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Toggler 1.0
Toggler - Toggles away/available for iChat & Skype more>>
As of the time of this release, Skype does not give feedback about anything to Applescript, including its status, so instead, the script looks at iChat to see what the status is.
If the iChat status is "available" then it sends commands to both iChat and Skype to set your status as "away."
If the iChat status is "away" then it assumes that both are away, and sets them both to "available."
Because of this limitation in Skype, it is not currently possible to do a toggle for Skype only... AFAIK... so -please- dont ask.
Yes: that means that if you have only Skype and/or run it but not iChat, this script will not work. You have to have iChat running for this script to work.
My suggested use for the file is to hook it up to a keystroke, or other button-press, using QuicKeys or whatever other method you like. Ive got mine hooked to a spare trackball button. Press once to go offline; press again to go online. Makes life a little more simple anyway...
IMSafer 1.0
IMSafer monitors the instant messenger conversations of your children more>>
IMSafer also automatically will detect any new screen names your child decides to use, so you dont have to worry about them signing up for a new one without you knowing about it. IMSafer knows.
Thanks to smart uses of technology, the IMSafer Protection System monitors your childrens IM conversations constantly scanning for potentially dangerous situations, and notifies you only when a potentially dangerous situation arises.
The IMSafer Protection System will contact you via email when we detect a potentially dangerous IM conversation. Our application shows you excerpts of your childs conversation to give you meaning and context to the notifications you received.
All conversations are analyzed by the IMSafer Protection System for patterns and language which are known to be indicative of potentially dangerous situations. The IMSafer team has worked with law enforcement officials to identify and target the types of content about which they say parents should be the most concerned. The rules being used by the IMSafer Protection System are always being fine tuned and updated.
Once you have seen the notification and understand what the issue is, its up to you to decide how to proceed with your child. You will have a very good understanding of what happened in the conversation, and should talk with your child to help provide guidance.
Just as with the offline world, knowing who your kids online friends are is very important, knowing as much as you can about the people who are talking to your child online is very important. IMSafer allows parents to participate in the community by sharing their opinion about the appropriateness level of any person speaking with their own child.
The more parents who participate, the better IMSafer is for you because this feedback allows for proactive notifications when someone who is known in the IMSafer system is talking to your child. Providing feedback is completely anonymous, and requires only one mouse click.
MSafer monitors the instant messenger conversations of your children to help you balance protecting your children and respecting their privacy. The IMSafer service will only notify you when your child is engaged in a potentially dangerous conversation on IM.
At IMSafer, we have worked with law enforcement officials to learn how potential predators initiate, develop and maintain inappropriate online relationships with children. We are always working to fine tune and update our analysis engine.
1. Download IMSafer to the computer your children use by clicking the button below.
2. IMSafer will automatically detect and monitor your childs instant message and social networking activity.
3. IMSafer will notify you when your child is engaged in a potentially dangerous situation online.
PBX Telecom IPTV 1.03
PBX Telecom IPTV 1.03 is designed as a helpful application for multi-feature, multi-platform online video content streaming which is built based on the communitys suggestions and critics. more>> <<less
Safari Looking Glass 1.0
Safari Looking Glass - Skin for Safari more>>
This skin is named Safari Looking Glass and in my opinion is signficantly nicer.
Red vs Green 1.0
Red vs Green - You choose to control either Red or Green in this addictive and challenging puzzle game more>>
Hot Spot X 1.22
Hot Spot X - Remake of Classic puzzle game more>>
Hot Spot X is a program that consists of four concentric rings around a center spot (check out the screenshots).
You also have 32 game tiles consisting of two tiles each of every combination of four colors and four symbols (2 x 4 x 4 = 32).
The object of the game is to place a tile in that center spot by working your way in from the outer rings by followingc certain rules:
- Tiles cannot match their neighbors in symbol or color.
- Tiles in the inner rings must match one of the parent tiles they are connected to by color and the other by symbol.
Enhancements:
- Fixed: Bonus points for a perfect game not awarded when applicable.
- Keyboard shortcuts now usable when presented with a dialog sheet to start a new game, end the current game, or continue with the current game (which appears when youve run out of moves). Basically, instead of say, pressing the button to start a new game, you can use command-N and so on.
- Forgot to mention the score penalty for undoing moves. If anyone has an opinion about whether there should be one or if it should be less, please feel free to e-mail me.
UproarX 1.5b1
UproarX provides users with an access to a CDMA mobile phone which can also playback MP3s. more>>
UproarX 1.5b1 provides users with an access to a CDMA mobile phone which can also playback MP3s. The phone sports some neat features like an integrated headphone/headset, WAP support, voice memo and dialing, a calendar, world clock, a Li-ion battery, and even a handstrap, all in a little silver package.
It received a lot of press and hoopla when it was first lauched making most of the 'cool toys' lists that always come out over the winter holidays.
The only drawback was that most of these lists seemed to be telling uses that the requirements for being so tragically hip was a Windows machine. A user has always firmly held the opinion that being hip shouldn't require an Microsoft OS (even though MS would love to have it that way). It was well within the potential of Mac user to be just as hip if not more hip.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Custom Icons 4 Classic Spy 2.0
ClassicSpy is a small program by Konstantin Anoshkin for MacOS X that installs a menu icon [like Apples volume control or battery status] from which Classic can be launched and stopped more>> ClassicSpy is a small program by Konstantin Anoshkin for MacOS X that installs a menu icon [like Apples volume control or battery status] from which Classic can be launched and stopped.
