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Inventions unrelated is an umbrella for shareware developed primarily by Andrew fish. The name comes from the fact that Andrew will not be tied to writing software related purposes collections, preferring to keep his imagination in shape by developing a wide range of applications and use lessons learned to improve development one other independent inventions. He also believes it should develop software that does not flatter the widest range of people of including features that most of them use, but to provide a wide range of people by providing software that is flexible enough to be adapted to many tasks, with many unusual features while lacking none of course useful. Few people are going to use all the features, but all have a certain. Hence the motto: Catering for the rare denominator.
Q: What motivated you to create shareware?
A: I never had the intention to create shareware. Audio Tools was developed to solve a particular problem I faced in March 1998 and released as shareware was an afterthought. After that, I was drawn into the further development of the interesting code and user comments.
Q: In the development of software, part of the process do you prefer?
A: I like the actual process of the development of new algorithms and techniques - Audio Tools is not a trip off-the-peg by a long chalk stick, so there is plenty of room for imagination. I also like to respond to user feedback - when I used to work at BSS, the marketing manager told me that no one ever contacts you just say how you did: although I e-mail batteries that proves he was wrong, so I'm very happy about it.
Q: Do you have a clear vision of what the final product will be?
A: No idea. The software is partially driven by my ideas and interests and partly by user demands and since one effect of the other, I can not really predict the future. I'm still working on ways to increase the number of functionality without burdening the software with complexity, so I guess the "final product", if there ever is one, will have certain unique features of the user interface anyway.
Q: What is your favorite feature of your software?
TO :. In terms of development, probably self-piste - it's a very elegant piece of code and there were some good ideas in it went.
Q :. What do you think is the key to developing good software?
A: The good ears. The key is to listen to your customers - do not blindly take on the functionality they require as they ask, try to distill into something more general that serves a broader set of objectives.
Q :. What have been some of your failures and highlights you've encountered in software development?
A :: In terms of setbacks, the most obvious is the periodic and unexplained bug. I have a virtual arsenal of tools to help me test audio tools on different versions of Windows, but I can not test different combinations of materials. There is nothing worse than a bug pitfall that you can not reproduce. In terms of strengths, the fact that two of my users have freely given time and effort to translate the program in French and German and to continue translating I make changes is incredible. I just could not have foreseen the level of support when I started.
Q: What do you find to be the vehicles for marketing and promoting the most effective of your software?
A: I do not really focused me on the marketing or promotion - maybe I would be a millionaire if I had ;-) My main goal is to keep the software out and make sure it is available from a wide range of websites. I sometimes contacted by magazines wishing covermount software and I generally accepts those. Most of my sales come from word of mouth.
Q: What distinguishes your product from others on the market?
A: At first it was a combination of being a direct-to-disc recorder with auto-track. Some programs now contain an approximation of the self track now, but I am told that mine is probably the most effective. Now I guess the weight of the characteristics is a great selling point and the degree of customer support I offer. There are many small Uniquities (if that's a word) in the software, but it's really the user to know if those are what they are after.
Q: What type of market research have you done before the development of your product (s)?
A: I do not have it. I will not really with the idea of finding a market and develop a product for it - it's too calculating and that means you will have less interest in what you do than how much money is Good come in shareware works because users are struggling with a passionate man.
Q: What tools do you use to manage your software development company?
A: My development is done with Visual C + + 6.0 on Windows 2000 with Visual Source-safe for revision control. I VMWare for multi-platform and to use a combination of Microsoft Word and Doc-To-Help 2000 to aid the development of my trials. The rest of the operation is provided by a fusion MS Outlook, MS Access and a huge amount of home maturity VBA code and C + + plugins. It's a real time saver to have your website, your backups and even fully automated release procedure and it also removes the likelihood of errors caused by shipping the wrong file (used to produce occasionally ). I used to use InstallShield Express for distribution, but the old version broke on systems that were used to install the new version and the new version could not be automated so easily, that's why I use now my own installer. Finally, for distribution, using Genius I Submission PADGen, Add-soft and Submass (all paid, of course) and to keep an eye on my website I use 123 Log Analyzer. There are other tools I use for various purposes, but nothing that is specific development.
Q: Where do you see your company / software position in the future?
A: I now branching into writing - my other shareware projects have not met with the same success as Audiotools and I do not really want to keep all my eggs in one basket. There may be a little shareware come in the next two years (I have a couple of products in development) but I guess Audiotools and my books will be my main focus. I expect even write a book on audio tools at one time, to give developers of shareware "history inside" of sorts. Ultimately, I am the path of least resistance, so my direction in the future will very much depend on my success in the present.
This concludes a very insightful conversation with Andrew Fish from inventions unrelated - Please take the time to visit their website and check its software and some of his writings.
This entry was posted in the media 07.01.2014 by Kellie Heffelfinger.
