Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

Ghostscript is a freeware interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF files. This is the link to the home page which has further links to download the latest versions of Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview.

I needed this software recently when I had received a corrupt eps file and needed to be able to convert the file to another graphic image file format. Irfanview couldn't open the file, but Ghostscript and ghostview could. A handy "Ace" to have up your sleeve!

Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith - Palpatine

I finally got to see "Star Wars III- Revenge of the Sith" on DVD last night. I had never seen the film before and was very keen to see it, having been a big Star Wars fan in a 'previous life'! :)

This film poses an uncanny depiction of what's actually happening in the world today.

Click on the image below to read the full story about Palpatine's rise to power in the Galactic Republic.

Here are some points from this that I would like to focus on:

• Palpatine secretly orders the Trade Federation to invade Naboo.


• Naboo's leader, Queen Amidala, rushes to Palpatine for aid.


• The two plead to the Senate for intervention, but are stalemated by Trade Federation filibustering.


• Queen Amidala acts upon Palpatine's suggestion, and calls for a Vote of No Confidence in the Republic's leadership.


• Chancellor Valorum is voted out and Palpatine becomes Chancellor.


• Despite Palpatine's promises of reform, the Republic continues to be attacked.


• Palpatine orders Dooku to organise the creation of a clone army on the Republic's behalf.


• Much later, Palpatine orders Count Dooku to lead a Separatist movement against the Republic with an army of droids.


• The Republic need a military and are pleasantly surprised to find that they are equipped to fight with an army of clones.


• Palpatine requires the authority to activate the Republic's newly forged army.


• Senators loyal to Palpatine motion that the Chancellor be given emergency powers to deal with the Separatist threat.


• The Clone Wars are a sham, a part of an intricate plan concocted by Palpatine as he secretly holds authority over both sides of the conflict.


• Palpatine's term as Chancellor ends during the rise of the Separatists, but that crisis allows him to extend his stay in office and enact executive decree after executive decree. He adds amendments to the constitution funneling more power to him, effectively circumventing the bureaucracy of the Senate.


• The public and the Senate willingly give up their rights and freedoms in the name of security.


• Palpatine promises that under his guidance, the war would be won, and the Republic would be safe.


• Palpatine secretly orders General Grievous to lead more Separatist forces in an assault against the republic.


• Palpatine architects his own abduction by General Grievous.


• The Jedi order's finest heroes, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, are dispatched to rescue Palpatine, defeating Grievous and Dooku along the way.


• Palpatine reveals himself as the Sith Lord to Anakin and persuades him to turn to the dark side. Anakin becomes Darth Vader.


• Palpatine enacts "Order 66", a coded command to the clone army on the various distant battlefronts, causing the clone army to kill the Jedi knights in cold blood.


• Palpatine gives a stirring speech to the Galactic Senate of how he narrowly escaped a treacherous Jedi rebellion. He assures the Republic that his resolve had not faltered. He had routed out the treachery that had entangled the Republic in the Clone Wars. He would cleanse the corruption from the bloated bureaucracy and reform it, as a new, more powerful, more secure institution.


• Palpatine declares himself Emperor, institutes a military build-up unprecedented in galactic history and creates a New Order: a Galactic Empire ruled by tyranny.


• During the Galactic Civil War, Palpatine disbands the Imperial Senate, and passes control down to the regional governors and the military.

The lines that I have underlined show what the Bush administration has already publicly done in their so called "War against Terrorism".

If you have watched any of the videos that can be downloaded from the 'New Vision Society' website (as shown in my post on 2nd Dec), you might believe that more lines should be underlined!

Star Wars III is a very timely film!

I wonder... could George Lucas forsee this when he started the Star Wars saga in the 70's?

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone!

(Isaiah 9:6) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Superman vs Jesus

Here's the downloadable teaser trailer to the new movie "Superman Returns". Note the messianic references when Jor-El (Superman's father who is doing the voice-over) says the following about the human race:
"They can be a great people Kal-El if they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all...(snip) I have sent them you... my only son!"

John 3:16 - the most famous scripture in the Bible says:
"For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son. That whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

In this teaser trailer, Superman is portrayed as a messianic figure, a possible saviour for the human race.

In his new book "Comic Book Character: Unleashing the Hero in Us All", David A. Zimmerman explores complex characters like Superman and Batman, Spider-Man and the X-Men, to uncover their cultural significance as models of moral character, virtue and heroism. Zimmerman shows how these iconic tales of good versus evil tap into our universal yearnings for justice and righteousness...

