Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software. Features: - over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins - over 8 GB of audio loops - view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation - Supports files up to 4 GB
Google Books provides full, free PDF scans (and web-viewable versions) of public domain books and magazines, free previews of some books and magazines under copyright, and the option to purchase digital editions of available items to save and read on Google Play, their e-reading platform. You can also find a local library based on your zip code that has the item available. Reader reviews of the items are available and you can contribute your own. Search for authors, titles, as well as keywords and Google will return results with matches in the title/text of the item. There are permalinks to available pages. Highly useful for finding items that contain your keywords in its text. It has the Google Ngram Viewer as part of its service. The Ngram Viewer is a service connected to Google Books that graphs the frequency of word usage across their book collection
DeeperWeb was a browser add-on that adds a tag cloud to Google search results. It grouped and sorted the results obtained from google search for further exploration. It provides tags related to the search item and helps the user refine the search. As of 2016, it is no longer available.
Yahoo Pipes allows users to combine, filter, translate, and geocode data from RSS feeds, JSON, KML, or other similar formats, and power widgets/badges using that data.
Zamzar is an online file conversion service. Zamzar converts between a wide variety of formats (including support for word processing documents, audio, images, video, and ebooks) and emails the result to the user. There is a monthly subscription fee that depends on the volume of data converted. It also has storage services.
Transformer loads Unicode text files and performs sequences of transformation operations on them — search-and-replace, or JavaScript operations. It provides you with an interface to create and test these sequences of transformations before running them in batch mode on a set of files. Transformer was created to assist in the rescue of textual data from obsolete file formats such as DOS word-processor files. Sometimes, it proves impossible to rescue old data through normal means such as running the original application and exporting to a format which can be imported by a more modern program. Perhaps the program which created the data no longer exists or cannot be run on available hardware, or perhaps it cannot save to any format but its own. In these circumstances, it is often necessary to rescue the data by a process of manual conversion, identifying blocks of text or other data in the original file which can be replaced with Unicode characters, and building sequences of replacement operations which gradually convert the data. This often requires an exhaustive trial-and-error approach in which transformation operations are added incrementally and tested in various sequences before a reliable sequence is developed; then the sequence can be run on a group of files. Transformer should provide as efficient a working environment as possible, so that the user can focus on the task itself rather than the machinery.
Crowdmap allows the investigator to set up a Web map around a particular topic and invite multiple users (participants, research subjects, collaborators, multiple assistants) to contribute information to the map on their own time and from their own device. For $10/month, users can buy fee-based services including private maps and custom branding. Users have complained that Crowdmap is glitchy and unreliable. It is hard to find recent examples of successful projects built with the app. There is no other free and open source tool that fills the precise niche. For a freemium closed source service that allows crowdsourced point data only, try ZeeMaps. For a fee-based, open source crowd mapping tool, try the shared tables function of CartoDB.
Ushahidi is a software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society, city/community building, arts and even where to find the best burger. Specific tools: Crowdmap: A simple map-making tool, built on an open API, that allows for collaborative mapping Swiftriver: Curate real-time data and analysis from a variety of sources, including social media streams CrisisNET: A consolidated source of global crisis data Ping: Two-way multichannel group alert during an emergency SMSSync: Create a two way gateway with an Android phone and local SIM anywhere in the world BRCK: Supports connectivity in remote locations, self-powered, mobile WiFi device
Tofu reformats text into columns for easier reading. Tofu is basically a column-oriented text reader. Basically, Tofu will work with text (pasted, grabbed via a service, or in an opened file) and reformat it to display in multiple columns, all fully justified. This can make reading long, text-heavy documents much easier. Each column is only as high as your window and this eliminates the need to scroll vertically and the reader is less likely to loose track. Currently only available for mac os
