Newsletter for Saturday, April 26th 2008

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/04/26/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (35) :::

[001] - Adaptive API 2.0 
[002] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.6-RC2-26.04.2008-php4_php5 
[003] - aTunes 1.8.3 
[004] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.92 
[005] - Channelflow 1.2.2 
[006] - CMake 2.4.8 
[007] - Endeavour Mark II 2.9.2 
[008] - Floola 2.9.3 
[009] - FOSS Factory Source 1.0.1 
[010] - Freeciv 2.1.4 (Stable)
[011] - Fura 1.4 
[012] - GNOME Mastermind 0.3.1 
[013] - GNU gengetopt 2.22.1 
[014] - gPodder 0.11.2 
[015] - Guichan 0.8.1 
[016] - impr 0.1 
[017] - ips-qos 1.10.5-6 
[018] - LayoutEditor 20080419 
[019] - Model Railroad System 2.1.16 
[020] - Network Simulator 3.0.12 (Development)
[021] - Open Administration for Schools 3.00a 
[022] - OPeNDAP 3.8.5 (General-Purpose Handlers)
[023] - OpenGrade 2.8.2 
[024] - Photo Organizer 2.35b (Stable)
[025] - PyreRing 0.9 
[026] - Python Google Chart 0.2.0 
[027] - RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 8a 
[028] - sift 0.3 
[029] - Simple Groupware 0.406 
[030] - SiSU 0.66.2 
[031] - SMI 0.9.9i 
[032] - SmokePing 2.3.6 (Stable)
[033] - TAU 1.7.14 (Linux Kernel TAU)
[034] - uni2ascii 4.7 
[035] - Xtables-addons 1.5.4.1 


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[001] - Adaptive API 2.0 
  by Nodens (http://freshmeat.net/users/nodens2k/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:48

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Adaptive API is a library for programmatic and declarative grid
workflow modeling, execution, and monitoring. It is one of the main
outputs of EU funded project, NextGRID. Its component-like approach makes
workflow programming as easy as Swing GUIs.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/adaptive-api/

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[002] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.6-RC2-26.04.2008-php4_php5 
  by Christian Achatz (http://freshmeat.net/users/ChristianAchatz/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:28

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: The Adventure-(PHP-)Framework is a Web development framework that
helps you design and create object oriented and reusable PHP Web
applications. It features a unique DOM model, the generic page controller
component, and a set of shipped XML tag libraries to build GUIs based on
XML/HTML templates. The framework core contains components like front
controller, global benchmark concept, global error handling, and a
configuration management class. It includes complete modules like a
guestbook, a comment function, and a generic pager. 

Changes: Some performance enhancements as well as a new demo page project
were added. A package of example configuration files was added with the
adventure-configpack-* archives. This is the first stable version of the
1.6 branch. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apf/

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[003] - aTunes 1.8.3 
  by fleax (http://freshmeat.net/users/fleax/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:44

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. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC,
and MP4. 

Changes: A new search function, the ability to download podcasts, new
preset radio stations, and more were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atunes/

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[004] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.92 
  by Scarfy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Scarfy/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:49

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With
the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space,
and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had
rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger
task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien
forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack.
But even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.

Changes: Real time cut scenes were added. It should no longer be possible
for items to become stuck in walls. Teeka can no longer die. He will
teleport away if his energy hits 0. Teeka and the other blobs are more
aggressive when they fight. The game automatically pauses if focus is lost
(e.g. a screensaver comes on). Some extra hints were added for boss battles
(eg - in the Crypt).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blobandconquer/

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[005] - Channelflow 1.2.2 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:08

Scientific/Engineering

About: Channelflow is a direct numerical simulator for incompressible
Navier-Stokes channel flow, written in C++. It simulates fluid flow in a
rectangular box, with no-slip boundary conditions on the upper and lower
surfaces of the box, and periodic boundary conditions in the stream and
spanwise directions. Channelflow uses a spectral discretization in spatial
directions (Fourier x Chebyshev x Fourier) and finite-differencing in time,
on primitive variables (3D velocity and pressure). 

Changes: The documentation was improved. The dependency on Octave was
removed. Minor bugs were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/channelflow/

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[006] - CMake 2.4.8 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:54

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Testing

About: CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build  system. It is used to
control the software  compilation process using simple platform and 
compiler independent configuration files. It  generates native makefiles
and workspaces that  can be used in the compiler environment of your 
choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex
environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, and
code generation. 

