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Subject:Re: What tools are you using From:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:14:32 -0500
Nancy,
Sorry for being obscure.
For the three products I told you about that you have no idea, a brief
description:
Electric Quilt 6 is quilt design software that has a huge library of
traditional quilt blocks and paterns, lets you "audition" fabrics (which
have been scanned into fabric libraries), designs for quilt projects,
automatically figures out total yardages of fabric to buy, generates cutting
guides and templates, and creates print-quality graphics someone can use for
instructional books, magazine articles, etc. Some amazing designs can be
seen at their website, www.electricquilt.com
Sony Acid Pro is CAW (computer audio workstation in the digital music
creation lingo) software that lets you use your PC as a music recording and
mixing platform. Latest versions allow you to mix short loops of sound with
long recorded tracks and MIDI tracks. There are also hooks to sync to video
files for doing soundtrack work. It's a "poor man's ProTools", IMO (ProTools
being the current industry standard in the recording industry - PT is
primarily Mac-based, and comes with D-to-A converter hardware and generally
runs in the thousands of dollars, if not 10's of thousands of dollars. Acid
Pro 7 is now around 350 for a new install; upgrades are in the 100-150
dollar range).
Sound Forge is audio editing software that Sony acquired when they absorbed
a company called "Sonic Foundry" (in a similar way that Adobe acquires
software). It's very similar in appearance to Audacity freeware. Audacity is
to Sound Forge as Gimp is to Photoshop.
Hope this helps,
Wendy
PS Putty is a terminal emulator. I haven't needed to use that in ages.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
>
> OK, now I'm totally jealous! Here is my personal list of tools you-all
> have mentioned that I've never had reason to use, that I intend to
> investigate one by one.
>
> **Heard of it, but never touched it:**
>
> WordPress (I've at least heard of this!)
> Adobe Captivate 3
> Adobe Premiere
> Camtasia
> Madcap Flare/Analyzer/Lingo (have but am not currently using
> Capture/Mimic) (Nancy: is this one toolset, or are these competing
> tools? I know -- Google is my friend!)
> Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP 3 with Xobnia 1.4.3 (Nancy: the Xobnia part,
> needless to say)
> Coffee Cup Firestarter
> Coffee Cup Web Color Schemer
> JavaScript (occasionally)
>
> **Have a good or at least general idea what this might be, or else the
> Techwr-l author kindly included a brief description:**
>
> Epson Print CD
> Help and Manual 4
> Fontographer
> Image Ready 7
> vim editor for XML/XHTML/XSL
> Perforce (source code control)
> ClearQuest Attache (bug filing)
> Windows Desktop Search
> Easy Time Tracking Pro 4.1
> TaskSwitchXP Pro 2.0
>
> **No idea at all:**
>
> Wireshark
> FullShot 9
> Putty
> SharePoint Designer (I've used SharePoint but don't know this tool at
> all)
> Electric Quilt 6
> Sony Acid Pro
> Sound ForgeOmniGraffle Pro
> LC ISO creator
> Nero
> BizAgi Process Modeler
> Yankee Clipper 1.0.4.3
> PTM v. 1.4.3
> Xplorer2 professional 1.7.0.5
> Personal Communications Workstation Program (AS 400) Version 5.7
> Proportion Wheel (written in Macromedia Flash 8)
> WinPatrol 15.9.2008
> Jing
> Twhirl
> Pinnacle Studio 10.5
>
> --Nancy
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