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Description: TerraVista is a small application which displays the current day/night cycle of the earth using OpenGL. It uses textures made from satellite images for the day and the nightside to make it look realistic and the newest release also downloads real-time cloud cover images from the internet for an even more realistic experience.The view location (i.e. the angle from which the earth is seen) can be customized either using a preferences dialog or by command-dragging the earth. The floating window which displays the earth can also be made translucent and the brightness of the nightside can be changed.

Keywords: application downloads internet images opengl window time view 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 2867 kb; Updated: 2007-04-08

Description: Mr. Tides displays tide and current information for a variety of locations around the world. It can display the day's tides, the week's tides, or the month's tides in two different ways. You select a station via the maps presented by Mr. Tides, or by searching the station list.

Keywords: information 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 12698 kb; Updated: 2007-03-30

Description: SeisMac turns your Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped laptop into a three-axis seismograph. It shows a scrolling chart of the three axes of acceleration, reading two hundred samples per second.The resizable, real-time scrolling display shows an enormous amount of acceleration information. Place your laptop on a table, and see the seismic waves from tapping your toe on the floor. Lay your laptop on your chest and see your heartbeat. And, of course, if there is a real earthquake, SeisMac will be displaying full seismic information while you drop, cover and hold-on.When running on the MacBook or MacBook Pro, SeisMac has a range of plus or minus two gravities of acceleration, displaying 256 values per gravity, sampled two hundred times per second. SeisMac is also compatible with older Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped iBooks and PowerBooks.SeisMac is free for Mac OS X 10.4 or later. It is compatible with MacBooks and MacBook Pros, as well as Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped PowerBooks and iBooks.

Keywords: information reading table chart free time into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 287 kb; Updated: 2007-02-27

Description: Small and minimalistic, very fast, extensible translation tool, with nice interface and history.Useful flexible and customizable user interface.Ru-En-Fr-Spanish dictionaries already included to bundle TranslateIt!+Addons. Other dictionaries can be downloaded from product page (see Dictionaries tab).Color formating output for translated text.HTML formated dictionaries support.Extended multimedia dictionaries format (images, wavs, movies, Flash, any documents attaches).Users can rename and reorder (change priority) dictionaries as they whishes.Speech syntheser.Users can add RTFD-Notes for existing articles and even create new articles as Notes for existing active dictionaries.Two different modes for translation history.Dictionary developer utilities - DictBuilder (Perl core scripts + GUI included to TranslateIt!).Global dictionaries support (publication to /Library/Application Support/TranslateIt!).Auto look-up new dictionaries (in ~/Library/Application Support/TranslateIt! and /Library/Application Support/...

Keywords: application multimedia dictionary utilities library scripts history images 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2007-02-21

Description: Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Mac OS X (as well as Windows, Unix, Linux and Netware). It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, glossaries, lessons and assignments. It has been translated into over 35 languages, with more on the way. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial courseware such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.

Keywords: management education internet learning windows system free easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 9318 kb; Updated: 2007-01-19

Description: piX is a program that lets you calculate PI up to a jillion decimals. Alternatively, you can use it to test your machine performance.

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Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9; File size: 140 kb; Updated: 2007-01-02

Description: iTranslate is a useful application for people who need a quick German < > English or German < > French translation tool. All you need is an internet connection. iTranslate accesses the wealth of language information from the online dictionary LEO (provided by the Technical University of Munich). One more click brings you directly to the unique wikipedia online encyclopedia and thesaurus, where you can find out anything about everything.

Keywords: information application connection dictionary internet online tool find 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3; File size: 436 kb; Updated: 2006-12-19