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REBOL 2.7.6
REBOL is professionally designed as an innovative language which gains its advantage through lightweight domain-specific sublanguages and micro-formats. more>>
REBOL 2.7.6 is professionally designed as an innovative language which gains its advantage through lightweight domain-specific sublanguages and micro-formats. REBOL introduces the concept of dialecting: small, efficient, domain languages for code, data, and metadata.
It's all about language... the enabling technology behind all technologies, and how language can be used to gain productivity advantages over traditional software technologies.
REBOL stands for Relative Expression Based Object Language. It uses "relative expressions" (lean, domain-specific languages) to create a powerful new method of creating Internet programs, scripts, and applications,
REBOL is pronounced "reb-ol". As in rebel yell or "rebel with a cause". REBOL was created by Carl Sassenrath. The system designer known for bringing multitasking to personal computers.
Major Features:
- REBOL is "both sided" technology. It is an integrated solution to distributed computing that works best when it runs on both the client and the server. (However, that is not a requirement you can use it on just the client or just the server.)
- REBOL provides a lightweight platform for Internet applications. REBOL's power makes applications small so they are less expensive to create, distribute, maintain, and upgrade. In the size of a typical web page, you can fit an entire REBOL application.
- REBOL is more than just a programming language. It is also a language for representing data and metadata. It provides a consistent architecture for computation, storage, and exchange of information.
- REBOL has been intentionally kept small and lightweight. It only takes a few seconds to download, and it requires no special libraries to run, but it includes hundreds of functions, dozens of datatypes, built-in help, multiple Internet protocols, graphics, sound, and much more.
- REBOL is cross-platform. REBOL spans more than 40 systems. A program written on Windows runs equally well on Linux, BSD, OS X, and many other platforms... with no changes necessary.
- REBOL comes in a variety of packages. Beginners can use the freely licensed REBOL/Core and REBOL/View packages. Professionals will find REBOL/Command and REBOL/SDK to be powerful tools.
- More than five million copies of REBOL have been downloaded since its first release in 1998.
- Organizations large and small use REBOL to create Internet applications and solutions in a fraction of the normal time and cost.
- REBOL powers AltME, the secure, lightweight, messaging and application platform created by SafeWorlds, Inc. We encourage you to give it a try, and you will be hearing more about our partnership with Safeworlds in the months ahead.
I Heart Huckabees Screensaver
I Heart Huckabees Screensaver is an impressive and special screensaver which will catch your attention immediately. more>>
I Heart Huckabees Screensaver is an impressive and special screensaver which will catch your attention immediately.
ADVERTISEMENT Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life, his relationships, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail superstores. When Brad also hires the detectives, they dig deep into his seemingly perfect life and his relationship with his spokesmodel girlfriend, the voice of Huckabees, Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts). Albert pairs up with rebel firefighter Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg) to take matters into their own hands under the guidance of the Jaffes nemesis, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert).
Virtual AGC 20060110
Virtual AGC project is a simulation of the Apollo Guidance Computer more>>
The project includes an emulated CPU, an emulated display/keyboard (DSKY), the AGCs original executable binaries and machine-readable assembly-language source code (Luminary and Colossus), AGC source code for a CPU validation suite, an AGC assembler, scanned Apollo documentation, and other elements.
The emulated CPU has been designed to be modular and portable, to facilitate incorporation into spacecraft simulations such as lunar-lander simulations.
Enhancements:
- The Apollo 15-17 CM AGC executable ("Colossus 3" a.k.a. "Artemis 072") is available for use in the simulator.
- (Colossus 3 source code is not yet available.) Scans of the Colossus 3 GSOP document are mostly available.
- CM downlink lists are implemented.
- yaAGC/yaAGS debugging is now symbolic, and yaAGC has other new debugging features.
- Building with Cygwin is possible.
- Many updates have been made to LM_Simulator (the IMU simulation).
- There are bugfixes to yaAGCs CPU simulation.
- The mysterious EDRUPT instruction is handled properly.
- Accelerator keys have been added to yaDSKY.
Digital Camera RAW Support PPC 1.0.1
Digital Camera RAW Support PPC is an update assisting common digital camera and image file formats. more>>
Digital Camera RAW Support PPC 1.0.1 is an update assisting common digital camera and image file formats. Applications such as Aperture, iPhoto and Preview utilize this support to work with digital camera RAW files.