When asked "How are Superman and Jesus alike?" He states,
If I were to cast Superman in the Gospels, he would play Pontius Pilate: a guy with supreme power but who inevitably acquiesces to the will of the crowd and commits the most tragically evil act in history—the execution of the Son of God. Jesus and Superman are similar in that they’re both super-men—one raised as a human but endowed with powers by virtue of being an alien, the other literally the God-Man, but while Superman exists to advance an industry and maintain the status quo, Jesus seeks to draw us back into fellowship with our Creator. They’re superficially very similar, but ultimately their goals are irreconcilable.

I personally believe that this movie trailer communicates a yearning that has been placed in all of us by God himself.

We are spirits first of all, with a conscience (mind), placed in our earthly bodies. It is the innermost parts of our beings, our spirits, that yearn to be reconciled to our creator, and this can only be done through Jesus - the God given mediator between God and mankind.

This need for spiritual reconciliation with our creator, and a need for a saviour to show us the way, is often seen in our creative expressions, just like the messianic reference shown here in the Superman trailer.

Lemon and Paeroa

In New Zealand there's a local softdrink called Lemon and Paeroa or L&P for short.

Currently the L&P website is full of funny references to New Zealand culture, also known as Kiwiana. It's full of UGLY humour (which I just love), and other references to life in NZ in the 70's. There's some great wallpapers and mpg's to download of "hunky retro" Kiwi males strutting their stuff for the ladies.

The website has flash animation which can take a while to view on dial-up, so here are some of the direct links to their wallpapers and mpgs.

Brilliantly Funny!!!

Justin.mpg

Steve.mpg

Stubbies.mpg

Wallpaper 1

Wallpaper 2

Wallpaper 3

BitPim - Free CDMA phone software

BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones.

It is still under development so not all features are available. Have a look at the website and read through it before deciding whether to run with this freeware version or buying the commercially available products DataPilot or SnapSync.

Free Logos

If you're looking for a company or product logo, have a look here. This website has around 5000 logos freely available in Adobe Illustrator format. A very handy resource!

7-zip - Freeware File Compression

7-Zip is free file archiver software distributed under the GNU License.

Supported formats include:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR.
Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB.

For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10% better than the ratios provided by PKZip and WinZip.

I needed a freeware winzip alternative that had a nice looking interface and also allowed for RAR support as well, and this was it. A great little program that's a small size to download as well.

New Vision Society

In "The Matrix" Neo had to face a choice... Morpheus told him "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more...."

This is how I felt when I first looked at New Vision Society. Their website starts with a flash animation with some of the following wording:

Welcome to the real world.
Almost everything you know of this world has been a big lie.
I can only show you the door.
You are the one that has to walk through it.
Time has come for you to know the truth.

There's a strange thing about this website as well. Different PC's see different html pages once the animation has finished. One page features links to many videos on conspiracy theories, while the other has a more corporate look to it aiming to sell free electricity technologies. The direct link to this version is here.

If you don't see the webpages with links to their videos, then the videos are all here.

Food for thought...

now wheres that red pill gone???

Free file storage and sharing

If you have media or data files to share with others through your website or blog, here are free file hosting and sharing sites.

Be warned though that some of the files already hosted on these sites can be dodgy in their content, so please be careful!

iFeeder is a free image and video hosting solution with tags

youtube - Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

yourfilehost is an online file storage service to easily share files with everybody you want!

putfile is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service.

putphoto - the FREE photo album website!

flickr - "the best way to store, search, sort and share your photos!"

First Birthday

It's been a year since I started this blog! Time for a cup of tea and some cake to celebrate!

So far this year I've just been using this blog as a handy place to keep a record of the best freeware I've found, and links to my favourite websites. I've recommended it to my friends as they often ask me where they can find good free software or resources for various things, and if anyone else found this blog and enjoyed it as well - then all the better!

Maybe this year I'll use it as more of an outlet for my personal "ponderings" as well... who knows... time will tell! :)

Urban Space

Urban Space: "STILL LIFE... PHOTOS. Very personal and touching, these photos convey a lot of emotion and have a magical quality about them... simply beautiful."

Christian Solidarity Worldwide - A Voice for the Voiceless

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a human rights organisation specialising in religious freedom. CSW works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

Through the information provided in this website readers can join in and Take Action to help those who are persecuted through prayer, protest and provision.

There is also on online version of their Response magazine and Prayer Diary.

Free Serif Software

Serif Software "are giving the people what they want: Software With Imagination... for Free!

That's right, 100% completely free software. No gimmicks. It's yours for free. Download today and start using the most user friendly software around." - End of official website blurb!

5 software packages are available for download -
* PagePlus - Desktop Publishing
* PhotoPlus - Photo and Image Editing
* WebPlus - Web Site Design & Publishing
* DrawPlus - Graphic Design and Vector Drawing
* 3DPlus - 3D Animation and Modeling

Independent reviews have spoken favourably of these freeware applications. Pageplus appears to be the only freeware desktop publishing program available on the web so if you're looking for one this seems to be a good program to start with.

For a really good photo and image editing program I prefer Photofiltre over Photoplus but they are both very good programs.

Starfall - Free learn-to-read website

"The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling."

My kids go to this website often as they absolutely love it. The lessons are well thought out with a lot of clever interactive flash animations that are extremely intuitive for ages 3 and up!

I highly recommend it!

Photofiltre - Free Digital Image Editor

This is what Robin Good at Master New Media has to say about Photofiltre:

"This is the best free digital image editor for Windows PCs that is available out there bar none. I don't know how I have been missing this tool, but you can be sure that, if you are a non-technical user, this is the only software you will need to do 99% of your digital image editing tasks.

Photofiltre is a perfect tool for anyone with some basic familiarity with digital imaging who wants to avoid getting into the complexity and price tag of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

While for many years I have strongly recommended and used IrfanView (free) for most of my basic digital image editing tasks and Serif Photo Plus 5.5 (free), I must admit that I have switched to Photofiltre in no time at all. I would sincerely recommend Photofiltre to any non-technical user needing to work with digital images. At this price level there is really little else that can do this much.

Highly Recommended."

For the full review, you can read it here.

Photofiltre can be downloaded for free here:
http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe (English version) 1.6 MB

Plugins for Photofiltre - a super collection of great plugins: from screen capture to fish-eye lens distortion correction and everything in between.

Gallery of images created with Photofiltre.

Tutorials.

Development kit Sources in Delphi, C++ Builder, C and ASM - Version 1.0 beta, April 2004, 350 Kb

Free Images and Visuals

I was going to post about the best websites available to find royalty free images and photos, but then Robin Good wrote a great article that provides a comprehensive and detailed list:

I also recommend having a look at these photo blogs. While the photos aren't normally royalty free, they ARE very good:

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days.


http://photo-a-day.blogspot.com/ - A picture from each day of Tim Halberg's life from August 31, 2005 onwards.


http://visiondaily.blogspot.com/ - a great blog with Christian inspirational photography and messages

Sudoku

Got spare time? Fill it with Sudoku! Sudoku is the number placing game taking the world by storm - see Wikipedia for the full story.

The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio show that started in 1951 and ran until 1960. It changed the face of British comedy and still maintains its influence to this day!

The Goons included Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. They burst onto the radio with surreal storylines, absurd logic, puns, catchphrases and groundbreaking sound effects. They ridiculed the pomposity of establishment and laughed at the stupidity of the human condition.

Characters such as Ned Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle, Major Bloodnok, Minnie Bannister, Henry Crun, Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty all helped to create an alternative and ludicrous view of the world.

Pictures, scripts, MP3's and videos are available at these websites. Enjoy!

The Goon Show Liberation Army

The Goon Show Site

The Goon Show Depository

Goon Show Listings

Goonlog

Madagascar music video

Here's a music video of Reel2Reel's "I Like To Move It" featuring the stars from Madagascar.

Free Music Tutorials

Want to learn how to play music and write songs? Look at these free tutorials and resources.


Here is the entire 1st edition of the ebook "Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music" available for free! The second edition is available to purchase as well.

At the Berklee Shares Web site you will find free individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni to download, along with a library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files that is free and open to the music community around the world.

Here is a FREE Online Course in Songwriting by Rein Menke. Subjects range from how to make good rhyme and rhythm in lyrics to choosing subjects, style, etc.

Everybody Dance Now!!!

The highest rated downloadable videos are of people doing amazing physical feats! Be it dancing, sports or music etc. Check these out - some of them are phenomenal!

Scala Multimedia Directory

The Scala Multimedia Directory is one of the largest and most complete multimedia directories on the Internet. Scala has taken on the duty of maintaining the popular GMD: German National Research Center for Information Technology site, adding entries and collaborative maintenance.

There are links here to websites specialising in 3D Animation, Presentation software, Audio, file conversion, digital photography, DVD & digital video, Multimedia standards, Web management, slide shows, tutorials & utilities to name just a few. Definitely worth checking out!

Index.dat Suite

When looking at the website for the "B Gone" content filter in the last post, I also found this little gem.

Index.dat Suite allows you to view and delete index.dat files, temporary internet files, temp files, cookies and internet explorer history on your system.

Index.dat files contain information on every website that you have ever visited. Microsoft have never given an explanation as to what these files actually do, but they can potentially be a source of information to others should your machine be hacked. If you do banking over the internet on a regular basis I would definitely recommend giving these files a regular clean as well.

Porn Blockers/Child Safe Content Filters

I had a request for some Porn Blocking content filters. Here are some links to free programs that are available.

Naomi is an Internet content filtering program, intended for families and parents in particular. It constantly monitors all Internet connections for inappropriate materials, and immediately closes down the browser if encountered. The programs considerations include obscene or violent contents; pornography and erotism in the form of images or texts, as well as sites that popularize drugs, gambling, terrorism, hate propaganda and more. The program uses a built-in filter list (which cannot be modified) as well as heuristic scanning and semantic analysis of web pages and links. It recognizes more than 10 major languages and supports the ICRA labeling system. The interface is password protected to prevent unauthorized disabling of the filter. Naomi`s biggest strength is that it is completely fool-proof and fully automatic, with no additional configurations (other than picking a password), it supports any browser or Internet application and does not change any of your settings - on the downside, it does not offer any control over the filters. The filtering worked well during tests.

Parental Filter is a specialized parental control filter that enables you to block porn from your web browser. It uses a built-in database of web sites that are blocked, as well as a list of keywords that it scans for on web pages, and blocks them if a they are found. You can specify a list of sites that the user will be redirected to instead, and also customize the list of blocked sites and keywords. Parental Filter provides a password protected interface, can run fully automatic in the background. The program is very effective and works well.

B Gone is a content filter for parents, children, and anyone else wishing to keep their internet experience pleasant. This program allows you to block site's, based on keywords in the browsers caption bar. The interface, and program is password protected using our own custom encryption routine, designed and written specifically for this program. This program is great for those wishing to keep their children away from porn sites, or simply preventing porn popup's appearing when entering or exiting certain site's. It could also be used (and is more than capable), to prevent someone accessing a certain website, or group of website's.

File Sharing Sentinel is free Parental Control software designed to block file sharing software such as Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare, etc. Protect your children from predators lurking in file sharing networks, also prevent them from being exposed to thousands of pornographic files. File sharing can be costly, the music industry is suing users of file sharing software for copyright infringement. Computer viruses found on file sharing networks can damage or destroy your computer. File Sharing Sentinel prevents spyware from installing on your computer.

SafeGuard Content Cleaner is a system cleaner that includes increased filtering and cleaning capabilities to detect and protect against all the latest and most dangerous types of graphics, pornography, content, and files.

What to do with an old 486 PC!!!

Don't throw away that old 486 PC just yet! Here are four websites you can go to to turn it into a cool "old school" gaming machine!!!

First of all download and install FreeDOS. FreeDOS aims to be a completely free 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system.

Then get SEAL a 32-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS. It supports many advanced features, such as a dynamic linking system (XDL), sound and other multimedia functions (SFA), multilingual support, and more!

As an alternative to SEAL try Quikmenu3. It's nagware but it's a great little DOS GUI that allows you to set up buttons to launch all your favorite DOS programs. QuikMenu also contains a full assortment of utilities (including a powerful file manager for copying, moving, deleting and renaming files and directories; calculator; phone/modem dialer and database; calendar; macro recorder; ASCII text editor; and more).

Then go to DOSgames.com to download and play over 400 of your favourite DOS games, free!

Prepare for a massive 80's Flashback!!!

Image Viewers and Management Tools

Image/Graphic Viewing software is a must-have application to have on your PC. While Windows XP comes standard with thumbnail and filmstrip views in explorer, and earlier versions of Windows has the Wang image viewer, they simply just don't do everything that a good graphic program should. Here are the two best freeware apps I've found for viewing, sorting, converting and editing graphics and image files.

Irfanview: I've mentioned this app before in an earlier entry but it's just great software that is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer for Windows. It has been around for many years and keeps getting better.

Some features of IrfanView: Preview option, Drag & Drop support, fast directory view (fast moving through directory), slideshow, batch conversion, print option, change the color depth, scan support, cut/crop and many many more.

Supported file formats: JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAS/SUN, ICO, AVI, WAV, MID, RMI, WMF, EMF, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF/LBM, PSD, CPT, MPG/MPEG, MOV and Photo-CD(Overview Photo-CD support) as well as Flash/Shockwave format. All this for (currently) only 874kb.

