Mac OS X Freeware, OSX Freeware

3/26/2007

SpotInside - 0.5

Search documents and preview their contents with keyword highlighted.

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Norrkross Tint is used to adjust the color balance of images. Color adjustments with original color near the pixel color are applied more, whereas color adjustments that differ in original color from the pixel color have little or no effect. This allows the changing of different colors separately (eg. make the gray greener but leave the white and black as they are).

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TabStop - 1.1.4

TabStop is a SIMBL plugin that displays a warning when you attempt to quit or close a window in Safari that contains multiple tabs. Very handy, if you're used to keeping dozens of tabs around and you're tired of accidentally Command-Q'ing instead of Command-W'ing.

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NYC Subway Advisor - 1.0

This widget is a short cut to the MTA's New York City Subway Advisory page which posts schedule changes and construction route changes.

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TrailRunner - 1.3v142

If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening - then TrailRunner should be your training-partner.

* Geographic display of your workout area.
* Plan routes interactively.
* Collect routes.
* Route description and direction signs at crossings.
* Timed-checkpoints according to your pace.
* Rate your favorite tracks.
* Plan routes automatically with target distance and as many favorite tracks as possible.
* Export route descriptions onto your iPod as Notes-Text or NanoMap-Photos
* Collect your workout data in a Diary.
* Send to and exchange routes with friends and workout partners.
* Import GPX-Tracklists from GPS-units.

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PeekIt - 2.5.4

A simple and fast tool for browsing any file on your system, and making small hex-level changes.

Very very handy for verifying the contents of files you are writing out from your own applications without doing extra work yourself.

Also handy for snooping around in other people's files for ideas. You can also modify your hit points in Balders Gate, but anyway...

Note: Most of the source code is included with the application, select "View PeekIt Source" from the Window menu.

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CocoThumbX - 3.0.2

CocoThumbX is a freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.

It is capable of creating and removing thumbnails from the common image file formats as BMP, TIFF, TARGA, GIF (animated), PNG, JPG, PICT, PDF, EPS, ICNS, JP2, SGI ... text files such as DOC, RTF, RTFD, HTML, CSS, TXT and QuickTime supported Movies.

CocoThumbX creates a thumbnail from your image and add the thumbnail as icon to your image file.

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Inquisitor - 3.0 (v41)

Inquisitor... it's like Spotlight for the web.

Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search.

It'll autocomplete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.

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Scalp - 0.2

Apple's iCal can help you share your schedule by publishing calendars to .Mac and WebDAV servers. Because .Mac is expensive and WebDAV can be hard to come by, Scalp is a tiny hack for iCal that allows calendars to be published to the Web via FTP and SFTP.

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iRemindU - 2.0.8

iRemindU is a small program which will remind you of something after a number of minutes that you define. You can use it if you do not want to forget the pizza in the oven or the tea bag in the cup.

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IceClean - 2.2

IceClean is a powerful Finder and System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using ONLY built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly.

IceClean lets you execute the following tasks:

* System Maintenance Process
* System Cleanup
* Dashboard On/Off
* Three Spotlight features (Rebuild, Update, Optimize)
* Show Hidden FIles and Folders
* Finder Customization
* CD-DVD RW Quick Erase
* Force Empty Trashes and Securely Delete
* Lock your Screen

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TerraVista - 0.4.3

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.

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PolyGen - 1.0b3

PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.

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rEFIt - 0.9

rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. It gives you easy access to the EFI environment and serves as a hook for pre-boot applications.

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iBudget - 0.1

iBudget is a simple finance application for Mac OS X. It has been designed for users who want a simple way to track and plan their finances.

Features:

* Searching: find transactions by searching for them.
* History graph: full color graph that shows you the history of your accounts.
* Reports: graphical reports so you can see were your money goes.
* Localization : English and French.

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Adium X - 1.0.2

Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.

Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

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3/25/2007

CUPS - 1.2.10

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. It is developed and maintained by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution and is the standard printing system in MacOS X and most Linux distributions.

CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing.

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Simple Comic - 1.0

Simple Comic was written for one specific task, viewing comics, nothing more nothing less.

* Two page layout: Pages are by default laid out as they would be in print. Double wide images are properly handled and displayed even in two page mode. Single page viewing is of course available if so prefered.
* Alternate page ordering: Pages can be layed out either left to right or right to left.
* Multiple page scaling options: Original size, fit to window, horizontal fit to window and scale to defined height.
* Fullscreen: Comics can be displayed fullscreen.
* Archive handling: Never decompress another comic archive. Simple Comic can seamlessly deal with .cbr, .cbz, .zip and .rar files even if they are nested.
* Multiple sessions: View multiple comics at one time. Sessions are handled separately allowing each to maintain their own settings.
* Pick up where you left off: Feel free to exit Simple Comic as your sessions will be restored the next time it is opened.
* Simplicity: Does not attempt to be all things to all people. Features are not added unless they actually improve the user's experience.

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IceClean - 2.1

VokabelTrainer - 0.7

VokabelTrainer is a little tool to help you learning words in english, german, french or whatever language you like. It supports saving and loading word lists to files which is useful for sending or transporting them to another computer. VokabelTrainer is localized in German and English, but you can use it to learn any language.

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UNO - 1.5

UNO derives from the Latin word for one.

UNO is the root of Unity.

UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar / titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well).

On an higher level, UNO's main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look and feel as one.

