Free mac os x. software for mac

R for Mac OS X 2.9.1 is a product designed for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

I discovered a brilliant command line program called watch while using my Linux box at work the other day. watch executes a given program periodically, showing output in full screen via ncurses. From the man page:

watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen-full). This allows you to watch the program output change over time.

watch can be extremely handy in viewing changes to commands like ps or ls over time. All in all, a very neat tool. But back home on my PowerBook, I found that watch isnt shipped by default in Mac OS X. A little digging around told me that this program was part of the procps Linux package -- distributed under the GNU General Public License. A little tinkering and tweaking was all it took to get the program running in the Mac OS X shell.

I suspect that others may also want to use this great tool on Mac OS X, and have therefore provided a package.

Its the old Makefile grind, no Package Installer, but the way I see it, if youre the sort of person who finds watch useful, youre bound to know how to compile and install UNIX software. Just download the tgz archive, change to the watch-0.2-macosx directory and type:

make
sudo make install

That should do the trick. If you have any suggestions on improvements, etc, dont hesitate to contact me.

Enhancements:

• Leopard Support.
• Update sftp handling code (based on openssh-4.7).

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5.

Mac OS X News WordPad 5.0 is an application to edit texts. Dutch Language.

Plazer for Mac OS X 2.0.5 is such a small yet very useful software that can locate you automatically with your PC or Laptop. It integrates into iChat to let other people know where you are. The Software acts as the local part of Plazes, a location based service, that let's you discover nearby locations or people based on where you are and recommends things you should check out or people you should meet based on your past whereabouts. Plazes also offers a cool badge you can integrate in your personal profile page (e.g. on Myspace or Tagworld) to publish you current whereabout.