This update improves RAW file format compatibility for the following digital SLR cameras:
- Canon Digital Rebel XTi / 400D / Kiss X Digital
- Nikon D80
- Pentax *ist DS
- Other issues addressed:
- Handling of large Canon RAW files (.CRW)
- DNG compatibility on Intel-based Macs
- Lines sometimes appearing in images exported from Aperture
- Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, PPC Macintosh
EV Ultra 1.6.2
EV Ultra - plugin for Ambrosia Softwares (and Matt Burchs) Escape Velocity more>>
EV Ultra adds the follwoing enhancements:
New Graphics: Replaces all existing ship, station, and planet sprites, and more. As well as new graphics for new items in the plug-in.
New Missions: Around 60 new missions to undertake. Save the galaxy and rack up the credits...
New Systems: Over 100 new systems to explore.
New Ships: 15 all new ships. Some are available to the player and some are not. Also there a few additional versions of existing ships.
New Weapons: 16 new weapons. Again some are available to player and some are not.
New Aliens: 2 new Alien governments.
EV Ultra continues right where the original EV left off. Just drop it into the plug-ins folder of EV. EV Ultra does not replace the existing EV Universe it simply expands upon it. To access the new missions and systems in EV Ultra you must complete the Rebel/Confed alien missions first.
You do not have to start a new pilot file. EV Ultra will work fine with existing EV pilots (if they have no weapons or ships from other 3rd part plugs).
EV: Nova Override 1.0.2
EV: Nova Override is a classic game published by Ambrosia. more>>
EV: Nova Override 1.0.2 is a classic game published by Ambrosia. It is as a Carbon application that you can play on Mac OS X. EV: Override is Ambrosia's follow-up to the classic space adventure game, Escape Velocity. You are cast as a pioneering space captain with only a small shuttle craft, a bit of money, and a sense of adventure. Make money running cargo across the universe in order to buy a better spacecraft, or undertake dangerous rescue missions on enemy worlds. Override features a universe five times the size of the original game and a slew of populated worlds within.

earthscreensavermac 1.0
earthscreensavermac offers you a wonderful and totally free screensaver including high quality NASA/ESA space images. more>>
earthscreensavermac 1.0 offers you a wonderful and totally free screensaver including high quality NASA/ESA space images. This screensaver was designed by the Creative Department, an award winning advertising and interactive agency serving Columbus, Ohio.
Regardless of your position on time-space continuum, our rebel band of highly creative Imaginauts is ready to take your brand supernova. With a telescopic focus on your users, we create experiences that are engaging, strategic, and out of this world.
Major Features:
- The Earth Screensaver is fully functional freeware for an unlimited time with no cost, monetary or otherwise.
- Users cannot study, modify, or redistribute this freeware.
- Use of this software is free for personal, non-commercial use.
- Images included in this screensaver are generally not copyrighted.
- NASA-ESA is acknowledged as the source of the material and no claim to copyright is being asserted by The Creative Department.
- Images may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA and ESA's contracts. The Creative Department provides no warranties nor support for use of this software.
- Clicking Install signifies that you agree that this software is provided AS-IS and no representations or guarantees are made as to its features, functionality, or content.
- You agree to use this software at your own risk and assume all liability for its use.
Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.6
Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update is a new and unique update which extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto 08, and iPhoto 09 more>> Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.6 is a new and unique update which extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto 08, and iPhoto 09 for the following cameras:
- Nikon D3X
- Epson R-D1x
It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and overall stability.
- Canon EOS 500D
- Canon Rebel T1i
- Canon EOS Kiss Digital X3
- Nikon D5000
- Olympus E-30
Parsec LAN-Test 0.99 (build 0197)
Parsec LAN-Test is a program presenting you the entire new universe. more>>
Parsec LAN-Test 0.99 (build 0197) is a program presenting you the entirely new universe. The core of Parsec will be a network of gameservers each responsible for a single galaxy comprised of several solar systems. All gameservers will be registered at the central Parsec masterserver from where you can select a specific gameserver for playing.
The basic unit of game play is a single solar system but you can jump from system to system as you like. There are no game sessions that have to be started explicitly. You can seamlessly join and unjoin a gameserver at any time. But beware! While you are peacefully exploring the universe everyone else will try to shoot you down to advance their position in the roster of all-time Parsec legends. If you want to become a legend yourself, you will have to eliminate a lot of other spacecraft and still prevail to collect the honor.
