usability
Usabilityweb.nl RSS Feeds 1.0
Usabilityweb.nl RSS Feeds brings users the convenience of using a useful and easy-to-use RSS feed parser from the biggest usability weblog in the Netherlands. more>>
Usabilityweb.nl RSS Feeds 1.0 brings users the convenience of using a useful and easy-to-use RSS feed parser from the biggest usability weblog in the Netherlands. Updated frequently.
Cocktail Widget 1.0
Cocktail Widget - Search from nearly 7,000 drink recipes more>> Onscreen Keyboard, special design for disabled, optimized for usability. no dead lines, easy to handle, customizeable. Fast hide/show functionality - when hidde places an icon in the title bar of the active window.<<less
Apple iDisk Utility 1.0.1
Enhance your iDisk usability. more>>
Once you have the iDisk Utility image open, double click on the iDisk_Utility.pkg icon to begin the installation.
When installing, if you receive a message that you do not have sufficient privileges to install either the required system software updates or the application, click the lock icon in the installer and enter and enter an administrators name and password.
Gmail Inbox 2.2
Gmail Inbox - Displays the number of unread messages in your Gmail account inbox more>>
Click the number and you will be taken to your Gmail account. Also allows the user to enter and save their account log-in information on the back of the widget.
Enhancements:
- Minor changes to the interface and usability.
Enhancements: - Minor changes to the interface and usabilityAgilefant 1.5.6
The Finnish Ferrari for backlog management Agilefant is a tool for managing agile software development activities, such as: projects, iterations, products, releases, and backlogs more>> The Finnish Ferrari for backlog management
Agilefant is a tool for managing agile software development activities, such as: projects, iterations, products, releases, and backlogs.
Agilefant brings together the perspectives of long-term product and release planning and project portfolio management.
Main features:
Backlog management:
- manage your development work with backlogs
- backlog items may have effort estimates, priorities and responsibles
Product management:
- group your backlog items using themes
- set planned sizes for future projects and iterations in terms of effort
- assign themes for future projects and iterations and set relative spending
- get a quick view of your products roadmap
Project management:
- assign users to projects
- set weekly overhead for projects
- communicate the status of your project (red/yellow/green)
- get an overview of progress through burndown graph and metrics
Iteration management:
- focus team efforts with iteration goals
- get an overview of progress through burndown graph and metrics
Resource management:
- assign users to one or more teams
- set users available weekly working hours
- set thresholds for evaluating users workloads feasibility
- enable/disable users
Development portfolio management:
- track the status and relative priorities of all ongoing projects
- see who are assigned to which projects
- see who are involved in projects despite that they have NOT been assigned to them
- adjust weekly overhead from projects on an individual basis
- define project types
Daily work view:
- see all the items assigned to someone across different iterations and projects
- get an overview of someones total workload for the weeks ahead
- compare the total workload against set thresholds
Timesheets:
- log spent effort to projects and/or individual backlog items
- generate reports of spent effort
System requirements:
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- Database server
Enhancements
- Renovation of the iteration view (give us feedback at the forum!)
- Calendar view to daily work view for browsing spent effort
- Renamed Overhead as Baseline load
- Renamed existing project statuses green, yellow and red
- Added new project statuses grey and black
Terminology changed to match the concepts in Scrum:
- Iteration goal =>Story
- Backlog item in products and projects => Story
- Backlog item in an iteration => Task
Small UI and usability tweaks:
- Quick enter => save & close (instead of save)
- Improved interval selection in timesheets
- Improved displaying long backlog descriptions
Blagg 0+1i
Blagg 0+1i is regarded as an innovative and versatile RSS aggregator designed for (yet useful beyond) the Blosxom weblog application. more>>
Blagg 0+1i is regarded as an innovative and versatile RSS aggregator designed for (yet useful beyond) the Blosxom weblog application. As with Blosxom, Blag was designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind.
Major Features:
- Aggregate (i.e. read and blog) RSS syndicated feeds of about any flavour via a simple command-line interface.
- Fully integrated with Blosxom.
- Aggregating in under 15 minutes or your money back
- Absolutely FREE for the taking!
- Made for, but in no way limited to, Mac OS X.
- Simpler than pie drag-n-drop installation.
- Small<<less
Smart Label 1.7.2
Smart Label is a comprehensive, user friendly and fast drivers utility. more>> Smart Label 1.7.2 is a comprehensive, user friendly and fast drivers utility. Supporting the new Apple Intel processor platform, the Smart Label Mac software adds usability and reliability enhancements and improved bar code printing functionality.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
Smart Label Software 1.6
Smart Label Software - Software for Seiko label printers more>>
Seiko Instruments is a pioneer of the one-label-at-a-time smart printer, has released a new version of its Smart Label Printer (SLP) application, driver and Software Development Kit (SDK) for Macintosh users.
Supporting the new Apple Intel processor platform for the first time, the Smart Label Mac v1.1 software adds usability and reliability enhancements and improved bar code printing functionality.
SLP customers can download the new and improved software at no charge from the company web site: http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/support/slpsoft.html. The Smart Label Mac v1.1 software will start shipping with Seiko Smart Label Printers in mid-October.
