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ToyViewer 4.61 Image Viewing, Converting, Editing, Filtering Utility [OS X 10/2/10.3 up]
EOS Image Manager 1.0 To View, Thumbnail & Rename Image Files [OS 10.2 up]
StuffIt Standard Edition 9.0.1- StuffIt Expander (free) & DropStuff [OS X 10.3 up]
VirtualSafari 1.0 Web-based Frontend For Apple's WebKit HTML Rendering Engine [OS X 10.3 up]
Internet Connection Monitor 5.0 Monitors Time & Thruput [OS X]
FileWrangler 1.1 Batch Renames Files [OS X 10.3 up]
MousetrapCar 1.0 Mathematically Models Mouse Trap Powered Vehicles [OS X][/url]
ToyViewer 4.61 Image Viewing, Converting, Editing, Filtering Utility [OS X 10/2/10.3 up]
ToyViewer is freeware
ToyViewer is an image viewer, which was developed originally on NeXTstep and then OPENSTEP. Currently it is for Mac OS X (Cocoa). ToyViewer has simple editing functions and filter services to other applications. If ToyViewer is installed in your Mac, you can see image files in all popular Mac Image formats, as well as PCX, PPM, Sun Raster, etc. on other Cocoa applications.
New in this version:
• New release of ToyViewer can read more quickly JPEG, JPEG2000, PCD, and Sun Raster images.
• Bug Fix: In some cases, images newly displayed were shrunken too small.
New in Ver.4.60:
• You can make the size of newly displayed images small if they are large.
• New function "Color Balance" is added. Simple auto fix operation is also available.
• Simple auto fix operation is added to "Brightness/Monochrome" panel. The interface of the panel is updated.
• The interface of "Resize" panel is updated.
• PICT images are dealt with as bitmap images.
• The numbers of the pop-up menu for resizing on each window are arranged in increasing order.
• Printing routine is updated. Three ways of printing are provided: (1) Shrink automatically, (2) Divide into some pages, and (3) Print the central part only.
• To save an image, cmd-s displays a sheet on which you can select the format.
• Control panel to show specified page of multi-page PDF is added.
• Library libpng (for PNG images) is updated to 1.2.6.
• Utility tool JasPer (for JPEG2000 images) is updated to 1.701.0.
• Bug Fix: On the save panel of JPEG2000, some functions was not selectable.
• Bug Fix: Some part of German interface did not work well.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://waltz.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp/OSX/toyv-eng.html
EOS Image Manager 1.0 To View, Thumbnail & Rename Image Files [OS 10.2 up]
EOS Image Manager is freeware
EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to quickly view, thumbnail, rename (add/remove chars, change case, re-series), and manage (move, copy, delete) all of their image files/folders from a single, elegant interface. With this application users can organize *thousands* of downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.
In addition to powerful image management tools, users can also enjoy full-screen slide shows with several options.
Powerful Features
EOS Image Manager is Open-Source/Freeware:
Rejoice in the glorious absence of any spyware, nag-ware dialogs, missing features, and banner ads. Plus, the entire, functional application is yours for free.
Popular Image Format Support:
All popular image formats can be read and manipulated (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PICT, PNG, BMP, PDF and others).
No Directory or Filename Weirdness:
Keep your images where YOU want them with the filenames YOU choose. iPhoto and other applications create directories with names like "01" - making it impossible to backup or find the images you want without the application that created them. EOS Image Manager does not lock you in to any particular naming/organization schemes.
Full-Screen Slide Show with Floating Control Panel:
Preferences include settings for adjustable image sourcing, ordering, and time intervals of 0-60 seconds.
Tab-based Interface with Toolbar:
Tabs mean ease of use with minimal clutter (no multiple-windows to navigate), and a fully customizable Toolbar means you can configure the interface to suit your needs.
New in this version:
• Major redesign of File Manager Tab GUI, including table with sortable columns.
• Added "Date Modified" column to the main file browser.
• Added sorting ability to Name, Size, and Date File Browser columns, along with the ability to reorder them.
• Added sorting ability to Name, Size, and Date Target Browser columns, along with the ability to reorder them.
• Images shown at full-size now auto-center in the image view when initially displayed and during window resizing operations (props to Brock Brandenberg).
• The speed of file and rename operations is now greatly improved due to the removal of auto-refresh from the source browser. All moved/deleted items are simply removed from the listing now, and file renames simply rename the cell (items no longer reorder themselves to their new alphabetical location).
• Added Thumbnail Size popup menu to Thumbnails Tab and set it to remember selected size between sessions.
• Created brand-new application icon.
• Added Tooltips to all Toolbar Icons.
• Misc: Added horizontal scroll bar to file browser table.
