weekly planet
Planet 8.1
Planet is an application in which your Macintosh computes the coordinates of the planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the sun and the moon more>> Planet is an application in which your Macintosh computes the coordinates of the planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the sun and the moon. The coordinates are given in different coordinate systems: the geocentric ecliptic and also the equatorial and horizontal systems of the observer. Further you will see the magnitude of the planets and the phase of the moon and also sidereal time, mean solar time and the equation of time. When a solar or lunar eclipse is possible you can also investigate the eclipse from any place on earth. You can study heliacal risings and settings of planets and stars and also conjunctions, planetary stations and occultations. A special option in the program allows you to check the visibility of the new and old moon crescent.Finally you can study the transits of Mercury and Venus.
System 7.0 or later.
ConverTable Planets 1.7
ConverTable Planets - Teaching tool for unit conversions and gravity more>>
Main features:
- Find out how much you would weigh on the Moon, Mars, and 24 other places in the solar system.
- View the planets and included moons in their true relative sizes!
- Learn how many Venusian (or Martian, Saturnian, etc.) years old you are!
- Planets included (the whole solar system, of course!): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
- Moons included: Earths Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton, and Charon.
- Several mass and weight units are available: kilograms, pounds, grams, milligrams, stones, troy ounces, slugs, newtons, metric tons, and metric carats.
- Brief discussion of the common "mass or weight" language confusion, and what exactly is a "year."
- French localized version available.
Enhancements:
- added "Year Conversions" function to compare year (orbital period) lengths on the planets.
- improved some planet and moon descriptions
- added planet and moon datasets which appear in the "Year Conversions" section
- changed to a primarily single-window interface.
Planets 2.0
Free Yahoo! widget that helps you see the solar system more>> Free Yahoo! widget that helps you see the solar system
Planets is a free Yahoo! widget that lets you see the whole solar system on your desktop, complete with the earths moon.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added more planets, changed the engine to load an XML file (so now you can modify it), and improved performance.

Weekly Comic List Widget 2.0
Weekly Comic List Widget is considered as a highly-efficient, high-quality widget which displays a list of the products shipping for the current week from Diamond Comic Distributors, the same people who publish the monthly Previews catalog that is used by over 90,000 consumers and retailers to order their comics and related merchandise. more>>
Weekly Comic List Widget 2.0 is considered as a highly-efficient, high-quality widget which displays a list of the products shipping for the current week from Diamond Comic Distributors, the same people who publish the monthly Previews catalog that is used by over 90,000 consumers and retailers to order their comics and related merchandise.
Every Monday the list is published for products that are expected to ship to comic book and specialty stores. The list is tentative and subject to change. The list is updated every Monday by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, unless there is a holiday then its usually the next day by the same time.
Enhancements:
- Added a "This Week" and "Next Week" button to the top of the widget.
- New icon
- Increased the size of the widget
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
The 4-World Planet 1.0.1
The 4-World Planet is a text-adventure game more>>
The storyline: You are an astronaut. You go on a solo mission to a planet that was recently discovered. But the planets gravity is stronger than you expected, so you are forced to perform a crash landing, damaging certain parts of your ship. You must explore the planet and find replacement parts, helping people and finding treasures along the way. You will periodically need to deal with things like getting hungry or thirsty. The game will warn you when you need to do something like eat or drink.
Enhancements:
- Added fancier characters (curly quotes, em-dashes, etc.)
- Fixed grammar issues involving plural nouns
- The 4-World Planet is now a Universal Binary.
Conic Planet 1.2
Free and open source Earth image renderer more>> Free and open source Earth image renderer
Conic Planet is a CGI application which renders a photo-realistic real-time image of the Earth and other planets.
Conic Planet has support for Mercator, Mollweide, Azimuthal, Orthographic, and Rectangular projections. It also shows the current cloud covering.
System requirements:
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Enhancements:
- Added code for enhancment of contrast of the SSEC cloud image and smoothening of seam at 180 deg. longitude line in the SSEC cloud image.
- Added brightness and gamma-correction controls.
- Added support for greyscale (R=G=B) output.
ConverTable Planets X 1.7
ConverTable Planets X is such a program which works great and has a friendly interface. more>>
Enhancements:
- Adds "Year Conversions" to compare lengths of years on various planets
- New planetary dataset display
- Expanded planet and moon descriptions
- Now primarily uses a single-window interface.
RSS-Planet 1.3
RSS-Planet - Custom marker file generator for xplanet and OSXplanet more>>
By default, BBC News, Yahoo! News, CNN.com and the Washington Post are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with place names might work as well.
Note: The Python Imaging Library needs to be installed for favicon display to work. Circles are used by default if PIL is not found. To use the GUI, wxPython must be installed.
RSS-Planet implementation by Martin C. Doege after an idea by Nathan Eckenrode. Various tips/hints are available at the developers website.
Enhancements:
- RSS-Planet can now alternatively output HTML with popup captions.
- If the command line option --web is used, a page called rssplanet.html is generated in the web_path directory.
- Rendering of the background image no longer requires xplanet or OSXplanet in this mode, only the day and night images specified in renderplanet.py.
- Normally, these will be earth.jpg and night.jpg, which are available from from the xplanet/OSxplanet distribtution.
TriVectus Planets 1.0b2
TriVectus Planets - Screensaver animates various planetary systems more>>
TriVectus Planets is a chaotic world. If you only let it run for 5 minutes, you wont see half of whats in there. Because its world is random, even we cant predict when youll see what. If you want to see a swarm of asteroids devastate a planetary system, it may take a minute or a half hour, but thats part of the fun!
Enhancements:
- Improved code to handle low video memory
- Optimized images to lower disk size.

X-Plane 9.40b8
X-Plane is an interesting game that attracts a large number of gamers with its hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation. more>> <<less
Planet Discordia 1.0
Planet Discordia, a prodedurally generated planet more>>
Finally, the mesh is colored based on altitude relative to sea level.
C++ source code using OpenGL / GLUT is included.
weRclean2 0.1.1
weRclean2 is an innovative and versatile utility which will run daily, weekly and/or monthly scripts. more>>
weRclean2 0.1.1 is an innovative and versatile utility which will run "daily," "weekly" and/or "monthly" scripts. Use any compination you wish (including weekly&monthly, daily&weekly) and run it as a single command with ONE CLICK! Much more flexible than other applications that deal with "daily," "weekly" and "monthly" scripts.
Schedule Weekly Permissions Repair 1.0
Schedule Weekly Permissions Repair - Script to let you schedule automatic permission repair for once a week more>>
There are several automatic tasks that are routinely scheduled for your Mac OS X system by default. If you care to examine the schedule for them and possibly make adjustments, you might be interested in using a free program called Cronnix.
Daily Planet Interactive Screensaver 1.0
DC Comics news delivered to your desktop. more>>
Features:
- Animated, "Times Square" view of Metropolis
- with rotating Daily Planet globe
- news copter
- day-to-night transitions
ThisWeekOnXM 2.3
ThisWeekOnXM - View the programming pages of XM Satellite Radios webpage more>>
ThisWeekOnXM allows viewing of todays programming or the weekly programming.

