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A.P.O.D. Screensaver 1.0.1
A.P.O.D. Screensaver gives you the chance to discover the cosmos, space exploration or simply amazing photographs of nature more>>
A.P.O.D. Screensaver 1.0.1 gives you the chance to discover the cosmos, space exploration or simply amazing photographs of nature and the sky with this screensaver based upon the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site. Each day a different image with a short description given by the best astronomers, astrophysicists at the time. These images and photographs are available at the original site of the NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day 'managed by Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP).
Enhancements: Snow Leopard Compatibility
and pleasant screensaver which is based upon the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site (Robert ... Astronomy Picture of the Day web site (Robert Nemiroff [MTU] & Jerry Bonnell [USRA
Ctalk 0.0.96a RC4
Ctalk provides you with a powerful and extremely useful program which adds object oriented language features, like classes, methods, operator overloading, and inheritance, to C programs. more>>
Ctalk 0.0.96a RC4 provides you with a powerful and extremely useful program which adds object oriented language features, like classes, methods, operator overloading, and inheritance, to C programs. The Ctalk package provides the Ctalk parser, which translates Ctalk into C for compilation, a run time library that supports objects and events, a preprocessor, ctpp, and sample programs.
Enhancements:
- Add Macintosh OS X PowerPC support
- Add GUI compatibility updates for Linux/GNOME systems
- Add X11Pane drawing support for Point class
- Aff the Pen, Line, and Rectangle classes which provide basic X11Pane drawing capabilities.
Nitrox 0.3
Free AIR-like library for native-wrapped iPhone applications more>>
Nitrox 0.3 is developed to be a free Cocoa/Objective-C wrapper for Javascript applications on the iPhone which provides access to native iPhone functions.
Nitrox will be a native iPhone library which allows applications written in HTML/Javascript to use an AIR-like API to access functions on the iPhone not available through standard Safari.
Major Features :
- Ajax-based invocation of functions (slower but more reliable and optionally synchronous)
- Accelerometer
- Location functions
- Vibrate function
- System functions including exiting and openURL
- UIDevice property access
- Loading of Javascript files accessible via XMLHTTPRequest
- Simple (explicit, not automatic) proxying of GET requests for non-local URLs...could be used in some places where XMLHTTPRequest is used.
- Logging
- General Notification subscription and sending
- Callbacks to JS for accel, location, orientation, notifications
Bazaar 1.16 RC1 / 1.15.1
Free and open source application that adapts to the workflows you want to use Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that reduces barriers to participation in your more>> Free and open source application that adapts to the workflows you want to use
Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that reduces barriers to participation in your project.
Bazaar is designed to support Mac OS, GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows. In summary, Bazaar gives you fast, distributed revision control that "Just Works", supporting renames of directories and files smoothly.
Bazaar is designed to maximise the level of community participation in your project.
Bazaar branches can be published on any web server, and uploaded over sftp, ftp, or rsync. If you want the fastest possible network performance, there is a smart server.
Bazaar supports flexible work models: centralized like cvs or svn, commit offline, enforced code review when desired, and automatic regression testing.
Decentralized revision control systems give people the ability to collaborate more efficiently over the internet using the bazaar development model and have many other advantages.
When you use Bazaar, you can commit to your own local branches of your favourite free software projects without needing special permission.
Main features:
Good performance:
- Bazaar status in a tree of 5,000 files takes just 0.5 seconds, so almost every open source project can get the advanced features of Bazaar without slowing down its developers. Bazaar is robust in the face of radical tree restructuring, saving you time when it comes to merging from your community.
Safe with your data:
- There have not been any data loss bugs in a Bazaar release in the past two years. Bazaar has a huge test suite that ensures that new file formats can be tested automatically. The development process follows best practice with code review of all core and community code landings.
Friendly:
- Bazaar "Just Works" (which is why the Ubuntu team chose it for their project). Bazaar has a natural feel, you can publish your code on any web server or use a custom server for performance. Bazaar has perfect support for renaming files AND directories, which means you can unleash your community and merge efficiently even from contributors who are radically restructuring the tree.
Free:
- Bazaar is available under the GPL v2 or later.
