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Transmission 1.75b2
Transmission is such a simple and useful program that isdesigned to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. more>>
Transmission 1.75b2 is such a simple and useful program that is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use.
Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.
These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods. Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what's going on so you can get back to doing more important things.
Major Features:
- Easy.
- Transmission is designed from the ground up to balance power with simplicity. We've set initial preferences so things "Just Work", while advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocking, and the web interface can be configured with just a few clicks. When Ubuntu chose Transmission as its default BitTorrent client, one of the most-cited reasons was its easy learning curve.
- Lean.
- With few dependencies and written in C, Transmission has the lowest memory footprint of any BitTorrent client we've seen. It's also the client of choice on low-memory hardware. Imageshack chose Transmission for its BitTorrent farms because the competition "requires amounts of memory several times greater than Transmission".
- Native.
- Unlike some cross-platform programs, Transmission seamlessly integrates with your operating system. The Mac OS X interface is written in Objective-C and uses Growl notifications and dock badging to keep you informed.
- The GTK+ interface has been carefully written with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines in mind. It uses libnotify for torrent notification, DBUS for hibernation management, and GIO for watch directories.
- Powerful.
- Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, DHT, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
- Free.
- Transmission is free software. All its code is freely available online and is licensed under either the GNU Public License v2 or the MIT License. The development team welcomes anyone who is interested in contributing code, documentation, translations, or other help.
Requirements: Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
The GTK+ interface has been carefully written with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines in mind. It uses libnotify for torrent notification, DBUS for hibernation management, and GIO for watchLicense:Freeware
RAAViewer 090830
RAAViewer has been designed as a useful program that displays images of interest to radiologists and others dealing with human anatomy in medicine. more>>
RAAViewer 090830 has been designed as a useful program that displays images of interest to radiologists and others dealing with human anatomy in medicine. Anatomic structures are labeled and linked to in-depth information about the structure. Illustrations, CT and MRI images will be utilized.
to radiologists and others dealing with human anatomy in medicine. Anatomic structures are
a helpful tool for anyone who wishes to view labeled images of human anatomy. It is a program that displays images of interest to radiologists and others dealing with human
Schnapsen 1.0
Schnapsen 1.0 offers players a fabulous Austrian cardgame for two players. more>>
Schnapsen 1.0 offers players a fabulous Austrian cardgame for two players. It is possible to play against a computer opponent or against a human player over the network.The game supports 2 languages English and German.
Requirements: Java 1.4 or higher.
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CrystalClear Interface 2.1.4
CrystalClear Interface is a great implement that meets all your needs of customizing certain aspects of the Mac OS X Aqua interface. more>>
CrystalClear Interface 2.1.4 is a great implement that meets all your needs of customizing certain aspects of the Mac OS X "Aqua" interface. Version 2.x adds significantly to the CCI feature set, and is also designed to be easier to control and configure.
The 5 basic sets of interface components that you can customize through CCI are:
- Window transparency
- The color of windows and some text fields
- The "frame" of various window types
- Miscellaneous items such as scrollbars and the system menubar
- Buttons, tabs, and other interface widgets
In addition, CCI 2.1 adds several other interface enhancements that you can use if desired:
- Animating the opening and closing of windows
- Using "Single Application Mode" (SAM), which reduces window clutter by keeping only one application active at a time. Use the built-in application switcher (command-Tab) to switch applications.
- For the active application, replacing its name in the system menubar with its icon.
- Allowing users to move windows by more than just the titlebar.
- Blurring the background for greater usability with very transparent windows.
- A selection of preset themes, making switching among the numerous possible combinations of color, transparency, and window frames a snap.
- Using recessed-style popup buttons.
Enhancements: Version 2.1.4: Fixed a bug that disabled users ability to tab between buttons, text fields, and other interface controls in applications running CCI.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Cutplace 0.5.2
A free tool to validate that data conform to an interface control document (ICD) more>>
Examples are exchanging data between different partner companies, providing data for data warehousing or other data processing involving architecturally very different systems like mainframes.
