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Stellarium

Blogged in misc by Administrator Friday October 6, 2006 at about 7:42 pm

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

sky

  • over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
  • asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • images of nebulae
  • realistic Milky Way
  • very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
  • the planets and their satellites

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Paperless Printer

Blogged in emulation, system by Administrator Thursday October 5, 2006 at about 2:40 pm

Paperless Printer is a universal document exchange utility that can be used as a Virtual Printer to publish virtually any document in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Microsoft Word Format (DOC), Microsoft Excel Format (XLS), JPEG or BMP, preserving the exact look and content of the original document, complete with fonts and graphics.

You can distribute your PDF and HTML documents by E-Mail or store them on the World Wide Web, on intranet, a file system, or a CD. Other users can view your work on Microsoft® Windows, Mac® OS, LINUX, and UNIX® platforms. Paperless Printer also works as a preview tool. Users can print from almost any Windows® application to this printer and visualize the output on JPEG or BMP, without actually having to print on paper.

Convert

Blogged in Information, Uncategorized, system by Administrator Wednesday October 4, 2006 at about 9:12 pm

Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

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Xenus Link Sleuth

Blogged in browsing, internet by Administrator Tuesday October 3, 2006 at about 6:04 pm

Xenu’s Link Sleuth checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

  • Simple, no-frills user-interface
  • Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
  • Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
  • Executable file smaller than 1MB
  • Supports SSL websites (“https:// “)
  • Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
  • Detects and reports redirected URLs
  • Site Map

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SpeedFan

Blogged in overclock, system by Administrator Monday October 2, 2006 at about 9:26 am

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature).

At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can change fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise. Several sensors, like Winbond’s and the AS99127F support fan speed changing, as well as others from Maxim, Myson, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor and ITE, but the hardware manufacturer must have connected the relevant pins to some additional, yet trivial, circuitry. This means that if you have, say, a Winbond W83782D on a BP6 then you’re ok, but not every motherboard with such an hardware monitor chip will be able to change fan speeds

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Klipfolio

Blogged in internet, rss by Administrator Sunday October 1, 2006 at about 11:03 am

Klipfolio is a small, efficient and easy to use desktop application that allows you to collect, view and manage live information channels. Save the time and energy needed to stay up-to-date.

Features:

  • Always up-to-date. New information flows in so you don’t have to go looking for it.
  • More than just news. KlipFolio displays weather, stocks, photos, lists and more.
  • Easily add and remove content. Get more Klips to add new content and services.
  • Built-in RSS support. Monitor as many RSS feeds as you want with the integrated Feed Viewer.
  • Skinnable. Download skins, change colours, adjust fonts and tweak KlipFolio’s size.

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