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Description: Solscape is a "Solar Data Browser" application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. Solscape also monitors current Solar flare activity, Earth view satellite images, Solar geomagnetic activity, and Aurora activity. Solscape gets all of its information via the Internet and compiles it in a single, easy to use application. You can save and archive the data that Solscape collects for later use, and you can tell Solscape to automatically grab the data when you want.What's new in this version:All SOHO images now update correctly (the image format changed from GIF to JPG).

Keywords: information application internet browser archive images format image 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1843 kb; Updated: 2008-10-31

Description: Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It supports abitrary precision, has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example, in either radians or degrees), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, "active" variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations.Wcalc uses intuitive expressions and implicit multiplication. For example, Wcalc will evaluate: 5sin 4!-7*2(4%6)^2 to be -221.96631678. Wcalc will also understand basic UTF-8 entities.What's new in this version:This release is, primarily a bugfix release, but also now has a big enough improvement in the processing of international input that I figured it was worth the bigger version bump.You'll also notice that we have a new icon! Huzzah to Susan Wheeler for designing it!

Keywords: calculator history 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2253 kb; Updated: 2008-10-27

Description: Cosmic Debris is an Aurora Borealis (AKA the Northern Lights) monitor menu item. It monitors two internet data sources for the probability of an Aurora event. The menu icon then displays the likelihood of an event using a color scheme: green for low probability, yellow for medium probability, red for high probability (and active for PCAF), and gray for unknown. Options include having a popup window, email or sound alert you of upgrades to the probability levels, auto updating and more. Remember, this is a probabilty monitor. It doesn't actually tell you if the Northern Lights are active or not, but rather the likelihood that they could be active.What's new in this version:Works with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Keywords: internet monitor window popup email color sound data 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 251 kb; Updated: 2008-10-25

Description: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, bioinformatics, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in...

Keywords: graphics analysis design source time code 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 62054 kb; Updated: 2008-10-23

Description: MATLAB integrates mathematical computing, visualization, and a powerful language to provide a flexible environment for technical computing. The open architecture makes it easy to use MATLAB and its companion products to explore data, create algorithms, and create custom tools that provide early insights and competitive advantages.What's new in this version:http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/whatsnew.shtml

Keywords: create tools data easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-10-09

Description: Indigo is a home control server that integrates INSTEON and X10 hardware devices. Save money, conserve water, and reduce electrical usage by automating your home with Indigo's unlimited scheduling and control logic. Using Indigo's built-in Web server, you can access and control your home from anywhere using any modern Web browser (including the iPhone and iPod Touch!).Indigo was developed from the ground up to be a robust, Mac OS X native, home control server. With Indigo you can automate your lights, appliances, thermostat, sprinkler system, and more! You can even control Indigo via email from your cell phone or the office. In addition to having a built-in Web server, Indigo has customizable graphical Control Pages for creating Web browser UIs to control your home. Indigo's Control Page editor allows you to create and edit Control Pages without the need to understand HTML, CSS, or JavaScript programming. Indigo's intuitive user interface allows you to create complex home control logic without complex scr...

Keywords: javascript control browser system create server office access 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 10138 kb; Updated: 2008-10-03

Description: Sente 5 is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever.Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, many university library catalogs, Web of Science, Ovid, Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature database that supports Z39.50 or SRU, and MARC or Dublin Core record syntax. (WoS and Ovid, and some other data sources, require a subscription.)Sente updates the results of your searches each day so that you can easily stay current with new results. This means that you will learn about important new papers as soon as they appear in any of the databases you search. And the results will remain available until you find the time to review them, even if that happens when you are not connected to the Internet.When it is time to write up your own resear...

Keywords: database internet manager library search record data time 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 28467 kb; Updated: 2008-10-01

Description: MacSword is a free and open-source application for research and study of God and His Word. It is developed specifically for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. MacSword allows you to read and browse many different bibles translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons, it also supports searching and advanced features such as services so that you can access the Bible in any program.

Keywords: application advanced reading browse access source free word 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 4813 kb; Updated: 2008-09-24

Description: Kanji Go is a Mac OS X application designed to make it easy to lookup and review Japanese. Key features include:Looking up words and Kanji from Japanese->English, Russian, Germand, and French, and vice versaFinding Kanji by Multi-Radical searchingCreating, importing, and exporting custom vocabulary listsStudying via customizable digital flash cardsViewing common conjugations for all verbs and adjectivesWhat's new in this version:Fixed: Drag and drop to arrange words within a vocab list now works as expectedFixed: Changing the verb form shown on flash cards now acts as expected and does not prevent the flash card from changing when hitting next/previous

Keywords: application digital cards flash form card easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-08-26

Description: BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. Participants can participate in multiple projects; they control which projects they participate in, and how their resources are divided among these projects. When a project is down or has no work, the resources of its participants are divided among other projects.

Keywords: computer control 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 6144 kb; Updated: 2008-08-19