Major Features:
- With Cutplace one will be able to easily describe these data in a simple and human readable spreadsheets using popular applications like Excel or Calc.
- Unlike a lot of documentation these days, this description does not only describe wishful thinking. It acts as "executable specification" that cutplace can use to validate that data actually conform to it.
Enhancements: Fixed missing setup script.
Aquamacs Emacs 1.8 RC1 / 1.7
Easy-to-use, Mac-style Emacs for Mac OS X. more>> Easy-to-use, Mac-style Emacs for Mac OS X.
Aquamacs is a Mac-like distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor. By "mac-like", we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application.
Aquamacs features extensive customization that enables it to conform better with Apples standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do.
Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, but it also has an enormously complex interface that, while consistent across platforms, is usually at odds with the specific interface conventions of the particular platform on which it is being used.
The same applies to the OS X version of GNU Emacs, called Carbon Emacs.
Aquamacs is different: it will provide you a more Mac-like user experience and the comfort youve come to expect from other excellent Mac apps. Aquamacs comes completely configured and ready to go.
It builds on GNU Emacs 22, however, so youll be able to use all your favorite extensions (and even the good-old Emacs key bindings, if you like!).
System requirements:
- PPC (G3, G4, G5) or Intel Mac.
Enhancements
- Tabs are now directly accessible using keys A-M-1,2,3...9,0 (normally: Command-Option-1,2,3...9,0). The number of each tabs is marked. For configuration, see the new customization variable `tabbar-show-key-bindings and the function `tabbar-define-access-keys. For instance, use (tabbar-define-access-keys (alt)) in your Preferences.el file to use Command-1,2,3.. bindings.
- Aquamacs now asks for confirmation when printing is requested via A-p. This helps avoid long waits for rendering with large buffers when A-p is pressed by mistake.
- On systems with faulty LaTeX installations, Aquamacs will now do a better job at choosing the right TeXLive (or legacy teTeX) binaries.
- When scrolling back and forth page-wise, the point will now end up in its previous position.
- Command-, can now be re-bound via the normal Aquamacs key maps (`osx-key-mode-map) . (Note that even if rebound, the application menu will still show the A-q and A-, key bindings for Quit and Preferences, respectively). A-h remains unmappable for now. Reported by Chris Bernard.
- The mark is now deactivated when point is restored while switching tabs (in transient-mark-mode, which is on by default).
- Command-C (clipboard-kill-ring-save) will take care not to create duplicate entries in the kill ring. Reported by Konrad Podczeck.
- Fixed a rare failure of dired to view directories. Reported by Uwe Pieczynski.
- Fixed an error when deleting the whole buffer contents while smart-spacing-mode was on. Patch by Jon Shea.
- Fixed a potential security hole in smtpmail. Code by Simon Josefsson.
- `LaTex-mode-hook can now be customized and saved through the customization interface. Reported by Bruno Cadonna.
- ESS (R-mode) will now retain an active mark (and region) after evaluating code, e.g. with C-c C-r.
- In the keyboard emulation modes that allow the mac-native use of Option on various keyboard layouts, while retaining Option as Meta key for Emacs, ESC key sequences always act as Meta sequences. For instance, with the German layout, ESC-l acts as `downcase-word (the original M-l binding), while Option-l inserts the @ sign.
