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Obsession is a lightweight friend list client for LiveJournal that uses Growl, a global notification system for Mac OS X. Obsession lives in your menu bar and lets you know when there are new entries to read.
Main features:
- Gives you easy access to your lists and groups.
- Pays attention to whatever friend groups you want.
- You can use Obsession with any LiveJournal server including LiveJournal, DeadJournal, Minilog and others.
- Using LiveJournals secure challenge/response encrypted authentication, your password is stored inside your Keychain and never sent out in the clear.
Version restrictions:
- Paid account required for use with LiveJournal.

AbsoluteDeNoiser is an easy to use software that produces very competitive noise reduction filtering for digital images.
AbsoluteDeNoiser is Java-based software that should run on almost every machines.
Digital cameras or scanners often produce images that contains noise, especially when using high ISO. This noise is made of random pixel variations that damage the picture in different manner, adding unwanted granular effects. To obtain a good result, this noise should be removed paying a great attention to :
- Image details that often can be removed with noise, and edges definition that are often blured by basic noise reduction technics.
- Keeping some granularity to avoid the common "plastic" effect of too much noise removal.
AbsoluteDeNoiser (Free version) works in 3 steps :
- Edges detection : this analyse makes a separation between large surfaces with poor details, and places where some edges and/or details require a special attention. The value to tune enables to decide the sensitivity of the edges detection, thus the amount of the picture that is to be considered as details/edges or not. Surfaces and edges will then be processed in different ways in next steps.
- Surfacing : performs a calculation of local color cohesion to decide, for each pixel, what is the mean color value in the noise variations arround it, without merging two different surfaces together. This step also processes surfaces and edges in two different ways. The more important is the value that tunes the surface managment : it is the one that decides of the effective noise reduction. There is also a secondary value that tunes the edges managment, but it should often be kept at a low value to avoid bluring edges : in some cases it offers the possibility to reduce some edges pixelisation effects.
- Texturing : the step 2 may provide with "too" clean surfaces where some small details or textures could have been lost, and possibly a "plastic" effect. This final filter decides the amount of original pixels that should be added back to the clean surface to restore details and textures without re-introducing the noise that should be removed. A first value tunes how much part of pixels that was removed in step 2 shows a local regularity, thus how much noise vs details is to be considered on them. There is also a secondary value that tunes how much pure granularity, without special regularity, should be added back without re-introducing bad strong spots and scratches.
Enhancements:
- New installation using a zipped bundle to fix a memory configuration trouble.

Have you ever plugged in a USB device only to be underwhelmed by the reaction of OS X? It can be very confusing when the system seems to pay no attention to whats just been plugged in - did it even notice?
USB Monitor eliminates the guess work. It pops up a little window and provides the name of the device thats just been plugged in (or unplugged).
The window follows the visual style of the transparent windows for volume and eject.
Enhancements:
- Fixed memory leak.

Auntie is a freeware BBC News ticker for Mac OS X. It has no relationship to the (apparently no longer supported) Mac OS 7 program of the same name, other than having the same function.

Many aspects of the ticker are configurable, including font, color, opacity, and ticker speed. Clicking on a scrolling headline will take you to the associated web page.

Headlines are also listed in a dock menu to jump to any one of them.Auntie is provided free of charge because you really ought to pay attention to whats going on in the world.

Battleships Game 1.0 is an impressive and unique game which will catch your attention immediately.

The enemy fleet has been located under the command of Admiral Komputer, but do not yet have visual contact. The best course of action is to fire at random into their vicinity and listen for the impact of the shells, and has likewise been forced to resort to the same tactics as ourselves. In accordance with the rules of war, fire will be exchanged one shell at a time and vessels lost will be announced immediately.

As per your orders you have been placed directly in command of the fleet's guns. Select the target location by clicking in the left-hand grid above. The right hand grid shows the status of

Enhancements: Version 0.8a16 is now Mac OS X 10.4 compatible.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or later.