Tech Tips For Us published a great article on must-have free and open source Windows applications. Fall Studio readers will be interested in many of the titles including MP3Gain, InfraRecorder, Paint.NET, VirtualDub, BonkEnc, HandBrake, and ZScreen.
What's missing from the list, though, is Audacity, a cross-platform and open source audio editor.
Psychosynth is a free modular software synthesizer inspired by the ideas behind Reactable. The main goal of the project is to provide a way for artists and developers to explore new ways of making music.
Psychosynth is open source software and requires Linux. Binary packages are available for Debian, and source packages are available for all Linux distributions.
Visit the Psychosyth homepage for more information including installation instructions. Visit the Reactable homepage to learn more about the concept.
Yuri's Night is a worldwide event celebrating mankind's first venture into space by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 and the first space shuttle launch on the same day 20 years later.
For folks in San Francisco this Saturday, Yuri's Night Bay Area (YNBA) brings scientists, technologists and artists together under one roof in a festival-like atmosphere. For the second year in a row YNBA will be held at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The theme this year is "Radical Technology for a Sustainable Future".
Learn more about Yuri's Night 2008 from NASA, the Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008 website, or from the CDM + Yuri blog.
Kerkythea is a cross-platform 3D model rendering engine with excellent compatibility with SketchUp, Blender, Wings 3D, 3ds Max, Silo, or any other title that exports OBJ or 3DS formats. Its strength lies in photorealistic material and texture rendering, as well as accurate lighting. The most compelling feature of Kerkythea, though, is the ability for teams to offload rendering to dedicated hosts on the local network.
Kerkythea is freeware and downloads are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The license is refreshingly straightforward and simple, which further pronounces the spirit of this project and its developers.
Inkscape is an excellent open source graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. From the Inkscape homepage,
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
This latest release sports some new features and a few performance improvements. Inkscape downloads are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and by default Inkscape will be supported in the next release of Ubuntu Linux.
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