UNO is aimed to those who want a clean and un-osbstructive interface while keeping the best of Aqua.The unity level proposed by UNO does not compromises overall GUI contrast: UNO and UNO shade can be mixed up in order to achieve that usability goal.

UNO also fixes some Blue/Graphite appearance inconsistencies.

Please check interacto.net GUI section for screenshots, FAQs and more info.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Bug reporting as well... Please drop a line here.

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Xcode Toolbox - 0.3

Xcode Toolbox prints out customizable accessor/mutator (get/set) methods for the variables of an Objective-C object. You can drag & drop entire projects, or individual header files, or even type the declarations. Accessors and mutators may be completely customized in the variable/method editor window, as well as defaults for various variable types.

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CocoThumbX - 3.0.1

Xtoolchain - 1.1

This project provides a complete binary distribution package for the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) version 2.95.3 to start embedded Linux and ARM development on the Mac OS X platform, e.g. for the Sharp Zaurus. It includes gcc, g++, gcc-objc, the binutils and Qt headers. Newer gcc versions (e.g. gcc 4.1 for Linux 2.6 and EABI) are planned to come.

The compiler core is built using Lucid-Cake'sdescription.

Features:

* gcc [2.95.3] cross compiler for ARM-Linux as used on Sharp Zaurus supporting C, C++, Objective-C
* binutils [2.13.1]
* glibc [2.2.2] including libobjc
* Linux kernel headers [2.4.6]
* Complete binary distribution
* User mode installation (i.e., no root password required) to /Developers/Xtoolchain

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GLoarbLine Client/Server - 1.9.6

GLoarbLine is a feature-rich, stable, safe and free client and server suite based upon the GNU General Public Licensed "Openline" source code. GLoarbLine's underlying architecture follows the original Hotline protocol. As such, it functions just like a regular Hotline client and server; and all original, or third party, clients which follow the Hotline protocol, should be able to easily connect to a GLoarbLine server.

While the GLoarbLine client and server are similar to the original Hotline software, the GLoarbLine suite enjoys a unique feature set which you will not find in the older Hotline, Openline and Underline releases.

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3/24/2007

To Do Tracker - 1.5

To Do Tracker helps you stay organized by putting a handy notepad right on your dashboard, designed especially for quickly making and sorting lists. The minimalistic interface works very much like a normal word processor, so you can start writing right away! Best of all, unlike the Stickies Widget, when you close To Do Tracker, all your lists are saved for your next session.

What's new in this version:

* Ready for Intel - Now compiled as a universal widget
* Added copy to clipboard button on backside
* Items in your lists can be dragged to rearrange them
* Multiple pages for storing different lists

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AllBookmarks - 1.0

Don't you hate it when you can't remember where you bookmarked a website? Were you in Safari when you saved it, or Firefox? Heaven forbid you were in a browser you were just "test driving". Perhaps you were testing out Flock, bookmarked a site, and then decided Flock wasn't for you (don't flame me; I like Flock!).

AllBookmarks helps reduce the pain of searching all the browsers for that lost bookmark. By adding a new icon to your Mac OS X menu bar you can quickly access all your bookmarks. All your Safari, Firefox and Flock bookmarks are shown and can be selected. AllBookmarks also gives you access to your 1Passwd 1Click bookmarks so you can navigate to a page, fill the form, and submit it, all with a single click!

What's new in this version:

* [NEW] New icon design
* [NEW] Added support for Firefox, Flock, and Safari
* [NEW] Added support for 1Passwd 1Click login bookmarks

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j2chess - 2.8

j2chess is a chess program written in java. It includes an opening book of 15,000 games and can play games in three different modes; casual, blitz and blitz Fischer. j2chess can read ".pgn" library files and therefore can be used as a ".pgn" browser as well.

What's new in this version:

* Export current board position to PNG or JPEG bitmap image
* Board preference: new Display Possible Moves option
* To open a PGN file library, it is now possible to drag & drop the file onto the board
* Direct load of the game if a one game only PGN library is opened
* Board' squares have now a slight border
* erratic red mark in square board fixed

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Xiph QuickTime Components - 0.1.7

Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes.

What's new in this version:

* Exporting Oggs (Theora, Vorbis)
* 5.1 audio support
* Progressive loading of local files
* Simplified installation
* Performance improvements and bug fixes

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Transform - 0.10.4

I find Excel to be brilliant for making pretty sequences and sequence alignments - however each character needs to be in a separate cell.

So I wrote a little utility to do often used text / sequence transformations:

* Insert Tab before / after each character
* Insert Return after each character
* Keep only letters a-Z
* Format in blocks of 3, 10, 50, 100
* Remove leading / trailing / multiple spaces
* Reverse / complement/ invert DNA sequence
* Translate DNA sequence in frame 1 / 2 / 3
* Backtranslate protein into human / E. coli DNA (using the most frequently used codon)
* Convert 3-Letter AminoAcid code into 1-Letter code
* Convert 1-Letter AminoAcid code into 3-Letter code (spaced / tabbed)
* Get protein sequence info

... and much more (just ignore the bits you don't need)

If there are other transformations you'd like just drop me a line .

Please note that this program will run as it is - there is no installation, no files will be put anywhere (registry, system, etc in the Windows version) so it should even run if you are on "managed computers" like we are in our lab (which is a pain in the neck in 99% of all cases - IT support should be there for us, not the other way round)

What's new in this version:

* universal binary
* bug fixes
* 'format in blocks' no longer removes all spaces, tabs and returns first
* improved window handling

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