Metaphor

Source Mage GNU/Linux distribution is based on a sorcerous metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" packages, which we refer to as "spells". This is a development ISO and potentially loaded with bugs and glitches. This is where you come in. We need your help to squash these bugs. Please...

Source Mage GNU/Linux distribution is based on a sorcerous metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" packages, which we refer to as "spells". This is a development ISO and potentially loaded with bugs and glitches. This is where you come in. We need your help to squash these bugs. Please...

Project Elevate is an attempt to free users from the desktop metaphor. Project Elevate offers a fixed set of applications which allow casual users to perform the most usual tasks with their computer. I dont like the way current desktop environments look and feel. I find them too complicated...


Platforms: *nix

The perfect folder metaphor now in (6) six carefully crafted icons.


Platforms: Mac

EasyPinBoard resembles the "pinboard" metaphor: Notes can be added, moved, modified or deleted. There's no authentication; Like in real life anyone may access the pinboard. Maintainers of an EasyPinBoard installation may protect specific notes from being moved, modified or deleted. EasyPinBoard...


Platforms: Windows

An exploration of parallel/concurrent programming techniques using a new metaphor: flocks of birds. Current method using lines of code is slow and error prone. Changing metaphor to flocks of birds will produce programs more easily and efficiently.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

This module allows access to nodes with attached and related files, as well as access to file node contents, via a WebDAV metaphor similar to File Server. The user can browse all files existing in the system by file MIME type, attached- or related-to node type (e.g., event, story, etc.), and...


Platforms: PHP

This is a really simple, lightweight extension that does just one thing: reverse the scrolling direction of the Up/Down and Page Up/Page Down keys on your keyboard when viewing web pages. Why would you ever want to do that? Well, if you???*a*?ve adopted Apple???*a*?s new scrolling paradigm in OS...


Platforms: Mac

Introducing AutoGraf, a whole new metaphor for Cocoa with automatic, self-updating diagrams of your classes, and intelligent, visual browsing of code documentation. The AutoGraf Advantage Think of AutoGraf as the best way to understand your code. Using the AutoDoc code parser that is optimized...


Platforms: Mac

db4o is designed to be a simple, easy-to-use, and fast, native object database. Software developers using popular Java and .NET object-oriented frameworks know that using object databases is a more natural way to get work done. Developers have three ways to storing and retrieving data:...


Platforms: *nix

Module::Build::Authoring are authoring Module::Build modules. When creating a Build.PL script for a module, something like the following code will typically be used: use Module::Build; my $build = Module::Build->new ( module_name => Foo::Bar, license => perl, requires => { perl =>...


Platforms: *nix

Actor-lab is a parallel, object-orientated control language designed to introduce the ideas of control technology and robotics.Actor-lab was designed to make the teaching of control technology possible in classroom settings where, after a general introduction by the teacher, year 5-7 children...


Platforms: Mac

Do you believe in magic? You will after using The Levelator to enhance your podcast. And you'll be amazed that it's free (for non-commercial use).So what is The Levelator? It's software that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the...


Platforms: Mac

Arcana is a RPG for the SNES, by HAL Laboratory. It is known as Card Master: Seal of Rimsalia in Japan.The game was novel in representing all of its characters as cards, but it plays like a dungeon-crawling RPG, rather than a card based game. In keeping with this metaphor, the death of a...


Platforms: Windows

Revolutionary new tag-based interface makes time-tracking simpler and more elegant than its ever been before. Whether you track your time for invoicing or just for productivity, Time Tagger simplifies this vital business task by eliminating the projects, clients, tasks and timers that bog down...


Platforms: Mac

This screensaver will display images of the Maitreya figure on your desktop. The statue was not created just as an image, it was created as an object for meditation. It does not represent the real Buddha; he was not like that. It is a metaphor. Rather than representing the Buddha's physical...


Platforms: Windows

jMapper was specially designed as an accessible component created using the Java programming language. It was built in order to allow you to automatically detect metaphors / analogies between two domains (ontologies).


Platforms: Windows

Cross Platform Music Organizer and Player Jukes was created for the serious music lover. This program was created for people who rip full CD's or possibly their entire CD collection to their hard drive. Jukes allows you to have all of your CD's at your fingertips and play them like a real...


Platforms: Windows, Linux

Active Agenda is a community developed software application for operational risk management (OpRisk). Active Agenda consists of more than eighty (80) integrated modules which help companies to manage and reduce risk and related costs. Active Agenda is an open source software development project...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

This package provides an AJAX browser for Plone sites. It uses the column browsing metaphor of OSX finder. The intention was to speed up content management issues, and fast content browsing in Plone. .. image:: http://bluedynamics.com/bda.plone.finder.png Installation ============ * Make...


Platforms: *nix