SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - SIMPLECHORD & HANDBRAKE

Hi All, Key Combination of the Day Command-Delete (in the Finder) In the Finder (Desktop), pressing -Delete (Command-Delete) moves any selected items to the trash. This is the quickest way to delete an item or group of items. You can select a group of items in the Finder by dragging across them. Shareware of the Day: SimpleChord - The powerful chord dictionary and song-sketching tool for Mac OS X. What is it? Part tool and part toy, SimpleChord is a music application for Mac OS X that lets you look up chords and arrange them into progressions. New in SimpleChord 4 More chord types - A wider variety to choose from. Brand new interface - More functional, more friendly Standard MIDI File Export - By popular request. Looped Playback - Numbah nine, numbah nine... Chord Info Pallete - Intervals, halfsteps, and more! Import ChordPro Files - Thousands available online.   More Nifty Features Look up chords - From power chords to jazz. Create progressions - Try new sounds, learn new songs. iPod Export - Chords + progressions to go. MIDI Keyboard Support - Works with MIDI keyboards. Print progressions - For easy learning later. Reverse Lookup - Press the keys, find the chord. Metronome & Tempo Finder - Conveniently built-in. Built for Mac OS X - Simple, shiny, and sweet. More info and download link here: <http://www.wonderwarp.com/simplechord/> Freeware of the Day: HandBrake - multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software) PAL or NTSC AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks Outputs: File format: MP4, AVI or OGM Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding) Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks) Misc features: Chapter selection Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture) Integrated bitrate calculator Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling Grayscale encoding User presets AppleTV and PS3 support Anamorphic, even in QuickTime Surround sound (both AAC 5.1 and Dolby Pro Logic II) Chapter markers (QuickTime-style) High profile H.264 More info and download link here: <http://handbrake.m0k.org/> Regards... Gordon