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Useful software: PDFCrack, Map.Hamilton iMapper, and Skim for PDF annotation

Posted by Simon on September 27, 2008 at 10:31 PM

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Some miscellaneous useful software.

"Forget" your PDF password: use open-source PDFCrack. Installs easily on Mac command line (use gmake).

Looking for high-quality maps and "satellite" imagery of Hamilton? Try Map.Hamilton's iMapper. The interface takes a few minutes of experimentation to figure out, and then it's cool. Make sure you switch to Aerial Viewer (latest year) to get their ground imagery, which I think is actually generated by airplanes. It's quite a bit higher resolution than Google Earth has.

Want to annotate your PDF files? Try Skim. Seems potentially easier than using OmniGraffle... (and cheaper...)

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I have a little programme called Fractal Trees X.

Is it yours? If so, where can it be downloaded for a friend please?

It can be used with other images. The only problem is with rendering, so I use a screen shot.

It's a nice programme.

Sue.

Simon

Yeah, I wrote that... a LONG time ago!

I've just restored the old pages that you have to use to download it. Here's a link:

http://simonwoodside.com/dev/osx/ftx/ftxapp.html

... only problem is that it doesn't seem to work properly on my machine (intel MBP with 10.5)

—simon

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