Dischromatics Ltd is a company based in Abercarn, South Wales. The company was established in 1989 by Stewart Spencer and Brian Fitzgerald, although now is owned solely by the Spencer family. Initially the company provided Floppy Disks and was the only company in the World capable of picture-printing onto (at the time they were only supplied with labels stuck onto their shell). From these roots the company supplied (and still does to this day) and enjoyed forays into Computer hardware supply, networking and website construction.
More recently, Dischromatics has established a comprehensive CD, DVD, USB and Floppy Disk duplication suite on-site as well as a high spec Digital Print department . Thanks to its position as one of only a handful of UK partners of for CD and DVD packaging as well as more commonly produced Digital Print items such as Business Stationery, Promotional Print, Posters etc.. Thanks to its position as one of only a handful of UK partners of Sony DADC, Dischromatics was the first UK broker to advertise and sell the Blu-ray format to the UK market when it was first available.
The company has also expanded into EU markets like Ireland, Malta and France and has established a website in French to facilitate business in that country. Dischromatics views, opinions and advice within the optical media are often sought with regular comments given by Gareth Spencer being published in MCV's insider guide (sources to follow).
Dischromatics also has its own pétanque team which has qualified for and represented Wales at home and abroad in international competitions.
Accreditation
Dischromatics achieved ISO9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 accreditation in September 2005, and was upgraded to ISO9001:2008 accreditation in 2009. The company is now also working to achieve accreditation to the Investors in People standard. The company also has close links with Europe’s premier media disc replicator, Sony DADC.
Web Presence
Over the past 21 years of its existance, Dischromatics has had a number of websites and the latest incarnation is due to be launched in January 2009 and is an even more comprehensive and easily navigable site than the current version.
Dischromatics was one of the very first companies to create a website for itself, programming onsite in basic HTML in 1998
External Sites
*Facebook Page
*[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Abercarn-United-Kingdom/Dischromatics-Ltd/167132696307#/group.php?gid93513808787&refts Facebook Group]
*MySpace Page
*Blogger
*Twitter
*Official Website
More recently, Dischromatics has established a comprehensive CD, DVD, USB and Floppy Disk duplication suite on-site as well as a high spec Digital Print department . Thanks to its position as one of only a handful of UK partners of for CD and DVD packaging as well as more commonly produced Digital Print items such as Business Stationery, Promotional Print, Posters etc.. Thanks to its position as one of only a handful of UK partners of Sony DADC, Dischromatics was the first UK broker to advertise and sell the Blu-ray format to the UK market when it was first available.
The company has also expanded into EU markets like Ireland, Malta and France and has established a website in French to facilitate business in that country. Dischromatics views, opinions and advice within the optical media are often sought with regular comments given by Gareth Spencer being published in MCV's insider guide (sources to follow).
Dischromatics also has its own pétanque team which has qualified for and represented Wales at home and abroad in international competitions.
Accreditation
Dischromatics achieved ISO9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 accreditation in September 2005, and was upgraded to ISO9001:2008 accreditation in 2009. The company is now also working to achieve accreditation to the Investors in People standard. The company also has close links with Europe’s premier media disc replicator, Sony DADC.
Web Presence
Over the past 21 years of its existance, Dischromatics has had a number of websites and the latest incarnation is due to be launched in January 2009 and is an even more comprehensive and easily navigable site than the current version.
Dischromatics was one of the very first companies to create a website for itself, programming onsite in basic HTML in 1998
External Sites
*Facebook Page
*[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Abercarn-United-Kingdom/Dischromatics-Ltd/167132696307#/group.php?gid93513808787&refts Facebook Group]
*MySpace Page
*Blogger
*Official Website
The Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation is a technology company that creates and implements software as well as hardware. Based in Anniston, Alabama, Envizions most prominent product to date is the EVO Smart Console, which is the one of first system ever to be completely developed with open source technology. Envizions was founded by current CEO and Founder Derrick Samuels. Their main platform revolves around one company providing a various array of services and products.
History
When speaking of the creation of his company Derrick Samuels says, "It was around 2004 when I first got the idea for the EVO system. I have three daughters - I felt that the systems didn’t allow them to utilize different functions. This was the basic idea that spawned the company." The company originally designed their products using Microsoft, but felt the operating system had to many restrictions. So when the Envizions returned from The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas they began working with the open source community.
Products
*EVO Smart Console- a convergence system produced by the Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation. The system is designed to work as a game console, PC, and storage device.
*Mirrors Evolution X - is an operating system developed by Envizions using open source technology.
*EVO Cloud Service - a fully functional desktop environment via the internet. The Cloud system can Store files, video, upload and access web applications.
