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Motion Sensor
A Quartz based animation that will highlight any motion captured by your Macs iSight camera more>> Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that give you the flexibility of running Windows or Linux on a Mac simultaneously without rebooting. The upgraded 3.0 version delivers completely seamless user experience, native hardware experience and protection against mishaps.
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iStat sensors 1.0
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iStat menus 1.0
iStat menus - Monitor your system right from the menubar more>>
Main features:
- CPU - Monitor cpu usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support.
- Memory - Monitor memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.
- Disks - Monitor disk usage and activity. 6 display modes, ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
- Network - Monitor current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, ip addresses . Ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
- Temps - Monitor the temperature of your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
- Fans - Monitor the fan speeds in your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
- Bluetooth - Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.
- Date & Time - Date + time in your menubar. World clock display lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.
SeisMac 2.0
SeisMac - Turns your SMS-equipped laptop into a seismograph more>>
The resizable, real-time scrolling display shows an enormous amount of acceleration information. Place your laptop on a table and see the seismic waves from tapping your toe on the floor.
Lay your laptop on your chest and see your heartbeat. And of course, if there is a real earthquake, SeisMac will be displaying full seismic information while you drop, cover and hold-on.
When running on the MacBook or MacBook Pro, SeisMac has a range of plus or minus two gravities of acceleration, displaying 256 values per gravity, sampled two hundred times per second for each axis. SeisMac is also compatible with older Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped iBooks and PowerBooks.
MacSaber 1.1
MacSaber - Uses MacBook sudden motion sensor, makes lightsaber sounds more>>
MacSaber uses your Macs sudden motion sensor to detect movements, fast and slow. As you move your laptop, MacSaber plays varying levels of Light Saber sound effects, from a waving sound to exciting saber crashes.
MacSaber includes support for backlit keyboards. Various amounts of force create brighter flashes of the backlight.
Informer 2.8
Informer - Monitors your system resources (CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, swap usage, system uptime, WiFi and more. more>> Informer - Monitors your system resources (CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, swap usage, system uptime, WiFi and more.
This Widget monitors your system resources (CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, swap usage, system uptime, WiFi, battery life, Recycle Bin/Trash), Internet resources (RSS feeds, IMAP4/POP3 MailBoxes and Gmail Inbox), etc., and displays it on your desktop.
You may also set up multiple sensors, a very useful feature it you have multiple RSS feeds or Gmail accounts.
System requirements:
- Yahoo! Widget Engine
SeisMaCalibrate 1.2
SeisMaCalibrate - Calibrates MacBook/MacBook Pro Sudden Motion Sensor more>>
Once calibrated, my seismology tool SeisMac will be much more accurate.
X Resource Graph 1.1
X Resource Graph - (XRG) system resource monitor more>>
Enhancements:
- XRG 1.1 contains many bug fixes as well as some new features.
- The primary new features include increased support for temperature sensors in the iMac G5 and fan sensor monitoring on multiple types of machines. Machines with supported temperature and/or fan sensors include the PowerMac G5, iMac G5, Aluminum Powerbook G4, and iBook G4 computers.
- Other new features include compatibility with the latest Tiger builds and "Update Now" menu options for the Weather and Stock graphs.
- Finally, bugs have been fixed in the Temperature, Weather, and Battery graphs.
StepMania 3.9
StepMania - Play this energetic dancing game based on the popular Dance Dance Revolution more>>
The games played by StepMania are rhythm games. Notes scroll up from the bottom of the screen, and the player must hit the corresponding button on the controller in time to the. All games can be played using the keyboard, but the real fun comes when using specially designed controllers, like a dance pad or hand sensors.
Enhancements:
- Fixed change song speed menu codes starting with change difficulty menu codes.
- Fixed memory leak in BeginnerHelper.
- Fixed crashes due to high song meter values.
- Fixed reading UTF-8 lyrics.
- Fixed crashes related to BMS loading.
- Fixed memory leak reading ZIPs.
- Fixed handling corrupt banner cache.
- Fixed long/marathon StageStats::GetAverageMeter results.
- Fixed crash selecting Random with no songs.
