how to retrieve information
Web Information Saver 1.0
Web Information Saver - Save all kinds of text like news, quotations, informations more>>
Very handy for creating papers and researches but also for saving postings from online discussion boards etc, its also possible to save (and view) the information directly in HTML source code.
I did it like this and lost soon the overview. Its always a complete site that is saved -even if you are just interested in one simple sentence! And these large files are scattered all over your harddisc and its uncomfortable to find them or to search within them.
NSF Information 1.0
NSF Information - latest RSS feeds from the National Science Foundation more>>
In a convenient tabbed interface, the widget automatically updates itself with breaking NSF news, funding opportunities, scientific discoveries, and publications as theyre released.
Canadian Weather Information 3.8
Reference the current weather conditions and 5-day weather report for all major Canadian cities. more>> Reference the current weather conditions and 5-day weather report for all major Canadian cities.
Canadian Weather Information is a Dashboard widget that will allow the user to reference the current weather conditions and 5-day weather report for all major Canadian cities available from Weather Canadas Weather Office web site.
The weather information will be updated as frequently as the widget window is opened.
The widget supports English and French locales.
Note: This widget has not been endorsed by WeatherOffice or Environment Canada in any way. Please read the Copyright information linked to by the widget.
Main features:
- Double-click on the main panel to switch between text and graphical forecasts.
- Windchill (when present) is displayed under the current temperature in blue.
- Humidex (when present) is displayed under the current temperature in red.
- Current weather image (when present for the location).
- Weather warnings result in the location to be displayed in red.
- Clicking on the location text will take you to the web page provided by Weather Office.
- A pop-up menu in the back allows the user to set what interval the widget updates at if it is constantly displayed.
- Air quality information: for locations for which Weather Office reports Air Quality Information (Toronto, for example) the current temperature reading will be colored according to the color scheme that Weather Office uses for pollution (link): blue means low, red means high.
Enhancements
- Switched from jQuery to something more agreeable.
Centre School Information System 2.14.1
Centre School Information System revolutionizes the way to address the most important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and clerical personnel. more>> <<less
Linnk Information Editor 0.9.5
Linnk Information Editor offers a mighty efficacious knowledge management software to organize your personal notes for your studies or business matters. more>>
Linnk Information Editor 0.9.5 offers a mighty efficacious knowledge management software to organize your personal notes for your studies or business matters. You can write down complex information and easily work with it using a storage system that is a hybrid of the normal file system (Finder) and a common website. Because everything is stored on your file system and the information is readable with any web browser you can always access your information even without starting Linnk.
You may also publish parts of your note collection as group of html-documents. If you are using Spotlight every document you create with Linnk will be indexed and you may search for its contents. You can speed up editing documents with keystrokes such as ctrl + down for adding a new item or ctrl + alt + right for adding a new document as link.
Focus/SIS Student Information System 1.0
Focus/SIS is a student information system used to manage schools and districts and their student-related data more>>
Focus/SIS Student Information System 1.0 is a helpful program which can be applied to handle schools and districts and their student-related information. It allows teachers to take attendance online and includes an online gradebook for teachers. It also tracks discipline, prints report cards, transcripts, form letters, etc., and produces essential student and state reports. It offers a free alternative to commercial systems such as Powerschool and SASI.
Scientific Journal Information 3.4.0
Scientific Journal Information is a helpful program with which you can search or filter over 8268 scientific journals. more>>
Scientific Journal Information 3.4.0 is a helpful program with which you can search or filter over 8268 scientific journals. Many of them are linked to their Web site and the tendancy of their impact factor is estimated.
Scientific Journal Information lets you search or filter over than 7500 scientific journals ... Many of them are linked to their Web site and the tendancy of their impact factor is estimated
Scientific Journals Information 3.3.2
Scientific Journals Information is a software for you to find out information on a scientific journal including Impact factor [(c) ISI], name, ISO abbreviated name, web site. more>>
Scientific Journals Information 3.3.2 is a software for you to find out information on a scientific journal including Impact factor [(c) ISI], name, ISO abbreviated name, web site.
It calculates also the expected impact factor for each year based on the evolution of impact factor in the field. Then, you can checked if the journal has higher or lower impact factor than expected.
- Mac OS 9 or X
Metric Conversions 1.0
Metric Conversions is created to be a useful tool which allows display and retrieve information in different metric systems. more>>
Metric Conversions 1.0 is created to be a useful tool which allows display and retrieve information in different metric systems.