• Misc: Using only *columnName pointer now to connect with all table columns and not column index number.
For more information, visit:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://eosim.sourceforge.net/
StuffIt Standard Edition 9.0.1- StuffIt Expander (free) & DropStuff [OS X 10.3 up]
StuffIt Standard Edition 9.0.x enables fast file transfers over the Internet to save time. It compresses files up to 98% smaller so email attachments don't bounce back when they exceed the size limits imposed by many email systems. The smaller files save and regain disk space, maximize bandwidth, and accelerate upload and download time. DropStuff 9.0 includes numerous improvements that allow it to compress large amounts of units of data more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
• Expander allows you to access any file, download, or attachment
• DropStuff creates self-expanding files for Mac and Windows, .zip archives for Windows users, and .tar archives with StuffIt, BZIP, GZIP, or UNIX compression.
• 30-day full-functionality free trial available for download
StuffIt makes it easy to compress, segment, encrypt, and send any of your important data.
Unified DropStuff
Improved User Interface makes it easier to add encryption and switch between StuffIt formats. DropStuff 9.0 includes a powerful new archiving method that lets users add only those files to an archive that match a specific set of parameters they create. For example, By using the "Stuff with Filters" command from the File menu, users can quickly select their documents folder and archive only those files from that folder that were modified within the last week. Filters can be created that add files to an archive based on their matching name, date, and size based attributes.
Powerful New StuffIt Expander
StuffIt Expander now supports .cab (a Windows archive format) and .yenc (popular with newsgroups) and dozens of other popular compression and encoding archive types.
HTML Help Files
Extensive HTML AppleHelp included
StuffIt Standard incorporates the functionality of StuffIt Expander, DropStuff, DropZip, and DropTar into one convenient program, and gives users quick and easy access to virtually any Internet downloads or email attachments. Expander handles all popular compression formats including .zip, .tar, .rar, .sit, .sitx, and more.
StuffIt Standard 9.0.1 is Mac OS X only. If you are still running Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x you will need to download or purchase version 7.0.3.
New Features and Benefits:
• Faster performance. Make .sitx archives faster than ever
• Improved DropStuff user interface now makes it easier to add encryption and more
• Create archive by filtering folders for files that match custom search criteria
• Open .yenc and .cab files
• Integrated HTML Help
Other Features:
• Open virtually any type of compressed or encoded file
• Compress files to a fraction of original size to reduce transfer times and regain disk space
• Make archives that open easily on PC, Mac, Unix, and Linux computers
• Easy-to-use drag and drop interface
• Includes strong 512 bit encryption
• Create self extracting archives for Mac and Windows
New in this version:
• Re-enabled "Delete Originals After Stuffing" option in DropStuff (by popular demand)
• Re-enabled "Stuff Items as Individual Archives" option in DropStuff (by popular demand)
• Under certain circumstances, the 9.0 release could create some StuffIt 5 format (.sit) archives which could not be expanded by earlier versions. The 9.0.1 release will correct this problem. Note: .sit archives created with 9.0 should be expanded and then recompressed with 9.0.1.
• Fixed an issue with Windows Self-Extracting Archive creation
• Correction for StuffIt.framework 8.0 and StuffItEngineShell.cfm 9.0 conflict (PathFinder)
• Blowfish encryption method in the StuffIt X format now working properly.
• Compressing in StuffIt X format with the "Custom ->By Analysis" option now working properly
• Introduced "Whole archive encryption" - previous versions allowed items to be encrypted in an archive, but the archive as a whole was openable and viewable. Passwords would only be required to expand or manipulate items stuffed with "item encryption". "Whole archive encryption" requires the password for any access to the archive.
• Various improvements for compatibility with oddly formatted MacBinary (.bin) files
• Various improvements for compatibility with oddly formatted Zip (.zip) files
• Better handling of Zip archives with high-ASCII character (eg: accent marks) named files
• Introduced "One-Time Preferences" dialog to allow access to compression settings such as archive format when dragging files to DropStuff icon when application is closed. By holding down the "Option" key when dragging files to DropStuff, users will be presented with the new dialog.
• AppleScript improvements (including syntax changes - specifically MacBinary encoding, also added "none" as a compression level. Check the product's AppleScript Dictionary for details.)
