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AIOCP 1.1.000 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136868/ AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a Content Management System (CMS), a professional all-inclusive solution to completely manage a Web site or portal through a user-friendly Web-interface. AIOCP is also a framework for Web application developement and includes e-commerce and e-business modules. It includes all basic and extra modules: CMS, WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, forums, news, newsletter, links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners, search engine, statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding, custom modules, code libraries, images, and sounds. aMule 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136951/ aMule is short for "another eMule file-sharing program". It is another fork of the xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, and supports Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X platforms. aMule's distinctive feature is its new vision of the GUI. Asymptopia Flashcard System 1.1b http://freshmeat.net/releases/136971/ Asymptopia Flashcard System uses Motif and LaTeX to produce, manage, and use attractively formatted flashcards. You load some or all of your "collections" and set the timer for pop-up frequency. The GUI interface and "Collection Manager" make modifying flashcards as simple as a pushing a single button. A knowledge of LaTeX is only required for when entering special symbols. AudioLink 0.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136941/ AudioLink is a tool that makes searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc. It is flexible: you can use a command line interface or your choice of multiple GUIs, design your own search criteria, etc. You can search MP3 and Ogg files and use AudioLink to categorize your music collection. BitTorrent 3.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136986/ BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing. BookmarkManager 0.06 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136938/ BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data. CDNSMan 1.0.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136885/ CDNSMan is a Web application for easy, highly convenient zone management on many name servers. In addition to overall administrative control, it has support for decentralized (end-user) zone management. Chadwick 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136934/ Chadwick is a C library for manipulating baseball play-by-play files in the Retrosheet format. Clustered JDBC 1.0beta12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136948/ Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more. Collapsar Creations Project 1 0.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136965/ Project 1 is a cross-platform space simulation game. It will have multiple single-player and multiplayer modes, with an open architecture and a complete toolset to produce new content and code. Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136921/ Connect Daily, a Web-based calendaring system, allows multiple users to add and edit calendar events using a Web browser. The calendar display can be directly integrated into your Web site. It provides advanced capabilities for managing resources and facilities. The approval processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that all items added are approved. It supports event download to MS Outlook and Palm OS PDAs. Authentication to LDAP directories is also supported. ConPresso 3.4.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136913/ ConPresso is a PHP/MySQL Content Management System which features easy installation and integration into existing Web sites, an integrated WYSIWYG editor with cut-and-paste support, article previewing before online publishing, automatic publication, deletion, and archiving of articles, a release function, template and snippet editors, optimized category and user administration, no restrictions on used objects or elements in an article (texts, graphics, files, and links), display of ConPresso contents in external Web sites through Javascript/Content sharing, and multilanguage (German/English/Portuguese) support. Damn Small Linux 0.4.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136943/ Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136973/ Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. DKMS 0.37.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136859/ DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Dropbear SSH Server 0.37 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136930/ Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments. dweb 20030925 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136982/ Dweb is a set of PHP scripts and modules to create (and manage) simple and efficient directory-structured Web sites. It includes modules for creating menus, a sitemap, photo-albums, embedded HTML, and error-pages. Dynebolic GNU/Linux 1.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136898/ Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution, an operating system which works directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. It is user-friendly, recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3D modeling, photo, peer-to-peer filesharing, Web browsing and publishing, word processing, email, encryption, and networking. It also includes games and a world navigator. It does automatic clustering, joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, and works on modded XBOX consoles as well. Ebotula 0.1.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136939/ Ebotula is an IRC bot for administration tasks in one or more channels. It has four access levels. The top level is the bot master, where a user has complete access to all functions. The channel owner is the administrator in one channel. The other levels are friends and other users. The bot is a multithread application and can execute more commands simultaneously. The data are contained in gdbm hash files. Enhydra JaWE 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136904/ Enhydra JaWE (Java Workflow Editor) is a graphical workflow process editor which uses XPDL as its native file format and LDAP connections. It can be used to edit/view every XPDL file which conforms to WfMC specifications. Enhydra Shark 1.0-beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136906/ Enhydra Shark is a workflow server based on standards from WfMC and OMG. It uses XPDL as its native workflow definition format. Storage of processes and activities is done using Enhydra DODS. It consists of a server and client applications (admin and worklist handlers). Etherboot 5.3.