- Adopting fonts as default fonts for frames: keep frames inside screen. Reported by Stefan Vollmar.
enables it to conform better with Apples standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do. Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, butLicense:Freeware
wurfl 1.1.0
Collection of command line tools and libraries written in Ruby for using and manipulating the WURFL more>> Fully-featured mac mass mailer for Macintosh Tiger computer supporting message templates and recipient database. It offers everything you need to create and maintain mailing lists for different needs and send mass messages directly form your Mac at a very high speed. It uses Apple Mails message delivery framework to deliver your messages. This means that 100 percent of your email messages will get delivered properly to recipient mailboxes as if they were delivered by Apple Mail in a regular way. The recipient database is fully customizable. You can add as many recipient fields as you want and use them in message templates for the purpose of personalizing your messages. Each recipient will receive individualized message as if it were separately sent with Apple Mail personally for him in a regular way. Message creation mechanism is the same as in Apple Mail. Each message may contain colourful text in different fonts, pictures and attachments. You can even copy a HTML document to the clipboard and then paste it to the message editor of Mac Mass Mailer if you already have one ready to be sent. Mac Mass Mailer also lets you suspend your current sending and resume it later at any time. This mechanism works on a per-document basis. Every mailing project can be suspended and resumed independently. Sending statistics is greatly visualized. You do not have to deal with log files you do not understand. It is simple as one, two and three; in your mailing groups, the successful recipients become green, the bad recipients become red and the unprocessed ones stay black as they were before you hit the Start Sending button. Import and Export feature in the program is so powerful that you can import email addresses and other recipient data from virtually any files. The program can even travel through your hard drive and extract all email addresses from all your files and directories. The user interface of the program is professionally designed according to the Mac OS X guidelines.<<less
Mars Simulation Project 2.86
Simulation of future human settlement of Mars more>> Simulation of future human settlement of Mars
The Mars Simulation Project is a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars.
The simulation is a multi-agent artificial society set in a detailed virtual world.
Mars Simulation lets the user to modify the simulation options thanks to the Project XML configuration files.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- This is a maintenance release adding DTDs for XML config files and switching XML parsing over to JDom.
Bluetooth Remote Control 4.0.1
Through the Bluetooth Specification, Human Interface Device (HID) Profile v1.0 https://www.blue-tooth.org), a mobile phone can act as a HID device more>>
Bluetooth Remote Control 4.0.1 provides you a wonderful communication tool which lets the Human Interface Device (HID) Profile, a mobile phone can act as a HID device. When connected to a computer, the mobile phone acts like a combined keyboard and mouse. By assigning a combination of computer keyboard key presses to keys on the mobile phone keypad, the mobile phone can be used as a remote control device for computer applications.
The mobile phone keypad is configured for control of a computer application through a HID configuration file. This is a TAR file containing two other files: one XML file for the keypad key assignments and one image file containing the image to be shown on the phone screen. The image can, for example, display what functions are assigned to each key on the mobile phone keypad.
HID configuration files can be downloaded to the mobile phone using standard file transfer mechanisms. Users can modify configuration files using a computer. A few configuration files are pre-loaded in the mobile phone, for example, configurations that allow the user to navigate on a computer desktop or control presentations and media players.
Space Shoot 1.0
Brings the space battle right on your dashboard. more>>
Fully-featured mac mass mailer for Apple Macintosh computer supporting message templates and recipient database. It offers everything you need to create and maintain mailing lists for different needs and send mass messages directly form your Mac at a very high speed. It uses Apple Mails message delivery framework to deliver your messages. This means that 100 percent of your email messages will get delivered properly to recipient mailboxes as if they were delivered by Apple Mail in a regular way. The recipient database is fully customizable. You can add as many recipient fields as you want and use them in message templates for the purpose of personalizing your messages. Each recipient will receive individualized message as if it were separately sent with Apple Mail personally for him in a regular way. Message creation mechanism is the same as in Apple Mail. Each message may contain colourful text in different fonts, pictures and attachments. You can even copy a HTML document to the clipboard and then paste it to the message editor of Mac Mass Mailer if you already have one ready to be sent. Mac Mass Mailer also lets you suspend your current sending and resume it later at any time. This mechanism works on a per-document basis. Every mailing project can be suspended and resumed independently. Sending statistics is greatly visualized. You do not have to deal with log files you do not understand. It is simple as one, two and three; in your mailing groups, the successful recipients become green, the bad recipients become red and the unprocessed ones stay black as they were before you hit the Start Sending button. Import and Export feature in the program is so powerful that you can import email addresses and other recipient data from virtually any files. The program can even travel through your hard drive and extract all email addresses from all your files and directories. The user interface of the program is professionally designed according to the Mac OS X guidelines.
