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Customers are now being offered access to free recording, mixing, mastering and educational tools from the likes of Eventide and Steinberg when they register a product.

Audient has teamed up with companies including Eventide, Steinberg, LANDR and Producertech to offer a comprehensive selection of free creative software for all Audient customers, available in the new ARC 'creative hub', which launches this week.

Obtainable by simply registering a product on the Audient website, with ARC new and existing customers are given access to a range of free software for recording, mixing, mastering and education.

As part of the package, Audient is offering two free Eventide plugins: UltraChannel and UltraReverb (worth 350). Between them, the plugins can provide EQ, compression, delay, gates, reverb and more. Also available are Steinbergs Cubase LE and Cubasis LE2 (for iOS), which turn a Mac, PC or iPad into a compact Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), delivering audio recording, editing, MIDI sequencing and mixing tools for musicians, producers and songwriters.

In addition, mastering specialist LANDR has put forward eight free 16-bit WAVs and two free 24-bit WAV master credits at no cost to Audient users, while the two Producertech.com courses selected by Audient promise insight into compression and vocal production, as well as a 20 voucher to put towards further courses.

The concept behind ARC is not only to add value for our customers, but also to provide high-end software products that producers or musicians of any ability can benefit from on a creative level, said Audient marketing manager Andy Allen. As soon as you have registered your product, you can access ARC and download any or all of these amazing offers.

We have provided over 500 in creative software for our customers and all they have to do is register their product now and enjoy. If youre already a user of a current Audient product it doesnt matter if youve got an iD4 or a Heritage console grab your serial number and click through on the Audient website.

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To overcome the need for investigators to travel far and wide to gatherevidence from infected computers after a cyberattack, a Kaspersky Lab expert has developed a simple tool that can remotely collect vital data without risk of its contamination or loss. Named BitScout, the tool can build a swiss-army knife for the remote forensic investigation of live systems and has been made freely available for all investigators to use.

In most cyberattacks, legitimate owners of compromised systems fall victim to unidentified perpetrators. Victims usually agree to cooperate and help security researchers find the infection vector or other details about the attackers. However, it is a longstanding concern among forensic researchers that the need to travel long distances to collect crucial evidence such as malware samples from infected computers can result in expensive and delayed investigations. The longer it takes for an attack to be understood, the longer it is before users are protected and perpetrators identified. However, the alternatives have either involved expensive tools and a knowledge of how to operate them, or the risk of contaminating or losing evidence by moving it between computers.

To solve the problem, Vitaly Kamluk, Director of Kaspersky Labs Global Research and Analysis Team in Asia Pacific (APAC) has created an open-source digital tool that can remotely collect key forensic materials, acquire full disk images via the network or locally attached storage, or simply remotely assist in malware incident handling. Evidence data can be viewed and analysed remotely or locally while the source data storage remains intact through reliable container-based isolation.

The need to analyse security incidents as efficiently and swiftly as possible is increasingly important, as adversaries grow ever more advanced and stealthy. But speed at all costs is not the answer either we need to ensure evidence is untainted so that investigations are trusted and results can be qualified for use in court if required. I couldnt find a tool that allowed us to achieve all of this, freely and easily so I decided to build one,said Vitaly Kamluk.

Kaspersky Lab experts work closely with law enforcement agencies across the world to help in the technical analysis of cyber investigations. This gives them a unique insight into the challenges LEA personnel face when fighting modern cybercrime. The cybersecurity landscape is now so complex and sophisticated that investigators need tools that can adapt and scale to the demands of the job. BitScout is a good example of this. It can be adjusted to the particular needs of an investigator, and improved and upgraded with additional features and custom software. Most importantly it comes free of charge, based on open-source solutions and is fully transparent: instead of relying on third party tools with proprietary code, experts can use the Bitscout open-source code to build their own swiss-army knife for digital forensics.

The list of BitScout features includes:

The tool is freely available at the GitHub code repository:https://github.com/vitaly-kamluk/bitscout

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Every tax season, the general public is presented with the option of having a professional prepare their taxes, or going it alone with one of the available brands of tax prep software online.

A quick web search reveals that almost 34 million people chose to file their taxes with industry-leader, Turbotax, last year alone. I imagine many of these customers werelured by the ubiquitous seasonal advertisements for their"Absolute Zero" or "All Free" tax filing option.

Well Virginia, maybe there is a Santa Claus, butremember, usually"there's no such thing as a free lunch" in this world.

The Free File Alliance

TurboTax's parent company, Intuit, is part of something called, The Free Tax Alliance, which is a consortium of 13 tax software companies. These companies started this nonprofit back in 2003 by circling their wagons and joining forces in response to a threat by the IRS to offer a free tax filing option to the masses. While benevolence may be the inspiration for many nonprofits, this particular one was probably formed more due toavarice.

In fact, members of the Free File Alliance, led by TurboTax and H&R Block, actually spend millions of dollars every year lobbying congress to make sure the IRS doesn't actually follow through with their promise of offering a free tax preparation option.

The irony is that they then offer the public"free tax preparation," which usually turns out to be anything but free!

Criteria for "Free Tax Preparation"

Have you ever been to a carnival and wasted a few dollars trying to win a prize on one of those rigged games in the midway?Your initial feelings of adrenaline, confidence, and hope are usually dashed quickly by the realization that the basketball hoop you're shooting on is much smaller than regulation, and it's probably easier to land a rover on Mars than a plastic ring on one of those milk jugs.

Even worse than walking away empty-handed, maybe you persevered and dropped a wad of money, only to walk away grimacing, embracing a plush"reggae banana"stuffed with an asbestos-like material from China.

