Starting in the year 2000, the founder of VAVsoft started to suffer from severe Tinnitus. He was told by his General Practitioner and his Ear Specialist that nothing could be done about his Tinnitus, and he had to live with it. Not accepting this answer, he set out to find his own cure. He purchased a programmable tone generator, and build his own timing generators and switching hardware to provide a habituation training setup. He researched and experimented to find the most efficient ways of using frequencies, timings, and repetition rates. The setup cured him of his Tinnitus. The hardware, not counting the labour to put the system together, was about $ 350 US. This was a small price to get rid of the Tinnitus. Ask any Tinnitus sufferer, and he or she will likely agree. However the setup was complicated, and not easily usable by most people. So he designed a software application that produced the same sounds as the hardware-based setup to make this method available to other Tinnitus sufferers at a more reasonable price. The resulting software was called the Tinnitus Tamer, and costs only $35 US for a single user licence. In 2006 a similar situation arose. The founder is a photographer, and prefers to look at his images on a good LCD monitor, such as a Macintosh® 23" Cinema Display, rather than looking at paper prints. He wanted to show the photographs to his friends on his 42" Panasonic® Plasma HDTV. The photos were taken with a Nikon D70 camera in RAW format, and converted and edited in Photoshop®. He soon discovered that these images did not work in photo players, such as the excellent Panasonic® Photo Player. Neither the thumb previews nor the full size images showed up on the HDTV. An extended Web search and trying various application did not turn up a single application that could do the job. So he wrote a programme in Objective-C using the Macintosh® Xcode compiler to convert his images back into a format that works with photo players. Knowing that others must face the same dilemma, he made his code into the HDTV Converter application that can easily be used by photographers.