Easy to integrate:
- Bazaar is designed as a Python API with a plugin system, so it is easy to embed in your tools and projects and easy to extend or integrate with existing infrastructure. Whether you are managing your development, or keeping track of configuration files, or building a new content management system, Bazaar is a great choice if you like to work in Python.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
Compatibility Breaks:
- Display prompt on stderr (instead of stdout) when querying users so that the output of commands can be safely redirected. (Vincent Ladeuil, #376582)
New Features:
- A new repository format 2a has been added. This is a beta release of the the brisbane-core (aka group-compress) project. This format now suitable for wider testing by advanced users willing to deal with some bugs. We would appreciate test reports, either positive or negative. Format 2a is substantially smaller and faster for many operations on many trees. This format or an updated version will become the default in bzr 2.0.
- This is a rich-root format, so this repository format can be used with bzr-svn. Bazaar branches in previous non-rich-root formats can be converted (including by merge, push and pull) to format 2a, but not vice versa. We recommend upgrading previous development formats to 2a.
- Upgrading to this format can take considerable time because it expands and more concisely repacks the full history.
- If you use stacked branches, you must upgrade the stacked branches before the stacked-on branches. (See )
- --development7-rich-root is a new dev format, similar to --dev6 but using a Revision serializer using bencode rather than XML. (Jelmer Vernooij, John Arbash Meinel)
- mail_client=claws now supports --body (and message body hooks). Also uses configured from address. (Barry Warsaw)
Improvements:
- --development6-rich-root can now stack. (Modulo some smart-server bugs with stacking and non default formats.) (John Arbash Meinel, #373455)
- --development6-rich-root delays generating a delta index for the first object inserted into a group. This has a beneficial impact on bzr commit since each committed texts goes to its own group. For committing a 90MB file, it drops peak memory by about 200MB, and speeds up commit from 7s => 4s. (John Arbash Meinel)
- Numerous operations are now faster for huge projects, i.e. those with a large number of files and/or a large number of revisions, particularly when the latest development format is used. These operations (and improvements on OpenOffice.org) include: branch in a shared repository (2X faster), branch --no-tree (100X faster), diff (2X faster), tags (70X faster) (Ian Clatworthy)
- Pyrex version of bencode support. This provides optimized support for both encoding and decoding, and is now found at bzrlib.bencode. bzrlib.utils.bencode is now deprecated. (Alexander Belchenko, Jelmer Vernooij, John Arbash Meinel)
Bug Fixes:
- Bazaar can now pass attachment files to the mutt email client. (Edwin Grubbs, #384158)
- Better message in bzr add output suggesting using bzr ignored to see which files can also be added. (Jason Spashett, #76616)
- bzr pull -r 123 from a stacked branch on a smart server no longer fails. Also, the Branch.revision_history() API now works in the same situation. (Andrew Bennetts, #380314)
- bzr serve on Windows no longer displays a traceback simply because a TCP client disconnected. (Andrew Bennetts)
- Clarify the rules for locking and fallback repositories. Fix bugs in how RemoteRepository was handling fallbacks along with the _real_repository. (Andrew Bennetts, John Arbash Meinel, #375496)
- Fix a small bug with fetching revisions w/ ghosts into a new stacked branch. Not often triggered, because it required ghosts to be part of the fetched revisions, not in the stacked-on ancestry. (John Arbash Meinel)
- Fix status and commit to work with content filtered trees, addressing numerous bad bugs with line-ending support. (Ian Clatworthy, #362030)
- Fix problem of "directory not empty" when contending for a lock over sftp. (Martin Pool, #340352)
- Fix rule handling so that eol is optional, not mandatory. (Ian Clatworthy, #379370)
- Pushing a new stacked branch to a 1.15 smart server was broken due to a bug in the BzrDirFormat.initialize_ex smart verb. This is fixed in 1.16, but required changes to the network protocol, so the BzrDirFormat.initialize_ex verb has been removed and replaced with a corrected BzrDirFormat.initialize_ex_1.16 verb. 1.15 clients will still work with a 1.16 server as they will fallback to slower (and bug-free) methods. (Jonathan Lange, Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts, #385132)
- Reconcile can now deal with text revisions that originated in revisions that are ghosts. (Jelmer Vernooij, #336749)
- Support cloning of branches with ghosts in the left hand side history. (Jelmer Vernooij, #248540)
- The bzr diff now catches OSError from osutils.rmtree and logs a helpful message to the trace file, unless the temp directory really was removed (which would be very strange). Since the diff operation has succeeded from the users perspective, no output is written to stderr or stdout. (Maritza Mendez, #363837)
- Translate errors received from a smart server in response to a BzrDirFormat.initialize or BzrDirFormat.initialize_ex request. This was causing tracebacks even for mundane errors like PermissionDenied. (Andrew Bennetts, #381329)
Documentation:
- Added directory structure and started translation of docs in Russian. (Alexey Shtokalo, Alexander Iljin, Alexander Belchenko, Dmitry Vasiliev, Volodymyr Kotulskyi)
API Changes:
- Added osutils.parent_directories(). (Ian Clatworthy)
- bzrlib.progress.ProgressBar, ChildProgress, DotsProgressBar, TTYProgressBar and child_progress are now deprecated; use ui_factory.nested_progress_bar instead. (Martin Pool)
- graph.StackedParentsProvider is now a public API, replacing graph._StackedParentsProvider. The api is now considered stable and ready for external users. (Gary van der Merwe)
- bzrlib.user_encoding is deprecated in favor of get_user_encoding. (Alexander Belchenko)
- TreeTransformBase no longer assumes that limbo is provided via disk. DiskTreeTransform now provides disk functionality. (Aaron Bentley)
Internals:
- Remove weave.py script for accessing internals of old weave-format repositories. (Martin Pool)
Testing:
- The number of cores is now correctly detected on OSX. (John Szakmeister)
- The number of cores is also detected on Solaris and win32. (Vincent Ladeuil)
- The number of cores is also detected on FreeBSD. (Matthew Fuller)
SAGE 4.0.1
Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab. more>> Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab.
