Meteoroid

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:11:07 +0900

Meteoroid is a listed QuickTime movie player.
(includes sound only files, mp3, aac, etc)
Plural windows can be shown.
You can toggle drawer (playlist) by pushing button or keyboard shortcut easily.
When you would like to add movies to playlist, you can choose some ways, push + button, command + O or drag and drop movie files from Finder.
Loop times of playlist is set by pop up button under playlist. Here you can choose 0 to 10 or infinity.
Aspect Ratio of current movie can be changed ‘keep’ or not.
If you’d like to change speed of playing movie, you can do with right slider. It is available from half a speed to three times a one.
In full screen view mode, mouse cursor would be hidden automatically until you move cursor.
Menu bar would be shown when cursor is in the upper part of window.
Movie controller would be shown when cursor is in the lower part of window.
Meteoroid uses framework of QTKit which is QuickTime player’s framework. Therefore it is available to play almost all movies which QuickTime player can do.
If you install Perian or Flip4Mac plugins, Meteoroid would be able to play flv or wmv movies.
Moreover Meteoroid loads those movies beforehand, when those added to playlist.
You can choose let Meteoroid do so or not in setting panel.
Meteoroid can play/pause movie also by space key.

Finally, the name of Meteoroid is a quotation from the name of star as Dioretsa is.
Wikipedia : Meteoroid

Dioretsa

Mon, 31 May 2010 13:05:02 +0900

Dioretsa is a pdf viewer that manages pdf files with tabs (Tabbed PDF Viewer). When you click a tab, Dioretsa shows contents of PDF document corresponding to the tab. If you select another tab when you have read PDF document and select that tab again, you can read PDF document from the page you read last.
The name of pdf file would be shown in the tab and window title.
It can select tab by tab-list, search a word from search box and show outline of pdf file smoothly by using Dioretsa.
In addition, view in full screen, show current pdf file in Finder and move among tabs are available. Since version 2.15, you can select whether Dioretsa will show outline at preference setting. Moreover you can drag and drop pdf files to Dioretsa to open pdf files and select whether Dioretsa in full screen would be hidden when Dioretsa is deactive.
In version 2.16, you can open PDF file in background tab and set default window’s width and height in preference window.
Since version 2.18, you can jump to the specified page by command + J key. and version 2.2, you can preview pdf pages with small views.

When you would like to open pdf files, you can do it by ⌘+O, pushing “open pdf file” button, drag and drop pdf file to Dock icon of Dioretsa or right clicking on pdf files then choose Dioretsa at “open file (pdf only) with...”.

About name of Dioretsa (Introduction of Dioretsa in wikipedia below)
Dioretsa is an asteroid discovered in 1999 notable for its unusual orbit, which is highly eccentric and retrograde. Its name is the word 'asteroid' spelled backwards to reflect this fact. It is one of twenty or so known asteroids in the solar system that have a retrograde orbit—see the List of noteworthy asteroids.
Dioretsa's orbit is otherwise similar to a comet's; it has a perihelion of 2.4 AU and an aphelion of 45.3 AU. This has led to speculation that Dioretsa was originally an object from the Oort Cloud.

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