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FitnessTrainer 1.2
FitnessTrainer - Battle sore shoulders and back pain from too much computer use more>>
Main features:
- lets you configure the types of exercises and schedule you want.
- reminds you to compelte your daily schedule.
- automatically quits when you completed your schedule.
Enhancements:
- bug in second exercise display fixed.
- bug in days off not allowed mode fixed.
- improved protection against file corruption.
- improved help text.
See URL Later 1.0
See URL Later - Store a list of URLs for later more>>
Completly freeware for non-commercial use.
DOFC - Depth of Field Calculator 1.6
DOFC is a handy calculator for the depth of field, no matter what camera you?ve got more>>
Its the perfect companion for the Apple PowerBook or iBook you probably carry to store and touch-up your digital images.
DOFC is a tool that will make a nice addition to your shooting set-up, whether you shoot for soft Bokeh in portraits or ultimate sharpness in panoramic images.
Depth of Field, or DoF for short, is the distance from the camera which appears in focus. I use the word appear for good reason: Technically, there is only one single distance which is in focus. But as the human eye is easily fooled, there are adjacent areas in front and behind the subject which appear to be in focus as well.
Sharpness depends on the circumstances, but in general people see things as being sharp if a single dot doesnt expand too much. For 35mm film, the Diameter of Least Confusion, DoLC for short, is 0.029 mm -- if a single dot gets bigger than this on your slide or negative, people will see it as out of focus. Other formats have other DoLCs, and its not brain surgery to calculate them.
But its a major pain.
Everything outside this field will get blurred in the final picture. The blur can be used to make people or subjects stand out but sometimes blur is unwanted, as in landscape images. However, not knowing the DoF makes it difficult to get the right amount of blur. Theres much to read about this, please note the links I provided on the left if youre curious abut the DoLC. If you dont care, as I do, no problem.
There are tons of lists where you can look up the DoF for any given lens/f-stop combination, but with digital still cameras, everything changed. As lenses are specified with the same focal lengths as for 35 mm cameras, none of the former lists will work for your digital cam. The smaller sensor size of digital still cameras makes the focal length of your 35mm lenses longer and the DoLC gets tighter.
The Depth of Field Calculator
Knowing everything about DoF and DoLC doesnt help me in any real world situation. Having used my Nikon 35mm cams for years, I have a good feeling for all of my lenses. But the D70s changed everything.
Even worse, switching between 35mm film, Nikon DX, 1/3" and 2/3" video cameras requires a lot of paper to be carried around to calculate the DoF in any given situation. Carrying my Apple iBook works for me, as all the glass and lighting are a lot to handle on location. Hence I remembered my roots as a programmer and made this little Widget.
The solution
This Widget is a handy calculator for DoF, no matter what camera youve got. It is the perfect companion for the Apple PowerBook or iBook you probably carry to store and touch-up your digital images. DOFC will hopefully make a welcome addition to your shooting setup. If you have any questions regarding this little thing, please contact me.
Entourage Mail Tickler 1.1
One of the most useful things you can do with Entourage Mail Tickler is track the actions you have assigned to other people more>>
Another variation is to setup your email account to always BCC you on outgoing mail. This acts like a receipt for a job order, which you may then tickle until its time to follow up.
An email tickler can be implemented in a number of ways. The most basic is to create a set of 43 folders labeled 1-31 (one for each day of the month) and the remaining twelve labeled January through December. If you want to defer a message, you just drag it to the appropriate folder. The next time you check your email, open the folder that corresponds to todays date and voila! Well, almost.
Like most things that work good in theory, actually implementing an email tickler can be a bit of a pain.
For instance, do you really want to be dragging-and-dropping your email from folder to folder, and folder to sub-folder, and where did that email go? And what happens if you forget to check todays folder all together? If you remember to check tomorrows folder, but not todays folder, is that email then lost forever? And why cant this thing just send my email back to my Inbox when its due?
Enter the world of AppleScript. Here we find a set of scripts that let you send email to a single @Tickler folder. Messages can be deferred 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, to next month, or even next quarter. At the end-of-which, each email is sent back to your Inbox automatically. And best of all, each script has its own keyboard shortcut, so you never have to take your fingers off the keyboard!
spriteLiner 1.3
spriteLiner - sprite animation helper tool more>>
Enhancements:
- Added the ability to open other things then .tiff, because someone asked.
- Undid the change in 1.1, but made it better. You can now drag the folder there, which is much easier.
- Added the progress indicator.
Investoscope 1.1.1
Free application that will help you monitor your investments in stocks, binds and other. Investoscope is a portfolio tracker for the individual investor more>> Free application that will help you monitor your investments in stocks, binds and other.
