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For fast download times, attractive and configurable internal graphics are optionally available. Buttons can trigger Javascripts, audio, and simultaneous multiple page loads targeted into different frames. Buttons can be stacked as vertical sidebars, horizontal topbars, or placed in grids. Advanced Scrolling Text 3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111637/ This Advanced Scrolling Text applet reads a text file and displays the contents within a Web page in a scrolling format. It supports many advanced features and is efficiently written. Advanced Slide Show Software 3.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111641/ Advanced Slide Show Software is a Java applet which can be used for product display, as an advertising tool, as a photo album, or for any other form of presentation. It features a range of changeover effects and multiple link areas within a slide. AllTasks.net 1.36 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111718/ AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or gather daily tasks into one common system. Apollo CMS 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111585/ Apollo CMS is a content management system written in Python, using PostgreSQL as a backend. It is written in a modular way allowing for new types of content, and new database backends. Archangel 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111736/ Archangel is a client for the RGTP bulletin board transfer protocol which uses Mozilla as a back end. Eventually, it will be possible to run it both as a standalone application and as an extension to Mozilla's functionality. Axualize 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111661/ Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please. BioCoRE 20020203 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111686/ BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features. BitTorrent++ 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111712/ BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32 as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly. bogofilter 0.10.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111683/ Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail. Cayenne 1.0a6 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111584/ Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects application server. Centipaid phpnuke module 1.3.1b http://freshmeat.net/releases/111609/ The Centipaid PHPNuke module allows administrators of PHPNuke sites to charge their users nominal fees to access certain sections of their site. It allows for groupings of modules in zones with their own rates and duration, and supports unlimited zones and modules. Cherokee 0.4.0 Beta 8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111580/ Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is extremely fast and small. Consultant Communicator 3 Beta 4 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111706/ Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project. Crimson Fields 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111618/ Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. The player decide which units are sent to the front lines, and when to unleash the reserves. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files. Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111729/ The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language. Cyrus SASL 2.1.12 (SASLv2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111715/ The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of secure network authentication to any client or server application. It supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP, IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols. DC-GUI 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111622/ DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client. DiaCanvas2 0.9.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111619/ DiaCanvas2 is a flexible diagramming widget. It is based on GnomeCanvas. It uses its own constraint solver to maintain object relationships. It is Model/View/Controller-based and makes full use of GnomeCanvas' features. DIBS 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111678/ Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers (and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision. dobackup.pl 4.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111594/ dobackup.pl is a flexible Perl script to handle unattended incremental backups of multiple servers. It handles multiple media sets with automatic media preparation and rotation, configurable 'what-to-backup', global per-host exclusion patterns, and user settable 'don't-back-this-up' metafiles. Its design goal is zero-maintenance, nothing to do except change the media when told. domainrobot 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111635/ domainrobot is a Webmin module that can be used to order, update, administer, and transfer domains. It can be used with the 1und1, http.net, and provider4you registrars. DoXFS 0.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111669/ DoXFS (pron. docs-eff-ess) is a document management system that uses the XFS filesystem to store both content (files) and meta-data (file attributes), bypassing the traditional architecture of filesystem and database, and leveraging the built-in advantages of XFS. Currently, it offers a Web frontend based on PHP and standard management functionality (create, delete, attributes add/delete, etc.) as well as extras such as versioning and Full Text Indexing (using Namazu). Dwnl 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111668/ Dwnl is a download manager for the console to manage multiple downloads. Enterprise Gantt 0.4.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111724/ Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun. A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most flexible library of its kind. Examplotron 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111679/ Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element "foo" here, you just write the element: "<foo/>". EzManage 1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111600/ Ezmanage provides a simple WWW interface to managing multiple ezmlm mailing lists. It is designed to enable ISPs to provide their clients with easily administrable mailing lists, and to create virtual domains for mailing lists, etc. FieryFilter 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111597/ FieryFilter is an interactive desktop firewall for Linux. It will ask the user every time a new network connection is made if they want to allow or deny it. In future versions users will be able to generate rules from connections and thus minimize the amount of questions asked. Fire.app 0.32.b.