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The software behaves like a professor of music. At the beginning of each exercise, the software plays a preview of the series of notes that you'll have to recognize, while it shows them (on the screen) on the guitar's neck or on the piano keybord. It proceeds then to the dictation: it plays a note then awaits your answer, which you can give by clicking either on the guitar's neck, on the keyboard or even on the name of the notes displayed in the interface. For each good answer, the program grants you a point and plays the following note in the dictation. For each series of 15 notes out of 16 notes recognized successfully, the software increases the level of difficulty by adding one additional octave to the series of sounds you need to recognize. For each series of 12 exercises having reached at least 15 points out of 16, the software moves you up to the next level. In the contrary case, the fact of remaining and practising in the same level increases your skills and allows you, at one moment or another, to move up to the next level.
To have a good ear is the ability to [re]cognize sounds. This is why "Ear and Memory Training" offers, in parallel, a second activity called "Musical Memory Game". In this game, freely inspired by the game "Simon Says", the computer displays a series of coloured keys and plays simultaneously a series of random notes (corresponding to the current level of musical dictation of the pupil). You must then reproduce the sequence of notes by clicking on the coloured keys, in the same order, without being mistaken. To each series of notes successfully memorized, the program will add an additional note which lengthens the melody more and more. In the event of error the game starts over again, i.e. with only one note. This exercise develops auditive attention (it is necessary to be concentrated) and musical memory.
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booster is a freeware text editor. The editor is built on the top of the cutting edge technology – Flex 3 backed up with XML. Besides, it is going to become an integral part of the professional translation environment being in use at aslang.com, and there it’ll be populated with many features of Slanger subsystems, very soon. Most of the text processors of different flavours, are trying to facilitate the life of the user while typing, and booster belongs to the minority of those editors which are capable really to bring up your typing skills to higher levels, and not only in English!
booster was born right after the aslang.com saw the Internet, and that’s why it has inherited the latter’s Chinese, English and Russian both faces and internals: it is capable to help you typing a text either in English (which is pretty simple), or in Russian (weird word form patterns), or in Chinese (whichever input method you prefer: PinYin, CangJie, WuBi, etc).
Among other features, booster, despite it is a flash program that requires Adobe Flash Player 10, it is a lightweight application without any setup/install procedure; and, sure, this is the reason why it is cross-platform.
It is a great helper for those typing texts in foreign languages, i.e. your native language is English, but you have something to do in Russian or Mandarin. No worries in case you feel uncertain about a next word while typing, as with booster you may avoid many, if not all, typos. The secret is it is showing you ‘the tips’ as a word list poping up each time you’ve typed two or three letters (or characters); moreover, you don’t need to type the whole word, just highlight the right word on the list, and here you are – you’ve typed it already!
The program is of high use for those dealing with heavy typing in foreign languages, especially those making their first steps in a foreign language.
booster: http://more.aslang.com/more_com/media/booster/download/booster_en_v01.zip
Easy Input: http://www.effiworks.com/download/Easy%20Input%20v1.01.exe
Easy Input aims to improve the efficiency, quality and accuracy of text input. Whenever you will be typing a word, Easy Input will display a list of possible candidates for the auto completion after you entered the first few letters.
For example, if you want to enter ‘efficient’, after you typed ‘effi’, a candidate list containing ‘efficiency’, ‘efficient’, ‘efficiently’ and ‘EffiWorks’ will be shown, and you can select the second item to input ‘efficient’.
You can also use Easy Input to enter email address, favorite URLs etc. conveniently.
For example, you want to enter your friend Jack’s email, after you typed ‘Jack’, a candidate list containing Jack’s email, phone number, address etc. is shown, and then you can select the email address in the list instead of entering all of these letters by yourself.
With this way, you will no longer have to remember by heart these emails, people’s names, phone numbers etc., just put them all in a dictionary of Easy Input and ask Easy Input help you to enter that.
What you can enter with Easy Input depends on the contents of dictionaries, and you can customize dictionaries freely.
Highlight features:
1. You can add or remove words from existing dictionaries or add new dictionaries.
2. Multiple dictionaries can be used in candidate list simultaneously, so you can categorize your data into different dictionaries, for example you can have a Contacts dictionary, a Favorite URL dictionary and so on.
3 You can give meaningful names for the items on candidate list, that is, the text finally entered can be different with what you saw on the list. For example, the text in the candidate list is ‘Jack’s address’, but after you select the item on the list the text are finally entered is ‘12-34 56th Street Suite X Long Island City, NY, 12301, USA’.
4. Customize appearance of candidate list freely.
For more information please visit www.effiworks.com and download a trial version for free to have a try. |