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Evil Dice PE 0.1
Evil Dice PE - The Ultimate Puzzle Game more>>
Evil Dice PE is an amazing puzzle game similar to Devil Dice for the PlayStation (which was considered by many major game critics to be quite possibly the greatest puzzle game ever, even better than Tetris). It has a few simple rules: try and match up similar dice by rolling and pushing them around, scoring points as you do. Although this may seem simple, it leads to intense mind-busting lightning fast puzzle action like youve never experienced before. It is a great game which I have you doubt you will quickly become addicted to.
Enhancements:
- Swapped the 3 and 5 which were on the wrong sides of the die.
- Also added a little icon. Thanks to Chris Clark for spotting this error and making the little icon.
InerziaIcon 0.20
InerziaIcon - Catalog for ICNS, ICO icon files more>>
Its a tentative application, as some features are not yet supported (drag&drop, automatic extraction of icons out of application package - you can do that manually - and others), but the important ones are there.
The interface is iTunes-like with a navigation pad and clear table.
You are encouraged to leave your opinion on what feature do you consider important.
Enhancements:
- added the total number of icons and selected icons in the lower part of the window
- possibility to enter the into the packages to choose application icons
- fixed minor bugs.
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.
Apples to Oranges 1.2
Apples to Oranges - Simple unit converter more>>
This application was my introduction to Objective-C, Cococa, and Mac OS X development. Yes, it is simple and does not offer any features that cannot be found in other applications. However it does what it says it should do, and with style (in my humble/biased opinion). Id be greatly appreciative of any feedback, positive or otherwise.
Enhancements:
- Allows input of simple fractions (numerator/denominator)
- Retains user settings, window positions, etc. between launches.
- Restricts user input to legitimate values.
- Support for Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.3 (Panther).
Never A Cross Word 1.0
Never A Cross Word is a simple crossword helper more>>
For those of you who are thinking Well this is just a less powerful version of grep youre right! It is exactly that. In my defence, for a non-UNIX crowd the terminal may be daunting. Also, the fact that the list updates on the fly is, in my opinion, added value.
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.
Ars Technica Widget 1.1
Ars Technica Widget - RSS news feed from ArsTechnicas web site more>>
When it comes to news, opinions, and technology reviews, Ars Technica provides content that informs, not conforms to industry hoopla or some IT Managers idea of proven technology. As you may have already gathered, Ars Technica is not about Us vs. Them approaches to technology and computing. Ars is about power users and the tools they want.
Enhancements:
- Faster startup and quicker retrieval of RSS Feed.
Red vs Green 1.0
Red vs Green - You choose to control either Red or Green in this addictive and challenging puzzle game more>>

The Harvard Crimson Newsreader 1.0
The Harvard Crimson Newsreader is a really superior and tractable Dashboard widget news reader for the Harvard Crimson, the nations oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. more>> The Harvard Crimson Newsreader 1.0 is a really superior and tractable Dashboard widget news reader for the Harvard Crimson, the nations oldest continuously published daily college newspaper.
The widget displays headlines and summaries from all five of the Crimsons sections: News, Opinion, Sports, Magazine, and Arts. The search function is disabled after flipping, but reactivates when relaunched.
Turkey or Not Widget 1.1.1
Turkey or Not Widget - Rate the movies you love or hate from Dashboard. Youre the critic, you rate the movies! more>> Tryst handles the complexities of streaming in the background while offering you a wide array of practical choices. Set time delays to give peers the opportunity to discover your movie and "subscribe" to see it. Limit the amount of connections you allow for more intimate screenings or to simply reduce stress on slower networks. Password protect your broadcasts to screen whom sees your movie and whom doesnt.<<less
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.
Sync Now 1.1
Sync Now - Adds 1-click iSyncing back to OS X 10.4 for mobile phones more>>
From Apple Support:
"To sync with any phone thats been configured in iSync, the iSync application must be open to sync to it via Sync Now from the Sync Status menu. In other words, if you set up a mobile phone in iSync, you will not be able to sync information with it from the Sync Status menu if iSync is not open."
This is different to 10.3 and earlier and in my opinion is a step-back in user-friendliness.
Sync Now can be added to your dock or your favourite menu bar application launcher to bring back the old 1-click sync functionality without having to manually open iSync and click again.
When run Sync Now will open iSync, start the syncing process then quit iSync and itself when finished.
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.
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
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