Newsletter for Sunday, April 08th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (28) :::
[001] - APFP 01 (For Ruby)
[002] - aTunes 1.5.2
[003] - CorneliOS 0.7.4r8
[004] - Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
[005] - Ethereal Realms 4.3.2
[006] - Feudalistic Dynasties 0.0.2.0
[007] - gET iT i sAY 4.1
[008] - goblinhack 1.1
[009] - jcpp 1.0.1
[010] - KnowledgeRoot 0.9.8
[011] - MKGI Chess Club 1.4.3
[012] - mp3fs transcoding FUSE filesystem 0.07
[013] - myAJAX 6.1.0
[014] - MySQL Pack for QNAP TS-101/TS-201 0.1
[015] - ObfuscateJS 0.3.5
[016] - Open Site Builder Tools 3.6
[017] - PyVib2 1.1
[018] - scanmem 0.06
[019] - SimCList 1.1
[020] - slacktrack 1.31
[021] - Smb4k 0.8.1
[022] - SRESI 0.19.0 (Development)
[023] - svn2cl 0.9
[024] - Symbolica 0.7
[025] - Tellico 1.2.10
[026] - TrueMusic 20070408b
[027] - TunaPie 1.4 (Stable)
[028] - xCHM 1.12
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[001] - APFP 01 (For Ruby)
by Dennis J. Darland (http://freshmeat.net/users/djdarland/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 00:08
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: APFP (Arbitrary Precision Floating Point) is an Unicon class for
performing arbitrary precision floating point calculations. It also
includes a class for calculating with arbitrary precision complex numbers.
It requires unicon overloaded operators. It also contains a ureal class for
built-in reals. Both classes keep an estimate of the accumulated error.
Changes: This is the first Ruby version. The design is much cleaner. Error
tracking and complex numbers are not yet completed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apfp/
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[002] - aTunes 1.5.2
by fleax (http://freshmeat.net/users/fleax/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:09
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organizer, with some
ripping and encoding tools included.
Changes: The ability to search song lyrics at www.lyrc.com.ar was added.
Volume and mute shortcuts were added. The JProgressBar of song progress
was changed to a JSlider. Album searching at Audioscrobbler was improved.
The statistics window was improved visually. A CD ripper quality option
was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atunes/
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[003] - CorneliOS 0.7.4r8
by Jos Kirps (http://freshmeat.net/users/joskirps/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:25
Information Management
Internet
About: CorneliOS a Web based virtual operating system that runs on top of
a host system and offers services via HTML or XHTML over the Web. It
offers a secure environment that supports multiple users, large amounts of
data, and timesharing. It offers a user interface that looks familiar and
is easy to handle and learn, while still introducing some new concepts. It
acts as a software integration system (especially for Web applications),
and allows users and developers to create their own applications and to
share them.
Changes: This release offers a completely rewritten desktop window manager
prototype based on the dragdrop library by Walter Zorn. It puts an end to
the "alpha" series releases available during the first quarter of 2007
that were targeted to developers and testers only, and it also declares a
"feature freeze", which means that the current package contains most if
not all features planned for the final release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornelios/
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[004] - Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
by kinneh (http://freshmeat.net/users/kinneh/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:31
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only
of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic
tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also
free. It comes with thousands of packages.
Changes: This release comes with a lot more software than its predecessor;
the distribution includes over 6500 new packages, for a total of over 18200
packages. Some of the major programs included are: X.Org 7.1, GNOME
2.14[2], KDE 3.5.5a, Xfce 4.4, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a, KOffice 1.6, GNUcash
2.0.5, GNUmeric 1.6.3, Abiword 2.4.6, Evolution 2.6.3, and Gaim 2.0. The
Mozilla suite is renamed: iceweasel (2.0.0.2) is the unbranded Firefox Web
browser and icedove (1.5) is the unbranded Thunderbird mail client.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian/
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[005] - Ethereal Realms 4.3.2
by Martin Foster (http://freshmeat.net/users/mfoster/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:33
Communications :: Chat
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: Ethereal Realms is a concept chat and role playing system that has
acquired additional components such as social networking, galleries, and
message boards. The code borrows themes from Plenty of Fish,
Elfwood/Gallery, and the defunct WBS.
Changes: Due to security concerns, certain cleanups in the OpenID 1.x
support, listing of fortunes, use of LWPx::ParanoidAgent, and so forth had
to be made in this release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherealrealms/
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[006] - Feudalistic Dynasties 0.0.2.0
by deathmor (http://freshmeat.net/users/deathmor/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:38
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Feudalistic Dynasties is a turn-based strategy game placed in the
time of feudalism in the early middle ages. As a king of a fictitious
European dynasty, you have to manage your land, setting in vassals,
building settlements, and recruiting combatants.
