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Abe's Amazing Adventure!! 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116520/ Abe's Amazing Adventure!! is a scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, written vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore Plus/4. alterMIME 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116457/ alterMIME is a set of utilities designed to assist in the modification of MIME-encoded mailpacks often used by Inflex, XaMime, and other email-scanners. alterMIME can add disclaimers and nullify specified attachments. alterMIME is part of the commercial XaMime software suite, but is being offered back to the OpenSource community. annie 0.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116494/ annie is a C++ API (library) for neural network training and execution. It can be linked to both Windows and Linux applications. Support for multi-layer perceptron networks, radial-basis networks, and Hopfield Networks is present. It can also be interfaced with Matlab's Neural Network toolbox. apt4rpm 0.64.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116512/ The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs. Atlantik 0.5.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116487/ Atlantik is a KDE client for playing the Atlantic and Monopoly boardgames with a monopd/atlanticd server. AutoDia 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116456/ AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included. b2 Smarty mod 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116477/ b2 Smarty mod is a version of the b2 Weblog system that adds support for Smarty templates and caching. It also make it much easier to host multiple b2 blogs on one machine. By using Smarty templates, blog editors no longer need to know anything about PHP. Catch the Furball 1.0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116448/ Catch the Furball is an icebreaker board game intended for friends to play around a computer. It features a freshly-generated board for each game, an eclectic collection of cards, and beautiful pictures of Cambridge University. The distribution is intended both to allow Web masters to quickly set up their own copy of the game, and to allow tinkerers to use the game engine to make their own games. It includes the editor used to create game data. Comment 0.1.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116443/ Comment is a command line directory context note taker. Notes are stored in both the local directory and each users home. It was developed as a low impact tool for retaining flyaway information that is often needed at a later date. The dual storage system provides convenient access to prior notes, and all notes are stored in plain-text format. CSBuddy 1.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116514/ CSBuddy is a tool designed to help Counter-Strike server owners, particularly those running AdminMod. It maintains a queryable database of all players that have been seen on the server, and it filters the raw logs of a Counter-Strike server and distills them into a single CSBuddy log which shows only high-level activity such as excessive friendly fire incidents, admin activity, and players complaining about misbehavior or saying suspicious things. This tool is built upon an included Counter-Strike log file parser which is provided in a simple derivable class. cwdaemon 0.2.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116452/ cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel port and a simple transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via the UDP protocol. Debt Minder 1.5.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116519/ Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files Disk Based HashTables 1.0-13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116484/ Disk based hashes is a method to create multidimensional binary trees on disk. This library permits the extension of the database concept to a plethora of electronic data, such as graphical information. Dragon Character Training 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116478/ Dragon Character Training is a PalmOS program using stroke recognition to help you learn to read and write Chinese characters. It is good for learning Mandarin vocabulary and characters. E-Cell System 3.1.92 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116451/ E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling, simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple algorithms with different timescales, to coexist. elmo 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116491/ elmo is an efficient console mail user agent. It supports POP3 and SMTP, uses the Maildir storage format, and sends 8-bit MIME messages regardless of the server's ehlo response (although it is able to decode qp and base64 encodings). Additionally, when replying to email, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can choose the appropriate words to use in the quote's attribution. Enemies of Carlotta 0.21 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116460/ Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman. Fan Control for Dell Laptops 0.3b http://freshmeat.net/releases/116445/ Fan Control for Dell Laptops is a little tool for full automatic fan control and temperature monitoring on Dell Laptops under FreeBSD. Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116492/ Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for embedded systems. Gambas 0.50 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116513/ 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. GNOME Installation Guide 16/03/2003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116462/ The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are not. GNU MP3 Daemon 2.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116525/ GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs. GNU VCDImager/VCDRip 0.7.14 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116474/ GNU VCDImager is a program for making Video CD (and Super Video CD, a.k.a. SVCD) images out of MPEG movie files. The images it creates are ready to use with programs which understand BIN/CUE images, such as cdrdao. GNU VCDRip allows for reversing the process, ripping mpeg tracks from (Super) Video CDs. gnuPod 0.28 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116444/ gnuPod is a collection of tools which allow you to use your iPod under Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems. HFS+ and FAT32 formatted iPods are supported. gURLChecker 0.3-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116502/ gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page. Highlight 2.0b-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116447/ Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database. JBidwatcher 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116469/ JBidwatcher is a powerful eBay-user tool implemented in Java. Its features include tracking of auctions, bidding, sniping (automated bidding in the last moments of an auction), and a unique multisniping feature that allows you to snipe on a group of auctions, but stop the sniping as soon as you win one. It also includes remote Web-based management, XML-formatted save files, drag and drop support, some support for auction sellers, and dozens of other useful auction features. JFtp 1.