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136983/ Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, and Hammer machines over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. DHCP and tftp. FluxConf 0.9.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136972/ FluxConf is a set of 3 programs for configuring fluxbox. It's simple but you can configure almost everything. Gambit 0.97.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136945/ Gambit is a set of tools for doing game theory on finite games. It features a graphical interface as well as a (currently experimental) Python API for doing repetitive or econometric tasks on games. GECO 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136936/ Geco is an ERP/e-commerce/e-procurement solution for Italian Small-Medium Enterprises (PMI), and is especially suited for accounting/financial purposes. Written in pure PHP (with extensive use of OOP), it can run both in ASP and in "Linux box" mode, and the look and feel is provided by the use of stylesheets for quick and easy personalization. genlop 0.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136909/ genlop is a small Perl script which shows you, in a nice colored output, useful information about your previously-emerged packages by looking into /var/log/emerge.log. genlop is for Gentoo/portage users only. gimp-print 4.3.21 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136978/ Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh. HarvestMan 1.2 rc1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136907/ HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser.It has many features for customizing offline browsing through URL filters, depth-fetching, fetch levels, domain filters, file limits, thread limits, download depth, directory checking, and robot exclusion protocol. It is useful to download an entire Web site or certain files from a Web site to the hard disk for offline browsing later. It features an XML project file, and support for the HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols. It works transparently across proxies and can also crawl intranets. ibargraph 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136944/ ibargraph shows the current throughput on an ISDN line as an LED bar graph with LCDProc. iClip 2.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136984/ iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application. It lets you quickly store, organize, and access bits of information, and copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop clippings to and from its multiple "clipping bins". The clippings can be text, pictures, URLs, sounds, etc. They can be arranged into unlimited groups called "clipping sets". JADC 1.0.004 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136915/ Java Advanced Digital Clock (JADC) is both a digital clock and a time counter (countdown or countup display, to or from a particular time). It is a browser-independent and highly-configurable Java applet, and could be easily customized with your own graphics and time format to achieve an unlimited variety of appearances and behaviors. This distribution include 255 images (17 different sets of digits). Java Implementation of Speex 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136923/ JSpeex is a Java port of the Speex speech codec (a patent-free, Free software audio compression format designed for speech). It provides both the decoder and the encoder in pure Java, as well as a JavaSound SPI. Java Object Cache 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136919/ Java Object Cache is a library which provides basic Object caching. Implemented strategies include First In First Out (fifo), Least Recently Used (lru), and Least Frequently Used (lfu). All strategies enforce maximum size in elements and maximum time to live. JDDM 2.0.007 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136917/ JDDM is a drop-down menu Java applet, a comprehensive solution for Web site navigation. It is browser-independent and highly-configurable, and could be easily customized to fit your Web site needs to achieve an unlimited variety of menu appearances and behaviors. It lets you generate vertical and horizontal menus with an unlimited number of nested pop-up submenus, various color schemes, buttons, fonts, icons, and sounds. libplg 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136920/ libplg is a simple C API for rendering vector graphics on X11, Postscript, and other output devices. Applications using libplg can produce graphics on any of the supported devices and the result will be about the same, except for the fonts. Lightweight C++ 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136900/ Lightweight C++ is a programming language that looks like C++ and is directly translated to readable C code. It supports function overloading, member functions, inheritance, polymorphism (virtual functions), multiple inheritance, virtual inheritance and pure virtual functions, constructors/destructors, new/delete, and simplistic templates. LilyPond 2.0.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136928/ LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. LiveCMS 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136785/ LiveCMS is a Spanish Content Management System designed to let non-technical users manage their material on the Web. It features categories, articles, article pages, support for multiple editors, image management, and a WYSIWYG editor. log4php 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136959/ Log4php is a PHP port of Log4j, the most popular Java logging framework. It supports configuration through XML and properties files (with the same structure as log4j) and custom Configurators. File, RollingFile, DailyFile, Echo, Console, Mail, PEAR::Db, PHP error, Syslog or NT events, and socket appenders are supported. Simple, TTCC, Pattern, Html, and Xml Layouts are supported. It also supports Filters, custom Levels, and Loggers. Internal debugging can be switched on and off. Log4php can be used inside a class or inside a main/sub function. MemAid 0.4.0.0 (KMemAid) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136908/ Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions (computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you remember. Metadot Portal Server 5.6.5.4b3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136911/ Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building