Changes: Combatants can change their active weapon. A general can found
formations and troops and disband formations, and an officer can found
troops. Troops can be added to and ejected from a formation. Information
about the members of a formation and a troop can be shown. Your king has a
formation inheriting a settler at the beginning. Settlements (rudimentary)
have been added. A settler can found a settlement. There are improved
terrain images and new equipment images. Some problems under Windows while
compiling have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fdynasties/
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[007] - gET iT i sAY 4.1
by lakshmipathi (http://freshmeat.net/users/lakshmipathi/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:27
System :: Filesystems
System :: Recovery Tools
About: giis (gET iT i sAY) is a file recovery tool for Ext2/Ext3
filesystems. It allows users to recover all deleted files, recover files
owned by a specific user, dump data from old file locations, and recover
files of a specific type, such as text or MP3.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/giis/
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[008] - goblinhack 1.1
by goblin hack (http://freshmeat.net/users/goblinhack/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:29
Games/Entertainment
About: Goblin Hack is the world's first and probably last
smooth-scrolling, ASCII-graphics-based, OpenGL accelerated, rogue-like
dungeon game. The brave and noble warrior must navigate through random
dungeons, picking up goodies and picking off baddies along the way. Quiver
in fear at the ASCII fireball-breathing Dragons, Beholders, Vampires, and
even the occasional Goblin.
Changes: Hungry treasure chests. More spells (monster spying and
weightless items). Mega warp exit. An ASCII crown. Exploding exits and
dungeon cleaners. Crash bugfixes (too many keys). A load game problem has
been fixed. A remove curse bug has been fixed. Scrolling jitter has been
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goblinhack/
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[009] - jcpp 1.0.1
by Shevek (http://freshmeat.net/users/shevek/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:44
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers
About: JCPP is a complete, compliant, standalone, pure Java implementation
of the C preprocessor. It is intended to be of use to people writing
C-style compilers in Java using tools like sablecc, antlr, JLex, CUP, and
so forth. It has been used to successfully preprocess much of the source
code of the GNU C library. The stated license is GPL, but additional
license terms are freely available from the author.
Changes: This project has been split from a separate compiler project,
since it is of independent utility.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thejavacpreprocessor/
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[010] - KnowledgeRoot 0.9.8
by frank habermann (http://freshmeat.net/users/lordlamer/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:23
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
Software Development :: Documentation
About: KnowledgeRoot is a knowledge base system that lets you structure
your content in a tree. It integrates FCKeditor to make adding content
easy.
Changes: This release adds: an extension interface using an internal cache
for better performance, better handling of SQL queries, email notification
as HTML mail, newer fckeditor and tinymce, internal linking in the
editors, aliases for pages are possible to simulate static contents,
collapse of content, an admin interface for configuration and to add new
features as extensions, moving a page to root, an install/update
interface, setting titles for content, and use of subinherit rights.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knowledgeroot/
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[011] - MKGI Chess Club 1.4.3
by Alcibiade (http://freshmeat.net/users/alcibiade/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:26
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web
interface. It features complete player profile management, full html email
notification with embedded board display. It also features an interface to
match against chess engines such as gnuchess, phalanx, and crafty.
Changes: This release adds a constant to manage the number of
newbies/suggested players. A bug that prevented the draws from being
counted in player scores has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mkgichessclub/
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[012] - mp3fs transcoding FUSE filesystem 0.07
by David Collett (http://freshmeat.net/users/daveco/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 03:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
System :: Filesystems
About: MP3FS is a read-only FUSE filesystem that transcodes FLAC audio
files to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. It is useful to enable the
use of your FLAC collection with software and/or hardware that only
understands MP3s. It is also a novel alternative to traditional MP3
encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the
files you want encoded, and copy them somewhere.
Changes: A segfault and several memory leaks were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3fs/
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[013] - myAJAX 6.1.0
by Raul (http://freshmeat.net/users/ionescu_raul/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:23
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities
About: myAJAX is an AJAX JavaScript OOP implementation made for ease of
use.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/myajax/
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[014] - MySQL Pack for QNAP TS-101/TS-201 0.1
by Y.C. Ken Chen (http://freshmeat.net/users/yckenchen/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:23
Database
Utilities
About: The MySQL Pack is for installing MySQL on the QNAP NAS server,
TS-101/TS-201. It contains a pre-compiled MySQL server and install
programs. The PHP module supporting MySQL client will also be included if
necessary. Simple Web pages are included for starting/stopping MySQL.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ts-101_mysql/
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[015] - ObfuscateJS 0.3.5
by Michiel van Vlaardingen (http://freshmeat.net/users/bluestorm/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:02
Software Development
Utilities
About: ObfuscateJS is a command line JavaScript obfuscator. It strips
comments and unneeded whitespace, shortens local variable names, and
shortens variable names with a given prefix (e.g. "_"). ObfuscateJS can be
used for libraries because it preserves the API.