Sword Forger Aggregator 2.1b
Sword Forger Aggregator is a usful software designed to make it easy to retrieve information from web pages. more>>
Sword Forger Aggregator 2.1b is a usful software designed to make it easy to retrieve information from web pages.
Turn almost anything in a web page into a personal dynamic data feed. Want to get news headlines or almost any time-varying web information? Sword Forger Aggregator makes it possible. It's a nice alternative to RSS subscription for the casual news reader.
Version 2.0b:
- Now, available as a full version
- Improved engine
- Universal binary for Mac OS 10.3 and later
- More output options, Growl support, HTML output
- Simplified, improved interface
Major Features:
- Create signatures for nearly any text block in a web page, and retrieve them over time as the page is updated
- Display results in the Dock application menu
- Automatically creates links for headline-type retrievals
- Can automatically find results similar to the type specified in a search routine
- More output options
- Faster, more accurate engine
- Auto updating
- Ability to generate signature directly from a browser (Safari, Camino, and Firefox currently supported)
- Fixed a problem with the auto-updating of results for web browsers
Sword Forger Aggregator helps make it easy to retrieve contextual information from web pages ... Sword Forger Aggregator helps make it easy to retrieve contextual information from web pagesfcXHTML Reference Widget 1.1
fcXHTML Reference Widget - Provides a concise bit of information for each element in the xhtml specification. more>> fcXHTML Reference Widget - Provides a concise bit of information for each element in the xhtml specification.
Fuzzy Coconut is pleased to announce its first Dashboard Widget, an off-line reference to the XHTML 1 specification from the W3C. The fcXHTML Reference widget does not function by retrieving information from the internet; instead its entirely self-contained, so itll work even when wi-fi doesnt.
The fcXHTML widget provides a concise bit of information for each element in the xhtml specification. Each element can be accessed either via a pull-down menu or by directly editing the name of its tag and using the arrow keys to select a choice from suggested matches.
Main features:
- The element tag and its description
- Valid attributes for the element
- It also displays information about the possible values of an attribute.
- The Minimum Content Model for the element expressed in a regular expression-style format
- Miscellaneous information about the element
- And an example of how the element is used
Open RETS Client 0.7.15
Open RETS Client - Retrieve Multiple Listing Service (MLS) related data from a remote/local RETS compatible server more>> Open RETS Client - Retrieve Multiple Listing Service (MLS) related data from a remote/local RETS compatible server
Open RETS Client (ORC) is a command-line application written in Java, designed to retrieve Multiple Listing Service (MLS) related data from a remote/local Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) compatible server.
The ORC supports the majority of functional operations as defined per the Real Estate Transaction Standard Protocol Specification, version 1.0.
As outlined in the RETS Specification, the client program may communicate with a property or other real estate data server for the purposes of retrieving real estate property information.
Designed around a three-tier architecture, the RETS Client has been separated into an application logic layer, a presentation layer, and a storage layer.
Currently, the ORC supports the following functional operations:
- Login Transaction
- Logout Transaction
- Action Transaction
- Search Transaction
- GetMetadata Transaction
- GetObject Transaction
- Change Password Transaction
System requirements:
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE), version 1.4.0 or later
- A minimum of 32 MB of RAM (48 MB recommended)
Optional:
- A shell-compatible command language interpreter -- like Bash, Korn or C shell.
- A Web client -- for reading the Open RETS Client Application Programming Intreface (API), HOWTO and FAQ documentation.
- A Portable Document Format or Postscript reader -- for reading the ORC design specifications, HOWTO and FAQ documentation.
Yahoo Movie Lurker 1.0
Yahoo Movie Lurker - Retrieve movie information from Yahoo more>>
It will retrieve movie theater and showtime information from Yahoo! Movies with regex and display them in a custom DD UI. Clicking on the street address for a theater will open a Yahoo! Maps page for that theater.
httpver 1.1
httpver - Port of httpver.c, which retrieves protocol information more>>
Completly freeware.
Enhancements:
- Ability to copy server data to clipboard.
- Minor GUI improvements.
- Bug fixes.
- Added save function.
IGN Complete RSS 1.0
IGN Complete RSS - The latest news, reviews, walkthroughs, and more from IGN.com more>>
IGN Complete retrieves RSS information from the IGN complete RSS feed and allows you to view it from Dashboard.
Main features:
- Retrieves new articles every 15 minutes
- Direct links to all articles
- Date information for all articles
- Built-in IGN.com search.