• The "Segment Size" field now correctly accepts segment sizes upto to 999,999,999 KB (~954 GB)
System Requirements
• Mac OS 10.3 or Newer
• 40 MB of Disk Space
StuffIt Standard Edition is $49.99 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/standard/index.html
VirtualSafari 1.0 Web-based Frontend For Apple's WebKit HTML Rendering Engine [OS X 10.3 up]
VirtualSafari is a Web-based frontend for Apple's WebKit HTML rendering engine. Basically, it makes it possible to host a website which looks like the Safari browser and allows the end-user to *load* pages rendered with the WebKit engine. Does that sound confusing? Well, it'll all be clear to you once you've seen it in action.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3, and a functional webserver (e.g. Apache)
VirtualSafari is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/files/software/
or
http://sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/files/software/virtualsafari1.0.zip
Internet Connection Monitor 5.0 Monitors Time & Thruput [OS X]
You want to monitor your internet connection input and output throughputs? You want to display them numerically or graphically? You want to know how much time you've been connected? You want to record accumulated time, input and output?
Then Internet Connection Monitor is what you need!
Features:
- All windows are global floating windows which makes them always visible.
- You can set their visiblity and transparency.
- You can connect and disconnect your internet connection manually or automatically at launch and at quit.
- You can display a bar graph to show your real time input and output throughput.
- You can display a history graph to show the evolution of your real time input and output throughput.
- You can display the numerical values of your real time input and output throughput as well as your accumulated input and output.
- You can display your connection time as well as your accumulated connection time.
- You can automatically reset your accumulated time, input and output at the beginning of each month.
- You can configure additional and minimal times at each connection.
- It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use.
- It is compatible with Extended Software Updater.
New in this version:
• The accumulated input and output are displayed in megabytes.
• It is compatible with the new version of Extended Software Updater.
System requirements:
Mac OS X
For more information, visit:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/
FileWrangler 1.1 Batch Renames Files [OS X 10.3 up]
Utility for renaming batches of files easily. Select a folder, filter it's contents, recurse it's folder structure, choose your naming scheme and click the "Rename Files" button. Dozens, or hundreds or thousands of files are quickly renamed to meet your criteria. It's a problem that has been addressed by other applications, but none work quite like FileWrangler.
Pure Cocoa, written in Objective-C, and fast.
• GUI that shows you all of your naming choices at once.
• File list instantaneously previews the results of your naming choices.
• User-controlled folder recursion depth.
• Natural language date entries.
• Drag and drop.
• Lots of conveniences for filtering a folder's contents.
• Violation highlighting! See file names that are over 31 characters long, or contain UNIX-unfriendly characters.
• Auto-include "enclosing folder" as part of your file name.
• Renamed the wrong files? "Revert to original names" will save the day!
• Robust PDF manual, with screenshots and suggestions on use.
New in this version:
New Features
• Export your file list, with optional tags, to a text file.
• Tool Tips!
• New tool for working with improperly recognized extensions.
• Clear File Listing allows you to force FileWrangler to forget about the folder you chose.
• Clear Everything clears all interface choices and forgets the folder you chose.
• Reload Current Folder tells FileWrangler to refresh the current file list.
• Can now add an alternate delimiter between month/day/year in the Date Formatting tools.
• Reveal Chosen Folder in Finder let's you jump right to your folder and view it's contents.
• Filenames can now be trimmed to exactly 31 characters, with trimming occuring at beginning, middle or end of the filename.
• Step number added to number formatting, to allow for incremental jumps in a numerical sequence.
• Invisible extensions now show as italicized in the Current Extension column.
• Colons are automatically replaced with a forward slash by OS X. FileWrangler now alerts you if this has happened.
• Violation highlighting now highlights all violations in all columns.
• Code improvement to the renaming process results in faster renaming, especially for long file lists.
• 15% smaller download!
Bugs Fixed
• Clear All Settings wasn't properly clearing all interface settings.
• Prefix/Suffix delimiter didn't behave as expected, putting in extra delimiters when not necessary.
• File names with a"/' were being interpreted as a":' by the file system.
• Sometimes files with a missing extension would not inherit a newly appened extension.
• If file extension visibility was the only option chosen, FileWrangler would not set the extension visibility properly.
• Clicking on a file with no extension would display an erroneous period at the end of the full file path.
• Filenames with 32 characters could mistakenly be read as 31 characters and vice versa.
• Delimiter handling should act more as expected, between prefix, name and suffix.
• Original Name column now shows the full, Finder-visible filename.
• Memory leak patched.
System requirements:
OS X 10.3 required. Not compatible with 10.2
FileWrangler is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/christopherdrum/
MousetrapCar 1.0 Mathematically Models Mouse Trap Powered Vehicles [OS X]
MousetrapCar is freeware
MousetrapCar is a very simple program that allows students to experiment with various axle and wheel diameters to either maximize the distance or meet specific distance requirements during the design of mousetrap powered vehicles in a Technology Education classroom.
System requirements:
Mac OS X
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/teast/
or
http://homepage.mac.com/teast/MousetrapCar.sit
Charles W. Moore
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