These days I am quite more interested in digital music composition. I have tried different music composing softwares like Cakewalk, FL Studio (FruityLoops), etc. Today I am going to write a short about my favourite music creation software FL Studio.

FL Studio, which was known as FruityLoops also, is a fully featured music creation and production software for personal computers. This software produces any style of music by using different and complete set of instrument and studio tools which is included in the package. The user can create complete songs, as well as backing tracks, loops and sizzling beats with the included plugins, sounds and tools . You can save completed songs to WAV, MP3 or MIDI or .ZIP or native project formats (.FLP). FL Studio uses MIDI and DirectSound (internal mixing), 16-bit 44KHz stereo output, and 32-bit floating-point internal mixing. You can get support for VST plug-ins, as well as individual panning, volume, pitch, mix, resonance, and cutoff on each note.

There are more new features added in new version of FL Studio like Slicex, FL Synthmaker, Enhanced Edison WAV editor/recorder and Love Philter. This version (FL Studio 8 ) also includes Slicex drumloop slicing generator plugin, new SynthMaker modular environment, support for MIDI SysEx input and basic MMC functions. If you are also interested to use this interesting software then you can download 10 days trial version of FL Studio from here. (http://www.flstudio.com/documents/download.html)

OrangeHRM is a web-based PHP/MySQL app which I’m confident will be unknown to most readers but hopefully will pique your interest.

OrangeHRM is, as its name suggests, a human resource information system. The project team have a roadmap detailing where they want to head, with three major facilities available now. The first is fairly obvious, capturing personal details of staff members along with name, contact details, next of kin, salary and so forth. A photograph and any supporting documents like a resume or copies of licenses can be attached.

Secondly, reports can be constructed from a range of custom search criteria and fields. The report definition can be saved and re-executed at any time. This allows HR to quickly identify staff based on the requirement at hand, be it all members of a certain team, foreign nationals whose working visas are due to expire, all employees who have attained a specific educational qualification or any other circumstance that can be imagined.

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My another interest that I haven’t shared yet is video editing and mixing. I used to do video mixing and editing before 4/5 years when I was doing my +2. I did all these things only for fun. I tried different video editing softwares like Adobe Premiere, MGI Videowave, Ulead Videostudio, etc. One sample work that I have done is posted in my new video sharing website Video Sansar. It’s not so good, just mixed some video clips and audio using MGI Videowave. Just check it below!

I found download link for a DJ mixing software called UltraMixer while searching on web. I tried this software and found very useful and easy to use. If you are really interested in mixing digital music then you can try UltraMixer. You can get three editions of this software - Free Edition and the Basic Edition for private users and the Professional Edition for high demands and commerical use. You must purchase license to use Basic and Professional editions. But don’t worry! You can get demo version of Professional edition. After the expiration it automatically switches to Free edition which you can use without any restrictions.

UltraMixer supports various music formats such as MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, WAV. You can use musics directly from CDs also. UltraMixer is available for operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS. This software includes functions such as Realtime effects (Flanger, Resonance, CutOff), Time stretching, Loop-In and Loop-Out, 31 Band Master Equalizer, Manual Talkover, etc. You can check www.ultramixer.com to know details and to download this software.

Are you a photographer? If your answer is yes then you probably may be familiar with this software already. Well, if you don’t know about Noise Ninja then this article will be helpful for you.

Noise Ninja is a very effective tool to remove noise and grain from your photographs. This can be used for both digital images or scanned film photographs. You must use this software if you are taking the photographs in low light situation or with higher ISO value. It can improve the quality of your noisy and grainy photographs without loosing important image details. This software is used daily by many professional photographers in the world. You can also try even if you are not a professional. This tool is really helpful and easy to use. But this is quite slow and only available for Windows operating system. If you want to try it today then you can download it’s free trial version at www.picturecode.com. But the trial version watermarks your final image. This is only for experimental purpose. Full version of this software bundle costs around 80 US$. But it worths.

You can use this software as standalone software or as a plug-in for other software like Adobe Photoshop. Noise Ninja is optimized for high-quality results without softening or blurring your photographs. It also includes a noise brush tool which allows you to process only small parts of an image, as well as control over color and luminance channels. It supports JPG, 16-bit TIFF output (48 bits per pixel), batch processing, and multiprocessor execution.

I will come up with the basic operation guide for Noise Ninja in next posts.

Microsoft Frontpage

1. FrontPage as all Microsoft product has so many templates and ready to use solutions that you cannot admit it is easier for beginner to start using FrontPage to build his first website. You can create simple website personal or business with several clicks and all you will need to do next is to enter your text and pictures instead of used by FrontPage by default.

2. The good news is FrontPage html pages look exactly as they appear in MS Explorer and the bad news is that they look perfect ONLY in MS Explorer. However you may program FrontPage to get rid of nasty tags but I believe it requires some hand coding to adjust pages to Netscape or Opera. Another good news for FrontPage users: about 93% of all internet clients use MS Explorer 5 and higher.

3. As Microsoft application FrontPage is better with ASP pages, which are standard for Windows based hosting and windows based programming.

4. MS FrontPage perfectly interacts with other MS Office products. For example you can easily cut and paste some chart from MS Excel into FrontPage working area.

5. By default MS FrontPage uses table with the fixed width and sometimes it can be a problem to make it display tables with percentage width.

Macromedia Dreamweaver

1. You can build your own templates and use them to edit hundreds of pages of your website with one single click. Although Dreamweaver adds some comment tags to html file to distinguish editable and non-editable areas and I read in one forum that people experience some troubles applying template to more then 700 pages as they ran out of memory but I had never chance to test that.

2. Pages done with Dreamweaver usually have less trash in coding. They look almost perfect with Netscape, Opera and MS Explorer.

3. Dreamweaver doing amazing thing with SSI files and other server side include technology. Php code looks much nicer however with ASP scripts FrontPage still better.

4. Dreamweaver is much better interacts with other macromedia products.

5. Both editors in most cases display CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) correctly. But if you enter style attribute twice in Dreamweaver for it will definitely ruin your page and you will be able preview your page partly before this error. FrontPage however handles such mistakes easily.