Aug 29
About Solar System Icons
13 solar system icons inspired by objects in the Milky Way. Contains the Sun, Moon, 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets. Sized 512×512 for Leopard and above.
Aug 29
About RAW Developer
A powerful RAW image processing and conversion application designed and optimized specifically for Mac OS X. RAW Developer gives photographers complete control over their digital images and provides flexible, fast and easy to use batch processing.

All image editing operations are entirely non-destructive and never modify your original RAW images. All image processing operations are performed at 16 bits/channel or higher bit depth for maximum image fidelity.

RAW Developer offers many advanced features to enable you to achieve outstanding image quality from your digital camera. Some of the features included are:

- High quality image conversion algorithms

- Fully color managed processing pipeline which is completely user configurable enabling accurate, high quality color rendering and advanced support for use of high quality camera specific ICC profiles.

- Numerous white balance options including dropper cursor tool and eight user customizable presets

- Many more features

Aug 29
About PulpMotion Advanced
Creates slideshow based on highly customizable themes. It allows you to present your pictures as well as your video in a single animation you can share as video, screensaver or executable player. PulpMotion Advanced makes your pictures come to life with animation created from regions of interest you can easily define with the integrated editor. Your pictures are no more static but reveal a new dimension. You can also record audio comments on the fly, add music and let PulpMotion Advanced take care of the synchronization and sound transitions.

Create never-seen-before animations in no time and tell you stories with style. Dedicated iPhone/iPod export lets you carry your creations on your favourite Apple device and share them with others while you’re on the road.

Aug 29
About Speed Download
The leading Universal download manager for Mac OS X. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger and later, Speed Download 5 marks the next generation of powerful and reliable, time-saving download managers.

Faster and more secure, more features, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Speed Download release sets a new standard for download manager innovation, and is designed to be your central, unified hub for almost all the downloading and file transfer activities you do online.

Some of the new features include the following:

- a gorgeous and easy to use interface

- a re-engineered turbo-charged download engine

- a central database to manage all your downloads, uploads, and file transfers

- a built-in FTP client (with SSL) that satisfies the basic FTP needs of most users

- full WEBDAV support and integration

- full WEBDAV-SSL support and integration

- encrypted P2P file sharing

- a powerful utility for downloading web content for offline viewing

- full .Mac iDisk integration

- auto-resuming file transfers anywhere, anytime

- unlimited UNDOs throughout the entire application

- smart folder technology

- and much more!

Aug 29
About StatPlus:mac
Perform statistical analysis on a Mac in the familiar environment. Turn Microsoft Excel 2004 or 2008 into a powerful statistical package with StatPlus:mac. Microsoft Excel provides invaluable calculation tools to Mac users. Its powerful features combined with ease of use made Microsoft Excel a spreadsheet of choice for many Macintosh users. But what if you need more than the limited set of data analysis tools available in Microsoft Excel? There aren’t many tools that are as affordable and as easy to learn and use as Microsoft Excel for Mac!

StatPlus:mac offers you an ability to perform heavy-duty data analysis on your Mac in a familiar and convenient Excel environment. Integrating tightly with Microsoft Excel, StatPlus:mac empowers Microsoft Excel with a set of heavy-duty statistical analysis and data management tools, turning Microsoft Excel for Mac into a full-featured statistical analysis suite. Many more features.

Aug 29
About PubSearch
A fast, efficient search tool for scientists, medical professionals and students who rely on the ability to quickly access the millions of research papers indexed in PubMed. By combining a simple, efficient user interface with fast access to the PubMed database, PubSearch lets you concentrate on finding the research articles you need without getting in your way.

- Fast, efficient PubMed searching

- Simple, intuitive interface

- Sort results by Authors, Title, Journal or Year

- Automatically displays article Abstract

- Automatically displays a generic bibliographic entry

- Drag-and-drop single / multiple titles to automatically paste a bibliographic entry into any document (e.g. word processor or email)

- Double-click single or multiple titles to instantly view full-text articles in your web browser (works with your EZ Proxy setup)

Aug 29
About Edgies
You can take notes whenever, wherever you want simply by clicking on the screen edges, or drag-and-drop onto the edges. Edgies is a launcher appication too. Just like classic Mac’s pop-up window, you can paste links or buttons to launch applications and folders. Users can add these things as well as text.

- Rich text with graphics

- Alias button … It represents finder icon item

- File button … Finder icon, but it looks files moved inside Edgies notes.

- Alarm button … it reminds you when.

- Checkbox … On/Off changeable, with colors.

- Favicon … Internet bookmark.

- Clipboard archive … It stores contents of clipboard. Users can retrieve the contents anytime.

- Tagging button … Users can add tags to files by dropping a file onto a tagging button.

Aug 28

In case you were wondering about the fun side of Linux World Expo, we thought we’d give you a peek at our shenanigans. We at Linux Journal love what we do so much, that we can’t help but have a ball wherever we go.

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Aug 28

This certainly qualifies as an interesting development. CBC is reporting that FACIL, a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of free software in Quebec, is suing the provincial government for buying Microsoft software. More specifically, they are alleging that Quebec’s provincial government refuses to allow competing bids (including bids from free software vendors) in preference of large players like Microsoft. Allow me to quote from the CBC article.

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Aug 28

The debian security flaw and the supposed attacks were pointed
out to me earlier today.
There’s a blurb about it
here
on LJ
.
The US-CERT warning is
here.
The original debian advisory about the actual bug is
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