Many music aficionados always need to use a variety of tools (from recording to editing) to improve their music when creating their own compositions. Among them, if you want to add a little different color to the original music, then you have to use mixing software to achieve. As a common means of music production, mixing allows the artistic style of music to change at will. Therefore, mixing has become one of the production methods that many music producers like very much.

AirDroid is an application that allows you to manage and control Android and iOS smartphones through a client or a web browser on your computer and wireless network, developed by Sand Studio from China. It can manipulate your phone's address book, transfer files, upgrade apps, and receive/send SMS and emails remotely and in real time. Although it's almost functionally indistinguishable from other similar applications, thanks to its B/S architecture, it has no operating system limitations (i.e. it's cross-platform), which is a boon for Mac and Linux users.

Tangerine! is a fast music rhythm analyzer and automatic playlist creator for Mac OS only, discontinued but still helpful for some users. It enables user to quickly and easily create upbeat, relaxing playlists for working out, nodding off, and so on scenes. It works by analyzing the BPM and beat intensity of your music collection in your iTunes library. Its slogan is - Spend your precious time listening to music, not making playlists.

When a user is primarily receiving rather than sending emails, a simple and handy email reminder is more appropriate than an all-powerful email client for him. Because in this case, the user just needs to know when and who sent the email quickly and in a timely manner, so as to deal with the messages in time, not to delay the work, or simply not to read the insignificant emails, even spam.

The most popular graphics/image processing programs on Linux platform are: GIMP, Inkscape, and Dia, each of which has its own unique functions. Thereinto, GIMP claims to be the Adobe Photoshop for Linux; Inkscape claims to be CorelDraw for Linux; while Dia refers to Microsoft's Visio. Here, we recommend Inkscape to you all.