New Software for Greg Hewgill

The Othello widget lets you play the game of Othello against the computer. Options are provided for difficulty level, piece flipping animation, and board size. There is full undo and hint capability. To play, place pieces on empty spaces on the board so...

Card Games includes five solitaire card games - Freecell, Golf, Klondike (classic solitaire), Monte Carlo, and Pyramid. Instructions are included for each game, plus a hint function that suggests a next move, and full undo capability. This version is the...

Mahjongg is the classic solitaire tile-matching game based on the Mahjongg game pieces. Click on two matching free tiles (that have no tiles blocking them to the left or right) to remove them from the board. The game is over when there are no more tiles...

Displays the current Local Apparent Sidereal Time (LAST), used in astronomy. This is the time according to the stars (sidereal) instead of the sun (solar), so this time does not match the current time of day. The current Julian date is also displayed. Set...

The library parses a written number format and converts it to its numeric form (Arabic digits). Example:forty six --->...

Xearth for Windows is a port of Kirk Johnson's original xearth program to Microsoft Windows. Xearth renders a shaded image of the earth on your desktop, as seen from your favorite vantage point in space. By default, the image is updated every five minutes...