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Mr. Tides is a Universal application for Mac OS X 10.4 that displays tides and currents for locations around the world. Written completely in Objective-C, Mr. Tides 3 is compatible with both Intel and PPC Macintosh computers.
Mr. Tides 3 has several changes over the previous version. It uses the Sparkle update engine for seamless updating and the latest XTIDE database engine for access to the harmonics data files. The views are simpler, the database uses Core Data for speed and robustness, and Core Animation is used in the Day view. The maps are now satellite images that can be
Mr. Tides 3 has several changes over the previous version. It uses the Sparkle update engine for seamless updating and the latest XTIDE database engine for access to the harmonics data files. The views are simpler, the database uses Core Data for speed and robustness, and Core Animation is used in the Day view. The maps are now satellite images that can be
What's New
Version 3.0 release 16:
- Updated the harmonics files to remove duplicate stations caused by importing all the old NOAA stations. They changed a lot of the station names, so there were a lot of duplicates. Unfortunately, this will affect some saved stations - they won't be found in the databases and so won't open.
- Current substations compute their slack times correctly now. Before, in certain cases the slack times were out of order and caused Mr. Tides to either crash or not display any data.
- Fixed a bug when the first entry in the text view was astronomical, it would show the tide events under a duplicated date after the astronomical entry.
- Text view now finds the correct top three maximum and minimum events.
- Printer settings for orientation and scale are now saved for the Day, Calendar, and Text views (Clock view can't be printed. If you try, it will just return to the application and not do anything.)
- Changing the printer settings no longer asks twice if you want to save the changes.
Version 3.0 release 16:
- Updated the harmonics files to remove duplicate stations caused by importing all the old NOAA stations. They changed a lot of the station names, so there were a lot of duplicates. Unfortunately, this will affect some saved stations - they won't be found in the databases and so won't open.
- Current substations compute their slack times correctly now. Before, in more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Mr. Tides is a Universal application for Mac OS X 10.4 that displays tides and currents for locations around the world. Written completely in Objective-C, Mr. Tides 3 is compatible with both Intel and PPC Macintosh computers.
Mr. Tides 3 has several changes over the previous version. It uses the Sparkle update engine for seamless updating and the latest XTIDE database engine for access to the harmonics data files. The views are simpler, the database uses Core Data for speed and robustness, and Core Animation is used in the Day view. The maps are now satellite images that can be zoomed for easy station location.
You can still export tides and astronomical information to iCal, and now station locations can be exported to MacENC and GPSNavX via an XML file. Open stations are now documents that can be saved to any location.
Mr. Tides 3 has several changes over the previous version. It uses the Sparkle update engine for seamless updating and the latest XTIDE database engine for access to the harmonics data files. The views are simpler, the database uses Core Data for speed and robustness, and Core Animation is used in the Day view. The maps are now satellite images that can be zoomed for easy station location.
You can still export tides and astronomical information to iCal, and now station locations can be exported to MacENC and GPSNavX via an XML file. Open stations are now documents that can be saved to any location.
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Matchka reviewed on 28 Jul 2007
Cheers and thanks.
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Unfortunately, the newest version has taken a step backwards, in my opinion. The satellite images are a nice visual touch, but take some time to load (10s?) when you are switching views. Please consider returning to a faster or less graphic intensive mode.
Second, the calendar view of 'month' is much less informative that in the previous version, at least graphically. In the previous version, the colors for rising/falling/neagive tides were displayed on the month view. In the current version, the calendar view graphics have been simplified and there isn't a way to display these colors. This was useful in showing students the changes in a month at a glance and makes it easier to find that elusive minus tide. You can still see the colors in the DAY view, but no longer the calendar month view. Please consider providing the colors as an option on the calendar view. (And gimme back those old moon phase icons - they were cool!).
Lastly - what happened to the "X" in the app name?
In any case, I hope you will consider my suggestions and continue to improve the app.
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O5220803 reviewed on 19 Jan 2006
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MacUpdate Lon reviewed on 13 Jan 2006
Pecos Pete reviewed on 13 Jan 2006
Thumbs up.
Anonymous reviewed on 26 Jul 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 01 Jun 2005
My thanks to the developer.
Anonymous reviewed on 08 Dec 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Jul 2004