Changes: The Windows Vista build was fixed. Documentation in the Mac OS X
installer was improved. Compilation on Linux with Intel's Fortran compiler
was fixed. Installation bugs on SunOS were fixed. Visual Studio support was
improved. Support for Dragonfly BSD and GNU HURD was added. Many minor bugs
were fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cmake/

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[007] - Endeavour Mark II 2.9.2 
  by Wolfpack Entertainment (http://freshmeat.net/users/learfox/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 00:00

Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: Endeavour Mark II is a complete file management suite that comes
with a file browser, image browser, archiver, recycled objects system, and
a set of file and disk management utility programs. 

Changes: The Format Front end (format.front) was rewritten to perform more
auto-detection of available format programs and parameters. A no-title-bar
option and multiple processor support were added to sysinfo. A memory leak
was fixed in the TAR archive add module. All of the window attributes were
changed to use flags. All of the path, directory, and link routines were
gathered into three separate modules: edv_path.c, edv_directory.c, and
edv_link.c.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/endeavour2/

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[008] - Floola 2.9.3 
  by floola (http://freshmeat.net/users/floola/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:51

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video

About: Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your
Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X,
and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no
installation. It supports all commonly used iPod features including
artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It is also able to convert audio
or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file
to it. It even allows adding YouTube and Myspace videos by entering the
page URL.

Changes: Fast mode is now enabled by default. A problem with writing ID3v2
tags was fixed along with minor problems when getting song information from
a path and an issue with smart playlists and older iPod generations.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/floola/

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[009] - FOSS Factory Source 1.0.1 
  by John-Paul Gignac (http://freshmeat.net/users/jjgignac/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:48

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development

About: FOSS Factory Source is the source code for the FOSS Factory
website, an ingenious new funding system for free/open source software
development. Unlike other FOSS bounty systems, FOSS Factory protects the
interests of both developers and sponsors, simultaneously guaranteeing
results and ensuring that developers are paid for their work. Its unique
community-driven contractless approach avoids typical project management
problems.

License: Affero General Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fossfactory-src/

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[010] - Freeciv 2.1.4 (Stable)
  by engla (http://freshmeat.net/users/engla/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:50

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Freeciv is a multiuser reimplementation for Unix/X of the famous
Microprose game of Civilization. By default, the game is an improved Civ
II, but this can be customized; modpacks for near-100% compatibility with
Civ I and Civ II are included. Multiuser gameplay is real-time: in each
turn, all human players move concurrently. The game is designed to remain
fairly playable even on poor network connections. Freeciv can also be
played on standalone machines, and its AI players are a good challenge for
beginners. The source code comes with the server, two X clients, and non-X
clients for MS Windows and Amiga. Freeciv is released under the GNU
General Public License. It is maintained by an international team of
coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive
network games out there.

Changes: This release fixes a handful of crashes and another handful of
bugs. The server authentication backend was improved, most importantly
fixing a situation where bad user input could crash the server.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeciv/

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[011] - Fura 1.4 
  by Nodens (http://freshmeat.net/users/nodens2k/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:48

Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Fura is a self-contained grid middleware that allows enablement and
distribution of applications on heterogeneous computational platforms. It
features a Web-based GUI, wizard-guided installation and configuration,
and Web Service compliance.

Changes: This version fixes a few important bugs and improves stability
and footprint.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fura/

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[012] - GNOME Mastermind 0.3.1 
  by Filippo Argiolas (http://freshmeat.net/users/fargiolas/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:08

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: GNOME Mastermind is a codebreaking game that integrates well into
the GNOME desktop. It's a solitaire version of the classic board game. The
goal is to guess a hidden color code with the least number of tries
following obscure hints given by the game. 

Changes: An annoying bug that affected grid positioning with recent Cairo
versions was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-mastermind/

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[013] - GNU gengetopt 2.22.1 
  by Lorenzo Bettini (http://freshmeat.net/users/bettini/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:07

Software Development
Utilities

About: GNU gengetopt takes a simple description of  arguments and
generates a C function that  uses the GNU getopt_long(3) function to 
parse and validate the options. It is perfect if  you are too lazy to
write all that is required to  call getopt_long(3), or need to use many 
options. The generated code also works with  autoconf or automake.

