Herbo's Mac OS-X Cocoa Software 


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Copyright 2002-06 by Herb Otto
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

These programs may be freely distributed for non-commercial use only. They are copyrighted! They may not be sold or included with any other software collection (CD ROMs, etc) without my written permission. Do not alter the copyright notices or any other portion of these programs.



Last Updated:

01/29/06: SumFun 1.2.1
01/24/06: SumFun 1.2
03/12/05: Weather 1.8v1
07/07/03: DNZ Reader 1.4, SumFun 1.1, Weather 1.3v12
06/21/02: Weather 1.3
05/26/02: Weather 1.2
04/21/02: DNZ Reader 1.1
04/13/02: Created


Cocoa Based Applications

SumFun - A simple puzzle game to improve your math skills. It contains 3 variations; Summation, Product and Average. The goal is to remove all tiles from the board in the fewest possible moves. To remove a tile you must place the next tile in the queue next to the tile or tiles where the sum/product/average modulo 10 is equal to the placed tile. In other words the rightmost significant digit. All tiles surrounding the blank square where the new tile is place are searched (8 total). 

 

SumFun is based on the Palm OS game "Summing" by Yoshitaka Nagano.  I became addicted to this game and wanted a version which ran under Mac OS-X.  Hence SumFun was born.  You can find Yoshitaka's Palm OS program on his website: NiceNine

Summation Example:
Looking at the picture above, the next tile to place is a 0, placing it next to the 8 and 2 at the upper right will cause tiles 8 and 2 to disappear as well as the placed 0.
(8 + 2 = 10, the rightmost significant digit is 0)

Version 1.2.1 - Jan 29, 2006 - Universal Binary



Weather
- This application is used to parse the www.noaa.gov weather site and provide a user-friendly output. In addition it supports speech synthesis and is Apple Scriptable.
This is one of the many programs I use in my Mac OS-X based home control system.


DNZ Reader
- For Palm users which have the DayNotez program, this little jewel will allow you to read your DayNotez database on your Mac (after hotsyncing). Simply point the reader to the location of the DayNotez.pdb file to read and you're good to go. This is a reader only and will not allow you to modifiy your database file.

Version 1.4:
- Support for new data format (DayNoteZ 2.5.1)
NOTE: I've added 2 new columns to the table, you may need to delete your
com.HerbOtto.DYNZReaderX.plist file from your user/Library/Preferences/ folder.