Newsletter for Saturday, July 07th 2007
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[001] - alph 0.23
[002] - Aqualung 0.9beta8
[003] - arCHMage 0.1.9
[004] - Compendium 0.1
[005] - Decibel Audio Player 0.04
[006] - dicelab 0.3
[007] - DOLPHIN SMASH 5.9.0
[008] - dot-mode.el 1.11
[009] - eyeOS 1.1.0.1
[010] - FBReader 0.8.5
[011] - Fosfat 0.2.2
[012] - Galcon 1.3.1
[013] - GNUnet 0.7.2a
[014] - GWintree 0.9.8-3
[015] - IRC Collective 0.1.1
[016] - MultipliK12 0.1.0
[017] - pyliblo 0.6.1
[018] - Reciprocal Link Pro 2.0
[019] - Risk 1.0.9.1
[020] - Sipcat VoIP PBX 1.2.1
[021] - SiSU 0.55.2
[022] - SMA 1.1.0
[023] - SNPfile 1.0.1
[024] - soothsayer 0.2
[025] - Tennix! 0.3.2
[026] - UltraGetopt for Java 0.7.1
[027] - Ventana3d Beta 0.6
[028] - wavbreaker 0.8.1 (Stable)
[029] - XQDE 20070707
[030] - ZhuaShuShell 2.6
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[001] - alph 0.23
by Corcalciuc V. Horia (http://freshmeat.net/users/SevenRains/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:35
Artistic Software
Communications
Communications :: BBS
About: alph implements and analyzes historical and traditional ciphers and
codes, such as polyalphabetic, substitutional, and mixed employing
human-reconstructable algorithms. It provides a pipe filter interface in
order to encrypt and decrypt block text to achieve transparency. The
program is meant to be used in conjunction with external programs that
transfer data, resulting in transparent encryption or decryption of
information. The program can thus be used as a mail filter, IRC filter, IM
filter, and so on.
Changes: Warnings for unstable cyphers have been added as well as the
possibility to unscramble words based on a dictionary file. The tools
section has been altered to accept pipe strings instead of file
operations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alph/
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[002] - Aqualung 0.9beta8
by Peter Szilagyi (http://freshmeat.net/users/peterszilagyi/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:20
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: Aqualung plays audio CDs, streams, and audio files with no gaps
between adjacent tracks. It supports high quality sample rate conversion
between the file and the output device. It supports almost all
sample-based, uncompressed formats (WAV, AIFF, AU, etc.) and files encoded
with FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, MPEG Audio, MOD Audio (MOD, S3M, XM, IT,
etc.), Musepack, Monkey's Audio Codec, AC3, AAC, WMA, and WavPack. It can
play the music through OSS, ALSA, JACK, or the Win32 Sound API. It
provides a Music Store that is an XML-based music database capable of
storing various metadata about music on your computer.
Changes: Support for internet radio streams using Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio
encoding has been added. Tabbed playlist has been implemented, and is very
similar in concept to the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox.
Cut/Copy/Paste functionality was added in the playlist, and it works with
the usual Ctrl-X/C/V key combinations. The MPEG decoder has been made more
robust in case of corrupt UBR files. This release also introduces an
Italian translation.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aqualung/
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[003] - arCHMage 0.1.9
by Basil Shubin (http://freshmeat.net/users/bashu/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Other/Nonlisted Topic
Text Processing
About: arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the
CHM format. It is written in Python, and uses the PyCHM-to-python bindings
for CHMLIB from the GnoCHM project.
Changes: The "dump" option was added for dumping HTML data from a CHM file
as plain text (using external tools such as lynx or elinks).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/archmage/
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[004] - Compendium 0.1
by tomto66 (http://freshmeat.net/users/tomto66/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:38
Education
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Compendium is a tool to generate encyclopedia-type Web sites (e.g.,
databases of books, authors, publishers, and literary genres) from content
housed in a MySQL database, based on HTML templates. It generates pages
with relatively static content and relies on Ruby on Rails for providing a
backend to maintain the database. It radically separates content (in the
database) from presentation. To facilitate this separation, it allows
users to define their own custom tags and provides a simple translation
engine to deal with, for example, tables of contents and navigation paths.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/compendium/
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[005] - Decibel Audio Player 0.04
by François Ingelrest (http://freshmeat.net/users/fingelrest/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:38
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: Decibel is a GTK+ audio player designed for GNU/Linux. It aims at
being very straightforward to use by means of a very clean and
user-friendly interface. It aims also at being a real audio player and, as
such, it does not include features that are not meant to be part of an
audio player.
