person ;P

And now for the traditional VST complain: «[...] It's a shame that the Propheads didn't use the well-accepted and easy to use VST 2.0 standard in addition to Rewire. It would sure make life easier now with all of the OMS headaches on the newer Macs. [...] None of the LFOs will sync to clock. This is an odd omission considering that this feature is always requested by technoheads and the Props are gods in technoland. Hopefully this can be updated as it would open up a lot of cool possibilities. (BTW, this is another great feature of the Emagic EXS24 sampler)»

Again, I would love to see a Reason 4 or at least a Thor review from the same person who wrote this in 2001, to see how the 2009 context would play with the comparisons with what's available now, both in software and in hardware :)

[BLOK] modular synthesis environment

2009-12-04T00:18:00.001Z

Tom's Hardware: Performance Charts: 2009 Desktop CPU Charts

2009-12-02T10:06:00.004Z

Benchmark GTA IV 1.0.3

Mobile CPU Charts:
Benchmark Prey

Intel® Core™ i7-900 Desktop Processor Series

2009-12-02T09:44:00.003Z

Intel® Core™ i7-960 Processor (8M Cache, 3.20 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel® QPI)

Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processor Family

Intel® Core™2 Quad Desktop Processor Family

Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile Processor Family

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart

2009-12-02T09:12:00.001Z

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart
GeForce	Radeon	Intel
GTX 295
	HD 4870 X2
GTX 280, GTX 285	HD 4850 X2
9800 GX2, GTX 260, GTX 275	HD 4870, HD 4890
8800 Ultra, 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, GTS 250	HD 3870 X2, HD 4850
8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512 MB, 280M	HD 4770
8800 GT 512 MB, 9800 GT, 260M (112)	HD 4830
8800 GTS 640 MB, 9600 GT	HD 2900 XT, HD 3870
8800 GS, 9600 GSO, 260M (96)	HD 3850 512 MB, Mobility 3870, HD 4670
8800 GT 256 MB, 8800 GTS 320 MB, GO 8800M	HD 2900 PRO, HD 3850 256 MB, Mobility 3850
7950 GX2	X1950 XTX, HD 4650 (DDR3)
7800 GTX 512, 7900 GTO, 7900 GTX	X1900 XT, X1950 XT, X1900 XTX
7800 GTX, 7900 GT, 7950 GT	X1800 XT, X1900 AIW, X1900 GT, X1950 PRO, HD 2900 GT
7800 GT, 7900 GS, Go 7950 GTX, 8600 GTS, 9500 GT (GDDR3)	X1800 XL, X1950 GT, Mobility X1800 XT, HD 4650 (DDR2)
6800 Ultra, 7600 GT, 7800 GS, Go 7800 GTX, Go 7900 GTX, 8600 GT (GDDR3), 9500 GT (DDR2)	X800 XT (& PE), X850 XT (& PE), X1650 XT, X1800 GTO, Mobility X1900, HD 2600 XT, HD 3650 (DDR3), HD 3670, Mobility 3670
6800 GT, 6800 GS (PCIe), Go 7800, Go 7900 GS, 8600 GT (DDR2)	X800 XL, X800 GTO2/GTO16, Mobility X800 XT, HD 2600 PRO, Mobility HD 2600 XT, HD 3650 (DDR2), Mobility 3650
6800 GS (AGP), Go 6800 Ultra, Go 7600 GT, 8600M GT, 8700M GT	X800 GTO 256 MB, X800 PRO, X850 PRO, X1650 GT, Mobility HD 2600
6800, Go 6800, 7300 GT GDDR3, 7600 GS, Go 7700, 8600M GS	X800, X800 GTO 128 MB, X1600 XT, X1650 PRO, Mobility X1800
6600 GT, 6800LE, 6800 XT, 7300 GT (DDR2), Go 7600 (128-bit), 8500 GT, 9400 GT	9800 XT, X700 PRO, X800 GT, X800 SE, Mobility X800, X1300 XT, X1600 PRO, HD 2400 XT, HD 3300, Mobility 3470, HD 4350, HD 4550
FX 5900, FX 5900 Ultra, FX 5950 Ultra, 6600 (128-bit), Go 6800 (128-bit)	9700, 9700 PRO, 9800, 9800 PRO, X700, X1300 PRO, Mobility X1450, X1550, Mobility X1600, Mobility X1700, HD 2400 PRO, Mobility HD 2400 XT, Mobility X2500, HD 3200, Mobility 3450
FX 5800 Ultra, FX 5900 XT, Go 6600, Go 7600 (64-bit)	9500 PRO, 9600 XT, Mobility 9800, 9800 PRO (128-bit), X600 XT, Mobility X700, X1050 (128-bit), Mobility X1350, Mobility X1400, Mobility X2300, Mobility HD 2400
4 Ti 4600, 4 Ti 4800, FX 5700 Ultra, 6200, 8300, 8400 GS	9600 PRO, Mobility 9700 (128-bit), 9800 LE, X600 PRO, Mobility X600, Mobility X1300, Xpress 1250, Mobility HD 2300
4 Ti4200, 4 Ti4400, 4 Ti4800 SE, FX 5600 Ultra, FX 5700, 6600 (64-bit), 7300 GS, 8400M GS, 9300M G, 9300M GS	9500, 9550, 9600, Mobility 9600, X300, X1050 (64-bit)
3 Ti500, FX 5200 Ultra, FX 5600, FX 5700 LE, Go 5700, 6200 TC, 6600 LE, 7200 GS, 7300 LE, 8200M, 9200M GS, 9100M	8500, 9100, 9000 PRO, 9600 LE, Mobility 9700 (64-bit), X300 SE, X1150	GMA X4500
3, 3 Ti200, FX 5200 (128-bit), FX 5500, Go 5600, Go 6200, Go 6400, Go 7200, Go 7300, Go 7400 (64-bit)	9000, 9200, 9250, Mobility 9600 (64-bit), Mobility X300
FX 5200 (64 bit), 6100, 6150, Go 7200, Go 7400 (32-bit)	9200 SE, Xpress 200M, Xpress 1000, Xpress 1150	GMA X3000, X3100, X3500
2 GTS, 4 MX 440, 2 Ultra, 2 Ti, 2 Ti 200	7500	GMA 3000, 3100
256, 2 MX 200, 4 MX 420, 2 MX 400	SDR, LE, DDR, 7000, 7200	GMA 500, 900, 950
Nvidia TNT	Rage 128	Intel 740