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111625/ Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client that can handle simultaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, IRC, MSN, and Jabber. ftpcopy 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111664/ ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats. FUDforum 2.3.8RC1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111672/ FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators. Gambas 0.44 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111582/ Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for. gGo 0.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111614/ gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java. GneleMixer 3.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111629/ Gnelemixer is yet another OSS mixer. It has a good looking GUI, and supports loading/saving settings. gnokii 0.5.0pre5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111716/ gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives. Gnome Attacks 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111723/ Gnome Attacks is a GNOME 2 game which involves bombing a city into oblivion to leave a flat surface for your falling spaceship to land. GNOME Clipboard Manager 2.0.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111703/ GNOME Clipboard Manager (GCM) makes copying and pasting easier and more productive. It will automatically synchronize the mouse selection (the primary selection) with the clipboard (the clipboard selection) and store the contents of the clipboard, making it possible to go back to a previous clipboard. You can save and load clipboards, edit them, and convert them to another format. GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111671/ GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor. GNU xhippo 3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111692/ GNU xhippo is a simple GTK-based playlist manager, designed to play music using mpg123, xmp, or most other commandline-based players while providing a friendly, clean X interface. It is localised in both English and German. Its interface is based upon the Amiga program HippoPlayer. It supports drag-and-drop, has optional GNOME support, and has a simple text-based playlist format compatible with many other players. google search 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111665/ google search gives users the ability to search the Google database with Webmin. GStreamer 0.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111627/ GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute. GTagger 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111707/ GTagger is an ID3 tag editor designed for easy and efficient usage. Features include directory listing, viewing and editing ID3 tags, converting ID3 tags into several versions, filename suggestions appropriated from tag information, live filename suggestion alteration while editing the ID3 tag, the ability to rename and delete files, and short cuts for every function. GTK+ Dictionary 0.5.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111628/ GTK+ dictionary is a frontend to dictionaries stored in a MySQL server. GTKsubtitler 0.2.0pre1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111657/ GTKsubtitler is a tool for editing and converting subtitles for DivX films. It allows you to move subtitles, change their format, convert them to ISO-8859-1/2, and merge two sets of subtitles. Gubby 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111697/ Gubby is a small program that continually shows where Procmail has placed new email. It runs both in commandline and in an ncurses environment with colors, and will update the overview in real time, while using very low resources. Users can launch a specified mailreader by selecting a folder and pressing enter. Hawaii Aglet Server 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111640/ Hawaii Aglet Server is an aglet server and viewer with an attractive and intuitive user interface built with Swing. Hawaii features easy installation, a logging facility, a browser for aglet classes, and sound support for events. Hawaii is intended to be a complete platform for deploying and managing aglets, designed for normal users, administrators, and developers. It includes support for managing and viewing the runtime, contexts, and aglets in a very easy-to-use graphical interface. HelpViewer.app 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111654/ HelpViewer is an online help viewer for GNUstep applications. It uses XML files, and its goal is to be fast and easy to use. Hspell 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111581/ Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis. IDX-DocBook2LaTeX 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111638/ IDX-DocBook2LaTeX is a stylesheet which translates DocBook documents into LaTeX. It is written in Perl, using the XML::XPathScript package from AxKit. It features the ability to handle tables, indices, figures, footnotes, and more. The XSLT-like templating philosophy built into XPathScript makes it easy to extend. IDX-PKI 1.8.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111681/ IDX-PKI is an Open Source implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure which aims to be IETF-compliant for PKIX recommandations. iGal 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111726/ iGal is a Perl program for making online image galleries (static HTML slides, index page, and thumbnails) quickly and easily, "out of the box". The output is highly customizable, but it generates a pretty good-looking set of slides even with its default settings. It supports JPG, PNG, and GIF, image captions, JavaScript image preloading, and doesn't rely on non-standard packages for image processing. Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111631/ Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager (ICAM) provides a Web interface to the NoCatAuth Internet access system. It supports account activation, timeouts, and password management, and is perfect for use in both wired and wireless access scenarios. Jaffer 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111693/ Jaffer is a Java implementation of an Appletalk File Server over TCP. Jaffer is only concerned with the latest AFP specifications and supporting OS X and OS 9 clients. It is mainly focused on a tight, clean, fast codebase that is very portable and embeddable. jBASE multi dimensional database system 3.4.