Changes: Most of the modules may now be enabled, disabled, or configured.
Some artwork has also been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/decibel-audio-player/
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[006] - dicelab 0.3
by Robert Lemmen (http://freshmeat.net/users/robertlemmen/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:41
Games/Entertainment
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: dicelab allows you to express complex dice rolling schemes in a
functional language and then roll dice according to such a scheme or
analyze the statistic distribution of values. This is useful when
designing games (and to some degree when playing them).
Changes: This version can finally calculate the distribution of values
precisely for the full language.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dicelab/
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[007] - DOLPHIN SMASH 5.9.0
by Gilles Depeyrot (http://freshmeat.net/users/depeyrot/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:17
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
About: Dolphin Smash is a mixed-signal, multi-language simulator for IC or
PCB designs. It uses SPICE syntax for analog descriptions, Verilog-HDL and
VHDL for digital, Verilog-A/AMS, VHDL-AMS and ABCD (a combination of SPICE
and C) for analog behavioral, and C for DSP algorithms.
Changes: The release delivers an interactive debugger with break points,
step by step and event back trace for source level debugging of HDL-AMS
descriptions, phase-noise extraction on long term Jitter, a SPICE
inductance model with magnetic core as well as cosimulation of analog and
mixed-signal blocks with MATLAB/Simulink.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dolphinsmash/
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[008] - dot-mode.el 1.11
by Rob Wyrick (http://freshmeat.net/users/wyrickre/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:38
Text Editors :: Emacs
About: dot-mode.el is a minor mode for GNU Emacs and XEmacs that emulates
the '.' (redo) command in vi.
Changes: A bug where dot-mode would give an error if you used
dot-mode-override to record a [right] and then tried to call
dot-mode-execute was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dot-mode.el/
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[009] - eyeOS 1.1.0.1
by Pau Garcia-Mila (http://freshmeat.net/users/pau_gm/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:38
Desktop Environment
System :: Operating System
About: eyeOS is a Web desktop environment, commonly known as a Web OS or
Web Office. The basic system comes with some office and PIM applications,
and the complete eyeOS software database can be found at eyeApps.org and
in the public server. More information can be found at the forums and in
the screenshots section.
Changes: This is the first major release since the 1.0 version. It
includes i18n, eyeZip (to extract and manage zip files), import/export
support for eyeContacts, the editLink application to edit system links,
and lots of bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eyeos/
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[010] - FBReader 0.8.5
by Nikolay Pultsin (http://freshmeat.net/users/geometer/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 01:07
Text Processing
About: FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp
Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet
Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones, PepperPad 3, IRex
iLiad, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop computers. It supports
several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion
text), OEB, OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.
Changes: A Ukrainian translation of the interface has been added. In the
desktop version, one program with several user interface modules (GTK+, Qt
3, Qt 4) is now presented. A Debian repository has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbreader/
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[011] - Fosfat 0.2.2
by Mathieu SCHROETER (http://freshmeat.net/users/Skywalker13/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:41
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
System :: Filesystems
About: Fosfat is a C library for providing read-only access to a Smaky
formatted disk. Currently, only a tool and a FUSE extension that use this
library can be used for reading a directory and copying a file. Smaky is a
system developed in Switzerland at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne).
Changes: An internal logger was added to the library for following the FOS
operations. It is no longer necessary to choose the type of disk because
now it will be automatically detected.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fosfat/
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[012] - Galcon 1.3.1
by Phil Hassey (http://freshmeat.net/users/philhassey/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:38
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
About: Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic
action-strategy game. In the game you send swarms of ships from planet to
planet to take over the galaxy. It's like arcade action Risk with planets!
Anyone can play, and it only takes 30 seconds to learn. Multi-player
network games support up to 12 players with teams, and 15 different single
player missions against 7 different computer players are provided.
Changes: This release includes a complete overhaul of the "single player"
portion of the game. The game now includes 18 mods, including
ThirdMissions (advanced strategy missions), GnipNuke (a mission where you
can nuke planets), Symmetry (symetrical maps), Map Editor, and quite a few
more.
