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Symbolical 1.0
Symbolical will test your wit and quick-thinking as you try to place all the game pieces on the board before time runs out more>>
Symbolic Linker 1.2v2
Symbolic Linker - Contextual menu creates symbolic links in Finder more>>
The goal of this product is to decrease users trips to the Terminal in order to use the "ln -s" command. SymbolicLinker is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Enhancements:
- Fixed sporadic problems with new symbolic links not appearing immediately in the Finder in Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
- Added an Italian localization.
- Also corrected another typo in the French localization.
SymbolicLinker 2.0
SymbolicLinker is designed as a very effective tweak tool for everyone more>>
SymbolicLinker 2.0 is designed as a very effective tweak tool for everyone. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for Puma through Leopard users) and software service (for Snow Leopard & later users) that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files.
As some of you may have noticed, a number of Unix tools, especially file and Web servers (such as FTP, NFS, Samba, and Apache), have trouble resolving the System 7 style alias files created by the Finder's "Make Alias" command. Many of these tools think these alias files are actually regular files with nothing inside them, which makes them useless in some situations. Just about all Unix tools, however, can resolve symbolic links. Symbolic links are similar to aliases, except that they point back to the original file in a way that every Unix application can understand. Until now, however, creating a symbolic link usually involved a trip to the Terminal.
SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for Puma through Leopard users) and software service (for Snow Leopard & later users) that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files. The goal of this product is to decrease users' trips to the Terminal in order to use the "ln -s" command. SymbolicLinker is available in English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
The plugin requires Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.5.8. It is a two-way universal binary with support for the PPC32 and Intel 32 architectures.
Enhancements:
- Mea culpa, now SymbolicLinker really is compatible with Snow Leopard.
- The old version worked in very early Snow Leopard betas, but then things changed.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or after
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menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that
Symbolic Composer 6.1
Symbolic Composer is the greatest and most powerful music composition language available with over 1000 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles. more>> <<less
Create Symbolic Link 1.0.1
A very useful automator action especially developed for web designers more>> A very useful automator action especially developed for web designers
This Automator action creates a symbolic link for each of the selected files. A symbolic link is similar to an alias, except that many applications, including the Create Clean Archive action, will see only the file points to rather than the alias itself.
Create Symbolic Link is a very useful automator action especially developed for web designers.
Enhancements
- Now shows up in the Files/Folders section of Automator in Leopard.
Mathomatic 14.4.5
Portable, general purpose CAS (Computer Algebra System) written entirely in the C programming language more>> Portable, general purpose CAS (Computer Algebra System) written entirely in the C programming language
Mathomatic is a free software, published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL version 2.1). This is a console mode application that does quick calculations and symbolic math.
Mathomatic is designed to be as general and easy to use as possible, and as such, has no programming capability.
Mathomatic implements most of the rules of algebra for subtraction (-), addition ( ), modulo division (%), multiplication (*), division (/), and all forms of exponentiation (^). All arithmetic is double precision floating point with up to 14 decimal digit
Mathomatic compiles and runs under any operating system with a C compiler, especially GNU/Linux. There are no dependencies other than the standard C libraries.
Mathomatic has been under development since 1986 and now stands at 16,000 lines of code (including comments).
Main features:
- combine and solve algebraic equations,
- completely simplify, expand, and compare expressions,
- do calculus transformations (derivative, polynomial integral and Laplace, extrema, and Taylor series),
- help with series analysis (sum and product),
- do standard, complex number, and polynomial arithmetic,
- generate efficient C, Java, and Python code from equations,
- and perform quick calculations, all in color, for easier reading.
Enhancements
- "primes/mult" improved and renamed to "primes/matho-mult", so you can install as a unique program, if you wish. "primorial 1" works now, too. Roots command enabled in the symbolic math library.
- Fixed factor command parameter handling and results, it was not user friendly. Also fixed factor command for consistent behavior in the symbolic math library.
- Allow separate install of Mathomatic binaries and documentation in makefile.
This is a console mode application that does quick calculations and symbolic math. Mathomatic is designed to be as general and easy to use as possible, and as such, has no programming capabilityLicense:GPL
MiniSwitch 1.0.1
MiniSwitch is designed as a professional program which gives Mac OS X users the ability to switch preferences and files for user-specified applications, creating mini users within a single Mac OS X User. more>>
MiniSwitch 1.0.1 is designed as a professional program which gives Mac OS X users the ability to switch preferences and files for user-specified applications, creating "mini" users within a single Mac OS X User.
Major Features:
- Multiple "mini" users for user specified applications.
- User can specify multiple files/folders to be switched for each application.
