The Online Lighting Diagram Creator
Need to build overheads for an upcoming video or photography shoot? Check out the Lighting Diagram Creator, it’s a drag and drop way to quickly build overheads from a library of lighting sources and modifiers. Free online. It seems to be aimed at photography, but if you get creative it’s pretty good for video and filmmaking use as well. Check it out.
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Get Francis Chan’s Forgotten God Audio Book Free!
Each month christianaudio gives away a premium audiobook download for free. How does it work? Well, they give away one audiobook download (that they have published or that a partner has allowed them to give away) absolutely free; available only during that month and only once, ever.
christianaudio, Oasis Audio, and David C. Cook have partnered together for the month of June 2010 to bring you the audiobook download of Forgotten God for FREE! Grab it here!!
I Stole a WhiteBoard Box.
Sorry About the audio…
Free HD Stock Footage
Looking for some HD stock footage for a production coming up? How does free sound? Check this out from Footage Firm.
The Voice comes to the App Store
Rediscover the Story of the Bible
The Voice™ iPhone application includes the complete The Voice™ New Testament scripture in its original design layout. Searchable by book or chapter, you can immerse yourself into God’s Word wherever you are.
For those looking for a new connection with God’s Word or for anyone who feels they don’t relate to Scripture, The Voice™ New Testament is a new, lively Bible translation that represents a collaboration of artists and leading biblical scholars.
Celebrating the beautiful narrative of Scripture, The Voice™ translation is unique in that it captures the different writing styles of the New Testament authors, revealing their unique voices to you. Real, honest, engaging, and straight-forward, The Voice™ enhances the uniqueness and nuances of each writer’s style and places it in a screenplay-like format with devotional commentary to further draw you into the biblical story while being easily adapted for group studies and dramatizations.
For The Voice™ translation, 21 noted Bible scholars and accomplished writers have collaborated to bring you the story of God’s love and redemption of creation. Together they have captured the distinct mood and voice of the original New Testament writers, producing a work that is a uniquely personal engagement with the biblical narrative. Writers include Chris Seay, Lauren Winner, Brian McLaren, Greg Garrett, David B. Capes, and others.
Own a Mac? Don’t Miss This!
Go grab you some free goodies while they last!!
50 Free Fonts For Professional Design.
Your Welcome
Free open source Mac apps
A while back InfoWorld made a list of the best open source Windows software.
If you use a Mac you might enjoy this great list.
Internet Apps
Firefox
One of the best Web browsers out there, with all sorts of useful plugins.
Thunderbird
Very capable email app along the lines of Mail.app.
Cyberduck
Nice, easy-to-use FTP software. Just drag and drop files and folders between Cyberduck and the Finder.
KompoZer
Decent WYSIWYG Web page editor. A bit rough around the edges but does a good enough job, and doesn’t screw up your HTML as much as some editors do!
Adium
Instant messaging client that supports MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, Facebook, Twitter and more. Looks great and is very customisable.
NatsuLion
Nice-looking Twitter client with a cool transparent background. Easy to use (but then again, it’s hard to make a difficult-to-use Twitter app!).
Productivity
OpenOffice.org
Fully-fledged office app, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing tool, and database.
GnuCash
Accounting software for tracking your finances. Uses properdouble-entry bookkeeping. Perfect for individuals and small businesses alike. Finally it has an easy-to-install Mac version!
Graphics and Media
GIMP
Comprehensive image editor along the lines of Photoshop. The interface is a bit quirky, and it requires X11 to work, but it’s fine for most photo editing purposes.
Seashore
A simplified, easy-to-use version of GIMP designed for the Mac. (No X11 required.)
Hugin
A powerful photo panorama maker. Bit of a learning curve, but it produces great results.
VLC
Movie player that can play virtually any video and audio format under the sun, including AVI, WMV, OGG, Real, FLV (Flash), DVDs, and lots more.
Miro
A movie player that’s designed for watching Internet TV. You can subscribe to a feed then download episodes to watch at your leisure. Looks great and is easy to use.
Perian
Not an app, but a QuickTime component that lets your Mac (QuickTime, Quick Look, Front Row etc) play practically all popular video formats.
HandBrake
Very easy-to-use DVD ripper that can convert DVDs to a variety of formats. Very handy for converting for iPhone.
Blender
Hugely impressive 3D modelling software along the lines of Maya and LightWave. The interface is challenging but it can do some very cool things!
Audacity
Handy sound recording/editing app. Support multiple tracks, looping, trimming, and lots more.
Gawker
Lets you create time-lapse movies using your iSight or external camera. Really easy to use and produces great results.
Miscellaneous
Celestia
Fly around in space and explore stars, planets, space stations and more. Looks beautiful and the level of detail is amazing.
Stellarium
A planetarium app that shows you the night sky from any point on earth. It’s so good that it’s actually used in real planetaria!
Electric Sheep
Screen saver that collaborates with other computers to generate stunning hypnotic animations over time. Takes a while to get going but it looks simply amazing.
VirtualBox
Lets you run other operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) at the same time as Mac OS X. Free, open-source equivalent to VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop.
BitNami Stacks
These stacks are a really quick, easy way to get Web apps up and running on your Mac. You can install a basic Web server environment (e.g. Apache/PHP/MySQL) using their “infrastructure stacks”, or complete Web app stacks for running things like WordPress, Drupal or Trac.
What’s missing??
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Free Book: Mic Techniques for Live Sound
Microphone Techniques for Live Sound Reinforcement. This useful book 
discusses both theory and practice of microphones in the live sound environment, including mic selection, mic placement, ways to avoid feedback, all with drawings and photos.