License: Shareware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/galcon/
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[013] - GNUnet 0.7.2a
by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:10
Communications :: File Sharing
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing
security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and
authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and
can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP
(IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to
provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build
on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.
Changes: This is a bugfix release. It improves CPU consumption and latency
of various operations, uses clearer error messages, and fixes various bugs
(including a deadlock in the daemon and a crash in the MySQL module).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnunet/
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[014] - GWintree 0.9.8-3
by David J. Cooke (http://freshmeat.net/users/djcooke/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 01:46
About: GWintree is a GEDCOM-based genealogy program. It provides
facilities to view, edit, and merge data, and to produce charts, family
trees, and reports in a range of formats, including HTML. Charts can show
all relatives, ancestors only, or descendants only. HTML charts allow you
to click on a person in your HTML report to see where they are on the
chart. Automatic matching and merging of data is supported.
Changes: This release fixes bugs, notably in merging data between files.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gwintree/
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[015] - IRC Collective 0.1.1
by suamyg (http://freshmeat.net/users/suamyg/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:29
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
About: The most important part of the IRC Collective is the parser, with a
modular architecture that makes it flexible in the way it can process input
and handle output. The output of the parser is primarily used to add to an
SQL database that can in turn be queried by, e.g., a Web application (also
provided). The parser can be extended by defining new input formats and
output handlers. It can help you stay up to date on the IRC channels that
you visit regularly. You can write your own applications on top of the SQL
database. You can search past conversations using the Web interface
(results will be paged).
Changes: This point release in the development branch addresses several
bugs that prevented the installation of the database and the working of
the parser.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/irc-collective/
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[016] - MultipliK12 0.1.0
by Jorge Gonzalez (http://freshmeat.net/users/athenasoft/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 23:56
Education
About: MultipliK12 is an educational game for learning and practicing the
multiplication tables. MultipliK12 features 9 levels of complexity. At
each level, the player must correctly respond to a set of multiplication
operations to gain access to the next level. Also, MultipliK12 features
two modes of operation, Random Table and Fix Table.
License: Shareware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multiplik12/
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[017] - pyliblo 0.6.1
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:26
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: pyliblo is a Python wrapper for the liblo OSC library. It supports
almost the complete functionality of liblo, allowing you to send and
receive OSC messages using a nice and simple Python API.
Changes: A bug that caused the floats 0.0 and 1.0 to be sent as boolean
was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyliblo/
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[018] - Reciprocal Link Pro 2.0
by Reciprocal Link Pro (http://freshmeat.net/users/sysflow/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 01:46
About: Reciprocal Link Pro is a fast, powerful, easy-to-use reciprocal
link exchange Web application that will help increase your Web site's
search engine popularity by increasing the number of quality back links,
resulting in a higher Google PageRank and more targeted traffic.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmysqlreciprocallinkexchangewebapplicatio/
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[019] - Risk 1.0.9.1
by Yura (http://freshmeat.net/users/yuranet/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:26
Education
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board game, with a
simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, and many
more features. It works on all operating system that run Java 1.4 or
higher.
Changes: Failure to check if the map folder is correct was fixed. Failure
of games to loading when you load them after closing the application was
fixed. Undo no longer crashes on Macs. An extra check is added when trade
is clicked in flashgui. fixed, Proper file filters were added to the
translation tool. A problem in which cards did not trade correctly with 2
wildcards were fixed. When in special trading mode, you can not trade in 2
sets, but it looks like you can. The program now checks for new versions of
Risk.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jrisk/
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[020] - Sipcat VoIP PBX 1.2.1
by linugen (http://freshmeat.net/users/gatekeeper/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:54
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: Fax
Communications :: Internet Phone
About: Sipcat is a software IP telephony system that helps businesses
increase productivity and reduce telecommunication costs. It allows you to
start running your own voice over IP PBX in a matter of minutes. It
contains a complete Linux distribution, including Asterisk and all
required 3rd party software.
Changes: This release adds support for the Grandstream GXP2020 IP phone,
provides newer French language prompts, and includes the H263 and H264
codecs for video calling. It also includes fixes for IAX2 clients, SIP
trunks, outbound caller IDs, and language parameters for Linksys and Snom
auto-provisioning.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sipcat/
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[021] - SiSU 0.55.2
by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:35
Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a lightweight
markup based, text structuring and publishing framework (that features
granular search). With minimal markup of a plaintext file, it produces:
plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL
database at an object/paragraph level for granular searches. Prepare
documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the
desired output formats. SiSU is controlled from the command line.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sisu/
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[022] - SMA 1.1.0
by Thomas Mailund (http://freshmeat.net/users/mailund_birc/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 01:07
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.
