SeisMac

I stumbled into Suitable Systems’ SeisMac, a Mac OS X Cocoa application that according to the developer “makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs. The resizable, real-time scrolling display shows an enormous amount of acceleration information. Place your laptop on a table and see the seismic waves from tapping your toe on the floor. Lay your laptop on your chest and see your heartbeat.” Sounds interesting, so I’ll give it a try.

Switched from Fink to DarwinPorts

I’ve been using Fink for a while to run on the Mac some open source packages I like to have. However after looking at the list of packages available for DarwinPorts I decided to switch. Both have very similar user interface, and the switch went very smooth. One of the packages I like to run is GRAMPS, the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System. It is on Fink, but you have to enable the unstable branches, and some other things. It installed straight away in DarwinPorts. Also, Keychain has a newer version in DarwinPorts. I’ll see how it went after a week or so of using it.