A look at free software; what's out there.

1. Get the most from Free Software [email_address]

2. Browser Video playback DVD ripping Sound recording Photo editing Graphics Geographic Web Browsing Email 3D Animation CAD Mp3 player sync File Format Conversion Office Misc

3. Mozilla Firefox The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser. Download Page Web Browsing

4. Top Features Private Browsing Surf the Web without leaving a single trace. Password Manager Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up. Awesome Bar Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs). Super Speed View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory. Anti- Phishing & anti- malware Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys. Session Restore Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off. One-Click Bookmarking Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily. Easy Customization Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own. Tabs Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse. Personas Instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of lightweight themes.

5. VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface. Download Page Video Playback

6. Simple , Powerful and Fast Plays everything, Files , Discs and Streams No codec packs needed Completely Free 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking Media Converter and Streamer Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix...

7. Video Playback Media Player Classic Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary. Download Page

8. Media player classic plays pretty much every type of video and audio Additional Player Features Option to remove Tearing . Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform . Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer) Supports Subtitles. Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed. Creation of minidump when MPC HC crashes. OSD (On Screen Display) Shuttle PN31 remote control support Support Multi-Monitor configuration Pixel shader to convert BT601 - BT701 YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader Language Translations . All features from the Guliverkli MPC Project from Gabest .

9. Other Video Player, Miro Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others. Download Page

10. Handbrake DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Download Page DVD Ripping

11. Supported Sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs: File format: MP4 and MKV Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only) Misc features: Chapter selection Subtitles Integrated bitrate calculator Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling Live Video Preivew

12. Audacity Simple sound recording tool. Download Page Sound Recording

13. About Audacity Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more! See the complete list of features . See slides for more info

14. GIMP Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features. Download Page Photo Editing

15. Introduction to GIMP GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

16. 1. Picnik Arguably, Picnik is the most popular web-based photo editor. Why? Because it’s now integrated with Flickr . And Picasa. 2. Pixlr.com Pixlr is the creator of online cloud-based image tools. Today we have two applications in our suite, one we call Pixlr Editor and the other is Pixlr Express . They are built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in ( get flash ) to get it to work.

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18. Graphics / Photo Editing Inkscape Vector graphics application. Download Page

19. What is Inkscape? Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. Vector graphics are a complement, rather than an alternative, to bitmap graphics. Each has its own purpose and are useful for different kinds of things. Raster graphics tend to be better for photographs and some kinds of artistic drawings, whereas vectors are more suitable for design compositions, logos, images with text, technical illustrations, etc.

20. Geographic Google Earth

22. E-mail Mozilla Thunderbird Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need. Download Page

23. Easier to Get Started Mail Account Setup Wizard One-click Address Book Tabs and Search Quick Filter Toolbar Tabs Search Message Archive Customize Your Email Experience Smart Folders Add-ons Manager Secure and Protect Your Email Cutting Out the Junk Phishing Protection Automated Update

24. Format Factory Convert any type of video to mp4 or theora. Convert any video for use with iPhone, iPod, Android, etc. Very clean, easy to use interface. Download Page Video Converter

25. Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below: All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF . All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV . All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA . Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file. MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format. Supports RMVB , Watermark , AV Mux. Format Factory's Feature: 1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others. 2 Repair damaged video and audio file. 3 Reducing Multimedia file size. 4 Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats. 5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags. 6 DVD Ripper.

26. 3D Animation Blender

27. Blender is a free 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling , UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging , water and smoke simulations, skinning , animating , rendering , particle and other simulations , non-linear editing , compositing , and creating interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, or visual effects

28. Google Sketch up 3D Computer Aided Design-

29. Google Sketch up 3D SketchUp is a 3D modeling program designed for architects , civil engineers , filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It also includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth . It is designed to be easier to use than other 3D CAD programs. [1]

30. Media Monkey Mp3 player music sync

31. MediaMonkey Manage Your Music Sync with an device Record & Convert CDs Tag mp3s Organize & Rename files Create Playlists Burn Audio CDs Play cds

32. Virtual Dub Video Editor

33. VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.

34. Pinnacle Studio VideoSpin is a new, free editor based on Studio. Good for a freeby.

35. Word Processing / Office Suites OpenOffice.org Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format. Download Page

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54. Picasa- quick overview of screen

