Mac OS X nature Freebies List

Description: Inspired by the tickers of 24-hour cable news, Tickershock is an RSS and Atom news reader that displays news feeds anywhere on your screen in a animated crawl or billboard display.Tickershock is a departure from typical RSS applications that emulate traditional web browser or email reader environments. Focusing on the "push" nature of the technology, Tickershock aims to be a passive experience -œ but only until you decide a headline is worth exploring: a double-click on a news headline brings up a "News Inspector" (or your default browser) from which you can explore a story in greater depth.And since it's optimized for performance, Tickershock requires a fraction of the CPU time used by more conventional stock and news tickers, freeing you to work but keep an eye on the news all the time.What's new in this version:New feature development on Tickershock has been discontinued and as a result, the product is now freeware.Added new icon and Spaces support for Leopard.Improved HTML entity parsing in ticker ...

Keywords: development animated freeware browser screen nature email html 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1331 kb; Updated: 2008-05-27

Description: HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the "Atkinson" dithering filter.Years ago, during the development of the first Macintosh, Bill Atkinson (of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint & now nature photography fame) discovered a very elegant dithering filter to convert greyscale image data for the 1 bit black & white Mac video display. The dithering produced by this routine was much higher quality than the now-a-days ubiquitous Floyd-Steinberg or "Error-diffusion"ВЂВќ filter (used by QuickTime, Photoshop).The dither routine was implemented as an option in Apple's long-gone HyperScan software (A HyperCard stack with some XCMDs/XFCNs) that would connect an early Mac to a flatbed scanner. HyperScan, and hence the most-excellent Atkinson dithering routine, has been unavailable for many, many years - but not forgotten! I was able to email Bill Atkinson in January, 2003 ...

Keywords: development convert utility nature filter images color video 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2970 kb; Updated: 2008-03-01

Description: This is a fantasy-focused turn-based strategy game with units carrying over and gaining experience between scenarios. Both single player campaigns and multiplayer games are supported. This game is currently being actively developed, but is already at in a highly playable state. Although cross platform in nature, great effort is being put into making the application as Mac-like as possible on this platform.

Keywords: application strategy player nature games game into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8; File size: 73626 kb; Updated: 2006-12-04

Description: Spice up your dashboard with the Perspective-Images.com widget. Travel and nature photography from around the world by Will Williams and Mary Allensworth, the widget refreshes itself every 45sec. or manually by clicking on the photograph.Also a Shareware version is available - download up to 150dpi. 12 x 16in print quality images direct from the widget.

Keywords: shareware download images nature print 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 352 kb; Updated: 2006-10-20