Sage is free open source math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, and related areas. Both the Sage development model and the technology in Sage itself are distinguished by an extremely strong emphasis on openness, community, cooperation, and collaboration: we are building the car, not reinventing the wheel.
General and Advanced Pure and Applied Mathematics
Use SAGE for studying a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra.
Use an Open Source Alternative
By using SAGE you help to support a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. SAGE includes many high-quality open source math packages.
Use Most Mathematics Software from Within SAGE
SAGE makes it easy for you to use most mathematics software together. SAGE includes interfaces to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and MuPAD, and the free programs Axiom, GAP, GP/PARI, Macaulay2, Maxima, Octave, and Singular.
Use a Standard Programming Language
You work with SAGE using the highly regarded scripting language Python instead of an obscure language designed for a particular mathematics program. You can write programs that combine serious mathematics with anything else.
Create Notebooks with your Web Browser
Use SAGE from your web browser, which connects either to a program running on your computer, or a program running elsewhere. With the SAGE notebook you can create embedded graphics, beautifully typeset mathematical expressions, add and delete input, and start up and interrupt multiple calculations.
Be Curious
SAGE provides you with easy access to documentation and source code. Type plot? for help on the plot command and plot?? to see the source code. If X is anything, type X.[tab key] to see all commands that apply to X.
Enhancements
Algebra:
- Division over integers (Robert Bradshaw) -- A much simpler and faster algorithm for the divisors function over integers. The new optimized code is faster than a similar integer divisor function in the version of PARI/GP thats bundled with Sage 3.2.1, as well as outperforming a similar integer divisor function found in the version of Magma that Sage 3.2.1 interfaces with.
- Finite field operations (John Palmieri) -- A few methods for finite field elements including additive order, p-th power, and p-th root where p is the characteristic of the field.
Basic arithmetic:
- Polynomials over a field (Burcin Erocal) -- Improving the user interface of polynomial classes.
- Polynomial square roots (John Palmieri, Carl Witty) -- A method to test whether a polynomial is square over the field it is defined. If the polynomial is square, then the method has the option of returning a square root.
Build:
- Improve sage -upgrade (William Stein, Michael Abshoff) -- The Sage upgrade command can now take an optional URL from which it will pull all spkgs, and this URL can be a Sage install. The upgrade command lists packages that will be upgraded before upgrading them, and autodownloads a new version of any spkg that hasnt successfully been installed before upgrading it.
- Problematic CPU flags (William Stein, Michael Abshoff) -- Binary distributions of Sage for Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) may not work properly once installed. The following CPU flags are known to prevent Sage from running properly: sse, 3d, mmx, pni, and cmov.
Calculus:
- Gamma and factorial functions (Mike Hansen, Burcin Erocal, Wilfried Huss) -- Symbolic gamma and factorial functions.
- Update to sympy-0.6.3 (Ondrej Certik) -- Update to the latest upstream of SymPy (sympy-0.6.3), which is a Python library for symbolic mathematics. For more information about SymPy, please visit http://code.google.com/p/sympy/.
- Numerical trigonometry (Robert Bradshaw) -- Optimized floating point evaluation of trigonometric functions such as sine and cosine. For example, numerical calculation of sine via _fast_float_ is now twice as fast as math.sin.