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116450/ JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory up/download, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode. The clients lets you browse the server while transferring files in both directions. JFtp can also be started in a Web browser via Java Web Start. JSVN 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116510/ JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control system. kbirthday 0.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116483/ kbirthday is a Panel applet which reminds you of birthdays and anniversaries listed in your KDE addressbook. linuxsms 0.61 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116475/ Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions. Lorentz 0.1a http://freshmeat.net/releases/116466/ Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes, backgrounds, etc. Mah-Jong 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116518/ Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the solitaire games such as xmahjongg. Mamory 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116523/ Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client. mboxstats 0.95 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116470/ mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.). Megamek.NET 0.305 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116476/ Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060. mICQ 0.4.10.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116495/ mICQ (Matt's ICQ Clone) is a portable, small, yet powerful console-based ICQ client. It supports password changing, auto-away, creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a very complete yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages from the ICQ network, list users that are offline and online (including their online status), search for users by email address, and look up basic (name, UIN, email) information. MoviX 0.8.0pre3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116497/ MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX. MrProjext 1.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116461/ MrProjext is a MrProject database extractor and converter. It can search (extract) the tasks belonging to a specific time slot or recource. As a converter, it can rewrite the extracted result as a MrProject, Evolution, Yank, or Pilot file. It's a tool for doing those jobs which are a little bit out of the scope of the MrProject developer. Mysql Data Manager 1.53 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116522/ Mysql Data Manager is a Web-based MySQL client that provides local or remote database access. It allows direct data access and database management via an easy and intuitive interface. MythTV 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116515/ MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote. netcount 0.6a http://freshmeat.net/releases/116501/ netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd. nut 7.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116490/ nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn. phpOpenTracker 1.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116507/ phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths). phpShadow 0.62.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116485/ phpShadow is a complete but lightweight content management / portal system (framework ) with a modular design. Pixory Beta 2.8 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116467/ 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. PyKota Print Quota System 1.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116455/ PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more. QTParted 0.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116464/ QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux. ripMIME 1.3.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116453/ ripMIME extracts attachment files out of a MIME-encoded email pack. SlackCheck 2.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116471/ SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine. snmptherm 20030316 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116504/ snmptherm is SNMP agent (uses Net-SNMP AgentX) for the DS1621 digital thermomether-based PC thermometer/WebTherm. It uses libtherm, and it is possible to monitor up to 8 sensors. Spamcup 1.03 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116479/ Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline. Take a Joint 20030316 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116480/ Take a Joint has the goal to simplify the integration of Linux clients into Windows networks. Sharing a directory should be as easy as under Windows. Users should be able to share their directories even without being root or knowing the Samba configuration file smb.conf. To fulfill the high security demands, users who would like to share their directories have to be activated by root first. The same applies to directories or devices the user isn't allowed to access with his regular rights. Currently both console programs taja (admin program) and taju (user program) are usable. TomPong 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116454/ TomPong is a very simple implementation of the classic Pong game, using Python and Pygame. It features realistic physics for motion using vectors, not-so-realistic but very fun spin dynamics, scoring, and a well-implemented simple AI. Vcard_Parse 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116481/ Vcard_Parse is a PHP class that allows you to parse vCard files and text blocks, and get back an array of the elements of each vCard in the file or text. wapding 0.91 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116468/ wapding is a simple and fast WAP interface to the DING dictionaries of Frank Richter. WeeWM 0.01-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/116488/ WeeWM (Wee Enhanced Environment) is a fast and light window manager for. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable, and has dock management, smart window placement, virtual desktops, and more. XPLC 0.3.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116498/ XPLC is a component system that tries to enable the use of components in a pervasive way. It aims to be easy to use, have low speed and size overhead, and be language and platform neutral. Basically, the idea is to leave no excuse for an application not to be component-enabled (being a component and/or using components). Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.6.3 (Usable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116508/ "yaala" parses logfiles and generates very detailed statistics in HTML format. The information one will get can be selected by using SQL-like expressions, which provide filtering with relational operators (like equal, greater than, less than) as well as regular expressions. It includes input parsers for the Common Log Format (e.g. Apache's access logs), NCSA logs (e.g. Apache's combined logs), Squid access logs, the xferlog format (used by FTP daemons), bind9's query logs, and postfix entries in the maillog. Yet Another Mail Manager 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116458/ Yet Another Mail Manager (YAMM) is a Java email client with support for MIME, POP3, SMTP, HTML, filters, multiple mail accounts on different servers, and file attachments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