Now, the default icon is in my opinion too heavy, and thus the developer made his own. To install, download the icons, extract and find the two icons named ClassicOff.tiff and ClassicOn.tiff. Now, locate the original ClassicSpy.menu and control-click it. Select Show Package Contents and navigate through Contents and Resources. Replace the original icons with the one you just downloaded. Drag ClassicSpy.menu to your menubar and youre finished.
Classic Spy.
Cynthiune 0.9.5
Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and Mac OS X more>>
For the moment, it looks pretty much like XMMS, Winamp and similar software. Even though it has far less features than those, the essential components of a usable and user-friendly program are there in my opinion.
From a programmatic point-of-view, I have decided to write a program that is released only when considered bug-free. The free software community lacks, IMnsHO, a sense of quality that makes its programs nearly useless to lambda users. Not only is it useless, but I think it also gives free software a bad reputation. The principle of freedom in "free software" is fundamental to me, but it has to be reachable not only by some sort of geeky elite. There is no point in telling users that since they have the freedom to enhance those programs, they must fix them if they want to use them. Releasing a program with too many bugs is of no use and is likely not to interest other fellow programmers in the community either.
On the other hand, Apple has published an interesting program called "iTunes". Of course, it is not free software but it does implement interesting ideas that I would like to include in Cynthiune. For example: CD burning, complete playlist management, etc... Personally I find its user interface to be not as user-friendly as it could be. My plan is thus to take advantage of my own programming skills and sense of aesthetics (and ergonomy) to try to write something a little bit different, inspired both by XMMS/Winamp and iTunes. Cynthiune is thus currently very basic but its core design is starting to be extensible enough that it will not be too much trouble to enhance it.
Enhancements:
- Major feature enhancements.
PhotoHTML 1.0
PhotoHTML is a plugin for Photoshop that converts any image to an HTML table more>>
Main features:
- It makes a great color code generator. Take a swatch of colors, run PhotoHTML and youve got ready to paste in table cell attributes. It is really useful for this, and worth having for the occasional need.
- If you are absolutely serious about no one downloading images off your Web page and dont care if it loads like a sedated slug, PhotoHTML is the answer. Short of writing a custom app, which would reassemble an actual image from table cells and background colors, no one will find a use for your images. (They can still take a screen shot, though, so its just not worth in our opinion.)
- If you must have true 24 bit lossless color images that will display in any browser back to Netscape 2.0, PhotoHTML is the way to go. The only other way to do that is use a PNG image in very new browsers, which has little backwards compatibility. You dont likely need lossless images enough to do either one of the above, though. JPEGs are your friend.
- If you want the smallest transparent spacer gif possible, just run PhotoHTML once and you will have it. It auto-generates a 43 byte GIF file named "x.gif", which is the smallest you can get. It is not possible to make a transparent GIF any smaller with anything.
news4mac Widget 2.0
news4mac Widget - see the last news in your language more>>
Express your talent and create an account !
The widget allows you to see the last news in your language.
Enhancements:
- new RSS links.
audiospectrum 1.2
audiospectrum - Screensaver reacts to ambient sound. (was audioparticle, audioparticolor) more>>
Click the More Information link on this page for all the other audio-based quartz screensavers Ive made. I may try to combine some of these, but keeping CPU use low is the priority.
To use these create (if it doesnt already exist) a folder called "Screen Savers" in your ~/Library folder and place the file there. It will then be available in ScreenSavers preference pane.
Note: If you are using a PowerMac or other computer without a built in microphone, you need to either adjust your default input in Sound Preference Pane so the screensaver can "hear" it, or email me or leave a comment if that doesnt work, so I can provide a version that monitors the line in. (I dont have a computer like this to test it on.)
Enhancements:
- I figured out how to separate the audio spectrum, so there is a low, mid, and high band! The color of each band depends on the relative strengths of each band so its kinda interesting actually, and its quite responsive.
BEdita 3.0 Beta 1
Free semantic content management framework more>> Free semantic content management framework
BEdita is not actually a CMS, even if it looks like, but its a framework: a collection of tools and components to create advanced applications on the Web (but not only) dealing with complex content management.
The CMS world on the Web is surely crowded nowadays, it is very difficult to find the best solution to create a modern Web application, even more in a Web 2.0 world.
BEdita has been created and designed as an object oriented framework that will allow you to build modern/new[next] generation Web applications able to handle complex contents.
BEdita is made of:
- a powerful backend web application to create and handle contents and their semantic properties/relations
- a frontend API, services and specifications to build your frontend application without limitations!
BEdita has been created usgin the most promising and effective technologies available in this field (in our opinion):
- PHP5
- CakePHP
- Mysql 5
- JQuery.... and many others
ArgoUML 0.24
ArgoUML - UML CASE tool that provides cognitive support for object-oriented design more>>
ArgoUML will provide some of the same editing and code generation features of a commercial CASE tool, but it will focus on features that enhance usability and support the cognitive needs of designers. Uses XML file formats: XMI and PGML.
Main features:
- Click and Go! with Java Web Start
- Platform Independent: Java 1.4+
- Standard UML 1.3 Meta-Model
- 8 out of 9 Diagrams supported
- XMI-Support
- Export Diagrams as GIF, PS, EPS, PGML and SVG
- Internationalization EN, DE, ES, RU, FR, NB
- Advanced diagram editing and Zoom
- OCL Support
- Forward Engineering
- Reverse Engineering / Jar/class file Import
- Cognitive Support
- Reflection-in-action
- Design Critics
- Corrective Automations (partially implemented)
- "To Do" List
- User model (partially implemented)
- Opportunistic Design
- "To Do" List
- Checklists
- Comprehension and Problem Solving
- Explorer Perspectives
- Multiple, Overlapping Views
- Alternative Design Representations: Graphs, Text, or Table.
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