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Running Baudline on Mac OS X

Those of you familiar with linux-audio hackery might know the great time-frequency analyser software called baudline. It is an amazing tool for frequency domain visualization of sound, and it also has scientific measurement tools and time domain visualization features built-in. The application runs on Linux and Solaris SPARC natively, and is not open source. The [...]

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Font Treat for the Programmers Eyes

As a programmer, I’ve always disliked the monospaced “default” fonts like courier, courier new or monaco etc. I tried to use the great Consolas font from Microsoft under Linux and MacOsX with mixed but disappointing results, as Consolas is mainly created to be used with cleartype smoothing which is only available on Windows. Upon searching [...]

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A free way for FTP sync and backup

I’ve spent some hours searching for a free way of syncing local folders (backup copies) to my websites. I wanted a program to look at my ftp file tree, compare it with the local copy and download ONLY the changed files (determined by size and modification date) to my computer. The reverse of the operation [...]

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Physical Modelling Synthesis and TAO

What do they have to do with each other? Well, Tao is a software package built for sound synthesis with physical models. I’ve recently found out about this software after seeing a link for it in the Supercollider mailing list. It is a software project initiated and executed by Mark Pearson and Niall Moody that [...]

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