Changes: Compilation warnings for generated files were removed. A bug with
--long-help and enum options was fixed and the output of --help and output
of --show-help now correspond. A compilation problem in generated output
with mode options was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gengetopt/

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[014] - gPodder 0.11.2 
  by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:49

Communications :: File Sharing
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK.
It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts
from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds,
simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes
for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you.
It supports download resume, if the server supports it.

Changes: This release makes the feed cache update progress non-modal,
allowing you to work with your episodes while feeds are downloaded. The
interface and menu structure has been cleaned up a bit, including the
preferences dialog. This is the first official release to support the
Maemo platform (Nokia Internet Tablets).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpodder/

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[015] - Guichan 0.8.1 
  by Olof Naessén (http://freshmeat.net/users/yakslem/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:47

Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: User Interfaces

About: Guichan is a small, efficient C++ GUI library designed for games.
It comes with a standard set of widgets and can use several different
backends for displaying graphics and grabbing user input.

Changes: A soname issue has been fixed, along with a couple of GCC 3.4.2
issues. Add-ons are now called contribs and can be found in the main API
documentation. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/guichan/

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[016] - impr 0.1 
  by Domen Puncer (http://freshmeat.net/users/domen/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:48



About: impr is a small and fast image processing library with a simple
API. Its functions work mostly on 8-bit image channels, which means that
main type is just (u8 *) or (b8 *) for grey and binary images
respectively. It was intended for use in real-time processing, so
functions are optimized for speed. It supports segmentation (4 and
8-connected), flood fill, filling object holes, downscaling and upscaling
(with linear interpolation) by an integer factor, generic implementations
of dilate and erode (+image open and close), color space conversions
between HSVRGB and YRGRGB, convolutions with Roberts and 2x2 low-pass
filters, and common binary image operations.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/impr/

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[017] - ips-qos 1.10.5-6 
  by Romek Olearski (http://freshmeat.net/users/romekfresh/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:53

Communications
Internet
Security

About: ips-qos is a flexible firewall and traffic shaping tool. It works
on Fedora Core, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Mandriva, PLD, and
SUSE. It was intended to give administrators more control over a shared
Internet connection. It includes ips, a flexible and easy-to-use
configurable firewall with the ability to control access to the Internet
(or selected services) from a LAN. It also includes qos, a traffic shaping
tool that measures and controls the traffic load for every computer in a
LAN. 

Changes: This version offers many new features including on-line updates,
router/server classes based on IMQ, bridge mode, up to 590
computers/classes, an ipp2p extension, and many more. It works with Debian
4.0 and Fedora Core 8.

License: Shareware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ips-qos/

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[018] - LayoutEditor 20080419 
  by Jürgen Thies (http://freshmeat.net/users/jurgenthies/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:19

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

About: LayoutEditor is an IC/MEMS layout editor. It features all angle
elements, a font generator, macros, boolean operations, and cross-platform
compatibility. Supported formats include Calma GDSII, OASIS (Open Artwork
System Interchange Standard), DXF, and CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form).

Changes: This version comes with some new functions and with improved
perfomance. Compiled packages are available for Linux (32bit/64bit),
Windows, and Mac OS X. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/layouteditor/

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[019] - Model Railroad System 2.1.16 
  by Robert Heller (http://freshmeat.net/users/robertheller/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:13

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Software Development :: Libraries :: Tcl Extensions

About: The Model Railroad System is a software package that can help you
run your railroad. It allows you to operate your layout, from running
trains to working your signals and switches. It has support for a network
of Bruce Chubb CMR/I USIC, SUSIC, and/or SMINI nodes, and/or a network of
Lenz's XPressNet DCC nodes. Software to create switch lists for freight
car forwarding and create timetables for your railroad are included. There
is software to help with photographing your trains, and to compute the
correct value for those pesky dropping resistors for LEDs and/or
incandescent lamps.

Changes: Two new programs were added. The first is Dispatcher, a
dispatcher control panel builder. It can also load XTrkCAD layout files
and draw a graph network of the layout, which should be useful in creating
dispatcher control panels. The second is ModelRRSystem, a launcher with
simple window manager features. These new programs are in an alpha and
experimental state. There is no documentation for them yet. Minor parser
fixes were made to handle minor changes in XTrkCAD layout files. A pile of
problems with the build process was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/modelrailroadsystem/

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[020] - Network Simulator 3.0.12 (Development)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:49

Education
Internet
System :: Networking

About: Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at  networking research.
It provides substantial  support for simulation of TCP, routing, and 
multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local  and satellite)
networks. It includes an optional  network animator (nam).