Anyway, such is the case with the free versions of tax software available from the members of the Free File Alliance that are also given Orwellian names like,"Absolute Zero,""FreeFile," or "All Free."

Here are some of the criteria you'll have to meet to be eligible for the free version of their software:

As you can imagine, most people who optimisticallybegin the "free" filing process online find themselves with a significant expense by the time they actually finish their taxes.

Remember, No Such Thing As a Free Lunch

So, while the average cost of filing taxes with a professional exceeds $270, you'll want to approach the potential savings of filing your own taxes realistically. Most people don't qualify for the "Free" version from most tax prep websites, and may still end up paying over $100, even at a promotional price or with a service codefrom the company.

So, what's a taxpayer to do? Filing your simple taxes using free software available from top brands can certainly meet, or exceed your expectations, but do your research first.

Also note that while most customer reviews are glowing on company websites, they have the tendency to drop significantly on sites like ConsumerAffairs.com, as many consumers are furious that the product ended up being nowhere close to free.

So, this tax season, be prepared to pay for the "premium or deluxe" version of the software that you thought was free. Or, better yet, go hug your local CPA and ask them to provide you with professional tax assistance at a fair andstraightforward price! (Preferably before April)

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Animator Chad Essley writes, "The new MC Frontalot (previously) nerdcore video is out for the 4th of July! Celebrate our nations hostility toward the British crown by listening to Front rap about internet arguments over Free Software!"

We must pause to thank a free software company, The OpenNMS Group, for commissioning this piece and making it available to the world. Show them some love.

The animated video is pretty great. Cameos include: Lawrence Lessig (who is name-dropped in the lyric), Snowden and Assange (who are not), our ghoulish current prez, some poor sap forced at gunpoint to recite the songs lyric on North Korean television, and a bird who looks borderline-infringingly similar to Drinky Crow! There are probably dozens of other little details and Easter Eggs in there, which you should definitely catalog while watching the clip over and over again.

Ever wanted to remix a Frontalot song? Well, in further thematic synergy, Freedom Feuds source tracks are now available under a Creative Commons license for your artistic experimentation and/or Hawt Jam Cookery. Grab the kit here. Free MP3/AAC/FLAC versions of the mastered song are available too.

Fronts gonna see you at DEF-CON in Vegas this month. Then there are a couple more PAXes this year, on opposite sides of the earth. Front will rap at both of those. Will he figure out how to get on the road with Schaffer, Ran, and Lars in the fall? Stay tuned

Freedom Feud [MC Frontalot]

This document has it all: a neat quantization of the qualitative; a tale told in a single bureaucratic leaf that implies a whole hidden universe of night-scurrying morlocks who tend the magic under the harsh glare of floodlights on the third shift; a fine sheet slid in the nearly imperceptible crack between consensus hallucination and []

From 1993 to 2001, this Serbian middle-school biology textbook sported a cutout of a still from Raising Arizona in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter cradle their stolen baby.

Noah Smith (previously) writes in Bloomberg (!) about the fleecing of the Gen-X and Boomer middle class a class that is growing continuously smaller and poorer, thanks to financial deregulation, tax cuts and a lax attitude toward consumer protection and antitrust.

Entertaining bold changes in your career can feel like an abandonment of what youve worked for thus far, but this fallacious mindset can cost you a lot more in the long run than the time spent at your current gig. Change is constant, and building new skills outside of your typical wheelhouse will do much []

Immersive 3D sound is usually only possible with an array of surround-sound speakers, or by using headphones with Binaural audio content. And since most readily-available media is mastered for generic stereo, your Dolby 5.1 setup wont automagically add an extra dimension to your listening experience. But you can still simulate a rich audio environment with []

If big-game bow hunting sounds a little too intense for your delicate sensibilities, or you want to start building your kids archery proficiency early, this Real Action Crossbow Set is a fairly convincing replica of the real thing.The toy bow fires suction-cup tipped bolts up to 20 feet, so you can work on your marksmanship []

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Audient has teamed up with some of the industrys leading innovators to offer a comprehensive selection of free creative software for all Audient customers.

A comprehensive selection of free creative software from the likes of Eventide, Steinberg, LANDR and Producertech will be on offer for all Audient customers through its the new creative hub, ARC, which has launched today.

As a reward for simply registering a product on the Audient website, new and existing customers are given access to a range of software designed to provide a solution for recording, mixing, mastering and even education all free of charge.

The concept behind ARC is not only to add value for our customers, but also to provide high-end software products that producers or musicians of any ability can benefit from on a creative level, said marketing manager Andy Allen. Article continues below

As soon as you have registered your product, you can access ARC and download any - or all - of these amazing offers.

As part of the package, Audient offers two free Eventide plugins: UltraChannel and UltraReverb (worth 350). Between them, these plugins can provide EQ, compression, delay, gates, reverb and more.

Also available are Steinbergs Cubase LE and Cubasis LE2 (for iOS), which turn a Mac, PC or iPad into a compact Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), offering audio recording, editing, MIDI sequencing and mixing tools for musicians, producers and songwriters.

In addition, mastering innovators LANDR are offering 8 free 16-bit WAVs and 2 free 24-bit WAV master credits at no cost to Audient users, whilst the two Producertech.com courses selected by Audient will give unique insights into compression and vocal production, as well as a 20 voucher to put towards further courses.

We have provided over 500 in creative software for our customers and all they have to do is register their product now and enjoy. If youre already a user of a current Audient product - it doesnt matter if youve got an iD4 or a Heritage console - grab your serial number and click through on the Audient website, said Allen.

For more information about Audients ARC Creative Hub visit https://audient.com/arc/

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