57. Select Import

58. Import a folder or from a device

59. Slideshow

60. Slideshow- star rate your pictures. This slideshow you can burn to CD as well.

63. Select pictures. Menu, Picture> Batch edit> rename, etc

64. Also try out some other functions: sepia etc

65. Right click on pic: View and edit

66. Tuning- fill light.

68. Right mouse click on a picture and select add label.

70. Timeline line view of your albums

71. Create a slideshow on a CD- e.g. for wedding photos etc.

72. Google Earth [email_address]

77. Go to website

78. Agree to terms

79. download

80. Save file

81. Run it

82. It downloads program

84. You may get this message

87. Lets go through the menus

88. file

89. edit

90. view

91. tools

92. add

93. help

94. Go through interface

95. Lets look at the screen 1. Search panel - Use this to find places and directions and manage search results. Google Earth EC may display additional tabs here. 2. Overview map - Use this for an additional perspective of the Earth. 3. Hide/Show sidebar - Click this to conceal or the display the side bar (Search, Places and Layers panels). 4. Placemark - Click this to add a Placemark for a location. 5. Polygon - Click this to add a polygon. 6. Path - Click this to add a path (line or lines). 7. Image Overlay - Click this to add an image overlay on the Earth. 8. Measure - Click this to measure a distance or area size. 9. Email - Click this to email a view or image. 10. Print - Click this to print the current view of the Earth. 11. Show in Google Maps - Click this to show the current view in Google Maps in your web browser 12. Navigation controls - Use these to tilt, zoom and move around your viewpoint (see below). 13. Layers panel - Use this to display points of interest. 14. Places panel - Use this to locate, save, organize and revisit place marks. 15. 3D Viewer - View the globe and its terrain in this window. 16. Status bar - View coordinate, elevation and imagery streaming status here.

101. Site seeing- view grand canyon etc

103. Type in Glasgow and watch it go!

104. Type in Glasgow and watch it go!

105. The dots are places of interest- you can click on them

106. The letters correspond to addresses- you can click on them

107. Zoom right into your own house! Click on camera icons to see photos people have uploaded

110. Add > photo Add other things as well !

111. Give name and description

112. Hit ok

113. Right click on your place- share it via a forum.

114. Google forum

115. Select forum

116. login

117. login

118. Or create account

119. Add details

120. Post to forum

121. Read other peoples places and visit them

122. You will notice Panoramio images in GE.

123. Sign up

124. Upload image and map image to Google earth

127. How to get directions

129. Click directions, enter place name or postcode

131. Fly through route- hit play.

132. Fly through route

133. Fly through route

134. Fly through route

135. View businesses + other locations

140. View 3D terrain of a place

142. San Francisco + 3d view Go find this place

143. Eiffel Tower Go find this place

144. Pyramids Go find this place

145. 3D terrain – drag to fly through.

146. Viewing Google SketchUp 3D Models

155. View ocean layers

159. Select Sky and see layers

160. Sky maps etc

161. Sun layer

162. sun

163. Moon layer

164. Moon

168. Apollo layers

169. Apollo 11

170. Zoom in and tilt

171. Landing site Panorama

172. Fly into the panorama

176. Mars layers

177. ‘live’ from Odyssey

178. Odyssey Panorama

181. A tour through Audacity

182. Audacity: - used for recording sound. - to clean up the recording - then split into manageable bits for sequencing.

184. File: open, save, close, export- usual menu items.

185. Edit: undo, cut, copy paste, trim, split, duplicate

186. View: zoom in and out, fit to window

187. Project: import audio- not used much

188. Generate: Silence, noise

189. Effect: Amplify, EQ, Delay Filter- used to process you recording.

190. Analyse: Beat Finder- not used much.

191. Help: help section

192. Main screen areas.

193. Recording sounds into Audacity: e.g. recording your piano piece into audacity Record your material with a constant tempo otherwise it will be more difficult to sequence. Using ‘human timing’ is great, but dealing with the tempo changes is a bit beyond what we want to do here.... maybe next time the course runs you can look at this!!

194. How to record sounds into Audacity

195. Open up recording software- Audacity

196. Select microphone as the source.

197. Press record button and start recording audio .....do this now.

198. Press stop to finish

200. EDITING: Firstly open up: “guitar parts for 1E-23.wav” This is a guitar part recorded for a tune however it has leading and trailing silence... Look at the silence at the start- we need to loose this. The guitar part should then play in time with the rest of the tune..once we make it...

201. Select the start of the wav with your mouse- the area becomes darker

202. zoom in – fit selection to window

203. zoom in – fit selection to window

204. Select Edit and Cut

205. Silence now deleted.

206. Zoom out to see whole wav That is basic editing.

207. Now we want to amplify the recording so it is a good decent volume. Select the whole wav.

208. Select Effect> Amplify

209. select amplification of 3dB

210. Hit OK and the signal is Amplified (but so is the background noise as well, so be careful)

212. Now we want to save each bit of the recording into smaller manageable samples for sequencing. Let’s do the bit circled in red. This bit is part of the first bar of the tune.

213. select the area- the dark bit

214. Duplicate this bit so we can work on it separately..

215. Like this.

216. minimise the top track- using your mouse and grabbing the edge of the wave.

217. zoom into the selection and select the part with sound- leaving the trailing silence (on the right)

218. trim the selection

219. Selection trimmed

220. export selection as a wav

221. save as

222. Close that selection, maximise the main recording. Select the next bit and repeat the process until all bits are done.

223. So after a while you end up with a library of samples which you can import into the sequencer and get your tune going.... So lets look at Buzz now...

224. Go to “Tour of Buzz” ppt.