qReader Mail & Rumor Report-July 13, 2007

In todays report, we note the release of Babya bPicture 2008,System Profiler Pro and Youtube Desktop and news about Babya Photo Workshop and Logic.


Babya Photo:
Babya Photo is a .NET version of Babya Photo Workshop Professional . The new name reflects the start of the .NET based versions.
Babya bPicture 2008 is included-but not Babya Presenter.

New features:
Based on Paint.NET,but intergrated with other Babya tools is Babya Photo 2008 (formerly Babya Photo Workshop)

Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Babya Photo 2008 uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.
Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Powerful Tools
Babya Photo 2008 includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.


Unlimited History
Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their mind. To accommodate this, every action you perform on an image is recorded in the History window and may be undone. Once you've undone an action, you can also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by available disk space

Special Effects
Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

Babya bPicture 2008,System Profiler Pro and Youtube Desktop
Babya System Profiler Pro can now be downloaded at Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Babya-System-Profiler-Professional.shtml
Babya YouTube Desktop released Babya YouTube Desktop is set to be the most exciting Babya application ever.
Babya YouTube Desktop gives you the YouTube experience as a application-available even when IE is closed.
It also includes a new .NET version of Babya Video Downloader
Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0,IE 6 or 7 (but does not have to be the default browser).
Download: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037500 http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaYouTubeDesktop.exe
Babya Discoverer 2008 released Babya Discoverer 2008 has been released.New Features:.NET 2.0 based-faster than v12 and Vista optimizedMouse gesturesWikipedia searchVoice activation and text to speech enabled
Download:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037499 http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaDiscoverer2008.exeBabya System Profiler Pro BABYA SYSTEM PROFILER is a computer hardware and software inventory program. It gathers over 220 pieces of information about computers and optionally stores this information in a database. It can be run locally or can be used by an administrator to scan a network.
Unlike many other free system inventory/info tools, this one can be used over a network.
Features: Quick PC details overview with the view SOS:System Profiler Summary Uses a Access database to store all details
Screenshots: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/2988/bsystemprfoi1.jpg http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6445/bspni0.jpg
A message may appear on non-networked systems-it can be safely be ignored.
Requires .NET 2.0 or 3.0 framework installed. Credit:Emmet Gray (original developer). Optimizations for .NET 2.0 and Vista by Babya.
Download: http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaSystemProfilerProfession.exe
Babya Discoverer 2008 A new version of Babya Discoverer-version 13/2008 will be announced at the Babya Expo this week.
New Features:.NET 2.0 based-faster than v12 and Vista optimizedMouse gesturesWikipedia searchVoice activation and text to speech enabled

Babya YouTube Desktop Babya YouTube Desktop is set to be the most exciting Babya application ever.
YouTube-you can view it on iPhone, AppleTV,portable device but not as a Windows application. Babya YouTube Desktop gives you the YouTube experience as a application-available even when IE is closed.
It also includes a new .NET version of Babya Video DownloaderBabya YouTube Desktop will ship later this month.


The new 2008 version of bPicture can now be download from Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Viewers/Babya-bPicture.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Babya-bPicture-Screenshot-77978.html

Babya bPicture 2008 now available Babya bPicture has been completely rebuilt using the NET Framework for the fastest image browsing experience-it can handle browsing of thousands of images (compared to the old VB6 based version).

Babya bPicture now has a built-in, in-program editing and slideshows.

Completely reinvented

the completely redesigned and Windows Photo Gallery inspired interface to easily organise all of your precious photos-whether already digital or scanned-in.

The new bPicture works extremely well with Babya PhotoPro and Photo Workshop.


for Windows Vista and conforms to the Aero UI-also XP compatibile
Best of both worlds
Use the new Babya bPicture editor to perform edits to your images-it’s a hybrid combination of Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Center.
Get the stats
Compared to previous versions, bPicture 2008 can display even more image data.
Prints and slides betterNew to Babya bPicture is a print preview function and a simple slideshow option.
Download:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037476http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyabPicture2008.exe

Logic 3
Coming soon is a new version of Babya's complete music studio.
Babya Logic 2008 has a refreshed UI-with a metallic color scheme. And it's less complicated to learn and use -now ideal for everyone.
Plus it now supports Windows Vista.
Favorite synths
Babya Logic 2008 comes with over 20 familiar software synths and effects from previous versions plus introduces the ES10 & StarrySound synths.
The ES10 and StarrySound are versatile effects:as a separate program and as a VSTI, producing any kind of sound you need.
ES10 screenshot:

StarrySound screenshot:

Other synths include:
Babya Piano Studio
Babya ES2,ESM, EXM
VST Host-to host VSTI's
A gallery of Logic synths:

Improve compositions by training
A new feature is Logic Trainer: which was primarily designed as a simple tool for improving pitch recognition abilities and disabilities. After doing a bit of training, you are able to make more advanced compositions with accurate timing and tempo.
It generates random notes to simulate real time ear training sessions wherein one musician plays a note on a piano while the other individual tries to figure out mentally what key was sounded.
The controls are quite easy to manipulate after you spend some time tinkering with them.
We still don't know if it will work wonders (on your hearing) so try it yourself and rejoice if it does.
Tips on how to use it effectively can be found via the tool tips and training methods and techniques from other sources may be helpful as well.
As of this Aural chord analysis is possible to 3 notes and unisons are considered as one note.
Screenshot:

New features of Logic Express and Pro for 2008
StarrySound synth:with amplitude,ADSR,pitchbend
Babya ES10:Babya's ESE even better with more controllable settings
Vista support
Metallic look UI
Guitar Amp 3 with a lyrics viewer
Babya Logic Trainer