Bie Notes and Dut Software for Windows

Fractal Tune Smithy
$28 - Robert Inventor

Create beautiful music effortlessly - and discover your talent as a budding composer! Choose one of the tunes that come with the program or enter a very short musical phrase of a few notes, and hear it transformed into an intricate tracery of music. The music is fractal which means it is highly structured, but natural sounding too, like bird song, or the sound of the wind.

Any tuning is possible; no need to restrict your creativity to the equal tempered twelve tone system or even the octave. Tune your music as freely as a bird when it sings. Try authentic historical temperaments with tunings for keyboards from Bach or Mozart's time. Try tunings for Indonesian Gamelans, or Indian music with drones. Try modern exotic tunings such as non octave scales, or musical geometries with highly symmetrical floating chord patterns.

Explore the effects of instrumentation, and take ones first steps as a composer in an envionment where melody making is effortless. Suitable even for complete newbies to composing - and there is no need to be able to read music notation. Play in any of the tunings and temperaments yourself with a music keyboard. Play melodies and chords on the p.c. keyboard - with the space bar as a sustain pedal, and the mouse scroll wheel as a modulation wheel :-). Play legato style (if your synth supports it) in microtonal tunings as readily as you do in twelve equal.

What else - make fibonacci rhythms which are highly structured, but never repeat exactly. Make polyrhythm metronomes. A mouse theremin which can play sliding chords as well as single notes. Send your tunes to your friends as musical e-cards. Over a megabyte of help, tutorials, FAQ, example midi clips and tunes, etc.

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Gifts 'n Reminders
$29.95 - ProVariant Software

Turn your PC into a reminder service! With Gifts 'n Reminders, you'll have many ways to remember the important people in your life. The monthly and yearly calendars make planning for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays a snap. With a few clicks of the mouse, you'll be able to create reminders for each occasion, so you'll never forget about those important events again.

But as it's name suggests, Gifts 'n Reminders will do much more than provide you with reminders. You'll be able to organize your gift ideas by person and enter estimated and maximum amounts for each gift. Then, when you've completed your shopping, a single click places the item into the gift history, where you'll be able to recall what you bought, where you bought it, and when you bought it.

Gifts 'n Reminders helps you pick the perfect gifts for any occasion, by giving you a place to describe your friends and relatives. Here, you can record clothing sizes, interests, hobbies, and notes, as well as address information. You can also create budgets for each person, to control your spending habits, and print budget reports to see how you're doing.

So many other features exist, like the ability to print shopping lists by store and by person, event listings, personal profiles, and gift lists. It even contains a password protection feature, to prevent other family members from seeing what you're planning to get them. Try Gifts 'n Reminders and you'll quickly see that you will never forget about the important people in your life again. It's a thoughtful solution for the thoughtful person -- you!

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Realistic Virtual Piano VSTi
$35 - Syntheway

Realistic Virtual Piano is a acoustic grand piano emulation with a breathtakingly rich and realistic sound. Particular care has been taken in the reproduction of the original realism and touch response of a Kawai Grand Piano. The result is a delicacy of tone and expression that emulates the experience of playing a real acoustic grand.

Features:

- Modeled on mastered Piano samples (normalized and noise-reduced). Based on PCM recordings of a Kawai Grand Piano after it has been meticulously tuned and adjusted.
- To achieve such a remarkably authentic piano sound, has full length sustain samples, no loops (natural decay), stored in 16 bits and 44.100 KHz.
- ADSR envelope generator with Attack, Sustain, Decay and Release parameters and several modulation targets.
- Optimized CPU and memory usage. Stability: complete. Uses memory efficiently without sacrificing quality. Unlike many other piano modules and samplers, this piano will never overload CPU.
- Good live performances: never stick notes, never break the sound.
- Affordable price and user-friendly attitude are sure to attract many musicians.
- Integrated, variable room simulation. Free variation of acoustic ambience thanks to complete separation of piano and room. Small rooms can be modeled just as accurately as larger spaces. Customizable with user controls for: size room, width room, damping factor & mixer, used to create psycho-acoustic models in the DSP environment, without having to load up any other plug-ins.
- MIDI Automation: Added complete MIDI Continuous Controller.

( Syntheway RVP )

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Tree Notes
$29.95 - Dextronet

Tree Notes is a universal, very user friendly and powerful note manager that organizes your notes in a neat tree.

Tree Notes allows you to store an unlimited number of notes in a single file, organized using a tree structure. It's very easy to add a new note or load it from file and add it to your notes collection. Keep all your notes in one file, at one place!

If you will ever need Tree Notes, just strike the hotkey and it will be right there ready to store your brilliant ideas, plans and notes. Tree Notes is very fast and quick, it is not bloated. It can be also minimized to the system tray.

It is of course possible to export your notes! Not only to plain text or rich text, but also to the HTML format. You can also print the whole tree or just selected notes.

Tree Notes is a very universal program. You can use it as a planning tool, project management tool, personal information manager (PIM), to-do manager, journal or any kind of text archive. Effortlessly store your notes, ideas, reports, contacts, lists and things you shouldn't forget in a fashionable manner with a style!

The tree structure note management system allows you to have hundreds of notes in a single file and yet navigate easily and have them very well organized.

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Desktop-3D Notes
$29.95 - Absolute Futurity

Desktop-3D Notes (D3D) is a PC Sticky Notes software that is fully and individually customizable. You can send notes across the internet to all your friends. Change colors and fonts within each Note. You can also print your Notes. D3D is so fun and addicting!

Very realistic graphics.
Send Notes across the internet.
Print your notes.
Notes pop up and flash when the alarm sounds.
Import and Export Notes.
Resize each Desktop-3D Note as you need.
Organize and sort all your Desktop-3D Notes.
Place them anywhere on your desktop or even hide them.
Add pictures or almost anything to your Notes.
Mouse wheel support.
OLE Support.
You can add your initials to each Note.
Add as many Desktop-3D Notes as you need.
Systray Icon for Easy access to new Desktop-3D Notes.
Change each Desktop-3D note to any color at anytime.
Automatic updates.
Sliding options for each Desktop-3D Note
Ability to change the font of each Desktop-3D Note.
You can now change font, size and color throughout the notes text.
Ability to change the alarm sound of each Desktop-3D Note.
You can hide Desktop-3D Notes and the alarm will still remind you.
You can adjust the opacity of each Desktop-3D Note with Windows XP.
Each Desktop-3D note can be set to the topmost window.
Easy to use and very fun.
Much easier than trying to find a pen and paper.
Create beautiful Notes with ease.
Desktop-3D Notes are saved immediately and will not be lost in case your computer crashes or anything else.

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LotusNotesRecovery
$299 - Recoveronix Ltd.

LotusNotesRecovery is data recovery program for Lotus Notes databases (.nsf). LotusNotesRecovery recovers damaged Notes/Domino databases on both server and client side, therefore it is a must have utility for users and administrators of Lotus Notes databases. While recovering it stores data in dxl files for easy and convinient recreation of the faulty database. A special batch script is enclosed for automation of the process. LotusNotesRecovery is able to recover such information as users' documents and metadata, including Form, Subform, Frameset, Page, View, Folder, Agent, Outline, Shared Field, Shared Action, Database Script, Image, Script Library. Current version of the product supports Lotus Notes/Domino 6.0 and 6.5. Easy to use, no special user skills required.

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