Moving to Vista– Part D’oh

We have been looking at Windows Vista (TM Microsoft) for a few weeks, seeing how it will affect Sagebrush products. View the first part here. Sound Recorder is diminished. The Sound Recorder accessory in WinXP could be used to transfer from one Wave format to another, or record in several different Wave formats. It could … Read more

Theremin Patent

A patent for the original theremin, the other-worldly musical instrument that inspired MouSing, can be found on Google-Patents here. Patents this old do not presently have machine-readable text. A close viewing of the patent image suggests that optical character recognition software would be challenged, with plently of stray dots, optical noise, and characters that run … Read more

Random Friday: What We Flix

As Netflix newbies, we tend to pay undue attention to our movie queue. When we’ve used the service for a few months, will we stop obsessing over the list so much? Currently, Whisper of the Heart Rome: Season 1: Disc 1 The Battle of Algiers My Neighbor Totoro Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace Duma Never Cry … Read more

Moving to Vista

We have been looking at Windows Vista (TM Microsoft) for a few weeks, seeing how it will affect Sagebrush products. Here are some of the issues we found: No WinHelp available. We preferred WinHelp .HLP rather than HtmlHelp .CHM because it supported older flavors of Windows (back to Windows 3.1) and for the way it … Read more

Hello, World!

Welcome to the bright shiny new Sagebrush web blog! Our plan is to post each weekday on topics related to Sagebrush Systems products, including audio, software development, fair use, DRM, audio soundscapes, telephone recording, gadgetware, product applications, and more. Friday is reserved for “Random Friday” topics, typically fun or mildly interesting matters thoroughly unrelated to … Read more