Investoscope is a portfolio tracker for the individual investor. With a compelling and intuitive one window user interface, Investoscope helps you monitor the performance of your investments in bonds, stocks, mutual fonds and other securities.
Futhermore, Investoscopes built-in reports removes the pain of preparing those tax reports.
Main features:
- Latest quotes automatically downloaded from the internet.
- Import your transactions from OFX or CSV files.
- Export your data in CSV format.
- Supports several accounting methods, including FIFO, LIFO, average and specific lot identification.
- Simple and intuitive one-window user interface.
- Spotlight integration.
Enhancements
- The reinvestment transaction sheet would sometimes cause Investoscope to crash. Fixed.
- Adding a new income category no longer causes a save error.
- Empty bookmark entries no longer causes problems.
Futhermore, Investoscopes built-in reports removes the pain of preparing those tax reportsLicense:Freeware
Counter 1.5
Counter - Keep count or score of up to four different things. more>>
MacBreakZ is a personal ergonomic assistant which monitors our keyboard and mouse activity and helps us structure our computer use in a healthy and constructive manner, thus preventing computer-related injuries from developing.
The main applications for MacBreakZ are to prevent repetitive strain injuries (RSI) and promote healthy and pain-free computing and to aid the recovery from repetitive strain injuries.
MacBreakZ achieves this by helping us re-structure our computer usage: it monitors user activity and suggests appropriate times for recovery and micro-breaks; provides a range of stretching exercises designed to relieve muscular tension and improve static posture and it provides ergonomic information on how to use our computer in a healthy manner
System Requirements: PowerPC or Intel-based Macintosh with Mac OS X 10.4 or later
System Requirements: The new version fixes font problem.
<<lessiChat Extender 1.5
iChat Extender - Personalize iChat more>>
This is a Beta version of the software, which means that things might not work for certain people. We apologise if you are one of those unfortunete people, but we need your feedback so we can fix it.
Enhancements:
- Complete interface revamp
- Complete Style pane overhaul
- Added Advanced pane
- Added Custom image setting
- Integrated Help into system Help
- Now using Sparkle update system to manage updating
- Found critical information about iChatAgent & iChat, which now requires iChat to be closed when using iChat Extender.
TileEdit 1.1
TileEdit is an advanced program which satisfies you if youre a small-time programmer, writing an RPG can be a pain in more ways than one. more>>
TileEdit 1.1 is an advanced program which satisfies you if you're a small-time programmer, writing an RPG can be a pain in more ways than one. TileEdit relieves a little bit of that pain. All you have to do is click a color, click a tile, and you're on your way to making a map. There's nothing complicated involved.
Requirements: Mac OS 8.6 - OS X
Overlay3D 0.3
Overlay3D consists of classes, designed in order to help you create a heads-up-display (HUD) for RB3D scenes more>>
HUDs are common in 3D video games but turn out to be quite the pain in the arse to do in Quesa/QD3D/RB3D. Although these classes will help, they dont provide a true orthographic overlay, and will generally require more attention and tweaking than a HUD created in another API such as OpenGL.
These overlays are created in order to be used with AddShapePicture objects. Meshes will work, but there are a number of issues that arise that arent covered in this document.
Using meshes can actually result in some interesting possibilities - the game "Ikaruga" is a good example of a 3D environment behind a "2D" playing field made up of 3D models. These Overlay classes could be used for a similar effect if anyone is inclined to try.
Note: This is a rather old example with some nasty circular references. The math should still be useful, but I wouldnt recommend using these classes as-is.
Clipping Namer 1.3.5
Name those clippings and keep them in order. more>>
ClippingNamer helps you manage clippings. Without leaving your current program, you can:Automatically assign a new name based on the (text) clipping contents.Automatically create a thumbnail image (icon) for picture clippings.
Popup a dialog that lets you see both ClippingNamers and the Finders suggested names, and use either one or a newname you type.You can set any of these modes (or none) as the default, and invoke any of the others with modifier keys (completelycustomizable). There are several other convenience options as well.
WaterRoof 2.2
WaterRoof is considered as a powerful firewall management frontend designed with bandwidth tuning, NAT setup, port redirection, dynamic rules tracking, predefined rule sets, wizard, logs, statistics and other features. more>>
WaterRoof 2.2 is considered as a powerful firewall management frontend designed with bandwidth tuning, NAT setup, port redirection, dynamic rules tracking, predefined rule sets, wizard, logs, statistics and other features. With WaterRoof you can set up the IPFW built-in firewall easily and quickly. With the NAT Setup feature you can fine-tune your internet sharing for the home LAN, or you can also set up a full-featured dual-homed firewall for your network. Rules and network option can be stored and loaded at boot time.