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111639/ jBASE is an Application Development and Database Independent Management System that enhances and extends the UNIX, Windows NT and Windows '95 Operating Systems. jBASE also facilitates easy migration, and therefore to those Operating Systems, from other DBMS's, including Pick and Reality. jBASE consists of run-time, development and administrative components and is designed with Open Systems and Open Software in mind. jBASE allows the most flexible overall computing environment possible by allowing multiple Operating Systems and multiple Databases to interact together in one overall heterogeneous solution. JSX2 0.1.4 (Object Export) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111630/ In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX. Kalyp 0.3-alpha (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111620/ Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together. kbarcode 1.1.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111673/ KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported. Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20030203a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111599/ Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up. Leafnode 1.9.33.rel http://freshmeat.net/releases/111598/ Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up. libdvdcss 1.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111658/ libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98, Win2k/WinXP, MacOS X, HP-UX, QNX, and OS/2. It is used by libdvdread and most DVD players such as VLC because of its portability and because, unlike similar libraries, it does not require your DVD drive to be region locked. libdvdplay 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111660/ libdvdplay is a cross-platform layer over libdvdread that provides low-level functions for DVD reading and seeking, as well as access to the DVD data (subtitles, languages, chapters). It also provides the virtual machine required for DVD navigation to the client application. libGenome 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111626/ libGenome is a development library designed to make common operations on DNA and protein sequences easy. libGenome provides functionality to read and write sequence and annotation data in several file formats. It provides a common manipulation interface for sequence and annotation data in any supported file format. Some of the basic manipulation functionality offered by libGenome is concatenation, truncation, reverse complementation, and translation of sequences. It was intended to be used on genome size sequences and is optimized accordingly. This is a cross platform library written in ANSI C++ and is currently supported on any platform with gcc. Metrowerks CodeWarrior on Windows and Mac OS are also supported. libsmtp++ 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111621/ libsmtp++ is a library that implements the client part of the SMTP protocol. It has an object-oriented design using the C++ language to make it easy to integrate. It supports important SMTP features, including SSL, CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1, LOGIN, and PLAIN authentication. LinuxSSN Pre Alpha 2.9 (Pre-Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111602/ LinuxSSN is a naval combat simulation game. It is based on the operations of a nuclear submarine. MagCon 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111674/ MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS and exports them to memopad. It was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices. MailStripper Pro 0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111615/ MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent. Martin's Picture Viewer 0.1.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111647/ Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails. mboxstats 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111709/ mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.). melancolic 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111732/ melancolic aims to be a simplistic yet efficient and robust Ogg Vorbis audio streamer. It reads raw audio data on stdin and encodes it to one or more Ogg Vorbis streams at different bitrates which it offers to clients through HSLP on a chosen TCP-port. HSLP, or HTTP and Shoutcast-Like Protocol, is an (at least for the time being) completely informal, unspecified protocol (defined as "the protocol which melancolic does") which tries to be as compatible as possible with existing HTTP/Shoutcast/Icecast-enabled audio players as well as HTTP/WWW-clients. mod_mono 0.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111659/ mod_mono is a module that interfaces Apache with Mono and allows running ASP.NET pages on Unix and Unix-like systems. mother 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111725/ The mother modular generic compiler is designed to compile arbitrary computer languages to arbitrary assembler code. the desired language and assembler is specified as tables, so there is no need to generate something like a "cross compiler". Further, mother is modular, as it is made up of a set of separate tools which are used in the very Unix fashion of calling them in a pipe. NBook 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111721/ NBook is a simple to use, simple to install guestbook. It includes a Web-based configuration, Name, Email, Homepage, Location, and Comments fields, and a commented out IP. Nvclock 0.6.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111720/ Nvclock allows you to overclock your Nvidia card under Linux. OpenLDAP-PostgreSQL Linux HOWTO 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111689/ OpenLDAP-PostgreSQL Linux HOWTO describes how to have a PostgreSQL database working as an SQL backend for OpenLDAP. OProfile 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111714/ OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance counters. Oxymoron 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111636/ Oxymoron is a tool that automates the process of creating GNU standard source packages with autoconf/automake. Pachi el marciano Demo 020203 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111624/ Pachi el marciano is a platforms game inspired by games like Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. The goal is to collect all the objects on each level; when this is done, the exit gate to the next stage will appear. PatentMailer 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111696/ patentmailer is an easy-to-use CGI and command-line script that fetches the image files for a patent so that you can easily receive a PDF file of the patent by email. This is useful for investigating the patents that a company holds or is trying to claim. PDF::API2 0.3b41 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111675/ PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API. PerlDesk 1.7 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111590/ PerlDesk is a fully featured help desk, ideal for companies with several technicians who are required to support many users. It incorporates many features to streamline support and improve customer relations, such as: Email and web based ticket submission, staff logging, a knowledge base, and user registration. phPay 2.02 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111632/ phPay is a shopping cart system using a combination of PHP and SQL. It works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Informix, and MS-SQL. It does not use cookies. It features user accounts, flexible design, easy administration, and support for multiple languages, and can be used without price values as a simple catalog. It cross-references in every-detail view, and features a translation tool. Complete adminstration can be done via a browser. Different languages and currencies are supported. Shipment and payment methods can be chosen by the user, and it also supports stock tracking. phpInv 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111677/ phpInv is a small yet highly configurable inventory script written in PHP with a MySQL backend. It features unlimited categories, unlimited depth of sub-categories, customizable columns per category, an administration control panel, access permissions (user and group), easy configuration, a template system, and searching. phppdflib 2.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111676/ phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF files. It focuses on being easy to use, without requiring special Web server configuration. It currently supports automatic JPEG image embedding, as well as manual embedding of bitmapped image formats. Several methods of text placement (specifically designed for easy layout) are supported. Pixory Beta 2.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111682/ Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners. Polipo 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111687/ Polipo is a lightweight caching Web proxy that was designed as a personal cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will complete them using range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if supported by the remote server. pork 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111702/ pork is a UNIX console-based AIM client mostly fashioned after the look-and-feel of ircII. PowerDNS daemon 2.9.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111649/ PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK. pseudo-cron 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111684/ pseudo-cron allows users to use cron jobs on a Website without shell access. Whenever any user requests a page which uses pseudo-cron, it checks if any cron jobs should have been run since the previous request. If there are, they are run and logged. It uses a syntax very much like Unix cron's and can run any include()able PHP file. QuaD-Pres 0.7.17 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111612/ QuaD-Pres is a Perl tool for creating HTML presentations that can optionally work in conjunction with WebMetaLanguage. It organizes a lecture into a tree with meaningful URLs, generates a table of contents and navigation links, and links to a common CSS stylesheet. Rave IRC Services 1.0.0 (beta5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111691/ The Rave IRC Services are IRCu services based on E-Services featuring a GlobalServ to send Globals across the network. rdesktop-open 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111607/ rdesktop-open is a graphical frontend to the rdesktop RDP client. It is written in Python and uses the Tkinter library. Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111604/ The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver. reflect 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111717/ reflect is a symlink-style package management tool similar to depot, stow, graft, epkg, etc. Unlike these, it has much less prerequisites, in that it only requires bash and coreutils. Configuration is per-package, and multiple target directories are permitted. ReplayTV 5000 Series Client 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111592/ This program allows users to download MPEG files from a ReplayTV. The program sends a request to the multicast address, and listens for answers. When it gets a reply from a Replay unit, it lists it in the "ReplayTVs" column. Users can then see basic info about the unit (such as serial number), fetch the guide, show information on a show, and download the show MPEG file. rubrica 0.9.9.90 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111645/ rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML. SDBA Revolution 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111653/ SDBA Revolution is an open-source server written in Perl which provides an architecture to simplify and streamline the process of writing applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent across messages, session time limits, support for multiple "apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use multiple access lists of password files. It makes writing IM apps very much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. The homepage has full tutorials and documentation. Senken 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111633/ Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested. SffTools 2.2. http://freshmeat.net/releases/111730/ SffTools consists of SffToBmp, a little utility that converts Structured Fax Files to BMP, PBM, JPEG, or single- and multipage TIFF format, and SffView, a GUI viewer for those files. The tools should be especially useful to people who are faxing with ISDN cards because the CAPI interface of these cards generates such files. CAPI support for Linux is available for the active card AVM B1 and the passive card AVM Fritz!. Skaringa r1p7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111623/ Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed. SkunkWeb 3.4b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111605/ SkunkWeb is a scalable, extensible, and easy-to-use Web application server written in Python. It is designed for handling both high-traffic sites and smaller sites. Its features include a powerful component model and an elegant templating language that encourages component-based design, highly configurable caching (on disk and/or in memory) of compiled templates and component output, message catalog support for i18n, and remote component calls. It can be used with Apache via an Apache module, or it can serve HTTP requests directly. Snap .08 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111591/ Snap is a Perl-based Napster client. socklog 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111642/ socklog cooperates