portal software to build intranets, extranets, and community portals. It features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard 'My News Pages' like My Yahoo!. It is used by NASA, Berkeley, Schlumberger, and other leading organizations. It runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl. mkxvcd.sh 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136925/ mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates a VBR VCD MPEG1 stream that fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools from the mplayer, transcode, and mjpegtools packages. mod_security 1.7RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136977/ Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects. msnlib 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136953/ msnlib is an MSN Messenger protocol library and text mode client written in Python. My3SP 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136963/ My3SP is a thin-client application designed to interoperate with the forthcoming Open3SP server. It provides features including integrated SSH connection management, role based access control, corporate VPN access, and secure corporate instant messaging. myServer 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136899/ myServer is a free and easy-to-configure Web server. It is multithreaded and supports multiprocessor machines. Nacho 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136932/ Nacho is a rapid Web development platform. It delivers dynamic text, image, and other rich content through a high level functional template language and database abstraction layer. Network Packet Capture Facility for Java v0.01.14 (jpcap) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136970/ Network Packet Capture Facility for Java is a set of Java classes that provide an interface and system for network packet capture. A protocol library and tool for visualizing network traffic is included. It utilizes libpcap, a widely used system library for packet capture. Nosefart 1.92f-mls http://freshmeat.net/releases/136957/ Nosefart is a player for NES Sound Format (NSF) files (which consist of audio data ripped from Nintendo Entertainment System games). Open BEAGLE 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136960/ Open BEAGLE is a versatile C++ evolutionary computation framework. It provides an Object-Oriented software environment enabling the implementation of almost any kind of evolutionary algorithm, such as genetic algorithms and genetic programming. Open Office Software Development Kit 1.1 Release Candidate Four http://freshmeat.net/releases/136888/ The Open Office Software Development Kit is an add-on for OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org. OpenH323 Gatekeeper 2.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136968/ The OpenH323 Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and let endpoints (e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It also has an external interface for billing and other applications. It runs on a number of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and Windows. oxygen XML editor 2.0.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136894/ Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian. p0f 2.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136918/ p0f is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting and masquerade detection utility, to be used for evidence or information gathering on servers, firewalls, IDSes, and honeypots, for pen-testing, or just for the fun of it. It is a complete rewrite of p0f version 1 that used to be maintained by William Stearns. PackdDir utils 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136916/ PackdDir utils is a collection of utilities that can unpack PackdDir archives. PackdDir files are famous for being the archive format of Quake (I and II). PgSqlClient 1.0 Beta 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136950/ PgSqlClient is an ADO.NET Data provider for PostgreSQL. PHP Live! 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136927/ PHP Live! is powerful Web-based live chat support software for your Web site. It uses only PHP and MySQL. Functions include unlimited operators and departments, the ability to initiate chat, the ability to push URLs, a real-time visitor traffic monitor, a proactive survey, a chat icon for each department, and more. phpLDAPadmin 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136985/ phpLDAPAdmin is a Web-based LDAP administration tool, written in PHP. You can browse your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy entries, perform searches, and view your server's schema. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers and recursively delete or copy entire trees. Formerly known as DaveDAP. PHPope 0.9 RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136902/ PHPope is a Web-based content management application providing full functionality for use with Web sites and intranets. The system is designed for high flexibility, and its modular structure allows individual adjustments to your needs. Plone CMS 2.0beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136940/ Plone is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It is designed to be a corporate-ready content management system. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. It can be used in a myriad of ways. Pogo 2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136935/ Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, programmable, and highly customizable application launcher for X11. ProFTPD 1.2.9p (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136892/ ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility. ProFTPD 1.2.8p (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136891/ ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility. PyPE 1.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136979/ PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform available. Python 2.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136955/ Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). Newbuilt-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. Python SAP RFC module 0.99.