All items 01/24/2011

  • "Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be replied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries."

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  • "Learn how to visualize your data Within minutes, our free data visualization tool can help you create an interactive viz and embed it in your website or share it. Anyone can do it, it’s that easy—and it’s free."

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  • "StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics."

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  • The heart of the site is a collection of data visualizations. You may want to begin by browsing through these collections—if you'd rather explore than read directions, take a look! On Many Eyes you can: 1. View and discuss visualizations 2. View and discuss data sets 3. Create visualizations from existing data sets

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  • "An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development."

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  • Graphity is a diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks like: •Flowcharts•Social networks•Computer networks•UML diagrams•Business process modeling diagramsGraphity is an application for the Adobe Flash® Player. It can be used with any browser which has a Flash Player plugin. No installation is necessary. Graphity can be used for free and without registration directly from this web page! Graphity makes full use of the yFiles FLEX library enabling the viewing, editing, drawing, and animation of a wide range of diagrams, networks, and other graph-like structures.

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  • "To fulfill our aim,we at Gapminder are currently working on: keeping our tools’ statistical content up-to-date and making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics."

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  • "TeamViewer brengt binnen enkele seconden over de hele wereld een verbinding tot stand met elke PC of server. U kunt de PC van uw partner op afstand bedienen alsof u er zelf voor zit. Kom erachter waarom meer dan 100 miljoen gebruikers vertrouwen op TeamViewer!"

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  • Vitamin D Video detects people and moving objects in video. Our easy-to-use software brings professional-grade video monitoring to anyone with a webcam or network camera.

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  • "DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied. Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...). Use this USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...) to synchronize files to another desktop PC. Unlike many other synchronization software, DirSync Pro is Open Source; it is 100% free of charge, 100% free of commercial text, 100% free of advertisements and 100% free of spyware. You can use it as long as you like, without any limitations in time or funcationality. You can freely distribute it according to GPL3."

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  • USB Safeguard is a portable software program to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drive using the AES 256 bits encryption."

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  • "Das Programm SecurStick für Windows, Mac OS X und Linux ist im Rahmen des c't-Artikels Verschlüsseldienst (c't 6/2010 S.170) (PDF-Version) entstanden und ermöglicht das Verschlüsseln von Daten auf USB-Sticks und anderen Datenträgern."

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