Tofu helps address the common problem that people don’t like reading text on the screen. Why is that, anyway? I believe there are two main reasons: line width and visual instability. Text is usually very wide on the screen, which makes going from the end of one line to the beginning of the next difficult. That’s why newspapers have narrow columns: It makes them faster to read.
So why not just take a normal window and make it narrower, scrolling down as you need? Well, there are usually a lot of lines in a text, and all look more or less the same, so if they move past your eyes vertically, they are difficult to keep track of. The text doesn’t feel stable, and you get lost easily.
In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as your window. So lines are nice and narrow, they don’t move about vertically, plus your text is now in easy-to-digest chunks. You just scroll from column to column horizontally, and feel more in control.
Tofu also includes some other useful features to make reading easier for you. You can jump to any point in your text by simply typing some letters near it (without choosing any command first). There’s a “View In Columns” service so you can, for example, grab some text from a web page. And it lets you use your voice to navigate text, so you can literally sit back and read.
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Tofu helps address the common problem that people don’t like reading text on the screen. Why is that, anyway? I believe there are two main reasons: line width and visual instability. Text is usually very wide on the screen, which makes going from the end of one line to the beginning of the next difficult. That’s why newspapers have narrow columns: It makes them faster to read.
So why not just take a normal window and make it narrower, scrolling down as you need? Well, there are usually a lot of lines in a text, and all look more or less the same, so if they move past your eyes vertically, they are difficult to keep track of. The text doesn’t feel stable, and you get lost easily.
In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as your window. So lines are nice and narrow, they don’t move about vertically, plus your text is now in easy-to-digest chunks. You just scroll from column to column horizontally, and feel more in control.
Tofu also includes some other useful features to make reading easier for you. You can jump to any point in your text by simply typing some letters near it (without choosing any command first). There’s a “View In Columns” service so you can, for example, grab some text from a web page. And it lets you use your voice to navigate text, so you can literally sit back and read.
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Swiss Converter helps you convert almost anything (in finished stage). It helps you convert currency, temperature, weight (later versions), distance/length, and more if requested.
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Garmin Road Trip (formerly Garmin Bobcat) allows you to transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device and manage your data using your Garmin maps.
Bobcat provides the ability to search for points of interest from the convenience of your Mac and then send the locations to your Garmin GPS.
MapManager copies maps and unlock codes into the right place to be accessible by Bobcat and MapInstall. To migrate the maps from your Windows PC, download MapConverter onto your PC and follow the instructions.
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Delicious is an application that allows you to store all your favorite recipes in one location. You can add pictures to you recipes, put them in groups, add cusines, make them into documents, and much more. Delicious allows you to create “Smart Groups” that automatically collect recipes of a certain criteria, for example you create a Smart Group called “Chicken”, so it will then go and find all of your recipes with chicken in. You can save your recipes as RichText Documnets and email them to friends, they can then with a click of a button import them into their Delicous Cookbook.
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Calq is an easy to use, on demand calculator. The idea behind Calq is to have a calculator handy when you need it do some basic calculations quickly. It’s there when you need it, and it’s not in the way when you don’t need it.
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Scans2PDF… This program takes a folder of files and uses Photoshop to (optionally) crop, resize, and adjust the brightness and contrast to optimize the images for US letter size paper. It then rotates the images as directed, and combines the images into one PDF. It is, as the name suggests, designed for scans (of journal articles).
You can optionally:
• have Photoshop resize the scans to best fit onto US letter paper, leaving appropriate margins
• have Photoshop adjust the brightness and contrast to enhance the readability of the scans
• interactively, but with a smart default, crop out binding regions and other unwanted potions of the scans
• archive the original scan files using zip
ScratchPad is a simple, free application for Mac OS X designed to help keep those notes you need to jot down organized. Essentially a modern version of the program Note Pad that came with the classic Mac OS, ScratchPad is exactly that: a scratch pad.
Features
• Supports rich text so you can customize your fonts and colors anyway you like
• Support for images and pictures
• Lightweight - has everything you need without the bulk
• Multiple pages so you can organize your notes however you would like to
• Automatic saving
• Written in Cocoa to take advantage of Apple’s native API
• Free!
Languages
• English - English
• German - Deutsch
• Japanese - ???
• French - Français
• Dutch - Nederlands
TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more. 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.
Features:
• 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.
• Collect your workout data in a Diary.
• Exchange routes with friends and workout partners.
• Import GPX-Tracklists from GPS-units
MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the older Carbon port of Vim.
MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:
• bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?-Z, ?-V, ?-A, ?-G, etc.),
• transparent backgrounds,
• full-screen mode,
• multibyte editing with OS X input methods and automatic font substitution,
• ODB editor support,
• and more…
Most importantly, MacVim brings you the full power of Vim 7.2 to Mac OS X.