AUDIO-VIDEO-MEDIA
AUDACITY (Windows,
Mac, Linux)
A superb audio recording and
editing app. I use it for all my audio recording and processing -
don't waste your money on commercial products.
The default file format is Audacity
(suffix .aup) that is used for all editing functions, from which
selections can be exported into several formats
such as mp3. Other nice features
include: (i) you can select a piece of background noise and subtract
it from the entire file; (ii) there are several
(programmable) options such
as click removal, equalization (with several pre-defined settings
such as "am radio"), setting maximum amplitude for
all files. I have had
satisfactory results using all default settings. I have a glitch in
my Linux Mint version (no sound when recording but this
might be a quirk of my setup)
although the Windows 7 version seems fine. It crashes
occasionally and I have found one silly quirk: when exporting
to a format such as mp3 the
file extension is not automatically ".mp3". The homesite is HERE
GOOGLE
PHOTOS
This is the successor of
Google Picasa.
GIMP (Gnu
Image Manipulation Program).
Windows Link - it is a part of
probably most Linux distributions. Evidently comparable with
Photoshop in sophistication (I have only used its
simplest features). Cheat Sheet HERE
VLC
MEDIA PLAYER
(Windows, Linux)
Best of the bunch. I believe
Microsoft now defaults to this.