- Fixed songs with a non-zero initial #BPMS.
- Editor: Fixed laying hold notes with shift-0.
- Windows: Disabled parallel port lights driver due to GPL-incompatibility.
- Windows: Worked around Realtek AC97 audio driver bug.
- Windows: Fixed thread handle leak.
- Added some fallbacks for note color NoteSkin elements.
- Linux: Fixed some GCC 3.4 compilation problems.
- Linux: Added extra autoconf checks for Lua and TLS.
- OSX: Switch back to OS X installer.
real fun comes when using specially designed controllers, such as a dance pad or hand sensorsSkip Checker 4
Skip Checker is designed as a professional program which lets you have fun with the Sudden Motion sensor: more>>
Skip Checker 4 is designed as a professional program which lets you have fun with the Sudden Motion sensor:
Major Features:
- Skip to the next song in iTunes by slapping your MacBook / PowerBook / iBook
- Run AppleScripts or play sounds by moving the computer around
- And some 3D fun as a bonus
Requirements:
- Portable Mac with Sudden Motion Sensor (this includes all MacBooks an MacBook Pros and the newer iBook and PowerBook G4 models)
- Mac OS X.4
SystemLoad 1.2
SystemLoad - Diagnostic application assisting you in the detection of cooling or power supply more>>
The tool can put a user-definable load onto one or more processors.
This can help in diagnosing the following issues:
- problems with the cooling system or temperature sensors,
- problems with chirping noise experienced on some G5 systems and some portable computers,
- problems with battery units of portable computers.
When desired, the tool can put the processor(s) under the maximum load possible, generating the highest possible temperatures and highest load on the power supply. You so can verify if all components (CPUs, sensors, cooling subsystem, power supply unit, battery unit) are working correctly when they are pushed to their design limits.
No installation is required, no administrator permissions are needed, nothing is changed in the operating system.
Enhancements:
- By user request, the application now remembers the last load value and the number of processors to load the next time it is started.
Gazebo 0.8 Pre3
Open source 3D multiple robot simulator with dynamics more>> Open source 3D multiple robot simulator with dynamics
Gazebo is a multi-robot simulator for outdoor environments. Like Stage, it is capable of simulating a population of robots, sensors and objects, but does so in a three-dimensional world.
Gazebo can help you generate both physically plausible interactions between objects (it includes an accurate simulation of rigid-body physics) and realistic sensor feedback.
The Player/Stage project provides two multi-robot simulators: Stage and Gazebo. Since Stage and Gazebo are both Player-compatible, client programs written using one simulator can usually be run on the other with little or no modification.
The key difference between these two simulators is that whereas Stage is designed to simulate a very large robot population with low fidelity, Gazebo is designed to simulated a small population with high fidelity.
Thus, the two simulator are complementary, and users may switch back and forth between them according to their needs.
Main features:
- Simulation of standard robot sensors, including sonar, scanning laser range-finders, GPS and IMU, monocular and stereo cameras.
- Models for commonly used robot types such as the Pioneer2DX, Pioneer2AT and SegwayRMP.
- Realistic simulation of rigid-body physics: robots can push things around, pick things up, and generally interact with the world in a plausible manner.
- Player compatible: robots and sensors can be controlled through standard Player interfaces.
- Stand-alone operation: programs can interact directly with the simulator (i.e., without going through Player) using libgazebo (included in the distribution).
- New Stereo camera model: generates stereo image pairs, disparity and depth maps.
- New Completely re-written GUI using wxPython: most devices can now be directly controlled/inspected through the simulator GUI.
- New Plugin models: users can develop their own robot/sensor models, and have these models loaded dynamically at run time.
- New Skins: simple geometric models may be augmented with realisitc skins from 3D modelling programs.
Enhancements
- Selectable and movable models.
- Saving world files
- Improved gui with multiple cameras
- 2D map extruder
- Lots of bug fixes and patches
SMSRotateD 0.22
SMSRotateD - triggers screen rotation based on the orientation data it retrieves from the Sudden Motion Sensor more>>
It uses the SMS to detect if the notebook has been physically rotated sufficiently (where "sufficient" is defined as a preconfigured threshold) in such a manner that the displays orientation has changed from landscape to portrait, or vice-versa. When such a change occurs, SMSRotateD triggers an appropriate rotation of the displayed screen.