NVIDIA® GeForce® 200M Series Notebook GPUs

2009-12-01T22:44:00.001Z

NVIDIA NOTEBOOK SOLUTIONS

	GeForce 200M Series	GeForce 100M Series	GeForce 9 Series	GeForce 8 Series
ENTHUSIAST	GeForce GTX 280M GeForce GTX 260M		GeForce 9800M GTX GeForce 9800M GT	GeForce 8800M GTX GeForce 8800M GTS
HIGH PERFORMANCE	GeForce GTS 260M GeForce GTS 250M	GeForce GTS 160M GeForce GTS 150M	GeForce 9800M GTS GeForce 9800M GS GeForce 9700M GTS GeForce 9700M GT
PERFORMANCE	GeForce GT 240M GeForce GT 230M	GeForce GT 130M	GeForce 9650M GT GeForce 9650M GS GeForce 9600M GT GeForce 9600M GS GeForce 9500M GS GeForce 9500M G	GeForce 8600M GT GeForce 8600M GS
MAINSTREAM	GeForce G210M	GeForce G110M GeForce G105M GeForce G102M	GeForce 9400M G GeForce 9300M GS GeForce 9300M G GeForce 9200M GS	GeForce 8400M GT GeForce 8400M GS GeForce 8400M G
VALUE			GeForce 9100M G	GeForce 8200M G

CATEGORY	PRODUCT	Processor cores	PhysX	Gaming Performance	Playable Resolution	PureVideo HD
ENTHUSIAST	GeForce GTX 280M GeForce GTX 260M	128 112	Yes Yes	60x 60x	1920 x 1080	Yes Yes
HIGH PERFORMANCE	GeForce GTS 260M GeForce GTS 250M GeForce GTS 160M	96 96 64	Yes Yes Yes	40x 40x 40x	1920 x 1080	Yes Yes Yes
PERFORMANCE	GeForce GT 240M GeForce GT 230M GeForce GT 130M GeForce 9600M GT	48 48 32 32		20x 20x 20x 20x	1680 x 1050	Yes Yes Yes Yes
MAINSTREAM	GeForce G210M GeForce G110M GeForce G105M GeForce 9400M G GeForce 9300M GS	16 16 8 16 8		10x 5x 4x 5x 4x	1280 x 720	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VALUE	GeForce 9100M G	8		3x	1024 x 768	Yes

