keyboard trainer trial software / shareware for linux

Tesseract Trainer is a tool for visualising a tesseract, or 4 dimensional hypercube. It displays the rotating tesseract with various combinations of facets, point-textured faces and rotation planes.

Theres also a stereoscopic view for 3D effect. Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

This particular file should be built and installed using the normal .configure method.

Provides an instant ten station Internet cafe. It is the fastest, simplest, and most portable way to provide sponsored Internet kiosks for conferences, trade shows, and conventions.
By adding extra video cards, up to ten users can simultaneously browse the Internet, send email, and run a wide variety of business and productivity software, independently, with no significant loss in performance.
Each workstation requires only a standard monitor, USB keyboard and mouse. This reduces hardware, software, and maintenance costs, which lowers the total cost of ownership by as much as ninety per cent.
Furthermore, only one IP address is required, saving substantially on costly service fees at conference, trade show, and convention venues. It offers full public access protection and is virtually immune to all viruses.
In short, Userfuls 1-Box Cafe provides affordable, worry-free, and brandable-by-sponsor, computer stations for meetings, conventions, conferences, and trade shows.

Transcribe! project is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.
The usual technique for doing this is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. Unless you have perfect pitch then you also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which. However, if you copy the recording to your computers hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead of the cassette machine and the piano.
Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processing an audio file and outputting musical notation - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums.
If you have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (see How to Transcribe), but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can make the job a lot quicker and easier.
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicit information about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty of programs available which can display this information. Transcribe! deals with audio sample data files.
Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor. It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitch change and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want.
Main features:
- Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It also has a "Record" facility for recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point.
- Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like (in version 7). You can configure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet!
- There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
- The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
- Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old & slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.
Mono/Karaoke
- This effect allows you to mix the two channels of a stereo recording together in various ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as "karaoke" as it sometimes has the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panned dead-centre).
EQ
- A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning
- Adjustment to playback pitch, in cents (hundredths of a semitone) for fine tuning and also larger shifts of up to two octaves, which can for instance be useful in hearing low, murky bass parts by raising them by an octave or two.
Transposition
- Special handling for those of you who play a transposing instrument such as trumpet or saxophone.
Speed
- Speed variable from one twentieth to double speed.
- Click here for an MP3 file (373 KB) demonstrating the sound quality of slowdown-without-pitch-change. It contains 7 seconds of a guitar solo played quite fast, followed by the same at half speed. This is what you get when you press Transcribe!s half-speed button (version 7.20). I havent bothered to give lots of samples, since you can download Transcribe! for a free trial period and try it yourself.
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- Sometimes people ask me for a printed information sheet about Transcribe!. I dont distribute printed materials but here is a single-sided information sheet as a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file which you are welcome to download and print out.

Save the world from the forces of E.V.I.L.!
Dirk Dashing is the number one operative in the top-secret organization called G.O.O.D. (Government Operatives On Duty), whose mission is to protect the world from terrorists and power-mad megalomaniacs. His missions take him to many exotic locales, where he must face dangerous enemies, avoid traps, and solve baffling puzzles in order to save the day!
As Dirk Dashing, you have been assigned to recover the seven largest diamonds in the world, which have been stolen from a museum exhibit by the international jewel thief, Pique Pockette. Your mission takes you to the Bavarian Alps of Southern Germany, where you will explore thirty spectacular, hand-painted levels in search of the stolen diamonds. Along the way, you will collect stolen loot and battle a horde of E.V.I.L. agents who are also hunting for the diamonds.
Main features:
- No blood, no gore, no fist-fights - Dirk throws knockout gas grenades and uses other non-lethal means to defeat his enemies
- 30 huge levels to explore, including 3 secret levels - each level is packed with secret areas and hidden treasures
- Cool spy gadgets that help you complete your mission
- A wide variety of hand-drawn, animated characters
- Spectacular hand-painted graphics, done with acrylic paints and watercolors
- Parallax scrolling with up to 16 graphic layers, for an exciting 3D look
- A rich collection of zany cartoon sound effects
- An original, upbeat music soundtrack
- Play using keyboard, joystick, or game pad
- Ability to save your game progress at any point
Dirk Dashing: Secret Agent runs natively on Linux, without the need for any third-party emulation software like WINE or Cedega. The game is compatible with SUSE 10, SUSE 10.1, Fedora Core 5, Debian, Ubuntu 6.0.6, and most recent Linux distributions.

About:Edit is a client/server application that allows you to use your browser to edit your text and source code files directly on the server enjoying most if not all of the conveniences of the traditional desktop text editors, including syntax-highlighting, multiple document editing and much much more - just about everything one would expect from a decent text and source code editor.
With About:Edit you can choose between different methods of accessing your files on server - access them directly using the permissions of the web server user, or through FTP or SFTP communication protocols.
About:Edit is available is two separate versions. A complete version, which looks and behaves exactly as a traditional desktop editor, and a plugin version, that allows you to incorporate a syntax-highlightng editor into a web page.
What About:Edit is not
About:Edit is not a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) online HTML editor nor it is a Rich Text Editor. It is a syntax-highlighting editor, doing in the Internet environment the same job as conventional text editors (such as EditPlus or UltraEdit) do in the desktop environment.
Why would I need it?
About:Edit is an unique product with no working alternatives that we are aware of. For some it is cool, but totally useless application. For others, however, it provides a solution to their real-life problems. Some of our customers say theyve been waiting for years for such a product to become available. Some shift their entire development online. Web developers use it to power CMS, administration back-end or web hosting applications. Even if none of the above applies to you a smart choice would be to have a backup way to easily access your files while on the move.
What do I need to use About:Edit?
The complete version of About:Edit is a cross-browser, cross-platform, client/server applcation. The client-side part of About:Edit is written in JavaScript and the server-side part is written in PHP. All you need to use About:Edit is a modern version of Mozilla or Internet Explorer browser and a PHP-enabled web server, such as Apache or IIS. The plugin version is intended for web developers and is a pure JavaScript application that can be used with any back-end.
Main features:
- Friendly, powerful, desktop-like user interface
- Direct, FTP or SFTP access to your files
- Color syntax highlighting
- Multilingual support
- Multiple documents editing
- Unlimited Undo and Redo
- Integrated search bar
- Text selections with mouse and keyboard
- Cut/Copy/Paste operations
- Soft and Hard Tabs
- Auto Indent
Enhancements:
- Maintenance and stability fixes were made.
- The API was refined.
- Auto-indent, insert mode, and the default line-end character can now be controlled.