About: SMA consists of a small collection of programs that perform
different tests for association between genotypes at a single marker and a
binary disease status.
Changes: This release adds an F-test for mapping QTLs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sma/
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[023] - SNPfile 1.0.1
by Thomas Mailund (http://freshmeat.net/users/mailund_birc/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 01:07
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.
About: SNPfile is a library and API for manipulating large SNP data sets
with associated meta-data, such as marker names, marker locations,
individuals' phenotypes, etc. in an I/O efficient binary file format. In
its core, SNPfile assumes very little about the metadata associated with
markers and individuals, but leaves this up to application program
protocols.
Changes: This release fixes a crash bug in text2snpfile when converting
QTL data.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snpfile/
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[024] - soothsayer 0.2
by Matteo Vescovi (http://freshmeat.net/users/matteovescovi/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:20
Adaptive Technologies
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
About: Soothsayer is an intelligent predictive text entry platform.
Soothsayer exploits redundant information embedded in natural languages to
generate predictions. Soothsayer's modular and pluggable architecture
allows its language model to be extended and customized to utilize
statistical, syntactic, and semantic information sources.
Changes: This release adds support for SQLite 2.x and SQLite 3.x. The
soothsayer build system will autodetect which SQLite version is available
and use the most recent version. This release also includes bugfixes and
improvements to the command line utilities and demo programs. This is a
developer's preview release, so it is a source release only. No
precompiled packages or installers are provided.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/soothsayer/
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[025] - Tennix! 0.3.2
by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:33
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Simulation
About: Tennix! is a SDL port of a simple two-player tennis game. It
features simple image loading (with all game graphics being customizable
by simply editing them with a graphics editor like The GIMP), sound
effects, stadium audience sounds, and ball shadows.
Changes: A new Tennix version has been released, including support for
doing ball service, an improved AI for more challenging gameplay, and
fading between games to add for smoother gameplay transitions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tennix/
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[026] - UltraGetopt for Java 0.7.1
by Kevin Locke (http://freshmeat.net/users/kevinoid/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 23:48
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: UltraGetopt for Java is the Java adaptation of the UltraGetopt
library. It is a versatile and customizable library for dealing with
command-line options in a manner natural to Java. UltraGetopt provides
support for many common getopt() extensions as well as MS-DOS formatted
option strings, partial option matching, case-insensitive matching, and
much more. It also provides workalike behavior for several common
implementations of getopt().
Changes: Updates were made for GNU getopt compatibility (regarding error
message format and short options with assigners). Minor changes were made
to handling of long options with assigners.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ultragetopt-java/
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[027] - Ventana3d Beta 0.6
by lucho1973 (http://freshmeat.net/users/lucho1973/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 03:58
About: Ventana3d is a 3D desktop environment for X11 applications.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ventana3d/
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[028] - wavbreaker 0.8.1 (Stable)
by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:18
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: wavbreaker is a tool to take a wave file and break it up into
multiple wave files. It makes a clean break at the correct position to
burn the files to an audio CD without any dead space between the tracks.
There is also a commandline tool to merge wave files together (wavmerge).
Changes: This release fixes three bugs that have surfaced since the last
release in May and also adds a silence-based seeking function. Now you can
seek to silent passages of your wave files and create a track break there.
This should simplify editing of old LP or cassette recordings that have
been recorded as one big piece of audio data.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavbreaker/
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[029] - XQDE 20070707
by Stefano (http://freshmeat.net/users/stefanux/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:14
About: XQDE is a docker application that provides functionality similar to
KXDocker in many ways. It works together with a compositing window manager.
Changes: Support was added for Xinerama displacement. Now you can run
multiple instances of XQDE on your screen.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xqde/
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[030] - ZhuaShuShell 2.6
by vaaub (http://freshmeat.net/users/vaaub/)
Sat, Jul 7th 2007 11:28
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: ZhuaShuShell is a set of scripts to crawl a collection of online
e-books (in HTML format) from certain Chinese e-book sites and save the
data to your local machine formatted as a single text book.
Changes: A new BBS board that store some stories about ghosts is
supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zhuashushell/
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