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136947/ The Python SAP RFC module enables programming remote function calls from SAP ERP systems. It enables SAP-compatible data definitions in Python (both simple and complex datatypes like structures and internal tables can be defined from within Python and manipulated like normal Python datatypes) and features transparent value conversion from SAP to Python and vice versa. It needs the SAP librfc shared library. Quadcap Embeddable Database 3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136922/ QED is a fast, small, pure Java, relational database, implementing the SQL 92 standard, with transactions and resilient failure recovery. qwtplot3d 0.2.0 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/136926/ qwtplot3d is a graphics extension to the Qt GUI application framework that provides a 3D plotting widget for scientific data and mathematical expressions. runit 0.11.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136887/ runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot. ruribox 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136966/ ruribox is a theme inspired by ruri (from fredarts.com). Silky 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136937/ Silky is an easy-to-use graphical SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) client. It contains all the necessary features of a SILC client while keeping the user interface as simple and user-friendly as possible. Simple C Compiler 0.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136949/ The Simple C Compiler is a port of Small C/386 to Linux. It is designed for use with older systems or rescue disks. It provides a usable C compiler in significantly less space than GCC. slapt-get 0.9.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136952/ slapt-get is an APT-like system for Slackware package management. It allows you to search slackware.com and mirrors for packages, compare them with installed packages, and install new packages or upgrade installed packages, all with a few simple commands. Snd 6.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136914/ Snd is a freeware sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd. It can accommodate any number of sounds, each with any number of channels. It can be customized and extended using Guile or Ruby. SolarWolf 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136933/ SolarWolf is an action/arcade game written entirely in Python. It is originally based on SolarFox for the Atari 2600. sonar 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136987/ sonar is a network reconnaissance utility. It runs all its scans from plugins. The currently supported plugins are an ICMP scan (a la the original sonar) and an ACK scan which can see if hosts that don't respond to ICMP are online. With the ability to create your own plugins, sonar is becoming the most extensible security scanner available. sortdir 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136903/ Sortdir is an LD_PRELOAD library which sorts directory entries before supplying them to your applications. Sorting order is controlled by the current locale settings, however, other directory sorting locales can also be specified. (glibc >= 2.3 is required.) Sortdir can be especially useful as a wrapper for "tar" or "find". It's been used for creating packages for the UHU-Linux distribution; all of its deb packages contain their entries in alphabetical order so that better user feedback is provided when hitting F3 in mc on a package or querying its contents with "dpkg -L". Speex 1.0.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136889/ Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail). Squirrel Jukebox 0.4.1a http://freshmeat.net/releases/136964/ Squirrel Jukebox plays all your local MP3 files via its own libmad-based decoder. It allows the tracks to be ranked and grouped in the user-preferred way. It also supports text searches by any ID3 tags or filenames. It is a commandline application. Currently only Linux is supported (OSS). StarDict 2.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136931/ StarDict is a cross-platform and international dictionary written in GTK 2. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern matching, scan selection word, fuzzy queries, etc. SwiftFXP 0.4.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136976/ SwiftFXP is a FlashFXP clone, coded in C using GTK. It supports both Unix and NT ftp servers. The Data Mine 0.0b http://freshmeat.net/releases/136961/ The Data Mine is a search engine designed to make a more useful interface available to users. It is designed around human-computer intelligent interaction considerations. It divides the screen into two halves. One lets you find all the instances of your query's keywords, and the other lets you look through a highlighted version of the results you choose. Trackballs 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136924/ Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness. By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first. xCHM 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136895/ xCHM is a graphical CHM viewer for UNIX. It's based on CHMLIB and written using the wxWindows framework. It is not an extractor, but a standalone viewer, able to generate and show the topics tree, figure out the homepage for the document, print the current page, and go forward and backward in its history. xines 0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136912/ xines is a Web application for tracking classes, students, and exercises. xmlBlaster 0.85 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/136974/ XmlBlaster is XML based MOM (Message oriented Middleware) with a lot of features. It is a publish/subscribe and point-to-point MOM server which exchanges XML-encoded messages. Communication with the server is based on CORBA (using JacORB), RMI, XML-RPC, native socket, or a persistent HTTP plugin. Subscribers can use XPath expressions to filter the messages they wish to receive and add their own MIME-based filter plugins. C/C++, Java, Perl and PHP client demos are included in the xmlBlaster test suite, and Tcl and Python demo clients are scheduled. XmlBlaster also provides a browser callback framework, allowing browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, MSIE) to receive instant callbacks over a persistent http connection. A security plugin framework allows authentication/authorization in many ways. Currently there are LDAP- and passwd-based plugins available. xzgv 0.8 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136910/ xzgv is a GTK+/Imlib-based picture viewer for X, which supports most popular image formats. It provides a thumbnail-based file selector, and allows panning and fit-to-window methods of viewing. It has mouse support as well, but can be used solely from the keyboard. Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 39 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136905/ Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