- Option to use symbolic links for folders when switching.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later (Univeral Binary)
Option to use symbolic links for folders when switching. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or laterOption to use symbolic links for folders when switching. Warning for MailSwitch Users: MiniSwitch alters the MailSwitch folder, breaking the functionality of MailSwitch. Once you usePYBAG 0.2.0 RC
Free files and directories synchronization tool With the PYBAG program you will be able to easily synchronize you files copies between any devices (as flashdrive or notebook, for example) more>> Free files and directories synchronization tool
With the PYBAG program you will be able to easily synchronize you files copies between any devices (as flashdrive or notebook, for example).
You can specify rules for automatic conflict resolve - use newer or older file, specify direction for writing changes.
PYBAG is cross platform and independent from OS and filesystem. Symbolic link realy supported on the all OS (if OS or filesystem not support symlink then they emulated).
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added splitter between log window and other elements (GUI).
- Improve "--sync" interactive menu: added "v" command.
- In command "--sync" now if canceled "n" report reading and comparing
- duration.
- Reading, comparing, synchronization and Statistics results now show in
- verbosity level "1" and upper ( up to "5").
- When read DB now skip wrong lines (previous was fill empty values.)
- When run without options - try start GUI.
- Unicode conversion now in "replace" mode (previous was in "strict" mode
- and sometimes may be generated error about conversion).
- 0002: Get error when read files with # symbol.
- 0003: After Add/Remove root in emulation mode do not load config file.
- 0004: Wrong save duration in "sync" command report.
- 0005: Symlink was not be ignored if set ignore symlink.
EyeTV2Alias 1.2
EyeTV2Alias - Create symbolic links to EyeTv recordings more>>
Be aware if you edit the movies in another editor then EyeTV then EyeTV perhaps have problems to play, export or edit the files any longer.
You could just start it by clicking or by adding it to your Applescript Menu.
Enhancements:
- Growl is no longer required but supported.
Subversion 1.4.4
Subversion - version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community more>>
Most current CVS features.
Subversion is meant to be a better CVS, so it has most of CVSs features. Generally, Subversions interface to a particular feature is similar to CVSs, except where theres a compelling reason to do otherwise.
Directories, renames, and file meta-data are versioned.
Lack of these features is one of the most common complaints against CVS. Subversion versions not only file contents and file existence, but also directories, copies, and renames. It also allows arbitrary metadata (properties) to be versioned along with any file or directory, and provides a mechanism for versioning the `execute permission flag on files.
Commits are truly atomic.
No part of a commit takes effect until the entire commit has succeeded. Revision numbers are per-commit, not per-file; log messages are attached to the revision, not stored redundantly as in CVS.
Apache network server option, with WebDAV/DeltaV protocol.
Subversion can use the HTTP-based WebDAV/DeltaV protocol for network communications, and the Apache web server to provide repository-side network service. This gives Subversion an advantage over CVS in interoperability, and provides various key features for free: authentication, wire compression, and basic repository browsing.
Standalone server option.
Subversion also offers a standalone server option using a custom protocol (not everyone wants to run Apache 2.x). The standalone server can run as an inetd service, or in daemon mode, and offers basic authentication and authorization. It may also be tunnelled over ssh.
Branching and tagging are cheap (constant time) operations
There is no reason for these operations to be expensive, so they arent.
Branches and tags are both implemented in terms of an underlying copy operation. A copy takes up a small, constant amount of space. Any copy is a tag; and if you start committing on a copy, then its a branch as well. (This does away with CVSs branch-point tagging, by removing the distinction that made branch-point tags necessary in the first place.)
Natively client/server, layered library design
Subversion is designed to be client/server from the beginning; thus avoiding some of the maintenance problems which have plagued CVS. The code is structured as a set of modules with well-defined interfaces, designed to be called by other applications.
Client/server protocol sends diffs in both directions
The network protocol uses bandwidth efficiently by transmitting diffs in both directions whenever possible (CVS sends diffs from server to client, but not client to server).
Costs are proportional to change size, not data size
In general, the time required for a Subversion operation is proportional to the size of the changes resulting from that operation, not to the absolute size of the project in which the changes are taking place. This is a property of the Subversion repository model.
Choice of database or plain-file repository implementations
Repositories can be created with either an embedded database back-end (BerkeleyDB) or with normal flat-file back-end, which uses a custom format.
Versioning of symbolic links
Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The links are recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working copies.
Efficient handling of binary files
Subversion is equally efficient on binary as on text files, because it uses a binary diffing algorithm to transmit and store successive revisions.
Parseable output
All output of the Subversion command-line client is carefully designed to be both human readable and automatically parseable; scriptability is a high priority.
Localized messages
Subversion uses gettext() to display translated error, informational, and help messages, based on current locale settings.
