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Stellarium

March 10, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
stellarium logoAvailability: Free Download
Comparable: Google Earth, Starry Night Pro

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.

Visolve

February 26, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Accessibility

visolve

Availability: Free Download
Comparable:  Color Blind Assistant

Visolve is the software that transforms colors of the computer display into the discriminate colors for various people including people with color vision deficiency, commonly called color blindness. In addition to distinguishing colors and finding a specific color, it aims to help people with color blindness:

  • to guess a normal color, and
  • to feel the color gradations in natural scenery etc. by their visual information.

Visolve can execute the following three types of color transformation, filtering, and hatching:

  1. Red-Green transform — transforms redder colors to brighter, and greener colors to darker,
  2. Blue-Yellow transform — transforms bluer colors to brighter, and yellower colors to darker,
  3. Saturation increase — increases the saturation of all colors,
  4. Filtering — darkens all colors other than the specified color, and
  5. Hatching — draws different hatch patterns depending on color.

When people with color blindness apply, for example, Red-Green transform, if they keep the above transformation rule in mind and see color changes, they could guess a normal color. Moreover, Red-Green transform reflects the degree of color saturation into its brightness regularly. So they could know not only the difference between red and green but also the difference between two reds, i.e., the degrees of red.

Tags: accessibilityvisual assistance

Filemaker Pro

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Math & ProgrammingProductivity & Utility
filemaker_logoAvailability: Download
Comparable: Access, Oracle

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms. Current versions are: FileMaker Pro 13, FileMaker Pro Advanced 13, FileMaker Server 13, and FileMaker Go 13 for iPhone and iPad.

Since 1992 Filemaker Pro has been available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, and can be used in a cross-platform environment. FileMaker server briefly ran on Linux, but Linux support was abandoned with FileMaker 7, and the server currently runs only on Windows or OS X servers. It is available in desktop, server, iOS and web-delivery configurations.

Tags: database
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