System Requirements: Any Mac Computer
System Requirements: Smtp.Com integration was removed to resolve service unavailability issue
<<lessThe Mozart Programming System 1.4.0.20080702
Free programming system based on the OZ language more>>
Mozart has an interactive incremental development environment and a production-quality implementation for Unix and Windows platforms. Mozart is the fruit of an ongoing research collaboration by the Mozart Consortium.
Mozart is based on the Oz language, which supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole.
For distribution, Mozart provides a true network transparent implementation with support for network awareness, openness, and fault tolerance. Mozart supports multi-core programming with its network transparent distribution and is an ideal platform for both general-purpose distributed applications as well as for hard problems requiring sophisticated optimization and inferencing abilities.
Mozart was used to developed many applications including multi-agent systems, digital assistants and sophisticated collaborative tools, as well as applications in natural language understanding and knowledge representation, in scheduling and time-tabling,
Major Features:
- Programming:
- Oz is a concurrent object-oriented language. In a first approach, Oz can be programmed in a very similar way to other such languages, like Java. With experience gained, programs tend to become simpler, for example, as they use the powerful concepts of dataflow execution and first-class procedures.
- Oz is an eminently concurrent language. The Mozart system implements ultralightweight threads with preemptive fair scheduling. It easily supports applications with many thousands of threads. Dataflow synchronization is achieved transparently through logic variables.
- Multi-Paradigm Programming: Unlike most other programming languages which lock you into a single programming paradigm, Oz unifies into one simple and coherent framework the functional, object-oriented, and logic flavors of programming. This is possible due to the very general and powerful underlying paradigm of concurrent constraint programming.
- Inferencing:
- Oz is a powerful constraint language with logic variables, finite domains, finite sets, rational trees and record constraints. The system is competitive in performance with state-of-the-art commercial solutions, but is much more expressive and flexible, providing first-class computation spaces, programmable search strategies, a GUI for the interactive exploration of search trees, parallel search engines exploiting computer networks, and a programming interface to implement new and efficient constraint systems.
- Logic Programming: Oz goes beyond Horn-clauses to provide a unique and flexible approach to logic programming. Oz distinguishes between directed and undirected styles of declarative logic programming. For both, Oz lets you specify a programs logical semantics separately from its resolution strategy. Powerful tools and libraries are provided built on the concepts of first-class computation spaces and determinacy-driven disjunctions. Together with distribution, this makes Mozart an ideal platform for both intelligent multi-agent systems and parallel search.
- Distribution:
- Open Distributed Computing: The Mozart system is an ideal platform for open distributed computing: it makes the network completely transparent. The illusion of a common store is extended across multiple sites and automatically supported by very efficient protocols. In addition, full control is retained over network communication patterns, permitting very efficient use of network resources. Furthermore, reliable, fault tolerant applications can easily be developed.
- Distributed Component-Based Programming: Mozart provides first-class software component specifications (called functors) and software components (called modules). The module system facilitates application development and deployment. Both component specifications and components can be transparently referenced through URLs, absolute and relative, and loaded by need. Flexible security policies are implemented by module managers.
- Mobile Agents: With its dynamic component technology, open computing support, and full-featured implementation, Mozart is an ideal platform for serious programming with mobile agents. A computation can create new computations dynamically. Computations can roam the shared Mozart space at will. Each site has full control over what resources it makes available to incoming computations.
- Separation of Concerns (Aspects): The Mozart system separates the concerns of application functionality, distribution structure, fault tolerance, and openness (application connectivity). The separation is almost perfect for the first two concerns and quite good for the last two. In the context of aspect-oriented programming, this can be seen as a ``vertical approach, where a few aspects are treated in depth, versus the ``horizontal approach of tools like AspectJ, which provide primitives for handling many aspects.
