“Blogging has been declared at least five times,” he said. “But that’s like saying creativity is dead, or personal expresion is dead. Ultimately some percentage of the people who get a taste for it through Facebook and Twitter want their own space. And for the most part, that’s a blog.”

"TAL-Vocoder is a vintage vocoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s. It includes analog modeled components in combination with digital algorithms such as the SFFT (Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform)."

"The Vocoder was invented by Homer Dudley in the mid-30's of the last century. Dudley worked at Bell Laboratories, and this is where the first Vocoder took shape.
The basic function of a Vocoder is characterized by an analysis of the input signal, usually speech but other type of inputs can also be very interesting. In a special filter bank, a spectral analysis is performed and signals are developed which follows the amount of spectral energy in each channel. Another part of the analyzer tests if there are unvoiced or voiced sounds at any particular time and extracts the pitch of the voiced sounds. The output section of the vocoder consists of a stereophonic synthesis filter bank which assembles the new synthetic speech from the characteristic filter envelopes from the analysis stage together with an external or internal replacement signal."

"Readmill is a curious community of readers, sharing and highlighting
the books they love. Welcome to a world of reading."

"ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations."

"Instead of being a source of constant distraction, your computer should help you accomplish what's most important to you every day. It's easy to spend hours sitting in front of a computer immersed in doing little things, while avoiding the most important one."

"With its beautiful interface, and gestural interactions you already know how to use, it's the future of todo lists."

✳ Take handwritten notes seamlessly
✳ Mark up PDFs or images
✳ Sketch diagrams
✳ Organize notes in a beautiful bookshelf
✳ Share your notes
✳ Backup all your notes easily

Though most of our stack at Simple is based on open source software, we occasionally try commercial software. Mostly, we don’t end up buying it. A big reason why is the incredibly time-consuming, aggravating sales process that most commercial enterprise (that is, non-consumer) software vendors insist on. I’m between vendor calls today and channeling my irritation into this post.

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1. Evernote - http://www.evernote.com
2. Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome
3. Caffeine - http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
4. Backblaze - http://www.backblaze.com/
5. Fantasical - http://flexibits.com/
6. BusyCal - http://www.busymac.com/
7. 1Password - https://agilebits.com/onepassword
8. Adium - http://adium.im/
9. Dropbox - http://dropbox.com
10. Prototypes - http://prototypesapp.com/

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