Low Budget Horror Stories
... Have found the horror genre to be a ... small budget way to break in ... Standing in a long line at a high profit hardware store, Tobe Hooper imagined taking a chainsa
The filmmakers found the horror genre to be a potentially low budget way to break into the high profit business. Standing in a long line at the hardware store, Tobe Hooper imagined taking a chainsaw to the wall and cut his way to the front, inspiring his creation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). George Romero found a local butcher in Pittsburgh to fund and provide blood and guts for its zombie thriller Night Of The Living Dead (1968). Wes Craven combined an evil tyrant named Freddy he knew in elementary school with an old scary hobo hanging he saw his Cleveland neighborhood to create the dream killer Freddy Krueger A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984). And producer Val Lewton was given credit for saving the studios of RKO (teetering on bankruptcy due to exceeding Orson Welles) producing highly profitable Cat People (1944), maintaining the average budget by showing the shadows rather cats.
Budget can mean smaller paydays in horror actors. Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle disenchanted by movie stars requests for benefits and higher wages. Horror films are an antidote, if the invisible man or the mother demanded too much, you could hire someone else and the public does not know the difference. One victim was Boris Karloff who endured having makeup applied by Jack Pierce for four hours a day playing the Frankenstein monster. Although he loved Karloff creature, who founded the union of film actors, complained publicly about movies of Frankenstein, "I only had three of them, but I reproached myself fresh. "He also said," I get all the fan mail, but someone else obtains control. "Resentment of each Halloween Boris increased when the neighborhood kids in Beverly Hills will ask him to go trick or treating.
The influence of Karloff said in Berkshire, England, during the realization of Hammer Film The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957). Fearing that any resemblance to the monster of the Universal Declaration would result in a trial, make-up artist Philip Leakey worked hard to make the horrible creature Christopher Lee and unique. Former rider Lee became so angry against the painful experiences of Leakey on his face, he threatened to stab him with his sword. Man makeup disappeared for several days delay shooting. Later, a quiet Lee complained to his co-star Peter Cushing who played Baron Frankenstein, "Play the creature is horrible. I do not have lines. You're in luck. I read the script. "Said Cushing. The film was horribly reviewed and very profitable.
The film that most historians consider the worst ever made includes flying saucers suspended from ropes, tombstones wriggling and turning day scenes suddenly in the night. It was originally called "Grave Robbers From Outer Space", but Baptist pastors who funded its opposition to such, if the director Ed Wood changed Plan nine from outer space ( 1959), never explain what the first eight plans were. Four days before the start of filming for the movie star, morphine addicted Bela Lugosi died due to a heart attack. He was replaced by the chiropractor's wife Wood, who was much bigger and disguised his appearance by holding a cape over his face. Be taken for other had nothing new to the capricious Hungarian actor. Forgotten by Hollywood producers (some who thought he had died years before) Lugosi had scraped by in the fifties by a man shows Dracula. One evening he was walking in a small town when a young boy eagerly approached him with an autograph buffer. "You see," he said to a companion. "They know me everywhere. "He then took the boy cushion hesitated before signing. "And what is my young man's name? "Without missing a beat the kid said:" Boris Karloff. "
The special effects in the low-budget horror films often take very creative turns. In The Shrinking Man (1957) amazing director Jack Arnold was puzzled as how to show the effect of drops falling around its protagonist, played by Grant Williams giant rain. Then he remembered as a child drop water balloons on the window of his apartment building on the third floor and the impact they did when missed their target and hit the pavement. Arnold has gathered the crew around and said, "Everyone here has a condom? "There was nervous laughter. "It is an experience for the film. Come on you guys. "Reluctantly, one of the men reached into his pocket. Filling contraception with water and dropping it worked perfectly on the film. A few days later, a female office bean counter before Universal approached Arnold. "I was looking on the budget and I was struck by all the pills you have purchased. This is an unusual load. "Arnold said," Well everyone on the film has done a great job, I thought I reward them with a big party. "" Oh, I see, "replied the agitated woman. Well. Then continue. "
This entry was posted in the media 07.01.2014 by The Lamere.
Behind the files: MP3 History
Behind the files: History MP3by Gabriel NijmehIn just over two years, the MP3 audio file format has caused a great stir and captured the minds and hard drives of millions of people ...
Behind the files: MP3 History
Gabriel Nijmeh
In just over two years, the MP3 audio file format has caused a great stir and captured the minds and hard drives of millions of people worldwide. MP3, which stands for Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III is a compression format that compresses audio files with only a small sacrifice in sound quality. MP3 files can be compressed at different rates, but more compression, the higher the sound quality. A typical MP3 compression ratio of 10: 1 is approximately 1 MB for each minute of a MP3 song.
