Audio and Multimedia Software

jetAudio

jetAudio supports all major digital audio/video file formats, and CD/DVD*/VideoCD. New Media Center window provides various features including new Media Manager, Explorer window, and Device Manager. You can manage all of your digital media files in Media Manager. Media Manager provides CD Library, Media Library, Automatic Browsing, Playlist and Automatic Playlist.

Ulead VideoStudio

Ulead® VideoStudio 11 is an easy to use software for video editing to easily produce videos with professional appearence, slideshows, and DVDs. Share your movies all over, on iPods, YouTube, or the new HD home theater systems, with full support for discs as AVCHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD.

DVD MovieFactory for TOSHIBA

DVD MovieFactory for Toshiba is an application software already included in our Toshiba portable device. It is also possible to buy on-line, being version no. 6 the latest one. We can use it for managing all our multimedia files in many different ways. We can create, crop,copy, burn, edit, encode, transfer, import, export, audio an video files.

Sound Forge


Sound Forge™ Audio Studio helps yoy to edit and master professional-quality audio on your home computer. Record live instruments and vocals, sweeten and restore audio, apply studio-quality effects, and convert files with lightning speed. You can even create your own karaoke tracks with the Vocal Eraser tool. With a few simple steps, you can produce broadcast-quality audio on your PC.

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Geogebra - Dynamic Mathematics for Everyone

GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, and calculus application, intended for teachers and students. Most parts of GeoGebra are free software. GeoGebra is written in Java and thus available for multiple platforms.

Its creator, Markus Hohenwarter, started the project in 2001 at the University of Salzburg, continuing it at Florida Atlantic University (2006–2008), Florida State University (2008–2009), and now at the University of Linz together with the help of open-source developers and translators all over the world. Currently, the lead developer of GeoGebra is Michael Borcherds, a secondary maths teacher.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, GeoGebra plans to expand their offerings to include an iPad and Android version.

GeoGebra is dynamic geometry software. Constructions can be made with points, vectors, segments, lines, polygons, conic sections, inequalities, implicit polynomials and functions. All of them can be changed dynamically afterwards. Elements can be entered and modified directly on screen, or through the Input Bar. GeoGebra has the ability to use variables for numbers, vectors and points, find derivatives and integrals of functions and has a full complement of commands like Root or Extremum. Teachers and students can use GeoGebra to make conjectures and prove geometric theorems.

Most parts of the GeoGebra program are licensed under GPL and CC-BY-SA, making them free software. However some parts, including the Windows and Mac installers, have a license which forbids commercial use and are therefore not free software.

Download Free Software geogebra here.  And GeoGebraTube is the official repository of GeoGebra constructions and GeoGebra related resources.

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Active GIF Creator 3.5 (AGIF)

Active GIF Creator 3.5 (AGIF) is a powerful, intelligible, compact and affordable gif maker for creating and optimization animated GIF- images, buttons, banners and other Web graphic that attract attention of your site visitors.

With Active GIF Creator you can:

• make GIF and AVI- animations for the Web and presentation materials;
• make banners;
• make 2D and 3D buttons;
• make various graphic using effects and other program tools;
• add hidden signatures to GIFs to protect them from unauthorized use;
• develop creative imagination.

 Program features:

- makes animated GIF- files from set of BMP, JPEG, ICO, PCX, PNG, TGA, PSD- files, and Windows Metafiles;
- imports frames from other GIF- files;
- imports and exports AVI- files, ANI- files (animated cursors) and bitmap strips;
- supports clipboard operations for images (BMP);
- manages list of images;
- edits images using internal image editor or script editor;
- duplicates, merges, crops, resizes, rotates and flips frames;
- defines GIF- files global parameters: GIF size, logical screen size, background color index, number of loops in animation;
- defines offset, transparency, interlacement, delay, title and value "how to remove" for each separate image;
- applies effects to whole image or to its rectangle part;
- puts particles on image;
- uses image collections;
- edits color palettes;
- creates 2D and 3D button images;
- creates animation scripts;
- adds and removes text commentaries;
- optimizes size of GIF- files;
- shows GIF size and download time for different speeds of modems;
- allows to preview your GIF- file on Web pages with different backgrounds;
- adds hidden signatures to GIFs to protect them from unauthorized use;
- creates GIF- files from command line in batch mode;
- saves images of GIF- file as a set of BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF or TGA- files;
- saves created animation as a project in a file with extension .agif;
- creates maps for tag <MAP> in HTML;
- generates HTML links;
- supports localization tools for different languages.

Reasons to buy Active GIF Creator.
Virtually every popular image editing software title comes with an option to create animated professional looking GIF images. Yet, most people find these built-in tools very counter- intuitive, complicated and almost impossible to use.