- Floating point calculation (Robert Bradshaw) -- Changing the parsing code for numerical computation to use RDF, which is a better reflection of the underlying precision. For calculus expressions involving real numbers, redundant trailing zeros are removed.
Coercion:
- Coercion API (Robert Bradshaw) -- Some simplification of the coercion interface.
Combinatorics:
- Coding theory (David Joyner) -- Several changes in linear_codes.py which should speed up (and in some cases do:-) some coding theory computations considerably. It adds interfaces to Cython and C functions of Robert Miller, CJ Tjhal, and Jeffery Leon. Speed up of minimum_distance (for codes over GF(2) and GF(3)), the spectrum (=weight_distribution), and permutation_automorphism_group are expected and in most cases achieved. (Also a new function is_permutation_equivalent was added, which interfaces with Robert Millers double coset partition refinement code.)
- Incidence structures and block designs (David Joyner) -- Beginning of an incidence structure class and an implementation of some basic block design algorithms. A few functions require GAPs Design package (which is included in gap_packages-4.4.10_6.spkg) but calling GAP or GAPs Design was only done when the corresponding Sage functionality was missing. Robert Millers recent code on computing the automorphism group of a non-linear binary code was used to implement the automorphism group of a block design.
Testing:
- Added only_optional doctest option (William Stein) -- Added a new option sage -t -only_optional=component that allows one to run only the optional doctests that depend on a given component. Thus instead of much of the optional functionality of Sage being broken, it will now be much easier to automatically test it.
TkMatMan 1.9
Shader tester interface for 3Delight more>> Shader tester interface for 3Delight
TkMatMan is a shader tester interface for 3Delight with original code by Andreas Butz, updated for 3Delight, RenderDotC, PRMan and Entropy by Goran Kocov.
This program runs in TCL and therefore you must have the most recent version of TCL for OS X installed for it to work.
You must install TkMatMan properly in order to enjoy the shaders and rendering of 3Delight.
System requirements:
- 3Delight
Robert Coldwell - TkMatMan. TkMatMan is a shader tester interface for 3DelightSyncJammer 1.0 Beta 5
A free and open source Java based file synchronization tool more>> A free and open source Java based file synchronization tool
SyncJammer is a open source file synchronization tool. You can sync files to a remote server via FTP or via your OSs file system if the remote server is on a local network.
How does SyncJammer work?
You tell SyncJammer what folders you want it to sync and where you want the files sent by creating a very simple XML configuration.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Beta 5 changes name of sync.jam to .sync.jam and makes file hidden under Windows if proper nodes are available in confSync.xml file (see sample file for details). This version is backward compatible to beta 3 and 4. sync.jam files are converted automatically. No special conversion is necessary. If you have a previous version, just drop the new syncjammer.jar into your bin directory and update your convSync.xml as needed.
Delineate for mac 0.5
Delineate is a tool for converting bitmap raster images to SVG on mac os x. more>> Delineate is a tool for converting bitmap raster images to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) using AutoTrace or potrace. It displays SVG results using Apache Batik. Input formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF, PCD, PSD, RAS.
0.5 release
-Users can now choose to convert to SVG with potrace instead of AutoTrace - otrace produces superior black and white SVG results compared to AutoTrace.
-Increased number of supported raster input formats by using Java Imaging Utilities (JIU). Now support: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF, PCD, PSD, RAS.
-User prompted to select the location of the autotrace or potrace application file when running a conversion for the first time. In earlier releases an environment variable needed to be set.
A new Mac OS X version of Delineate 0.5 is released; it has Delineate bundled together with potrace and Autotrace in a single Mac dmg file. This release also resolves the Mac off-screen display problem that occurred at a display resolution of 1024x768.<<less
widescapeWeather 2.1
Free weather forecast displaying Yahoo! widget for your Mac more>> Free weather forecast displaying Yahoo! widget for your Mac
widescapeWeather is a free Yahoo! widget that will display on your Macs desktop the current weather and a forecast with small weather icons and the temperature in the sleek design from widescape. Very small, and very cool.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Tray slides to left or right; custom colors for icons, texts, backgrounds and borders; custom city display name; manually update the weather via the context menu; additional 12-hour time format and some bug fixes.
ThreadWorker 0.7
Free and open source class to offload a task to another thread more>> Free and open source class to offload a task to another thread
ThreadWorker is a class that aims to make it easy to offload a task to another thread and notify your application when youve completed the task.
