So what IS Mezzanine?
Well, it is a simple program that allows you to watch movies. The way you browse the movies is by cover, however. Big and beautiful covers?if you抳e got em :]. Mezzanine is meant to be used connected to a TV or monitor, but if you don抰 have one, it will still work just fine. No frills, no gimmicks, just movies. Read More...
MidiKeys allows you to use your keyboard as a “mini” MIDI keyboard. This is very cool if you want to try and create your own music but don’t have a full fledge MIDI keyboard yet.
MPEG Streamclip is a video converter, player, and editor for OSX. It opens several video and audio formats including: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3. The files can be edited with cut, copy, paste, and trim, set in/out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files. The files can also be exported to QuickTime, AVI, DV, and MPEG-4 files. All of this for free!
By far one of the most useful program for your Mac. Plays just about every media file. “VLC media player is a free, highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without need for additional codecs.”
You Control: Tunes is a free utility that gives you complete control over iTunes from the Mac OS X menu bar. You don抰 have to stop whatever it is you may be doing, switch to iTunes, take care of business and then go back to your original app. You can now simply pull down your very own custom menu that gives you access to the iTunes controls (Next, Previous, Volume, Play/Pause, Stop) as well as displaying the current track, artist and album. You can also navigate your entire iTunes music library from this menu as well so you never leave your current application. You Control: Tunes allows you to view, and even better, modify, the rating for the currently playing song directly in the menu bar. Just click on one of the 5 stars in the menu and your rating will be updated in iTunes instantly and if you happen to be in iTunes, any adjustments you make there to the currently playing song will be picked up and reflected in the menu bar by You Control: Tunes.The You Control: Tunes utility gives you full control over iTunes even when you are not in iTunes. You can set hot keys to control any or all of the iTunes controls including Next or Previous Track, Play, Pause and even the Volume. Browse your entire iTunes library and playlists using the familiar menu-style navigation method then simply click on a song and it starts playing.
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. This is a really useful program if for example you want to trim an mp3. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises. Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples. Record at up to 96 KHz.Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.
The CenterStage Combo download contains two applications that are built to provide you, your Apple Mac and your Television with a simple yet powerful Media Center experience. Solo downloads of CenterStage and BackStage are availble.CenterStage is the Media Center Application that allows you to use the digital content stored on your Apple Macintosh computer & play it in a more comfortable enviroment such as your living room using any standard Televison set. What’s more accompanying CenterStage is our sister application BackStage.
D-Vision is a video encoder for OSX. It allows you to encode DVD movies to Divx,Xvid, or h264 formats and also allows you to extract the sound of a DVD to MP3 or AC3 formats.
“FairGame will convert the songs you bought on the iTunes store to an unprotected format (using iTunes default encoder) and keep all the orignal metadate, lyrics, and artwork.”
ffmpegX is a very powerful video encoder. It can quickly encode video into any of the following formats: DivX, AVI XviD, H.264 MP4, MOV, DV, 3GP, Sony PSP, MP2, MP3, AAC, AC3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, CVD, SVCD, KVCD, KSVCD, DVD, KDVD and MPEG-TS. This program can become very handy.