• Active GIF Creator has many useful features, like support of most popular image formats; internal image editor; rich image editing options; image effects; color palette support; import / export to other graphical formats; advanced open picture dialog (thumbnailer); GIF- file size powerful optimization; HTML image map editor; button creator; batch mode; image collections; animation scripts and others.
• The program's functionality in combination with the low cost has made it the first choice for many users and software evaluation websites. Plus, Active GIF Creator has a user- friendly, international interface and consumes very little system resources.
• All registered users are entitled to free technical support and minor upgrades.

If looking for a well-rounded, efficient and affordable tool for creating great-looking animated GIF’s, stop by Active GIF Creator! Editors of 3d2f.com named the program "most perspective among competitors".

Download Active GIF Creator 3.5 (AGIF) sofware here

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Mount Everest, How Tall Is It? - A Mathematics Mystery

Last night I started to read Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance 1921 which I downloaded for free from Google Books. In the introduction there is a three page explanation of the methods used to measure the height of Mount Everest. An explanation of the differences in measurements is also provided in the introduction. Part of that explanation includes differences in snow fall, cyclical deviations of gravity, and differences atmospheric refraction when observations were made. I'm not a mathematics teacher and will never pretend to be one, but reading that introduction did get me thinking about a possible mathematics lesson.

Applications for Education

Turn to pages 10 through 13 of Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance 1921 and read about the difficulties of accurately measuring Mount Everest in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It's interesting to note that most accepted measurements were more than 100 feet higher than today's accepted measurement. Tell your students that Mount Everest has shrunk over the last 100 years and ask them to solve the mystery of the shrinking mountain. 

On a mildly related note and on a promotion of a Mainer note, Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest by Ed Webster is one of the best books ever written about Mount Everest. If you enjoy good adventure stories and or stories about overcoming personal struggles, I think you will enjoy Webster's book. For my money, and I own two copies of it, it is far better than Krakauer's Into Thin Air.

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OpenRocket 12.03-an Open Source model rocket simulator

OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them.
OpenRocket features a full six-degree of-freedom simulation, realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components including free-form fins and canted fins, clustering and staging. Read more about its features and see screenshots.

OpenRocket is an Open Source project licensed under the GNU GPL. This means that the software is free to use for whatever purposes, and the source code is also available for studying and extending.

Features
General:

• Fully cross-platform, written in Java
• Fully documented simulation methods
• Open Source, source code available under the GNU GPL

User interface:

• Easy-to-use user interface for rocket design
• Real-time view of CG and CP position
• Real-time flight altitude, velocity and acceleration information from a continuous simulation performed in the background
• Zoomable schematic view of rocket from the side or rear, with rotation around the center axis

Design:

• A multitude of available components to choose from
• Trapezoidal, elliptical and free-form fins supported
• Support for canted fins (roll stabilization)
• Staging and clustering support
• Automatic calculation of component mass and CG based on shape and density
• Ability to override mass and CG of components or stages separately

Simulation and analysis:

• Full six degree of freedom simulation
• Rocket stability computed using extended Barrowman method
• Realistic wind modeling
• Analysis of the effect of separate components on the stability, drag and roll characteristics of the rocket
• Fully configurable plotting, with various preset configurations
• Simulation data can be exported to CSV files for further analysis
• Simulation listeners allowing custom-made code to interact with the rocket during flight simulation

Download openRocket 12.03

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Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office

 

Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a great application. It focuses mainly on Students and Teachers to help in their school work.

It contains the following programs

(1) Learning Essentials for Students
(2) Learning Essentials for Teachers
They both include a lot of templates you could imagine to be useful in school work. Templates for book report, class debate, essays, etc are for students. All of them have different subcategories like different types of essays, and their formats with a short description on how/what-to-dos

For example,
"Subject:
In a short paragraph, describe the subject of the book.

Setting:
Explain where and when the story takes place.
Tip: it might be helpful to include maps, pictures or historical information about the setting. "
...................
is what I found for a book report.

Even while you are working on the matter in MS Office, a small window still remains on the right side, to help you remind what all things you need to add, the format/style you should follow, etc.

This is really cool

For Teachers, we see lesson plans and assignments, classroom organization, organization of field trips, charts and diagrams, math worksheets and even handwriting practice.
It includes provision for creating content for "Learning Essentials" to help students.

(3) "Learning Essentials Content Development Kit" is a program with a "wizard" interface to help us use the programs easily. It has step by step procedure for selecting the type of document, whether you are a student or teacher, what you want to do, etc.

Download Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office here

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Download MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition 7.0

Autodesk gives industry professionals and those interested in real-time character animation an opportunity to explore all aspects of this award-winning technology while developing new skills. This special version of Autodesk MotionBuilder provides free access to the software, with no time limit, for non-commercial use.

Available for the Windows? XP Professional and Mac OS? X operating systems.
Autodesk MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition offers almost every feature found in the full

commercial version of Autodesk MotionBuilder including:
Advanced real-time technology
Unique Story Timeline performance environment
Auto rigging, motion editing, motion layering, storytelling tools, and numerous other features for animating your characters
The ability to import and export FBL files to and from Maya Personal Learning Edition software.


Download MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition 7.0 here

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