Gameservers (that is, galaxies) have their own dedicated position in the Parsec universe and are connected to nearby galaxies via stargates. The server transition involved in this jump is handled transparently by the masterserver and the involved gameservers.
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.6
Extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08. more>> Extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08.
This update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08 for several types of cameras.
Main features:
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update supports the following cameras:
- Hasselblad CFV-16
- Hasselblad H3D-31
- Hasselblad H3D-31II
- Leaf Aptus 54S
- Leaf Aptus 65S
- Nikon D60
- Olympus E-3
- Pentax *ist DL2
- Pentax *ist DS2
- Pentax K100D Super
- Sony DSLR-A200
- Sony DSLR-A350
- Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/Kiss Digital F/1000D
- Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
- Nikon D700
- Olympus EVOLT E-420
- Olympus EVOLT E-520
- Olympus SP-570
- Samsung GX-10
- Samsung GX-20
- Sony DSLR-A300
- Sony DSC-R1
Enhancements
- Extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto 08, and iPhoto 09 for the following cameras: Canon EOS 500D, Canon Rebel T1i, Canon EOS Kiss Digital X3, Nikon D5000, Olympus E-30.
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/Kiss Digital F/1000D Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n Nikon D700 Olympus EVOLT ECanon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel Firmware 1.1.1
Canon EOS Digital Rebel/EOS 300D Firmware updates the following: It increases the reliability of RemoteCapture application when the camera is used more>> Canon EOS Digital Rebel/EOS 300D Firmware updates the following:
- It increases the reliability of RemoteCapture application when the camera is used.
- It increases the reliability of operations when used on Mac OS with [PTP] selected in [Communication].
Mac OS Classic (for installation), EOS Kiss Digital, EOS 300D DIGITAL or EOS DIGITAL REBEL camera with 1.0.2 firmware already installed.
RendezvousWithVesta 1.0.1081
RendezvousWithVesta - accurately simulate the dynamics of a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid (4) Vesta more>>
The motivations for developing this tool are:
- understand how the physical parameters of Vesta affect the stability of low polar orbits;
- understand how the physical parameters of Vesta and the orbital elements of DAWN affect the coverage of Vestas surface;
- provide a fast and reliable tool for the generation of orbits suitable for input in the Science Opportunity Analyzer (SOA) tool.
The output files generated are:
- a SPICE SPK kernel describing the orbit of DAWN around Vesta,
- a formatted ASCII data file containing information about DAWNs orbit, phase angle, and equatorial coordinates with respect to Vesta; see the header of the file for more details;
Main features:
- validated numerical algorithms, tested on NEAR mission data, and capable of accurately reproducing NEARs orbit around Eros;
- complete control over Vestas physical properties: mass, mass distribution model, shape model, rotation period, and pole ecliptic latitude and longitude;
- control over DAWNs initial orbit around Vesta: epoch, radius, equatorial (Vestas equator) inclination, phase angle;
- export simulations as SPICE kernel files and as ASCII data files;
- 3D graphical visualization of the numerical simulation, including the ground tracking of DAWN over Vestas surface;
- 2D plot of the altitude of the spacecraft and of the Vesta profile at nadir;
- completely open source and part of the ORSA framework;
- support for all major platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows;
Asteroid Rally 1.1.2
Asteroid Rally - Pilot your spacecraft through a 3D asteroid field to reach a series of waypoints more>>
Asteroid Rally is a free game for Mac OS X, developed in 3 months according to the rules of the uDevGames 2003 contest being run by iDevGames. Please visit their site for more information. Source code for this and many other contest entries has been made available.
Enhancements:
- Managed another small performance improvement.
- Removed voting notice since the contest is over (I did pretty well, but was not a finalist this time.)
Sunspots 1.0
Sunspots - Displays an image of the current sunspots more>>
The widget fetches SOHOs latest MDI picture from http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/.
SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a spacecraft observing our Sun, launched in 1995 by the European Space Agency ESA and by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
SkyChart Updater 3.6.4
SkyChart Updater - Sky simulation planetarium & telescope control more>>
SkyChart is also a telescope control program, supporting all of the leading computer-controlled telescopes available on the market today. SkyChart lets you enjoy the benefits of computer-aided observing: see where the telescope is pointing on your computer screen, or slew the telescope to any object in the sky with a single click of the mouse.
Note: SkyChart Updater is only available for registered users.