Further reading
*Linux Based Console
*Worthplaying Article
*Obessable
*Envizions Interview
History
When speaking of the creation of his company Derrick Samuels says, "It was around 2004 when I first got the idea for the EVO system. I have three daughters - I felt that the systems didn’t allow them to utilize different functions. This was the basic idea that spawned the company." The company originally designed their products using Microsoft, but felt the operating system had to many restrictions. So when the Envizions returned from The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas they began working with the open source community.
Products
*EVO Smart Console- a convergence system produced by the Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation. The system is designed to work as a game console, PC, and storage device.
*Mirrors Evolution X - is an operating system developed by Envizions using open source technology.
*EVO Cloud Service - a fully functional desktop environment via the internet. The Cloud system can Store files, video, upload and access web applications.
Further reading
*Linux Based Console
*Worthplaying Article
*Obessable
*Envizions Interview
Klactoveedsedstene Klactoveedsedstene is an Audio Player frontend to the popular Mplayer engine, written in Java. It is not an all-round over-all Media Player, like Mplayer, but only an Audio frontend for WMA and MP3 files. It has a low footprint, as is fast to load and use. It can be launched directly from the Internet, using Java Web Start.
The name is a nonsense word, invented by the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, whose portraits are shown in the Installer. It is also the title of one of his compositions, of which the last few bars are played, when the applications is started the first time.
Features
Features:
*Fast and compact
*Advanced Album Art support with over 90% accuracy.
*Select and Play
*All-in-one window
*Drag and Drop music into the library
*Supports MP3 and WMA
*Highly configurable
*Stateful (remembers your window settings)
*All parts of the GUI can be colored
*Album-Artist-Track view
*All track columns sortable and movable
*Minimizable
Media Library
Klactoveedsedstene has no concept of a playlist. It has a Media Library, into which one imports ones music collection. The library is organized in three hierachical panels, Artist, Album, Track, as is common to many Audio Players. In these panels, the user can select any subset of tracks and play them, in effect as a virtual playlist. Audio files can be imported by Drag-and-Dropping them onto the GUI from any graphical File Manager.
The Track panel is organized in multiple columns such as title, artist, album and genre which can be sorted and moved.
Supported formats
Klactoveedsedstene can play any Audio formats, supported by Mplayer, however only for MP3 and WMA, are meta-tags and embedded Album Art read. Thus, it is in practice an Audio Player for these two formats, which are by far the two most common. Support for other formats might be part of a future release.
Tagging
Klactoveedsedstene uses the ID3 tags to find pertaining Album Art from the Internet. Only the two tags Artist and Album are used as search criteria. Tags can not be edited in Klactoveedsedstene, but must be done with some other software. A tag editor is planned for a future release.
Album Art Support
The Album Art Support is quite comprehensive. For each album imported to the Media library, Klactoveedsedstene will try to find some associated Album Art. There are three possible sources, searched in the following priority:
* Cached Album Art - Look for Album Art in your local cache, which has been fetched during a previous import
* Embedded Album Art - Sometimes the MP3 or WMA file has Album Art embedded in it, and Klactoveedsedstene will extract it.
* Album Art in directory. If there is exactly one graphic file in the directory of the media file, Klactoveedsedstene will assume that this contains the Album Art. Note that this assumption can be wrong, and so you may end up with a wrong image. But it gives you the possibility to show Album Art by organizing your media files and images accordingly.
* Album Art from the Internet. If no local Album Art is found, Klactoveedsedstene will search the Internet and make qualified decision based on the ID3 tag in the media file. The algorithm is fairly advanced, and depending on the exactness of the Artist and Album Title tag, it can make a correct match for over 90% of the albums. One can configure one or more of the four methods to used.
GUI coloring
Almost all GUI elements can be colored through configuration settings.
Player Controls
The Player is controlled at the bottom of the GUI on a panel that ressembles that a Stereo rack. Track progress is shown as a Progress Bar that overlays the Song information in the same simulated LED panel. One jumps back and forth in the track by clicking on the Progress Bar with the mouse.
The name is a nonsense word, invented by the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, whose portraits are shown in the Installer. It is also the title of one of his compositions, of which the last few bars are played, when the applications is started the first time.
Features
Features:
*Fast and compact
*Advanced Album Art support with over 90% accuracy.
