The website of Simon Elliott. Contains reviews of and links to free Macintosh software. There is also information here about Challenge-Based Learning and Elliott's research, primarily related to educational technology.
Aquallegro is a great way to improve your musical ability. It contains quizzes on various aspects of music, as well as detailed help files with tips and mnemonics. All of the quizzes are scored while in progress, so the user continuously knows how well they're doing, and it is easy to customize Aquallegro so it works the way you want it to. It also contains Administrative features for teachers, making it an excellent tool in any music program. Aquallegro is perfect for the comprehensive music student or just for the curious that want to hone their musical skills. With a price of $0, how could...
Pod to Mac - iPod, iPad, iPhone Music Transfer Software
iPod to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Pod to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking.
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iP
Tech-Ease: Quick Answers to Real Classroom Technology Questions
Tech-Ease is your source for just-in-time answers for classroom technology questions. This collection is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Funding for Tech-Ease content development has been provided by the USF College of Education and va
Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and v
Making Music on the Mac with GarageBand | appleorb.com
A great new tutorial for beginners, including a free instructional video…“It’s easier than you think to get your groove on with GarageBand. While recording and mixing music on a computer has been possible for years, many audio recording and editing tech
GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Main / GNU Solfege - Smarten your ears
Solfege is free music education software.Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears!FeaturesRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsCompare interval sizesSing the intervals the computer asks forIdentif
Mac vs PC - Benchmark and Speed Tests - PC versus Mac - Apple, Windows Reviews - Popular Mechanics
In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple’s computers were the winners. Oddly, the big difference didn’t come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Our respondents liked the look and feel of both operat
Planbook lets you enter your schedule- from the simplest 6 period school day to 2-week rotations, adjust for holidays and cancelled school days (snow days!) with a single click, add lessons on Saturdays and Sundays, quickly modify plans for those times wh
Apple - Pro - Profiles - Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), pg. 1
A story about the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), an ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians that uses 20 MacBooks to compose and perform new music.
ATMac - Assistive Technology for Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone and Apple Users
ATMac covers all Apple products with a slant towards disability. We have an interest in users with a disability, adaptive and assistive technology, and making accessible programs and content.
Transcribe! - software to help transcribe recorded music
Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, to analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability of adding markers an
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that i
I've created this site because so many of the Macintosh users that I have encountered have expressed frustration that they don't know what to do, or what to use, for performing routine maintenance on their Macintosh running OS X. There is also a huge amou
MacLibre | Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X
MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac.