ARPAST utilizes a variety of specialized software applications throughout the course of our research. Below are just a few examples of what we have determined to be the "best in class" applications. A basic description of what each product is designed to do is given in parenthesis. A significant number of these applications are either open-source or freeware. The "($)" denotes that the product must be purchased; however, a trial version may be available for evaluation. For information on some of the tools which ARPAST utilizes in our research, you can click here for equipment, or here for software. Information on our research database codenamed "SOCIUS" can be found here. The denotes applications which ARPAST highly recommends.
ADOBE AUDITION (audio editor) ($) - http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/ DART PRO 24 (forensic audio editor/optimizer) ($) - http://www.dartpro.com/products/Dart_Pro_24.asp SOUNDCLEANER (audio enhancement) ($) - http://www.speechpro.com/production/?id=322&fid=7 NCH TONE GENERATOR (audio signal generator) ($) - http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/ AUDACITY (audio editor) - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ WAVEPAD (audio editor) - http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ COWON JETAUDIO BASIC (audio editor) - http://www.cowonamerica.com/download/ PRAAT (audio phonetic analysis) - http://www.praat.org/
ADOBE PREMIER (video editor) ($) - http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ DIGITAL MEDIA CONVERTER ($) - http://www.deskshare.com/dmc.aspx SIGVIEW FFT SIGNAL ANALYZER (real-time spectral analysis) ($) - http://www.sigview.com/ WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER (video editor) - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx VIRTUAL DUB (video capture/processing) - http://www.virtualdub.org/ SCREENCODER (streaming/archiving video captures) - http://www.merage.uci.edu/~dvdotnet/screencoder.html IMAGE MINE PLATINUM (image library catalog) ($) - http://www.imagineproducts.com/
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (image editor) ($) - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop PICASA (image organizer) - http://picasa.google.com/ PAINT.NET (image editor) - http://www.getpaint.net/ EXIF VIEWER - http://home.pacbell.net/michal_k/exif_v.html EXIFER (extended EXIF manipulation) - http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/ EXPOSUREPLOT (statistical graphs of exposure info, contained in EXIF data) - http://www.cpr.demon.nl/prog_plotf.html IMAGENOMIC NOISEWARE (image noise reduction) - http://www.noiseware.com/nwsa.aspx XNVIEW (image view and conversion) - http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enxnview.htm PHOTOZOOM PRO 2 - http://www.benvista.com GIMP (image editor) - http://www.gimp.org/ ONLINE EXIF VIEWER - http://regex.info/exif.cgi UMARK LITE (add watermark to photo) - http://www.uconomix.com/umark FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER - http://www.faststone.org/ IRFANVIEW (image viewer) - http://www.irfanview.com/ DIGITAL CAMERA ENHANCER (image enhancement) - http://www.mediachance.com/ ZA DIGITAL IMAGE RECOVERY (recover deleted images) - http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
THERMACAM RESEARCHER ($) - http://www.flirthermography.com/software/swf004.asp LUNARPHASE PRO - http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhase/index.htm/ DIGITAL ATMOSPHERE PROFESSIONAL ($) - http://www.weathergraphics.com/da/ ARCGIS DESKTOP (geographical information) ($) - http://www.esri.com/ EVPMAKER - http://www.stefanbion.de/evpmaker/index_e.htm