- Platform Issues:
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: Like Java, Oz is `write once, run everywhere and provides automatic local and distributed garbage collection. The Oz virtual machine is portable and known to run on most flavors of Unix as well as on Windows.
- GUI Programming: The Mozart system comes with an object-oriented library that provides a high-level well integrated interface to Tcl/Tk. This is supplemented with QTk, a tool that supports a mixed declarative/procedural approach to user interface design. This needs only a fraction of the code of standard procedural approaches and is particularly well-suited for building context-sensitive interfaces.
- Native Extension Modules: The Mozart system was designed to be easily extended with new native functionality packaged as DLLs. Comprehensive support is provided for the convenient creation of DLLs. Thus, the Mozart system is not only aggressively open, but also an ideal very high-level glue language.
Requirements: Aquamacs Emacs
NameCase 1.1.0
Convert denormalized data to human friendly data more>> Convert denormalized data to human friendly data
NameCase is a Ruby implementation of Lingua::EN::NameCase, a Perl library for converting strings to be properly cased.
NameCase can prove very useful when having to convert denormalized data to human friendly data.
xChess 0.03
Free and open source graphical chess UI more>> Free and open source graphical chess UI
xChess is a open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines. xChess is written in Java programming language, so it is compatible with many different platforms.
xChess intends to implement multiple chess protocols to serve as a front end for many existent chess engines. XBoard and UCI are two most popular protocols and most of the chess engines support at least one of the protocols to communicate with chess user interface.
xChess also aim to work as a client with popular Internet Chess Servers (ICS) where one can log in and play game using chess client with other people from all over the world.
Main features:>
- Simple and Lightweight interface
- Playing with chess engine
- Verification of user move
- Calculating move time
- Playing with another human
- Moving by mouse click
- Moving by dragging piece
- Listing performed moves
System requirements:
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Snatchin’ Coin - The Nuttcups 1.0
Have fun snatching dollars. more>> 1st Mac Mailer is mass-mailing software used by various e-commerce providers to deliver personalized email messages to their customers when they are needed to be notified about different events. These e-notifications vary from simple email notifications about product updates or new product releases to more complex newsletters and invoices.
If you run a book store or a video rental, or if you are a self-employed individual who deals with lots of customers over the Internet, you will really appreciate this simple but yet powerful program. It is capable to deliver tens of thousands of personalized email messages per hour and gives you very flexible abilities to manage your mailing lists. The database of the program may contain an unlimited number of customer data fields and can handle millions of recipients with no sweat.
It supports plain-text, rich text and HTML message formats and provides you with a powerful message editor that lets you not only create and edit your messages in a very efficient manner but also insert and manage macro definitions used for message personalization. 1st Mac Mailer is specially designed and optimized to work with Apple Macintosh computers, and has a neat well-organized user interface designed strictly according to Apple guidelines.
The Import feature will allow you to import your customer data from virtually anywhere: no matter what type of software or file you import from. The Export feature generates a coma-separated CSV file with a complete set of recipient data supported by 99.9% of other software products. This brings you to a whole new level of data exchange. For instance, you can prepare your data in any database management system or spreadsheet processor and pump it into 1st Mac Mailer. Then, once you finish your e-campaign, you can move your data to a third program for further processing and finally return it back to 1st Mac Mailer in a different form. Sounds cool? This is what 1st Mac Mailer about.<<less
Interface Builder Spotlight Importer 1.0
Interface Builder Spotlight Importer is regarded as a convenient and professional spotlight Importer tool for Interface Builder (.nib and .xib). more>>
Interface Builder Spotlight Importer 1.0 is regarded as a convenient and professional spotlight Importer tool for Interface Builder (.nib and .xib).
Requirements: Xcode 3.0 or higher