V01D

2009-11-26T14:46:00.001Z

Trevor Horn

2009-11-25T17:11:00.004Z

ZTT Records

Synclavier

Fairlight CMI

The Art of Noise, Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik

Propaganda

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Holly Johnson

Luis Jardim

Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Cher, Grace Jones, Seal, Tina Turner, Lisa Stansfield, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Simple Minds, t.A.T.u, ...

25 Years Of Pop: Produced by Trevor Horn

Jeri Ellsworth

2009-11-16T13:20:00.006Z

"A Toy With a Story" (2004)
"Joy of electronics sticks with woman, sparking invention" (2005)

The FatMan and Circuit girl

KVR Developer Challenge 2009

2009-11-10T12:24:00.000Z

ShinyTouch - Zero Setup Single Touch Screen Retrofitting System

2009-10-22T22:37:00.003+01:00

The LinuxSampler project

2009-10-20T13:24:00.001+01:00

TestDisk, Data Recovery

2009-10-10T21:34:00.001+01:00

Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for ...

2009-09-16T20:49:00.004+01:00

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=insert the sit you want to test here

"How to Design Programs"

2009-08-16T21:53:00.002+01:00

brain tonIQ

2009-08-12T09:41:00.006+01:00

«[...] world's first organic, kosher, botanical-based, non-caffeinated think drink specifically designed for those who need more mental focus and clarity. Formulated out of plant extracts and natural compounds, the ingredients in Brain Toniq have a long, proven history for their effects on increasing brain power and cognition. We add no chemical preservatives, no caffeine, no sugar, no fake anything. Just fuel for the cranium.»

(Getting Brain Toniq outside the US)

Yubico's YubiKey

2009-08-07T11:51:00.002+01:00

Black Viper's Web Site

2009-08-04T12:02:00.003+01:00

www.BlackViper.com

"[...] complete explanations of each service and advice on which services you can safely disable [...]" for Microsoft Windows users.

AllSnap

2009-07-13T09:23:00.002+01:00

VidBlaster

2009-06-01T12:21:00.002+01:00

Debut Video Capture Software

VidShot Capturer

Free Online Barcode Generator

2009-04-29T13:56:00.001+01:00

OTOY

2009-04-12T23:21:00.002+01:00

OTOY

[>]

GaiKai: Streaming Worlds

2009-04-12T23:14:00.003+01:00

OnLive: The Future of Video Games

2009-04-05T15:54:00.003+01:00

YouSendIt

2009-03-30T12:27:00.000+01:00

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2009-02-25T13:46:00.003Z

HandBrake - open-source DVD(or wtv)-to-MPEG4

2009-02-25T09:42:00.002Z

SoundCloud

2009-02-14T03:24:00.003Z

Tesla Model S Electric Car

2009-02-12T16:28:00.001Z

thxs to ^^

Marshall Brain: Teaching your kids how to write computer programs

2009-02-09T11:07:00.001Z

thxs to ^^

inogolo

2009-02-08T01:20:00.005Z

English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places, and Stuff

thxs to ^^

BMW GINA Light Visionary

2009-02-07T03:50:00.003Z

thxs to ^^

Save the Words

2009-02-02T10:39:00.001Z

thxs to ^^

FeedMyInBox: RSS feed to eMail

2009-01-15T14:38:00.000Z

Microsoft Research: Songsmith

2009-01-12T23:51:00.001Z

Girton Labs Cambridge: SenseSurface

2009-01-09T09:21:00.001Z

SCRATCH - imagine • program • share

2008-12-29T14:23:00.004Z

thxs to ^^

THE ZOOMQUILT II

2008-12-28T00:57:00.002Z

thxs to ^^

Spirou

2008-12-26T14:57:00.005Z

Hello Fail Whale

2008-12-26T11:50:00.003Z

thxs to ^^

Jeff Clark's TwitArcs

2008-12-23T10:13:00.000Z

How to run GTA IV for PC on a Intel GMA X3100 / 965 Express Chipset

2008-12-22T16:46:00.006Z

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator:

(don't forget to upgrade to Service Pack 3 if you're using XP)
Download driver Version 14.36.4.5002 (win2k_xp14364.zip)
Install it on your XP system
Install the GTA IV for PC game
DON'T install the GTA IV for PC patch! AVOID IT!
Play the game @ 4 frames per second ;p

Art. Lebedev Studio: Optimus Aux

2008-12-18T15:35:00.001Z

A keyboard for the kids

2008-12-18T14:55:00.002Z

Play Windows media in Firefox

2008-12-18T09:24:00.004Z

Click here to test the plug-in.