Duplicity 0.6.03
Duplicity is a helpful tool with which you can back directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. more>>
Duplicity 0.6.03 is a helpful tool with which you can back directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server.
The duplicity package also includes the rdiffdir utility. Rdiffdir is an extension of librsync's rdiff to directories---it can be used to produce signatures and deltas of directories as well as regular files. These signatures and deltas are in GNU tar format.
Duplicity is still in Beta. As any software, it may still have a few bugs, but will work for normal usage and is in use now for large personal and corporate backups.
In theory many protocols for connecting to a file server could be supported; so far ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, HSI, WebDAV, and Amazon S3 have been written. Currently duplicity supports deleted files, full unix permissions, directories, and symbolic links, fifos, and device files, but not hard links.
Major Features:
- Easy to use: Although duplicity is a command-line utility, the semantics are relative simply. To take a basic example, this command: duplicity /usr scp://host.net/target_dir backs up the /usr directory to the remost host host.net via scp.
- Encrypted and signed archives: The archives that duplicity produces can be encrypted and signed using GnuPG, the standard for free software cryptology. The remote location will not be able to infer much about the backups other than their size and when they are uploaded. Also, if the archives are modified on the remote side, this will be detected when restoring.
- Bandwidth and space efficient: Duplicity uses the rsync algorithm so only the changed parts of files are sent to the archive when doing an incremental backup. For instance, if a long log file increases by just a few lines of text, a small diff will be sent to and saved in the archive. Other backup programs may save a complete copy of the file.
- Standard file format: Athough archive data will be encrypted, inside it is in standard GNU-tar format archives. A full backup contains normal tarballs, and incremental backups are tar archives of new files and the deltas from previous backups. The deltas are in the format produced by librsync's command-line utility rdiff.
- Although you should never have to look at a duplicity archive manually, if the need should arise they can be produced and processed using GnuPG, rdiff, and tar.
- Choice of remote protocol: Duplicity does not make many demands on its archive server. As long as files can be saved to, read from, listed, and deleted from a location, that location can be used as a duplicity backend. Besides increasing choice for the user, it can make a server more secure, as clients only require minimal access. Currently local file storage, scp/ssh, ftp, rsync, HSI, WebDAV, and Amazon S3 are supported, and others shouldn't be difficult to add.
Requirements:
- Duplicity requires a POSIX-like operating system. It is best used under GNU/Linux. It also requires:
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- Python v2.3 or later (Python Home)
- librsync v0.9.6 or later (librsync Home)
- GnuPG for encryption (GnuPG Home)
- NcFTP version 3.1.9 or later (NcFTP Home)
- Boto 0.9d or later (Boto Home)
- If you install from the source package, you will also need:
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- Python development files, normally found in module 'python-dev'
- librsync development files, normally found in module 'librsync-dev'
Enhancements:
- Restart error handling has been smoothed out a great deal and it "does what is right" in order to keep going.
- Backends are now optional, if they fail an Info message is put out to notify of the failure and why.
- There was more work on translations and internationalization.
Yacas 1.0.56
Yacas (Yet Another Computer Algebra System) is an open source general purpose computer algebra system more>>
Talimans 1.0
Talimans - Talismans icon set more>>
The icons are best viewed in 128x128 at 32bit mode.
OSXCOPY 0.62
OSXCOPY - Copies OS X folders and files from one location to another more>>
It also preserves all privileges, recreates necessary symbolic links, creates a log and overcomes the 4GB limitation of Apple Software Restore.
Completly freeware.
Main features:
- Copies OS X folders and files from one location to another
- Makes a bootable copy of an OS X volume
- Preserves all privileges and recreates necessary symbolic links
- Deletes selected visible and invisible OS X files and folders
- Can copy to another volume, another partition or another folder of same drive
- Creates a log on the destination to report outcome of copy
- Overcomes 4GB limitation of Apple Software Restore for making a backup.
Maxima 5.11.0
Maxima - a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration etc more>>
Maxima is a tool that yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and arbitrarily precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.
The Maxima source code can be compiled on many systems, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. The source code for all systems and precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux are available at the SourceForge file manager.
Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is the only system based on that effort still publicly available and with an active user community, thanks to its open source nature.
Macsyma was revolutionary in its day, and many later systems, such as Maple and Mathematica, were inspired by it.
The Maxima branch of Macsyma was maintained by William Schelter from 1982 until he passed away in 2001. In 1998 he obtained permission to release the source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
It was his efforts and skill which have made the survival of Maxima possible, and we are very grateful to him for volunteering his time and expert knowledge to keep the original DOE Macsyma code alive and well. Since his passing a group of users and developers has formed to bring Maxima to a wider audience.
