Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Macintosh, Apple, Freeware
Rogue Amoeba audio freebies for your Mac
by Jason Clarke Aug 6th 2007
Rogue Amoeba is a very well regarded Mac developer specializing in audio software. They have some very popular commercial software to their name, like Audio Hijack Pro, Fission and AirFoil. But you may not be aware that they also offer some pretty nifty freebies. We'll focus on the audio-related ones.SoundSource is a utility that sits in your menu bar, and allows you to arbitrarily choose which audio device to send sound to with a single click. This can obviously be helpful if you're working on a machine with more than one set of speakers installed, and removes the need to navigate to your system's Sound Preferences pane.
LineIn is a utility that will enable the soft playthru of audio from input devices. This is a feature that existed in Mac OS 9, but is not present in OS X. This means that you can plug an external audio device into your Mac's sound input, and pass through the signal to play through your Mac's audio output port. Since Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack application can record anything that is being played on the output port, this utility can be used to pipe external audio sources right into Audio Hijack.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
