WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is...
Using a virtual desktop manager is a way to organize applications over several "virtual" desktops. For example if you use two virtual desktops you can put a webbrowser on desk 1 and by using a desktop manager "switch away" the webbrowser and it will seem like you have a new empty workspace (des...
In recent years, researchers have developed astonishing new insights into a hidden unity between the motion of objects in space and that of the smallest particles.
It turns out there is an almost perfect parallel between the mathematics describing celestial mechanics and the mathematics gove...
Dozens of people from Jacksonville to Fort. Pierce flooded the U.S. Coast Guard late Tuesday with calls about a mysterious ball of fire seen flying in the sky.
Callers flooded the newsroom of Local 6 News partner Florida Today after they saw the object over the Space Coast on Tuesda...
The Antihelion meteor shower may be observed this week:
The Anthelion radiant is centred at RA 01:36 Dec +10 in eastern Pisces, three degrees northwest of the fourth magnitude star Omicron Piscium. Expect to see two shooting stars per hour.
With an entry velocity of 30 km/sec, the met...
ESO's Very Large Telescope, located on the 2,600m high Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Andes has captured the spiral galaxy NGC 1350 that lies Eighty-five million light years away.
NGC 1350 is classified as an Sa(r) type galaxy, (a spiral with large central regions) The galaxy lie...
Pillars of cold gas and dark dust are seen in the centre of the star forming region of Sharpless 171. An open cluster of stars is forming there from the gas in cold molecular clouds.
As energetic light emitted by young massive stars boils away the opaque dust, the region fragments and picturesque pil...
The Mikron Microsatellite launched on 24 December 2004 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on September 29th @ 21:16 UTC ± 2 days.
TLE Data:
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The people of Palugulu of Mahadevapur on the banks of the Godavari in Karimnagar district are a petrified lot after they witnessed a meteorite falling close to their village with big flash of light and a bang.
Aston...
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket will launch a modernised NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R military navigation satellite, GPS 2R-M1, from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The launch window extends from 0353 to 0421 GMT, on September 22nd.
The launch will be run...
HellChess (Amiga) has been updated to v1.2
This version can play six different games, and unlike the windows version you don't have to register the program before you can play all of them. (Amiga gift)
The games HellChess can play are:
Chess,
Checkers,
Othello,
...
The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organizing a major astrophysical symposium from 26 Monday to 30 Friday September 2005 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a small town in the mountains some 50 kilometres northwest of Madrid.
The main focus of the meeting will be on high energy astrophysi...
Hurricane Philippe and tropical storm Rita formed in the North Atlantic on Sunday, making them the 9th hurricane and 17th tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
At 2359 GMT Sunday, Rita had maximum sustained winds of 85 kph, which could strengthen in the next...