Posts Tagged ‘review’

15
Sep

LilyPond & Textmate Make Beautiful Music

   Posted by: Jeff Owens    in Music, Product Review

This weekend I finally got a chance to take the music notation software LilyPond for a spin. I had heard of the open source project and was anxious to try it out. As a former Finale and Sibelius user I must admit to being a bit skeptical about its capabilities. I was pleasantly surprised to find the documentation and examples on the website helpful in getting started. For my first attempt with the software I kept it simple. Since my eight-year-old son is now taking piano lessons, I decided to compose a simple Minuet in the Baroque style. Read the rest of this entry »

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29
Jul

Accessing Yojimbo From Your iPhone

   Posted by: Jeff Owens    in Product Review, Productivity

Bare Bones Software, authors of BBEdit and TextWrangler, has a wonderful application that helps you to organize your information called Yojimbo. It can archive complete web pages, create bookmarks, add notes, create PDFs from almost anything, create secure areas, is taggable, searchable, and is now accessible via the web. The web version, Webjimbo, allows you to access your computers Yojimbo database from anywhere you happen to be.

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