with the daemontools package to create a small and secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the help of daemontools svscan, supervise, and multilog. socklog provides a different network logging concept, and also does log event notification. multilog has built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog is small, secure, and reliable. StepTalk 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111708/ StepTalk is scripting framework which can be used to create scriptable servers or applications. It is written using Objective C and is language independent; you can use it with any available scripting language that is provided as a separate bundle. swiggle 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111662/ swiggle is le's simple web image gallery generator. It is a small commandline tool that generates HTML pages, including thumbnail indexes, for given images. It's intended to be easy to use, and since it is written in C, it's quite speedy. It uses libjpeg for decompression and compression of images, libexif for getting EXIF information contained in the images, and it caches scaled images so that subsequent runs don't need to scale images again and are faster. Of course, the original images aren't changed. Currently, it processes only JPEG images, and it's thought to be used primarily with images taken with digital cameras. Tabulizer 0.2d http://freshmeat.net/releases/111613/ Tabulizer provides an easy-to-use interface for editing and displaying small tables of text. Its data is stored in XML format and can be exchanged with other programs in tab separated value format via copy and paste. Tammi 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111670/ Tammi is a Java component based development framework and run-time container for applications supporting Web browsers, mobile terminals and/or Swing-based user interfaces. Tammi application components can implement independent business logic themselves or act as proxies to native libraries, remote programs, and other kinds of manageable systems. Terminal Server Client 0.104 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111606/ Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is a frontend for rdesktop. It supports most of the rdesktop 1.1/1.2 arguments, can read .rdp files in the Microsoft Unicode format, writes new .rdp files in ASCII (which can also be read by the Microsoft RDP Client), and looks and functions very much like the Microsoft RDP Client. It features a Gnome panel applet to quickly launch saved rdp files. The Magic Notebook 1.3.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111666/ The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work. The Plastic File System 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111610/ The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules. Tiger Map Server 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111608/ The Tiger Map Server dynamically renders road maps of the United States. The server contains a multi-threaded Web server and a custom drawing library. All un-projected shape files are supported, including ESRI's version of the US Census' Tiger/Line Database. Tux Paint Default Stamps 2003.01.28 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111734/ Tux Paint Default Stamps is a collection of "rubber stamp" images (and associated descriptions and sound effects) for the childrens' drawing program, "Tux Paint." Categories include math and music symbols, space and planets, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and some cartoon Tux penguin shapes. VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.10 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111698/ The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC. VLC 0.5.0 (Natalya) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111705/ VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multimedia player for Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, and QNX. It can play most audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, DV, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD and DVD (with menus), and can read streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for transcoding. vvftp 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111735/ vvFTP is a simple, console-based FTP client written in C++. The design is modular and extensible. Web components 2.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111685/ Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to ASP.NET. white_dune 0.20beta186 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111713/ VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals. wordtrans 1.1pre13 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111694/ Wordtrans is a frontend for several dictionaries. It supports some plain text dictionaries such as i2e (English-Spanish) and de-en (German-English), Babylon Translator dictionaries, and dict servers dictionaries. Some features include console and X (Qt) versions, good speed, and the ability to watch the clipboard and automatically translate the word there. XElf 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111583/ XElf is a set of modules dedicated to XML processing for Python. It currently features a Python XOM implementation. XML Indent 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111710/ XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. XScreenSaver 4.07 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111646/ XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 140 display modes are included in this package. Yaxi 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111589/ yaxi is a functional API for OCaml XML data manipulation. It provides implementations of XML 1.0, XPath, and XSLT. Yet Another Font Installer 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111652/ Yet Another Font Installer (YAFI) is a set of programs that allow you to install TrueType and Type1 fonts for various applications like XFree, LaTeX, etc. Zence 0.75 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111644/ Zence is a small Postscript program that generates random text. Word morphology and the occurrence of certain letters or letter combinations are configurable. It may be used for generating words to be used in artificial languages, but with the correct set of parameters can also generate text that resembles existing languages. Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.8 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111643/ Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages. zphoto 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111616/ zphoto is a Web/Flash-based zooming photo album generator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Freshmeat, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