It began in the mid-1980s, at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, where work has begun to develop a high quality, low bit rate audio format. In 1989, Fraunhofer was granted a patent for the MP3 compression format in Germany and a few years later, he was presented to the International Standards Organization (ISO), and built-in MPEG-1 specification. Fraunhofer has also developed the first MP3 player in the early 1990s, which was the first attempt to develop an MP3 player. In 1997, an advanced multimedia products developer created the AMP MP3 Playback Engine, which is considered the first MP3 player to hit the public Internet. Shortly after, a couple of creative university students took the Amp engine, added a friendly Windows interface and called Winamp. The turning point was in 1998, when Winamp was offered to the public as a free music player, and so began the MP3 craze.
As MP3 craze mushroomed, it did not take long for other developers to start creating a range of MP3 software. New MP3 encoders, CD rippers, and MP3 players were released almost every week, and the MP3 movement continued to gain momentum. Search engines, it was easy to find the specific MP3 files, and portable MP3 players like the Rio and Nomad Jukebox allowed people to copy MP3 songs on a small portable device, no different than your Walkman or Discman.
In early 1999, the first (P2P) file sharing software peer-to-peer was published, the one that shook the world overnight. Napster, the killer app that we will not remember like other MP3 related software was developed by a university student of nineteen years, Shawn Fanning and his idea of Napster was to allow anyone with an Internet connection search and download their favorite songs in minutes. Connecting people, Napster created a virtual community of music lovers.
However, along came the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which as a representative of majors and owners of sound recordings, successfully fought Napster for copyright infringement and an injunction was expressed that the effective closure of Napster. The RIAA argument is that while the free download is in violation of copyright laws and therefore promotes audio piracy. As a result, file sharing impacts their ability to sell CDs and make a profit. Despite the legal problems that Napster has faced and the fact that they are not currently operational, MP3 file exchange and continued on, and for a number of reasons.
A big reason MP3 has become the de facto audio standard that the original patent holders are available free for anyone to develop MP3 software. The open source model has MP3 pioneers to develop MP3 software that accelerated the acceptance of the MP3 audio format.
MP3 is just one of many types of digital audio formats is not necessarily the most effective or highest sound quality. Best compression technologies have existed for some time now, but the success of MP3 is due to the relatively open nature of the format. Companies such as Microsoft and Yamaha have developed proprietary formats, but imposed restrictions on how developers can use their technology. For example, Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) file format, which according to them, is an audio format with higher quality file sizes, is gaining greater acceptance as it comes as standard audio format Windows 98/2000 / XP. Microsoft would be able to challenge the domination of MP3 or at least offer a second, the popular choice of audio format.
Any downloading and sharing of MP3 files has attracted the wrath of the RIAA because there are no digital security features associated with MP3, if millions of songs are freely shared everyday by millions of users. The files are small enough to be downloaded easily, or even sent to a friend as an attachment.
Another thing that makes it very exciting and fascinating MP3 is that it is easy for people to become DJs by mixing their favorite songs. Many people have created their own compilation CD they take all their favorite songs from different artists and groups and burn them to CD very quickly and easily.
Webcasting or Internet radio has also become very popular allowing listeners to "stream" audio on their computers. Unlike MP3 download, streaming MP3 files are not stored on your hard drive, but are broadcast like traditional radio through your MP3 player. Real Networks was one of the first to offer audio streaming software, which uses a proprietary called RealAudio format. Microsoft makes their own proprietary audio streaming offer through their Windows Media application. If you search for "Internet Radio" or "webcasting", you will find hundreds of Internet radio stations with all imaginable kinds of programming.
Of course, as exciting as MP3 are, there are legal and commercial battles are conducted. MP3 itself is not illegal audio format, but when people offer MP3 versions of copyrighted material that is considered a violation of copyright. The Law on Registration allows you to make copies of your music CDs for personal use, but by the law you are not allowed to distribute or share these files with friends or family if they not possess a copy of the CD.
The debate rages on whether or not the MP3 and P2P file sharing programs are good for the music industry. MP3 MP3 promoters believe that help promote music and musicians by getting the music heard in the distance. On the other hand, critics argue that MP3 free music will kill the music industry and the artists they support. Essentially, it is a battle for control of music distribution. Artists can now bypass record labels and distribute their music easily and efficiently.
A balanced compromise solution and should help artists and music labels. There is no doubt that artists and musicians should be paid for their efforts, but many new and upcoming groups to distribute free MP3 as a way to get their music heard. As the buzz and excitement built around the band, people are more likely to support the bands by buying their CDs, attend concerts and purchase other band merchandise. Ultimately, bands and music labels probably do not want to bite the hand that feeds them.
So where are we? Well, as we have seen repeatedly over the years, the hot technology trends come and go. However, MP3 has really caught the ears of music lovers worldwide. With millions and millions of MP3 audio files there, and hundreds and maybe even thousands of MP3 related software which was developed by software developers around the world, there is no doubt that MP3 is here to stay.