Creating Multithreaded applications with Objective-C in Mac OS Xs Cocoa framework is easier than raw C code, but there are still some difficulties that ThreadWorker will help you overcome.
Enhancements
- Added ability to mark thread as cancelled.
- Changed the behavior when "longTask" takes a second argument. Instead of passing a proxy to the primary threads "self" it passes a references to the ThreadWorker. The recommended way to pass information from the primary, or originating, thread is to use an NSDictionary to pass in the Things Youll Need. See the Controller.m example.
- Changed threads termination behavior so that as soon as your "longTask:" is finished, the thread will exit. This means if you left anything on the NSRunLoop (or more likely an NSURL did it without your knowledge), it will get dumped.
Gutenprint 5.2.0 RC1
High quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, and PCL printers. more>> High quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, and PCL printers.
Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.
These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4) and Linux systems that in many cases equal or exceed proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in quality and functionality, and can be used for demanding printing tasks requiring flexibility and high quality.
This software package includes the Print plug-in for the GIMP and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, as well as Foomatic data.
Gutenprint provides a very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. To install the drivers please read the "Setting up printers" PDF which is included with the download.
Enhancements:
- No longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.2.
wxWidgets 2.8.9
Free, open source and cross-platform GUI library more>> Free, open source and cross-platform GUI library
wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase.
wxWidgets can be used from languages such as C++, C#/.NET, Python, and Perl. Unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native.
This is because wxWidgets uses the platforms own native controls rather than emulating them. Its also extensive, free, open-source, and mature.
wxWidgets gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications on multiple platforms that still utilize the native platforms controls and utilities.
Link with the appropriate library for your platform (Windows/Unix/Mac, others coming shortly) and compiler (almost any popular C++ compiler), and your application will adopt the look and feel appropriate to that platform.
On top of great GUI functionality, wxWidgets gives you: online help, network programming, streams, clipboard and drag and drop, multithreading, image loading and saving in a variety of popular formats, database support, HTML viewing and printing, and much much more.
NOTE: wxWidgets is licensed under the terms of the wxWindows Library Licence.
Top Ten Vodkas Widget 1.0
Top Ten Vodkas Widget - Keep up-to-date with the current top 10 vodkas more>> Most of the Mileage tracking applications are difficult to use and encumbered with useless features. While some people might need all the bells and whistles, Miles intends to simplify the process of tracking your mileage.
Did you know that most people say that they dont track their miles because it isnt easy enough? Well, we believe that Miles will put an end to that excuse. We develop software that is easy to use, and we value your feedback.<<less
Simbabwe 1.8
Easy to play but hard to escape from, Simbabwe is a richly detailed, evolved board game with unscrupulous AI and editorial cartoon graphics. Rig elections, gaol opponents and taunt the Commonwealth as you use intimidation and stooges to create a mugaboly on power. Compete with Robert Mugabe, Canaan Banana, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Godfrey Huggins to earn a place on the all-time EU travel ban list! more>>
Simbabwe - Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Bounce around the map plundering farms, denying grain silos to opposition supporters and robbing the community chest.
Easy to play but hard to escape from, Simbabwe is a richly detailed, evolved board game with unscrupulous AI and editorial cartoon graphics.
Start off as some guy in the Zimbabwean African National Union Patriotic Front and end up changing the constitution 17 times and pledging to rule until youre 100.
Rig elections, gaol opponents and taunt the Commonwealth as you use intimidation and stooges to create a mugaboly on power.
Compete with Robert Mugabe, Canaan Banana, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Godfrey Huggins to earn a place on the all-time EU travel ban list!
Enhancements:
Version 1.8
Plumes of noxious smoke billow from torched other peoples property.
System Requirements:Mac OS X 10.3 or better<<less
TNG Time 1.1
TNG Time - time widget: stardate of Star Trek in The Next Generation look more>> TNG Time - time widget: stardate of Star Trek in The Next Generation look
There already is a time widget with or without dates in Apple Dashboard, but there is none with the stardate of Star Trek in The Next Generation look.
In order to evoke even more of a "Trekkie-Feeling" within the Dashboard I tried to adapt the design to the TNG computer panels (LCARS).
So watch out, its time for stardate!
The stardate in my TNG Time widget is based on a common used formula. Until the year 2323 the stardate is negative, because it starts (officially) only on January, 1st in 2323. Till then ... "Live long and prosper".
Main features:
- Current date displayed in locale string
- Current time
- Current Star Trek stardate
Robert Audersetz - TNG Time. There already is a time widget with or without dates in