Changes: There were a lot of complaints about renaming variables at the
root level, so this is now fixed. Furthermore, conditional comments are
not removed, in contrast with normal comments.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/obfuscatejs/
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[016] - Open Site Builder Tools 3.6
by stas (http://freshmeat.net/users/stas_t/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: Open Site Builder Tools populates a predefined page template with
information from content files, and generates the target Web site
documents. It allows configuring menus and navigation bars on a
per-directory or per-page basis. This approach lets you separate page
layout development from content creation, and eliminates the need for an
additional template rendering engine at runtime, thus saving your site
processing power on each page served. Features include entities and macros
substitution, automatic sitemap generation, a smart FTP uploader, and a
build logs analyzer. The project site contains extensive documentation
including a tutorial, a commands reference, and a sample site
configuration.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osbtools/
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[017] - PyVib2 1.1
by Maxim Fedorovsky (http://freshmeat.net/users/fedorovsky/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:44
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: PyVib2 permits the automatic correlation of vibrational motions of
molecules, thereby allowing an understanding of Raman, Raman optical
activity (ROA), infrared vibrational absorption (IR), and vibrational
circular dichroism (VCD) spectra. The versatile representation of
vibrational motions, the visualization techniques of Raman/ROA and IR/VCD
generation in molecules, and the production of publication quality spectra
are features of PyVib2. Output files of Raman/ROA and IR/VCD calculations,
produced with the DALTON and Gaussian quantum chemistry packages, can be
directly opened. Files in the MOLDEN and XMol XYZ format can be imported
and exported. A variety of formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PNM, PS, PDF,
animated GIF, and FLI) are available to the user for saving results. All
the functionality is accessible via the pyviblib class library.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyvib2/
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[018] - scanmem 0.06
by taviso (http://freshmeat.net/users/taviso/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:33
Security
Software Development :: Debuggers
System :: Diagnostics
About: scanmem is a simple interactive debugging utility for Linux that
can be used to locate the address of a variable in an executing program.
scanmem can then be used to modify the variable once, or continually over
a period of time. It is similar to the "pokefinders" used to cheat at
video games.
Changes: Multiple new commands, including a much more powerful syntax for
the set command. Support for tab-completing commands. Improved online
documentation, including detailed command-specific help for all commands.
Preliminary support for a float type has been added. There are many
bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scanmem/
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[019] - SimCList 1.1
by Mij (http://freshmeat.net/users/mijio/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:34
Software Development :: Libraries
About: SimCList is a high quality C library for handling lists. Its API is
simple but powerful, makes elegant and consistent use of information
hiding, abstracts the actual data type to store, and is fairly complete.
The library itself has good performance, and makes a good compromise
between performance in terms of time and space. It is well documented and
has a very fast learning curve.
Changes: This release uses freelists for improving memory allocation
performance. It fixes list_concat(), which could output inconsistent
lists. There are new ready-made comparators, metric and hashing functions
for the most common types (numeric and strings), and a new list_find()
function.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simclist/
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[020] - slacktrack 1.31
by Stuart Winter (http://freshmeat.net/users/mozes/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:05
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: slacktrack tracks the installation of 'make install' (or similar)
and produces a Slackware compliant .tgz package from the results. It can
be used to build replica packages from Slackware's '.build' scripts or
your own.
Changes: When gzipping man and info pages, compression is forced (gzip
-f). Fred Emmott's portable patch was applied to installwatch to make it
work on 64-bit machines. The documentation was updated to discuss handling
of symlinks with altertrack.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slacktrack/
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[021] - Smb4k 0.8.1
by Marc Hansen (http://freshmeat.net/users/marcgie/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:09
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE) :: Themes KDE 3.x
Security
System :: Filesystems
About: Smb4K is a SMB and CIFS (Windows) share browser for KDE. It uses
the Samba software suite to access the SMB and CIFS shares of the local
network neighborhood. Its purpose is to provide a program that's easy to
use and has as many features as possible.
Changes: This version comes with new versions of the utility programs that
have been rewritten from scratch to account for several security weaknesses
that were discovered after version 0.8.0 was released. Compatibility with
previous versions of the utility programs was attempted, but with
smb4k_kill this was not possible.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smb4k/
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[022] - SRESI 0.19.0 (Development)
by Priscus (http://freshmeat.net/users/priscus/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:04
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: SRESI is a smart bookmark manager. It currently sports both a
command-line and a PHP interface. It works with both the standard
hierarchical trees and the new and fashionable tagged bookmarks. It was
developed as a way to interface both representation systems. SRESI can use
Del.icio.us, Mozilla, Opera, and XBEL bookmarks, and handles a few more
exports besides. Directories and tags are used equivalently, and the final
hierarchies are inferred from actual tag use.