*Select and Play
*All-in-one window
*Drag and Drop music into the library
*Supports MP3 and WMA
*Highly configurable
*Stateful (remembers your window settings)
*All parts of the GUI can be colored
*Album-Artist-Track view
*All track columns sortable and movable
*Minimizable
Media Library
Klactoveedsedstene has no concept of a playlist. It has a Media Library, into which one imports ones music collection. The library is organized in three hierachical panels, Artist, Album, Track, as is common to many Audio Players. In these panels, the user can select any subset of tracks and play them, in effect as a virtual playlist. Audio files can be imported by Drag-and-Dropping them onto the GUI from any graphical File Manager.
The Track panel is organized in multiple columns such as title, artist, album and genre which can be sorted and moved.
Supported formats
Klactoveedsedstene can play any Audio formats, supported by Mplayer, however only for MP3 and WMA, are meta-tags and embedded Album Art read. Thus, it is in practice an Audio Player for these two formats, which are by far the two most common. Support for other formats might be part of a future release.
Tagging
Klactoveedsedstene uses the ID3 tags to find pertaining Album Art from the Internet. Only the two tags Artist and Album are used as search criteria. Tags can not be edited in Klactoveedsedstene, but must be done with some other software. A tag editor is planned for a future release.
Album Art Support
The Album Art Support is quite comprehensive. For each album imported to the Media library, Klactoveedsedstene will try to find some associated Album Art. There are three possible sources, searched in the following priority:
* Cached Album Art - Look for Album Art in your local cache, which has been fetched during a previous import
* Embedded Album Art - Sometimes the MP3 or WMA file has Album Art embedded in it, and Klactoveedsedstene will extract it.
* Album Art in directory. If there is exactly one graphic file in the directory of the media file, Klactoveedsedstene will assume that this contains the Album Art. Note that this assumption can be wrong, and so you may end up with a wrong image. But it gives you the possibility to show Album Art by organizing your media files and images accordingly.
* Album Art from the Internet. If no local Album Art is found, Klactoveedsedstene will search the Internet and make qualified decision based on the ID3 tag in the media file. The algorithm is fairly advanced, and depending on the exactness of the Artist and Album Title tag, it can make a correct match for over 90% of the albums. One can configure one or more of the four methods to used.
GUI coloring
Almost all GUI elements can be colored through configuration settings.
Player Controls
The Player is controlled at the bottom of the GUI on a panel that ressembles that a Stereo rack. Track progress is shown as a Progress Bar that overlays the Song information in the same simulated LED panel. One jumps back and forth in the track by clicking on the Progress Bar with the mouse.
Unitask Software is a private company which manufactures software products that are designed specifically to integrate with the Oracle E-Business Suite. In particular, Unitask provides software and consulting services to assist with object migration and promotion and printing (or output management) challenges.
The company has headquarters in Haifa, Israel and Cincinnati, Ohio.
History
Unitask, Inc. was founded in Haifa, Israel by Oren Lang as a consulting group. The company expanded their offerings to include software shortly thereafter. The company operates as Unitask Software in the United States and as Unitask, Inc. in Israel.
Recent
Despite the recent economic downturn, Unitask Software announced revenue growth of 44% for 2008.
The company was also participated in a mashup with Serena Software to automate the migration of Oracle E-Business Suite components that are a part of development, testing, and production. Both technologies are related to application lifecycle management and technology governance.
Unitask announced impact analysis and rollback for the Oracle E-Business Suite, one more piece in the a strategy to eliminate some of the operational challenges organizations face in the implementation and deployment of the E-Business Suite.
Products
* Output Director
* Migration Director
Technology Partnerships
Unitask is a member of the OAUG, and partners with technology firms such as Serena Software (as above), and certain divisions of companies like IBM, CA, and BMC. Unitask is also a member of the Oracle Partner Network.
The company has headquarters in Haifa, Israel and Cincinnati, Ohio.
History
Unitask, Inc. was founded in Haifa, Israel by Oren Lang as a consulting group. The company expanded their offerings to include software shortly thereafter. The company operates as Unitask Software in the United States and as Unitask, Inc. in Israel.
Recent
Despite the recent economic downturn, Unitask Software announced revenue growth of 44% for 2008.
The company was also participated in a mashup with Serena Software to automate the migration of Oracle E-Business Suite components that are a part of development, testing, and production. Both technologies are related to application lifecycle management and technology governance.
Unitask announced impact analysis and rollback for the Oracle E-Business Suite, one more piece in the a strategy to eliminate some of the operational challenges organizations face in the implementation and deployment of the E-Business Suite.
Products
* Output Director
* Migration Director
Technology Partnerships
Unitask is a member of the OAUG, and partners with technology firms such as Serena Software (as above), and certain divisions of companies like IBM, CA, and BMC. Unitask is also a member of the Oracle Partner Network.