{"id":2795,"date":"2011-05-27T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/05\/27\/looking-back-2008-in-review\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T22:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T02:19:40","slug":"looking-back-2008-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/05\/27\/looking-back-2008-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2008 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\r\n

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

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

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\r\nMATLAB HEXXAGON<\/a>\r\n

Per-Anders Ekstrom<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Graphical User Interface for playing the Ataxx clone Hexxagon<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSUDOKU (DANCING LINKS SOLVER)<\/a>\r\n

Per-Anders Ekstrom<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A GUI for playing SUDOKU<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSETPOS - GETPOS<\/a>\r\n

Jerome Briot<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Two flexible wrappers to manage graphics object position<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nBORDERLAYOUT<\/a>\r\n

Brian Cody<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Simple layout manager for GUIs designed to mimic the Java BorderLayout<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTHERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF WATER AND STEAM<\/a>\r\n

Magnus Holmgren<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Water properties A complete IAPWS IF-97 standard<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCIRCLE FIT<\/a>\r\n

Izhak Bucher<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Fit a circle to a set of measured x,y points<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTIMEIT BENCHMARKING FUNCTION\r\n

Steve Eddins<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Measures the time required to call a user-specified function<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHTML CALENDAR GENERATOR<\/a>\r\n

Toby Driscoll<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates a web page with nicely formatted monthly calendars over a specified date range<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n SAVE2WORD<\/a>\r\n

Suresh Joel<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Paste figure to Microsoft word automatically using ActiveX<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n FILES UNDER FOLDERS (FUF)<\/a>\r\n

Francesco di Pierro<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Recursively search for files through directory trees under given folders<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nICONEDITOR<\/a>\r\n

Elmar Tarajan<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Icon editor for creating and editing icons and small images<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nEXTREMA, EXTREMA2<\/a>\r\n

Carlos Adrian Vargas Aguilera<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Search all extrema points of a time series or a surface with\/without NaN's<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n INSERTROWS<\/a>\r\n

Jos<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Insert rows into a matrix at specific locations<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDETECT CIRCLES USING HOUGH TRANSFORMS<\/a>\r\n

Tao Peng<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Detect circular shapes in a grayscale image. Resolve their center positions and radii<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDUALCURSOR<\/a>\r\n

Scott Hirsch<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Add dual vertical cursors to a plot<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nTEXTSCANTOOL<\/a>\r\n

Stuart McGarrity<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

GUI to read large text files<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Steffen Brueckner<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Returns an array of the contents of specified text file<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nREMINDME<\/a>\r\n

Matt Fig<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Issues a reminder at a specifice time<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nNEWFCN<\/a>\r\n

Frank Gonz\u00e1lez-Morphy<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Creates a new, formatted MATLAB *.m File<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nWHATS<\/a>\r\n

Matt Fig<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Duplicates the output of Matlab function WHAT, with clickable links<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Daniel Helmick<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Provides maximum color variation for lines on plots<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nSTOPWATCH<\/a>\r\n

Joseph Kirk<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Displays elapsed time from keyboard or button inputs<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMYAA - MY ANTI-ALIAS FOR MATLAB<\/a>\r\n

Anders Brun<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Better looking Matlab figures with anti-aliasing<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n SUMMER OLYMPIC MEDALS 1896-PRESENT<\/a>\r\n

Bill McKeeman<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Ways of looking at the record of summer olympic medals<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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\r\nMAKING MATLAB TALK (MULTIPLE FILES)<\/a>\r\n

Links to files, by different authors, designed to make MATLAB speak<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMORSE<\/a>\r\n

Fahad Al Mahmood<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Converts text to playable morse code in wav format<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nINTRUDER DETECTION AND RECORDING<\/a>\r\n

David Leffingwell<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Intruder detection and recording with live video and audio display<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\n HTML TABLES<\/a>\r\n

Multiple files, from different authors, for handling HTML tables<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nWILD WHICH<\/a>\r\n

Lucio Cetto<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Same as 'which' but with the option of use wild cards; faster than 'lookfor'<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nEXPORT TO CSV<\/a>\r\n

Felix Zoergiebel<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Exports any type of MATLAB data to a nicely formated csv-file<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCLICKABLE LEGEND<\/a>\r\n

Ameya Deoras<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A legend with clickable strings that let you hide and show objects in a plot<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nATOMIC REMINDER<\/a>\r\n

Daniel Armyr<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A reminder that uses the US naval observatory's atomic clock as a reference<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nINTERFACING MATLAB AND SAS<\/a>\r\n

Dimitri Shvorob<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

A white paper facilitating interfacing MATLAB with SAS<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nBREAKPLOT<\/a>\r\n

Michael Robbins<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Produces a plot with a broken y-axis to avoid unnecessary blank space<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nANYMATE<\/a>\r\n

Jerker Wagberg<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Animate Handle Graphics objects<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCOUNTMEMBER<\/a>\r\n

Jos<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Count members<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nCHRISTMAS TREE PLOT<\/a>\r\n

Anselm<\/a> <\/p>\r\n

Constructs a coloured christmas tree with some presents and snow<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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