Changes: While in the development branch, this release is as stable as the
0.18.x ones. The tags were not XML-escaped during Del.icio.us export. Tags
and their related functions are isolated in their own module (in
progress). Tags are separate from the inner bookmark type, as a step
toward generic functions. The Set functor has been adapted to tagged
elements, where the ordering function is based on the elements only, not
the tags: the speed improvements are impressive. The bookmark renaming and
updating functions now work from either the URL or its hash, for faster
access.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sresi/
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[023] - svn2cl 0.9
by Arthur (http://freshmeat.net/users/tiearthur/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:30
Software Development :: Documentation
Software Development :: Version Control
Text Processing :: Markup :: XSL/XSLT
About: svn2cl is an XSLT script that generates a clasic GNU-style
changelog file from Subversion log messages. It generates a
friendly-looking changelog from Subversion log messages like cvs2cl does
for CVS (although this is a lot simpler with subversion).
Changes: The implementation of a new option to ignore log messages that
start with a specific text and change to ignore paths from outside of the
directory where svn2cl is run.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/svn2cl/
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[024] - Symbolica 0.7
by G.o.D (http://freshmeat.net/users/god64/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 08:25
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: Symbolica is a remake of the C-64 game of the same name. It is
targeted to the Linux-based handhelds gp2x and N800, with a Linux/386
binary also provided. It should compile under any operating system
supported by SDL, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf. The symbols on the screen
represent a numeric value in the order they are displayed on the right. As
you move over a symbol, it decrements to the next lower symbol or
disappears. Your job is to clear the screen and move to the 'E' symbol.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/symbolica/
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[025] - Tellico 1.2.10
by Robby Stephenson (http://freshmeat.net/users/parys/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:11
Database
Information Management
About: Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default
collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, video
games, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom
collections. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Filters are
available to limit the visible entries by definable criteria. Full
customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT
file. It can import CSV, Bibtex, Bibtexml, RIS, MODS, CDDB, and audio file
metadata and exports CSV, HTML, Bibtex, Bibtexml, ONIX, and PilotDB.
Entries may be imported directly from Amazon.com, imdb.com, any z39.50
bibliographic server, PubMed, or an external script.
Changes: Collection importing no longer crashes on undo, and the z39.50
search was fixed so that it does not hang when stopping. The Amazon search
was updated to use a newer API. Alexandria files are properly imported and
exported. The ONIX export was updated to validate correctly. All HTML
entities are now properly replaced. Blu-ray and HD DVD formats were added
to the default video collection. The ibs.it search was updated, and the
error-handling for ISBN-13 searches was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tellico/
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[026] - TrueMusic 20070408b
by rmacnak (http://freshmeat.net/users/rmacnak/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:22
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: TrueMusic is a simple Java music player that supports MP3, WAV, Ogg
Vorbis, AIFF, and AU. It requires JRE 5+ (attempts to use native
LookAndFeel in Sun implementions).
Changes: A playlist feature has been implemented.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/truemusic/
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[027] - TunaPie 1.4 (Stable)
by James Stone (http://freshmeat.net/users/lunadog/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 17:32
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
About: TunaPie is a directory browser for Internet radio and TV streams.
As of 0.9.6, it is compatible with the Icecast directory as well as the
Shoutcast (winamp) stream directory service. Tunapie allows you to search
for streams and then launch your audio player (XMMS) or NSV viewer
(totem/xine/mplayer) of choice. It also allows recording of audio and
video streams using streamripper.
Changes: This release adds Web-based information in streams to the
information window. There are bugfixes related to not remembering or
parsing preferences correctly on first startup, or if an old preference
file was present.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tunapie/
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[028] - xCHM 1.12
by Razvan Cojocaru (http://freshmeat.net/users/thewhiterabbit/)
Sun, Apr 8th 2007 04:11
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: xCHM is a cross-platform GUI frontend for CHMLIB, written with
wxGTK. It is able to display the topics tree, work with displayed pages
history, print the current page, work with bookmarks, change fonts and
fast search through all the pages of the loaded .chm document. Being
indirectly dependent on GTK+, the possibility of changing GTK+ skins makes
xCHM theme-friendly.
Changes: The binary index code was enabled. The search results links were
fixed. Lost Unicode character translation was fixed for the TOC and index
entries. The Polish translation was updated. Index display for non-ASCII
encodings was fixed. CHM localization bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xchm/
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