Free information technology services software for mac

Apple Xgrid Technology Preview 2 is an advanced program which satisfies you because while the cure to cancer, super-efficient solar power and ending world hunger are a ways off, you can combine your computing resources using Xgrid and help user in a new era of biological breakthroughs, rocket science and advanced models of scientific phenomena. Imagine waking up one day to find your Mac has solved a vexing scientific problem.

Personality Services allows you to automatically turn words, sentences, phrases etc. into those of a different persona. Currently contains the following personalities:

• Jive
• Swedish Chef
• Texan
• Valley Girl
• Young (leet speak).

This program is based on the personality package for tik, an open source AIM client by AOL written in tcl. The personality packages contained within are compiled from the lex code contained therein.

Search In Amazon Services 1.0 is a powerful and reliable program which adds "Search In Amazon" menu items to the Services Menu and the contextual menu of some applications (including Snow Leopard's Safari) and enables you to search items in an Amazon Site using selected text as a keyword.

Requirements: Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Apple iCal.

Enhancements:
Version 1.5 adds the following:

• New script iCal Diary - Use iCal as a diary by running this script which provides a dialog for entering a subject and a note for your entry. Script allows the choosing of which calendar for adding the diary entry. With this script, the others in the Services Pack and the capability of publishing your calendars on .Mac or other WebDav server, you have all the capabilities necessary to publish your own Blog on the Internet!
• New script iCal Quick Todo - Available for making a quick to do for today or tomorrow. Allows the choosing of a calendar and setting a priority.
• New Script Multimedia Calendar in Quicktime - Run this script to create a Quicktime movie that reads and shows your calendar for that day. For best results, have Quicktime player already launched. A delay between running the script and the activation of the movie is normal as information is gathered from iCal, sound files are written to the temporary items folder and the movie file is created.
• Improved iCal Bible Quote - Now includes hundreds more verses with expanded selection.
• Improved Put Current iTunes Track in iCal - Better handling of iTunes state.

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.

ContactCreator.service 1.0 is regarded as a simple yet efficient service for Mac OS X. Install by double clicking the disk image (the .dmg file you download) and dragging the ContactCreator.service file on the newly mounted drive to ~/Library/Services/ or /Library/Services/. Once you log out and log back in you will be able to add any selected text as a contact in your addressbook. You can read the ReadMe if you really want to to find out just how a bit of selected text will be saved to your AddressBook. Go on, it's an interesting read.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2

If you think the ACP Web Services were something, wait until you get a look at this.

When David Pogue wrote about the future of Cocoa services he couldnt have imagined this. Its no longer the future - the future David Pogue wrote about is now officially in the past.

With over four hundred (400) easily accessible web services in the grab bag and several thousand more on the way it becomes vital to have a way to know what is what and where the forest is for the trees.

Some people might already understand that Wunderground is a global weather service, but staring at the URL if you dont know wont help much. Just understanding how the search engines of a single website work has become a minor science.

The ACP Service Browser puts them all in easy to use and easy to read searchable windows. Every service is usable as is or can be inserted on your Services menu if you really like it and want to keep it around.