The AccoLade

2008-12-16T10:00:00.004Z

«Saudi Girl Group Dares to Rock»

thxs to ^^

OpenIV

2008-12-15T12:57:00.002Z

Tag Galaxy

2008-12-15T12:56:00.000Z

Google Code: Native Client

2008-12-09T17:36:00.001Z

Emotiv's sensor-laden EPOC headset

2008-12-07T04:07:00.001Z

Classroom of the future

2008-12-02T14:49:00.006Z

thxs to ^^

Bjorn Borg: Missions: Love

2008-12-01T14:22:00.006Z

thxs to ^^

Fawlty Towers Counter-Strike map

2008-11-26T16:25:00.002Z

Stefan Didak's Home Office Desktop

2008-11-26T11:02:00.003Z

MAKE: 3D sculpture of human MRI

2008-11-24T14:29:00.000Z

Symbaloo

2008-11-24T14:17:00.000Z

Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC

2008-11-20T23:14:00.003Z

this Dezember 2nd
\o/

...with ingame Video Editor and upload!

OpenSimulator

2008-11-20T16:54:00.001Z

thxs to ^^

ASUS Eee Top ET1602

2008-11-20T12:19:00.002Z

«the Eee Top ET1603 features a discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD3450 graphics solution, enabling the system to run graphically-intensive 3D applications and games more fluidly»

Lively no more :'(

2008-11-20T11:40:00.001Z

«We will shut down Lively on December 31, 2008. Embedded rooms in blogs and other web pages will continue to show an image, but users will no longer be able to enter Lively rooms and interact.»

Intel Nehalem

2008-11-19T14:27:00.000Z

HTML Playground

2008-11-18T22:36:00.002Z

thxs to ^^

Nord Electro 3

2008-11-17T14:14:00.002Z

Matt Mason's "The Pirate's Dilemma"

2008-11-15T02:23:00.002Z

#Anita

2008-11-12T15:57:00.009Z

One of the best things about the #Anita phenomenon was the way it strengthened the interconnections between portuguese
(and even other non-portuguese speaking but very curious) twitters
:)

@brunoamaral is the one to blame ;)

(so here's his explanation of the phenomenon)

#Anita links

and the chart

nvision 2008: Keynotes

2008-11-11T23:41:00.002Z

user32.dll - AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File

2008-11-11T12:45:00.004Z

Yup... got me a lot of trouble on a games PC
:P

generatus

2008-11-11T11:24:00.002Z

thxs to ^^

Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D.

2008-11-09T03:42:00.003Z

"[...] cell proliferation and lack of scarring [...]"

KORG NANO CONTROLLERS now in BLACK

2008-11-09T02:59:00.002Z

simpleCart(js)

2008-11-04T13:43:00.001Z

thxs to ^^

Server-Side JavaScript Webserver

2008-11-04T13:02:00.004Z

thxs to ^^

"100% hand crafted Countach"

2008-11-03T23:50:00.005Z

thxs to ^^

Microsoft's Don Box, Paul Vick and Chris Anderson: M language

2008-10-29T19:55:00.005Z

"[...] data modeling language that you use to create DSLs to express your data [...]"

hmmm...
Interesting! :)

Microsoft Research: Boku - New Visual Programming Language for Games

2008-10-29T17:48:00.001Z

Microsoft Research: WorldWide Telescope

2008-10-29T17:35:00.003Z

JazzMutant unveiled DualMode for the Dexter

2008-10-29T13:30:00.003Z

Google Book Search Settlement Agreement

2008-10-28T14:40:00.001Z

Amazon Windowshop (beta)

2008-10-28T12:24:00.000Z

If the World could vote?

2008-10-28T12:05:00.001Z