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Traverso: free cross-platform digital audio workstation


Download Squad reader ch0gan saw our article on digital audio editors Reaper and Audacity and turned us onto another free audio workstation called Traverso. Right now it's a pretty basic audio editor, but it shows promise.

Traverso relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts, which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, most digital audio editors worth their salt include a plethora of customizable shortcuts to let you speed up your workflow. On the other hand, Traverso does a few baffling things.

For example, you use your mouse to position a red line on the screen. In most software, pressing the space bar would play the audio from the position of the red bar. In Traverso you have to press V on your keyboard in order to bring a blue line over to the red line, and then you can play from that position.

Traverso is still under development. The version we tested was labeled 0.41, so we'll reserve overall judgement until there's a final release. But the absolutely coolest thing about Traveso is that it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Oh, and did we mention that it's free?

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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