This movie (QuickTime format, no audio, 6.5 MB) depicts the operation of SMSRotateD. Note that besides clockwise and anti-clockwise rotations, SMSRotateD also supports upside-down (180 degree) rotations.
After launching SMSRotateD, the "Start" button within the applications window must be pressed to enable SMS-based screen orientation. When "Start" is pressed, the notebooks base should be parallel to the ground, to allow SMSRotateD to establish a "level" state. Thereafter, the button becomes the "Stop" button.
As a convenience and safeguard, the key toggles between the two states of the button. Disabling SMS-based screen orientation (that is, going to the "Stop" state, whether by pressing "Stop" or by hitting ) resets the screen to its original, non-rotated state. Moreover, quitting the SMSRotateD application also resets the screen.
On some notebooks, you might need to check one, or even both, of the axis flipping checkboxes. For example, if physically rotating the notebook 90 degrees clockwise causes the screen to rotate anti-clockwise, checking the "Flip x-axis" box will rectify this behavior.
Another important point to note is that SMSRotateD does not alter the user-facing orientation of the built-in trackpad. In other words, even though the screen has been rotated, say, by 90 degrees, the trackpad logically remains in its original position.
nesC 1.3
Compiler for a new language (based on C) designed to support the TinyOS project more>> Compiler for a new language (based on C) designed to support the TinyOS project
nesC (pronounced "NES-see") is an extension to the C programming language designed to embody the structuring concepts and execution model of TinyOS.
TinyOS is an event-driven operating system designed for sensor network nodes that have very limited resources (e.g., 512 bytes of RAM, 8K bytes of program memory).
The basic concepts behind nesC are:
- Separation of construction and composition: programs are built out of components, which are assembled ("wired") to form whole programs. Components have internal concurrency in the form of tasks. Threads of control may pass into a component through its interfaces. These threads are rooted either in a task or a hardware interrupt.
- Specification of component behaviour in terms of set of interfaces. Interfaces may be provided or used by components. The provided interfaces are intended to represent the functionality that the component provides to its user, the used interfaces represent the functionality the component needs to perform its job.
- Interfaces are bidirectional: they specify a set of functions to be implemented by the interfaces provider (commands) and a set to be implemented by the interfaces user (events). This allows a single interface to represent a complex interaction between components (e.g., registration of interest in some event, followed by a callback when that event happens). This is critical because all lengthy commands in TinyOS (e.g. send packet) are non-blocking; their completion is signaled through an event (send done). By specifying interfaces, a component cannot call the send command unless it provides an implementation of the sendDone event. Typically commands call downwards, i.e., from application components to those closer to the hardware, while events call upwards. Certain primitive events are bound to hardware interrupts.
- Components are statically linked to each other via their interfaces. This increases runtime efficiency, encourages rubust design, and allows for better static analysis of programs.
- nesC is designed under the expectation that code will be generated by whole-program compilers. This should also allow for better code generation and analysis.
atMonitor 2.1.2
atMonitor is regarded as a high-speed and effective monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time. more>>
atMonitor 2.1.2 is regarded as a high-speed and effective monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time. It is designed to allow quick assessment of computer's state, but it is powerful enough to make it a core utility in anyone's system troubleshooting toolkit.
atMonitor offers a better alternative to Apple's own "Activity Monitor" and combines the best of the features of many other existing monitoring utilities. It also adds an extensive list of unique features of its own. In addition to the standard CPU, GPU, VRAM, FPS, Disk and Network info, atMonitor allows interaction with processes, setting up triggers, logging, purging RAM and much more.
There are three different ways atMonitor can display the monitored values:
- in the menu bar
- in the floating window on the desktop
- in the dock icon
Enhancements:
- [bugfix] Add signal handler to helper process to imrpove robustness.
- [bugfix] Do not use temperature sensors that report erroneous values.
- Many other small bug fixes and improvements.
- A modern video card is required for monitoring GPU activity.
