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Sound Control 2 for the Mac adds per-app audio EQ, more

Static Z Software has updated Sound Control, a sound volume mixer for the Mac, to version 2. The app enables users to quickly change app volumes, as well as selectively apply a system-wide EQ to app audio.

Sound Control does this by adding a software mixer to the menu bar of your Mac. In addition to the volume mixer, Sound Control also adds a software EQ to your audio output allowing you to tailor the sound of your Mac’s audio to their specific taste or to properly calibrate to the frequency response of their speakers.

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RE:Vision Effects announces RE:Lens for Nuke and Fusion Studio

RE:Vision Effects (www.revisionfx.com) has released RE:Lens, a set of tools for projection conversion and lens distortion correction. It’s designed for super-wide, fisheye, spherical, and 360 panorama workflows.

RE:Lens is available for The Foundry’s Nuke, Blackmagic Design’s Fusion Studio, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. It straightens curved video captured with wide-angle and fisheye lenses. RE:Lens costs $189.95 for a node-locked version and $284.93 for a floating version.

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Davka Corp. announces Alef Bet Schoolhouse for macOS

The Davka Corp. (www.davka.com) has announced Alef Bet Schoolhouse for the Mac. It’s an app that introduces Hebrew letter basics to children ages three and up.

Alef Bet Schoolhouse features four activities that teach pronunciation of Hebrew letters, recognition of letter shapes, the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the differences between letters of similar appearance. The Meet the Alef Bet section displays each Hebrew letter with a picture of a word that begins with that letter, accompanied with delightful animation and audio pronunciation of the letter and word.

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Almost half of all consumers ship via their phones

New data reveals that almost half of all consumers shop via their phones — and a two-second delay in load time can hurt bounce rates by 103%.
 
This data comes from SOASTA’s (www.soasta.com) semi-annual “State of Digital Performance” report, which analyzes the performance of retail, media and travel sites. SOASTA gathered 38.3 billion beacons’ worth of data (10 billion user visits) to determine the findings.  
 

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