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Eye of the Storm 3000
License: Shareware ($39.95) Version 1.0
For: Mac OS X Size: 23,960 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Starstone Software Systems

"Eye of the Storm is your personal hurricane weather center. It tracks and plots hurricanes and their wind fields from the time they are born as tropical depressions until after landfall. Three different map styles are interactive and colorful and show the range and distribution of hurricane winds. Database driven, it includes over 2000 historical hurricane tracks for your own analysis and animation. Automatically downloads detailed advisory information via the Internet, plays audible watch and warning alerts, and includes customizable satellite image retrieval. All maps can be printed, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other graphical programs. "


Son of Weather Grok
License: Freeware Version 4.1.2
For: Mac OS 8.6+ Size: 1,210 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: StimpSoft

Son of Weather Grok is an application that displays weather conditions for cities from around the world. It taps into NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) data center using 4 letter ICAO codes for Airports.

Son of Grok will show the temperature, sky conditions, humidity, wind speed, pressure, ceiling, visibility, and much more. Weather data is usually updated hourly from NOAA, and you can set Son of Grok to get this data at specified time intervals. The data is then displayed in an easy to read format using fancy-schmancy sky condition illustrations like you see on the news, along with the details in a small scrolling ticker and drop down list.


TopoDraw
License: 30-day trial Version 1.1.1
For: Mac OS X Size: 2,520 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: HikeTech.com

"TopoDraw allows you to draw new waypoints and tracks directly onto a 2D map simply by pointing and clicking. You can also use TopoDraw to present navigation data gathered with your Garmin GPS unit on a 2D map. You can turn any graphics file into a map for use with TopoDraw. Use any jpeg, gif, tiff or pict that you find on the internet, export from a CD-ROM atlas, or scan from a real topographical map.

TopoDraw integrates support for Link2GPS. You can upload data created with TopoDraw directly to your GPS unit with Link2GPS, and you can drag and drop navigation data directly from Link2GPS onto a TopoDraw map. "


WEASEL Simulation
License: Freeware Version 1.0
For: Mac OS X Size: 713 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Winawer Software

"A Mac OS X implementation of Richard Dawkin's Blind Watchmaker algorithm, designed to show the power of natural selection to achieve seemingly improbably results. The program evolves one string into another using selection and random mutation, demonstrating how fast a result can be achieved with comparatively little effort. "


Orbitals
License: Shareware Version 1.0
For: Mac OS 8 Size: 121 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Martin Jaggi

Orbitals is completely real-time and interactive. It runs at 35 frames per second even on a standard iMac, and provides high graphics quality. Users can directly interact with the object they are watching. This means real-time mouse-rotating, changing quantum numbers, zoom and more. With all this features, Orbitals is still very easy to use.



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