Tensai 0.92
Tensai - Japanese language dictionary more>>
There are many Japanese-English applications and websites available, but none of them present their results in a logical manner. Using Tensai, you can look up definitions for words, phrases, and individual characters in both English and Japanese and find what you are looking for very quickly.
Tensai also lets you make vocabulary lists with the entries you find so you can keep them handy for future reference.
These beta versions of Tensai are feedback-ware. You are welcome to use it free of charge, on the condition that you submit at least one bug report, feature request, or comment.
Remember that the only way to get the program you want is to ask for it.
Tensai 1.0 will be available as shareware in the near future.
Main features:
- Uncluttered interface
- Elegantly formatted results sorted by relevance
- Mixed language searches
- Prefix, suffix, substring, and whole word matching
- Intelligent entry and reading grouping
- User-createable vocabulary lists
- Unlimited results.
Enhancements:
- Improved interface
- Faster searching
- Multi-threaded, predictive, cancellable searches
- "Look Up in Tensai" system service
- Numerous usability enhancements.
Transliteration 2.0
Transliteration is the transliteration tool which uses simple rules to replace characters of one alphabet with characters of another. more>>
Transliteration 2.0 is the transliteration tool which uses simple rules to replace characters of one alphabet with characters of another. Russian-Latin and Julius Caesar rules are included. PLIST-files with simple syntax allow defining your own rules. Just e-mail us your PLISTs, and they will be included in future versions of Transliteration.
Enhancements:
- Snow Leopard compatibility upgrade
- Fixed minor memory leaks
- 'Reinstall basic rules' menu item added
- Improved usability for from/to conversion
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
GNUMail.app 1.2pre3
GNUMail.app is an innovative and versatile mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X. more>>
GNUMail.app 1.2pre3 is an innovative and versatile mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X.
It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. GNUMail.app is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available.
GNUMail.app was written from scratch. It uses Pantomime as its mail handling framework.
- Universal
- Now makes use of the new mailbox caching code from Pantomime
- New task handling code
- UI improvements for Mac OS X
- Lots of other features, bug fixes, refactorings, speed and usability improvements.
Smart Label Mac 1.7
Seiko Instruments has released a new version of its Smart Label Printer (SLP) application, driver and SDK for Macintosh users. more>>
Supporting the new Apple Intel processor platform for the first time, the Smart Label Mac software adds usability and reliability enhancements and improved bar code printing functionality.
SLP customers can download the new and improved software at no charge from the company website: http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/support/slpsoft.html. The Smart Label Mac software will start shipping with Seiko Smart Label Printers in mid-October.
Seiko Instruments USA expanded its SLP flagship line with additions supporting Mac users in June 2005. The SLP 410, 420, 430 and 450 models feature a sleek new industrial design and offer full-functionality single label printing for envelopes, files, storage boxes, floppy or Zip disks, video cassettes, 35mm slides, bar codes and a variety of other office and home applications. The small footprint, desktop printers also make great name tags and ID badges for parties, trade shows, conferences and other business or social events.
Tokyo Cabinet 1.4.24
A high performance database library similar to the DBM family more>> A high performance database library similar to the DBM family
Tokyo Cabinet is the successor of QDBM, a high performance database library similar to the DBM family.
Tokyo Cabinet also supports hash and B-tree databases and doesnt require any server process. The overall speed is improved compared to QDBM.
Main features:
- smaller size of database file.
- faster processing speed.
- higher performance in multi-thread environment.
- improves usability : simplified API.
- improves robustness : database file is not corrupted even under catastrophic situation.
- supports 64-bit architecture : enormous memory space and database file are available.
Enhancements
- tcutil.c (tcwwwformencode, tcwwwformdecode): new functions.
- tcutil.c (tctmplnew, tctmpldel, tctmplload, tctmpldump): new functions.
- tcutil.c (tcmapget4, tctreeget4): new functions.
- tcutil.c (tclistprintf, tcmapprintf, tctreeprintf): new functions.
- tcucodec.c (runtmpl, proctmpl): new functions.
GNUMail.app 1.2.0pre3
GNUMail.app - Clone of NeXT email app more>>
It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.
Main features:
- Multiple POP3 (with APOP support) accounts with local cache support (for leaving messages on server)
- Multiple delivery agents (SMTP or local mailer)
- Mail spool file support for receiving
- Good IMAP support with local caching
- Full RFC822 and RFC2822 support
- Read, compose, bounce, reply and forward mails
- Mailbox management (create, delete, locking and transfer messages) using the Berkeley mbox format
- Personal preferences management
- MIME support (decode and encode)
- A full MIME types manager
- Quoted Printable and BASE64 support
- Address Book with groups support
- Find Panel with regular expressions support
- Automatic or manual fetching of your mails (users choice)
- Powerful filters that supports regular expressions
- GPG (PGP) support through a bundle
- Messages threading
Enhancements:
- Universal
- Now makes use of the new mailbox caching code from Pantomime
- New task handling code
- UI improvements for Mac OS X
- Lots of other features, bug fixes, refactorings, speed and usability improvements.
Slideroll Gallery AV 0.8b
Slideroll Gallery AV makes publishing your own photo and video gallery really easy and fun more>>
Thats it, no big whoop.
Gallery AV creates great-looking, customizable Flash photo and video galleries. Simply drag and drop your photos and videos onto the creator. PC users can even record your own audio narration!
Enhancements:
- Usability enhancements