WaterRoof is only a frontend so it makes use of system tools: this means that when you have finished configuring/testing your firewall, you can safely delete WaterRoof from your system, without loosing your rules. Bandwidth settings, firewall rules, NAT rules, forwarding, logging and other options will be preserved and activated at boot using launchd, following Apple guidelines. This means that WaterRoof is quite safe because it does not install any strange kernel extension or background daemon. You can also download and check WaterRoof source code, it's open.
WaterRoof can be used to learn how ipfw works: you can use predefined rule sets to test firewall behaviour, or you can use the wizard to start from scratch with a step-by-step configuration. But WaterRoof can also be used to deeply configure a ipfw firewall/router, using every ipfw option including qos (dummynet queues). English documentation included. WaterRoof is freeware and open-source.
Major Features:
- Uses Mac OS X built-in IPFW firewall. No kernel modules, no extensions, no pain. WaterRoof is free and open-source
- The most advanced Mac OS X free graphical interface for ipfw lets you create, modify, delete, move ipfw rules very quickly.
- Manage network bandwidth with dummynet pipes and queues
- Check live dynamic rules created by stateful firewall rules
- Watch and parse firewall logs, create raw and graphic statistics
- Look at active network connections, block them or limit their bandwidth on-the-fly
- List all applications that make network connections
- Manage Network Address Translation (NAT) daemon: create a basic dual-home firewall/nat/router with port redirection and forwarding
- Keep your favourite firewall rules active at system boot; import/export rulesets
- Name resolution, whois, and much more.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6.
Colemak keyboard layout 1.0
Colemak keyboard layout - a modern alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts more>>
Colemak is a modern alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. It is designed for efficient and ergonomic touch typing in English.
Colemak learning is a one-time investment that will allow you to enjoy faster and pain-free typing for the rest of your life. Colemak is now the 3rd most popular keyboard layout for touch typing in English, after QWERTY and Dvorak.
Warning about passwords: If you have any passwords in your computer, either change them (e.g. with a password of numbers only), or learn them in the new layout!
Presentation Mode 1.0
Presentation Mode is a full featured and advanced software which can help you give a good presentation. more>>
Presentation Mode 1.0 is a full featured and advanced software which can help you give a good presentation.
The problem: Whenever you are giving presentations, the display or the machine would go to sleep on you, causing the projector to go blank. It was a pain to change the Energy Saver settings to prevent this. Even if I did remember, you often forgot to change them back to a more normal mode.
The solution: An AppleScript to wrap the UNIX "pmset" command and provide a convenient toggle between Presentation and Normal settings.
If you're giving a presentation (on power or on battery), this script sets the display and the machine to never go to sleep, but allows the disk to shut down after 10 minutes of activity and run the internal screen at a lower brightness level when you're on battery.
If you're in normal mode and running on battery, this script sets the display ot run at a lower brightness and to shut itself off after 1 minute of inactivity. The disk is shut off after 2 minutes of inactivity, and the whole machine goes to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity.
If you're in normal mode and running off of power, the script sets the display to itself off after 15 minutes of inactivity, and the disk to shut off after 10 minutes of inactivity. The system will never put itself to sleep.
All of these settings/timings are adjustable fairly easily by modifying the script. This script is most useful if you place it in the /Library/Scripts folder and use the /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility application to turn on the Script Menu in the menu bar.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.x (May work on other versions--10.3.x or 10.5.x, but not tested. Use at your own risk.)
Transform 0.10.5
Transform - Common text & DNA / protein sequence transformations more>>
Main features:
- Insert Tab before / after each character
- Insert Return after each character
- Keep only letters a-Z
- Format in blocks of 3, 10, 50, 100
- Remove leading / trailing / multiple spaces
- Reverse / complement/ invert DNA sequence
- Translate DNA sequence in frame 1 / 2 / 3
- Backtranslate protein into human / E. coli DNA (using the most frequently used codon)
- Convert 3-Letter AminoAcid code into 1-Letter code
- Convert 1-Letter AminoAcid code into 3-Letter code (spaced / tabbed)
- Get protein sequence info
If there are other transformations youd like just drop me a line .
Please note that this program will run as it is - there is no installation, no files will be put anywhere (registry, system, etc in the Windows version) so it should even run if you are on "managed computers" like we are in our lab (which is a pain in the neck in 99% of all cases - IT support should be there for us, not the other way round).
