Smiley’s Challenge is a fun game for elementary aged students which also requires a bit of thought and planning. Can you find Smiley before the Badees get you? Can you click quickly enough to capture Smiley or lead him to home through a brick wall maze? This program includes three games: Find Smiley, Capture Smiley, and aMAZE Smiley. The program is entertaining with colorful graphics and sounds. Smiley’s Challenge is offered free of charge for its use.
AGAControls is a preference pane for Mac OS X 10.5. It allows you to control some hidden or difficult to manage elements of MacOS in a more user friendly way.
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WhatsOpen is a quick utility that came out of an MMUG meeting. Someone possed a question regarding how to tell what application has a volume open so they could quit out of it and eject the removable media. It is a somewhat common error that a file on a removable device is held open by one thing or another and the system will not eject it. This program lists all open files on your system, with an option to filter them, and then allows you to kill the application that has a selected file open. Pretty straight forward but something that a lot of people seemed interested in at the meeting so I whipped one up quickly.
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Kexpcalc is an experience calculator and NPC generator for D&D 3.5. It also includes an item creation calculator (scrolls, potions, wands, and staffs).
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PlayerLite is a simple player that lists all audio files in user’s /Music directory and a slider to adjust position in song.
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Sports Fan Widget… Keep an eye on your favorite sports teams - all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the upcoming schedule (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and standings. The widget supports Baseball (MLB and minor leagues down to Class A), Basketball (NBA, WNBA and Men’s NCAA College), Football (NFL and NCAA College), and Hockey (NHL).
You can open multiple instances of the widget to track different sports or teams - each instance of the widget will remember your selections.
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Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II) combines most of the features of the LDS Personal Ancestral File program (PAF) for the Macintosh, for which all development stopped a few years ago after release 2.3.1, with additional features that generate web pages in HTML, word processing files in RTF for example, AppleWorks, and desktop publishing files in MML for FrameMaker. The generated report files include genealogical dictionaries, registers, ahnentafels and lineages—such as appear on this site—as well as some interesting text files and pedigree charts.
PAWriter also provides flexible selection of subsets of people in a file by “tagging” them (marking them as members of the subset) using a host of selection criteria. Selections include inclusion (+), exclusion (-) and intersection (*) of the set of people meeting the criteria with those already tagged.
Consider PAWriter to be a possible next step in the development of Macintosh PAF had its develpment not been discontinued after release 2.3.1, i.e., “what might have been.” PAWriter is not meant to have the bells and whistles that are in the current crop of genealogical programs. The emphasis is on maintaining a genealogical database from which the user can write books and/or post web pages about a family.
Importantly, the use of PAWriter differs from other programs in that each statement given in a person’s vital statistics should be based on the evidence given or referenced in the notes for that person and/or for his or her relatives, and should represent the researcher’s best current conclusions as to the true facts. For this purpose, the notes should contain all of the evidence, substantiation, documentation, background information, clarification, interpretation and/or other relevant commentary. It is in these notes that source citations are referenced through footnotes inserted at the appropriate points in the notes’ text, as is normally done in books. (The footnotes will be included at the end of the printed notes in the generated reports.)
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Radiologik Scheduler schedules program blocks for Radiologik DJ creating a full-time automated radio station along with Radiologik DJ.
It chooses tracks from playlists in iTunes with a little bit of extra logic to figure out times and artist separation. It builds these segments in 30 or 60 minute blocks anywhere inside of a week schedule. The resolution of the script statements are in seconds.
Playlists, and particularly smart playlists in iTunes, give programming tracks enormous power. Because Radilogik DJ tells iTunes when it plays a track, you can use smart playlists to be sure you are not playing certain songs again for a specified period of time. This can give you a reservoir of tracks that have not played recently but enough tracks to still pick at random, effectively giving a random rotation. You can use many smart playlists for the same segment, giving you the ability to set when to play fast, medium, or slow songs or how often to play tired songs versus new songs that you may want to play more often.
Radiologik Scheduler runs the appropriate script 20 minutes before the start time and sends that set of tracks and directions to Radiologik DJ’s program queue.
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Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more, packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.
• Drag “Portable Adium” folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 50 MB of free space.
• Clicking “Portable Adium” will open Adium from your portable device, wait a while before Adium start.
• If a local copy of Adium is running an alert window allow you to quit it. Using your data:
? You can copy your user preferences folder to Portable Adium when “Copy preferences” window asks you. So, if you wish to use your conctact list, dock icons, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users you already have on your computer, just click “Yes” when prompted.
• Adium application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle: ?Portable Adium.app/Contents/Resources/app/ ?Support Forum - Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our Portable Apps OS X support forum
Portable Cyberduck is the Cyberduck FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript, packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 30 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, history, preferences with you.
• Drag Portable Cyberduckfolder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 30 MB of free space.
• Clicking on Portable Cyberduck will open Cyberduck from your portable device, wait a while before Cyberduck start.
Using your data - You can copy your user preferences folder to Portable Cyberduck when the Copy preferences window asks you. So, if you wish to use your bookmarks, history, preferences you already have on your system, just click “Yes” when prompted. Cyberduck application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle: Portable Cyberduck.app/Contents/Resources/
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