Main features:
- Accurately reproduces eclipses, transits, and occultations - as seen not only from Earth, but also from any place in the solar system. Watch the Moon orbit the Earth as seen from another planet, or witness the passage of a comet through the solar system as if you were riding on the comet!
- Shows you the sky from beyond the solar system, and lets you watch the celestial scenery change as you move. View the constellations from hundreds or thousands of light years away!
- Animates the sky forward or backward in time over thousands of years. Watch the celestial poles precess; see the constellations shift as the stars move over the millenia.
- Supports leading computer-controlled telescopes from Meade, Celestron, and other manufacturers. See where the telescope is pointing on your computer screen; slew the telescope to any object in the sky with a single click of the mouse. SkyChart III even has a "red screen" mode to preserve your night vision when working at the telescope!
- Includes two fully-customizable object databases. The Standard database is installed on your hard drive and contains 400,000 stars, plus tens of thousands of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. The Large database resides on the CD-ROM, and contains everything in the Standard database, plus over 19 million additional stars, and 1 million more galaxies. Import your own database files to add new comets, asteroids, stars, planets, or deep-sky objects. Any existing object in the database can be edited, even the constellations!
- Renders star images and planet surfaces in 32-bit color with data derived from NASA spacecraft imagery. Print high-resolution finder charts in black and white or color; or export images in many different file formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PICT, TIFF. Save animations as GIF files viewable in any web browser!
- Computes positions of the Sun, Moon, major planets, their moons, dozens of comets and asteroids to within milli-arcseconds of their values in the Astronomical Almanac. Investigate historical events like eclipses and conjunctions that happened centuries ago, and accurately reproduce what ancient peoples saw.
- Computes and displays the positions of Earth satellites from standard NASA/NORAD two-line element satellite orbit files using the full-precision SGP4/SDP4 satellite orbit models. Follow the International Space Station across the sky, or predict a satellite passage in front of the Moon.
Enhancements:
- This release brings the code base of the English-language version up to sync with the newly released Spanish-language version. A number of changes were made to support better internationalization/localization:
- The decimal-point character is now locale-specific; decimals are displayed as "," in European locales, and "." in North America. (The computers regional settings are used to determine the locale.) Decimal points in text import files and settings files are always assumed to be the US (".") decimal-point character, for consistency. [Note: this functionality is only present in the Windows version of SkyChart III; were still trying to make it work on Mac OS X.]
- All strings in data files, and settings descriptions in settings files, are converted to Windows Latin-1 encoding before being written to disk. This ensures that accented and other european-language characters will translate properly between Mac and Windows.
- A case-sensitive search for an object name is now sensitive to both case and diacritics (e.g. accents, umlauts, etc). When case is ignored, diacritics are also ignored - e.g. a search for "Jupiter" will also find "Jpiter", and a search for "Saturn" will also find "Sturn".
- In the chart legend, the full names of deep sky objects are being displayed, instead of abbreviations.
- In the "Object Info" window, a number of text strings and buttons were rearranged. The object type for the Sun is now displayed as "Star"; for the major planets as "Planet"; for moons as "Moon". The star type for single stars is now simply listed as "Star".
- For years outside 1600 - 2100 A.D., the program uses new expressions for the precession of the equinox provided by W. M. Owen of JPL. These new expressions should provide realistic results for a much wider interval of +/- 500,000 years from J2000. (The previous expressions "blew up" and displayed highly unrealistic results after roughly 10,000 years from J2000.) For the time period 1600 - 2100 A.D., the previous (IAU 1976) expressions for precession are still used.
- Previous versions of the Windows installer for SkyChart III installed a 16-bit version of the uninstall application (UnWise.exe). This update replaces it with the 32-bit version.
- Fixed a crash in the Mac OS X version that occurred when moving the mouse inside a progress-bar dialog.
- Removed timing code in the Mac OS X version that was causing a performance-profiling dialog to appear sporadically.
- The Mac OS X version of SkyChart III can now launch properly on Macs with 2.0 GB of RAM or more installed. The Mac OS X installer/updater application should no longer display a warning on Macs with more than 2.0 GB of RAM. (This warning can safely be ignored, however.)
- The Mac OS X version now has the main windows "close" button enabled; clicking it quites the application. The "Quit" menu command has moved from the File menu to the "SkyChart III" menu, for better conformance with Apples Mac OS X interface guidelines.
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