I LOVE this program because it's lightweight and extremely fast! I've also found that it will open troublesome image files that some of the professional graphics programs can't. I also use it for creating slideshow playlists. The great thing about creating a playlist is (like an audio playlist on Winamp or Media Player) files can be chosen from different directories and drives and sorted into the required order. Great for use with a data projector at parties and public services.

FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features, that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA as well as digital RAW formats (.CRW, .NEF).

This viewer/editor is a gem! I have never encountered such a superb, well-rounded viewer/editor before. The coolest thing is that the menus pop up when you move your curser to edge of the photo you are viewing. No other program does that. It is simply a joy to work with so many features. All other programs in this FastStone series are highly recommendable as well. Get this!!!

Cool Free Games

Go to these websites for great free downloadable games:

Piste Gamez- Home of Pekka Kana and Q-LAT.

Free Lunch Design - Home of Icy Tower, Happyland Adventures, Klabutong and Alex the Allegator.

NStorm - Home of Elf Bowling and a whole host of other free games. These games try to dial out but can easily be blocked by configuring the Zonealarm firewall to stop them.

Kewlbox - Home of Frank the Elf and a whole host of other free games. These games try to dial out but can easily be blocked by configuring the Zonealarm firewall to stop them.

Sound familiar? Kewlbox is an off-shoot of NStorm!

Gekko Soft - Home of Passage 3 and Mahjongg. Extremely nice graphics. Even though these are demo games you still get full game play, only the range of graphics options are limited.

The Word For Today with Bob Gass

There are so many words that I could use to describe The Word For Today with Bob Gass; Timely, Relevent; Practical, Wise, and at times prophetic. God has spoken to me so many times through what is written in these daily devotionals, they are simply amazing. Go to this page to see how you can subscribe to this ministry in your corner of the globe.

Digital Music

Making digital music is easier than ever these days with the hardware and software currently available. If you want to experiment without spending any money, here are some freeware audio apps along with links to tutorials and free sound samples.

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Acid Xpress is the free, 10-track version of ACID software, a loop-based music production tool. ACID XPress software will give you a taste of what ACID Pro and ACID Music Studio software have to offer. To make the music creation process especially easy, ACID XPress software has built-in Show Me How tutorials that help you step-by-step using interactive wizards and guides.

Every week download the free 8pack project. An 8pack project is an ACID file that includes eight loops arranged into a song. 8pack projects illustrate how a song is constructed in ACID software, and how easy it is to combine loops from various Sony Sound Series™ Loops and Samples libraries. Every week there will be a new 8pack project to download — for Free!

Check out the rest of the website at Acid Planet.


Buzz is the first ever "easy to use" free modular software based music studio. Imagine having a studio with over 300 pieces of gear. Now imagine fitting it on a laptop or home PC. It sounds like a dream to any Musician, but its completely possible with Buzz. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling synths and a Drum Machine through 2 seperate Stereo Delays, into a Mixer, through a Compressor and Parameteric EQ, and finally out to your speakers - no problem. Lay down your synths, connect the wires and you're done.

Tu2 is a phrase sampler which means it will make music and sound out of samples you feed it. Tu2 has 4 built-in sound-generating units to let you construct your own loops. Tu2 will stack samples, loops and soundbites for you. You can slice 'n dice them, mutilate them, filter them, remix them and put effects over them.

Mixmeister BPM Analyzer is a free beat extracting tool. It requires registration at the site.

Loops.net is a resource site for Loopers, DJs and Musicians. It features links to free sounds, samples and soundfonts.

SampleNet is a treasure trove of free loops, samples and sounds.

The FreePlay Music Library is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music, available online, spanning all the popular musical genres.

Other online souces for legal sound samples are:

Power Samples

Sonic Implants

Sounds FX

Tweakheadz Labs

Waveform DK

MIDI files are available from:

Music Tutorials are available for free for those that require more traditional methods of playing and composing music:

Computer Music is the UK's biggest-selling music technology magazine, and this website is designed to offer a taste of what's in the mag. The site offers all sorts of music and interactivity as well as advice, reviews of the latest gear and news as it happens, all in a clear, easy-to-understand, techno babble-free way.

Electronic Musician is another music technology magazine, and this website features gear reviews, audio tutorials, loops and samples.

The Open Music Resource Library (OMRL) is to be an online resource for musicians to be able to find and publish loops, softsynth and plugin patches, samples, and sample sets, all under a Creative Commons license. There isn't much here yet, so please check back every once in a while.