Origin Of Earth

The Eratosthenes model displays the shadows cast by two gnomons (sticks) at different locations on Earth. For one gnomon, Sun is directly overhead (as would be the case if the gnomon was on the Tropic of Cancer at the summer solstice). The other gnomon is due north of the first gnomon. The sizes...

The Ejs Copernican System model illustrates Copernicus' system of planetary motions. The entire system is centered on the center of Earth's uniform, circular orbit. Sun is placed near, but not at, this center point. The orbit of each planet (other than Earth) consists of a deferent circle,...

The Astronomical Parallax 2D Model illustrates the phenomenon of parallax in astronomy. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to the background that is caused by the motion of the observer (rather than the motion of the object itself, or of the background). This simulation...


Platforms: Mac

The Stellar Aberration 3D Model illustrates the phenomenon known as the aberration of starlight, first reported by James Bradley in 1729. Aberration occurs because light has a finite speed, and thus light from a star takes a finite amount of time to travel through the tube of a telescope. During...


Platforms: Mac

MB Free Fortune Cookie is an interesting software with a simple to use interface. The program is designed to predict your fortune for a particular day. Fortune cookies are crescent-shaped, hollow cookies with a piece of paper inside which contains your "fortune" or the thought of the day. The...


Platforms: Windows

MB Free Purple Star Astrology is a Chinese Astrology software that predicts a person's overall personality as well as his potential throughout his life related to money, profession, asset, health and relationship with parent, siblings, spouse, children and friends, the 12 palaces of life. And all...


Platforms: Windows

Pxytest is a command line utility to test a host for open proxies that are vulnerable to spammer abuse. Unsecured proxies currently are the most significant conduit of junk email. This is a particularly vexing problem, because open proxies, unlike open mail relays, hide the origin of the spam,...


Platforms: *nix

PDL::Transform::Cartography Perl module contains useful cartographic projections. SYNOPSIS # make a Mercator map of Earth use PDL::Transform::Cartography; $a = earth_coast(); $a = graticule(10,2)->glue(1,$a); $t = t_mercator; $w = pgwin(xs); $w->lines($t->apply($a)->clean_lines());...


Platforms: *nix

Svinepalsen project is a top-scrolling space shooter built with SDL. In Svinepalsen, the year is 2223 and the population of space has begun. You are tentacled creature from Nurobi Gernash on a mission to reach the home planet of a race called "humans". You are to deliver one message to all...


Platforms: *nix

SmarTagger is a perl script that read a text file with the album info and use it to write the MP3 tags and rename the files according to a format string. The origin of the problem is people that dont save the MP3 tags o choose bad names (like track01.mp3 and so) for their songs. In addition,...


Platforms: *nix

snowdrop provides a stenographic text/code watermarking tool. snowdrop is a steganographic text document and C code watermarking tool that uses redundant, tamper-evident and modification-proof information embedded in the content itself, instead of the medium, to simplify tracking of proprietary...


Platforms: *nix

MultiSpec is a processing system for interactively analyzing Earth observational multispectral image data such as that produced by the Landsat series of Earth satellites and hyperspectral image data from current and future airborne and spaceborne systems such as AVIRIS. The primary objective of...


Platforms: Mac

The Nucleic Acid Nomenclature is a Dashboard widget that displays general information on nucleic acids (symbol, meaning, complement and origin of designation) conformed with the IUPAC-IUB recommandations.


Platforms: Mac

GEOPoint is an easy to use satellite antenna pointing calculator, for geostationary communications satellites. It calculates the azimuth and elevation pointing angles from a given location on the earth towards a specified geostationary satellite. The program also calculates polarisation tilt...


Platforms: Windows

Faye is back and puzzling her way through even more enchanted realms in this mesmerizing, much-anticipated sequel to Dream Chronicles! Locked away within the Ancients' Place by Lilith, Fairy Queen of Dreams, Faye needs your help to navigate through intricate puzzles and magical landscapes. Help...


Platforms: Mac

FreeExtractor is the easiest way to create self-extracting archives for Windows from existing ZIP files. It is an excellent open-source solution for packaging software programs and for distributing files to friends and colleagues over the Internet. Features: * User friendly With a...


Platforms: Windows

First Names 2012 is an application that will help you create your own personalised first names SCROLLS, GREETING CARDS, KEYRINGS + MORE! Do you know the ORIGIN and MEANING of your first name ? Enter ANY first name, eg. Laura and our First Names software will generate a PERSONALISED SCROLL,...


Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64

IPToCountry is a free to use tool to find out the country allocated to a particular IP address. Features include importing a list of IP addresses from a text file and exporting the IP address and country list to comma separated text file. IPToCountry is a free tool to find out the geographical...


Platforms: Windows

A simple screen saver with a Sputnik cruising space. Not in orbit of Earth (as a real satellite would be), but who cares? :)


Platforms: Windows

Misfortune has befallen the magic kingdom again! A careless charm made the formerly wondrous ancient world overcast, beset with darkness and despair. Four fairies of the elements were deprived of their magic power. Be the hero the kingdom seeks: set the fairies of earth, air, fire and water free,...


Platforms: Windows