Looking Back: 2008 in Review

Posted by Brett Shoelson, May 27, 2011

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This week, I continue looking backward, with a retrospective of all of the File Exchange Picks of the Week for 2008.

Once again, I have skipped any Picks that refer to files that have been removed from the File Exchange, or to tutorial videos, or contest announcements, items not useful in an index of this nature.

You can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links to the "Pick of the Week" tag. As always, your comments are welcome.

Title/Author/Summary/Notes	Image
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MATLAB HEXXAGON Per-Anders Ekstrom Graphical User Interface for playing the Ataxx clone Hexxagon
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SUDOKU (DANCING LINKS SOLVER) Per-Anders Ekstrom A GUI for playing SUDOKU
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SETPOS - GETPOS Jerome Briot Two flexible wrappers to manage graphics object position
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BORDERLAYOUT Brian Cody Simple layout manager for GUIs designed to mimic the Java BorderLayout
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THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF WATER AND STEAM Magnus Holmgren Water properties A complete IAPWS IF-97 standard
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CIRCLE FIT Izhak Bucher Fit a circle to a set of measured x,y points
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TIMEIT BENCHMARKING FUNCTION Steve Eddins Measures the time required to call a user-specified function
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HTML CALENDAR GENERATOR Toby Driscoll Creates a web page with nicely formatted monthly calendars over a specified date range
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SAVE2WORD Suresh Joel Paste figure to Microsoft word automatically using ActiveX
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FILES UNDER FOLDERS (FUF) Francesco di Pierro Recursively search for files through directory trees under given folders
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ICONEDITOR Elmar Tarajan Icon editor for creating and editing icons and small images
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EXTREMA, EXTREMA2 Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera Search all extrema points of a time series or a surface with/without NaN's
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INSERTROWS Jos Insert rows into a matrix at specific locations
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DETECT CIRCLES USING HOUGH TRANSFORMS Tao Peng Detect circular shapes in a grayscale image. Resolve their center positions and radii
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DUALCURSOR Scott Hirsch Add dual vertical cursors to a plot
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TEXTSCANTOOL Stuart McGarrity GUI to read large text files
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READTEXT Steffen Brueckner Returns an array of the contents of specified text file
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REMINDME Matt Fig Issues a reminder at a specifice time
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NEWFCN Frank González-Morphy Creates a new, formatted MATLAB *.m File
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WHATS Matt Fig Duplicates the output of Matlab function WHAT, with clickable links
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VARYCOLOR Daniel Helmick Provides maximum color variation for lines on plots
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STOPWATCH Joseph Kirk Displays elapsed time from keyboard or button inputs
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MYAA - MY ANTI-ALIAS FOR MATLAB Anders Brun Better looking Matlab figures with anti-aliasing
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SUMMER OLYMPIC MEDALS 1896-PRESENT Bill McKeeman Ways of looking at the record of summer olympic medals
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MAKING MATLAB TALK (MULTIPLE FILES) Links to files, by different authors, designed to make MATLAB speak
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MORSE Fahad Al Mahmood Converts text to playable morse code in wav format
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INTRUDER DETECTION AND RECORDING David Leffingwell Intruder detection and recording with live video and audio display
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HTML TABLES Multiple files, from different authors, for handling HTML tables
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WILD WHICH Lucio Cetto Same as 'which' but with the option of use wild cards; faster than 'lookfor'
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EXPORT TO CSV Felix Zoergiebel Exports any type of MATLAB data to a nicely formated csv-file
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CLICKABLE LEGEND Ameya Deoras A legend with clickable strings that let you hide and show objects in a plot
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ATOMIC REMINDER Daniel Armyr A reminder that uses the US naval observatory's atomic clock as a reference
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INTERFACING MATLAB AND SAS Dimitri Shvorob A white paper facilitating interfacing MATLAB with SAS
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BREAKPLOT Michael Robbins Produces a plot with a broken y-axis to avoid unnecessary blank space
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ANYMATE Jerker Wagberg Animate Handle Graphics objects
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COUNTMEMBER Jos Count members
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CHRISTMAS TREE PLOT Anselm Constructs a coloured christmas tree with some presents and snow