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Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principles described in October 1973 Scientific American, Gerald Oster, "Auditory Beats in the Brain."

There has been considerable research done on the subject since that publication, and Gnaurals Windows-based predecessor, WinAural, has been used as the audio stimulus in at least one published study, "The Induced Rhythmic Oscillations of Neural Activity in the Human Brain", D. Cvetkovic, D. Djuwari, I. Cosic (Australia), from Proceeding (417) Biomedical Engineering - 2004.

The central finding of Osters article: brain activity can be entrained to the auditory beat frequencies created when each ear is presented simultaneously with tones of slightly offset in frequency. My interest has been exploring how this effect (known as "frequency following response" or "brainwave entrainment") can be used to explore mental states, ranging from profoundly meditative to highly alert.

What are auditory binaural beats?

In 1839, German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that playing two tones simultaneously, one in to each ear, induced the perception of a "beat frequency" when the tones were of slightly differing frequency (generally less than 100 Hz apart).

While an acoustic mixing of the two tones will also produce a beat frequency, what is notable about auditory binaural beats is that there is no acoustic mixing of the tones: the beats exist solely within the auditory system. Some researchers believe that they are an artifact of the "neural wiring" used to spatially determine the origins of sounds in our environment.

Gerald Osters breakthrough in 1973 was to observe that the neural processing associated with binaural beats can induce an overall entrainment of brainwave activity (essentially, an oscillation between the two hemispheres in sync with the beat frequency). The neurology of this phenomenon is, according to Oster, tied to the contralateral integration of auditory input taking place in the superior olivary nucleus in the brainstem.

My main interest in the principle has been the possibility that brainwave entrainment can be used to target specific mental states. Gnaural has a long lineage, starting with a DOS program in the mid 1990s, progressing to WinAural for Windows and (in the hope a making a cross-platform solution) BrainJav for Java, and finally the truly cross-platform solution in Gnaural. In over a decade of experience with the technique, I have mainly found it useful for slowing-down brain activity. In that capacity, it has served me in areas ranging from stress reduction, sleep make-up, and particularly as a sort of "poor mans meditation", requiring almost no effort to achieve states of mind that I usually have found rather hard to achieve with real meditation.

But these are strictly my observations, and I make no guarantees about what the technique can do for anyone else. Some of the more unusual applications Ive heard about for my software include sustaining a heightened mental focus for online tournament gaming, and enhancing flotation-tank and related sensory deprivation environments. Many people also apparently use the technique to study more effectively.

One of the stranger facts regarding binaural beats is their seeming ability to be equally-at-home in the laboratory setting as in "grass roots" contexts (such as alternative medicine and the New Age phenomenon). That there is a grass-roots enthusiasm (easily demonstrated by googling binaural beats) is probably related to the sense of promise inherent in an easy-to-implement technique offering the possibility of direct influence of brain behavior. But from a scientific standpoint, there is a big gap between claims (of what binaural beats can do) and corroboration (by scientific method), which has led to a sense in many that the actual subject of binaural beats is "controversial." But this is an irrational response, given that the actual scientific/laboratory basis of binaural beats has remained an established part of the scientific literature for over 30 years.

One of my goals in writing Gnaural was to implement the binaural beat principle within the bounds of my understanding of the established scientific facts regarding the subject. To some extent, this has meant leaving-out many of the "bells and whistles" prevailent in other implementations. That my software has been used for at least one published "hard-science" study suggests that it has been somewhat successful. However, I also hope that Gnaural proves useful for people who wish to explore subjective areas unfettered by scientific rigor. In a subject dealing with matters of the mind, I see both sides -- "grass-roots empiricism" and "scientific empiricism" -- as being complementary halves of a complete investigation of the possibilities, and ultimately, Id hope to see the two sides of our culture be catalysts for each other, rather than inhibited by a mutual antagonism.

nut project is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18, which contains 7,146 foods and 136 nutrients.
This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6.
Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Main features:
- 7146 foods and 136 nutrients--the complete, latest USDA database
- Foods easy to find and add to daily meals
- Configurable for 1-19 meals per day and any dietary plan--including low carb, zone, low fat
- Comprehensive meal analysis for any number of consecutive meals
- Presents both easy-to-read percentage summaries and in-depth nutrient analysis, including Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids
- Defaults to ounces or grams based on user input
- Suggests foods based on current diet
- Can easily create additional databases for other family members
- Auto-transfer of successful dietary strategies from analysis screen to configuration settings
- Allows recording of recipes and customary meals for fast data entry
- Guesses recipes of packaged foods
- Creates graphs of nutrient intake showing daily and monthly trends
- Sorts foods richest in each of the 136 nutrients
- Reveals which foods contribute most to users nutrition
- Runs on Linux, Un*x, Windows (DOS); allows dual-boot systems to share the same data; and has no dependencies on other programs
- The price is right--its free! And you can read and modify the source code.
Enhancements:
- This release uses a new food name abbreviation algorithm so that food names are more informative and less cryptic.

Wap-IRC gateway allows you to chat on IRC with any WAP-enabled mobile phone. It works by running the server program on a Unix-like system that is accessible over the Internet. It doesnt require phones which have programs written in Java.
I am Tomas Vilda, student studying at University of Vilnius, Lithuania. I started interested in wap when I bought my first wap enabled mobile phone. I searched for the running irc-wap gateway. But with no success. Actually, I found some, but no such, that I make to connect to specified IRC server. Then I found wapirc gateway written by Alan Cox . I tried it on my FreeBSD server. During compilation I got error, because of bad Makefile. So I compiled it by correcting Makefile and ran successful. My mobile is Siemens C55. To start using this wapirc gateway I have to make some modifications. They are listed below.
Enhancements:
- cgi/main():refresh included into main-cgi, saves us .htaccess and external wmlscript
- cgi/write_wml(): fixed bug in linked nicks with ACTIONs and * in there.
- server/parseinput(): Added /me Command for * ACTION in channels
- cgi/write_card(): get refresh timer from config.h
- server/removeallitems(): doing a list cleanup when disconnecting, so we can rejoin after quit without part
- server/print_out(): screenbuffer with latest messages, scrolling top down
- cgi/write_card(): reload on a regular basis, when not typing something in. New formular works on more phones, informative header
- cgi/wml_link()/wml_header(): wml1.2 compatible links/input field for accesskey element
- cgi/write_wml(): new linewise printout, italic makeup, nicks are linked setting defaultvalues for talking on channels and privat.
- cgi/main(): Expire header
- Makefile: make install