Changes: A race condition was fixed in the regression tests. There were
assorted code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ns-2/

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[021] - Open Administration for Schools 3.00a 
  by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:15

Education

About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools
run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school,
one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site. 

Changes: Updates and fixes were made since the 3.00 release. No new
features were added, just improvements. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openadmin/

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[022] - OPeNDAP 3.8.5 (General-Purpose Handlers)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:53

Database
Internet
Scientific/Engineering

About: OPeNDAP is a client/server system for making local data accessible
to remote locations without regard to the local or remote storage format,
architecture, or environment. 

Changes: Updated header files and an updated API that supports the latest
back-end server.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opendap/

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[023] - OpenGrade 2.8.2 
  by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:27

Education

About: OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can
put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students
password-protected access to them.

Changes: The program no longer beeps when the enter key on the numeric
keypad is used. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengrade/

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[024] - Photo Organizer 2.35b (Stable)
  by Solomon Peachy (http://freshmeat.net/users/ShaftNet/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:14

Information Management :: Records Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: Photo Organizer is a Web-based multi-user photo management tool
that was designed for professional photographers. It offers a searchable
photo database that supports photo version control, a datebook with client
management, photo submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP, user
quotas, and printing labels and color brochures. It uses ImageMagick and
DCRAW to handle over a hundred image formats, and relies on PostgreSQL as
its database backend.

Changes: Photo rotation, date parsing, IPTC code ignoring sub-locations,
and a few other minor bugs were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/photoorganizer/

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[025] - PyreRing 0.9 
  by kdl (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdlucas/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:48

Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: PyreRing is a test runner that executes scripts intended to act as
individual test cases. By removing the administrative burden that often
surrounds testing, the test author can focus on writing meaningful,
direct, and useful test cases. As long as you wrap your test cases with a
Unix shell or scripted language wrapper, it will be executed. It allows
you to set a timeout value, send reports to email addresses, automatically
organize your test cases with filesystem directories or suite files that
you define, create automatic suites based on a predefined block in your
test scripts, and capture standard out and standard error into a
comprehensive log.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyrering/

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[026] - Python Google Chart 0.2.0 
  by Gerald Kaszuba (http://freshmeat.net/users/gakman/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 00:01

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: Python Google Chart is a complete wrapper for the Google Chart API.


Changes: Automatic chart scaling, support for Sparklines, Radar,
Google-o-Meter, and Map chart types, and other changes and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pygooglechart/

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[027] - RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 8a 
  by bpasero (http://freshmeat.net/users/bpasero/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:25

Communications
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: RSSOwl is a wise SWT-based news aggregator. Its search feature lets
you hunt down the best RSS/RDF/Atom feeds on the Web, and then organize and
share your feeds with agility. Other features include an integrated
browser; AmphetaRate, for acquiring news tailored to your tastes;
full-text searching through headlines and descriptions; export feed
summaries to PDF, RTF, and HTML; the ability to import or export OPML; the
ability to exchange collections with others by importing or exporting
subscriptions; the ability to import or export user data to and from other
machines; automatic newsfeed upating; and much more. 

Changes: A failing migration from milestone 7 was fixed. Searching for
news was improved. The bug where deleted news would show up again was
fixed. 

License: Eclipse Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rssowl/

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[028] - sift 0.3 
  by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:49

Communications :: Email :: Filters
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: The sift IMAP client is a simple scriptable tool which allows you
to carry out a number of operations against the messages maintained on a
remote IMAP server. Using simple rules chained together, you may select
messages of interest and apply various operations to them. 

Changes: This release improves the error handling of all rule parsing such
that errors will cause the processing to stop rather than risking the
corruption, loss, or damage of mail. There have also been some matching
documentation updates.

License: Perl License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sift/

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[029] - Simple Groupware 0.406 
  by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:50

Communications
Information Management
Office/Business

About: Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering
email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization
with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple
Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP,
CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other
groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language
sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web
applications. 

Changes: AJAX refresh for select boxes in new/edit views was implemented
(which is very useful when creating new items in popups). A new code
editor was added, called CodePress. sgsML was expanded with the feature to
view a field in multiple tabs. The doubleclick event in the "Display" view
was changed to open the details view. HTML export for "htmlarea" and
"wikiarea" was modified to show rendered HTML. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplegroupware/

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[030] - SiSU 0.66.2 
  by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 00:01

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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[031] - SMI 0.9.9i 
  by Galawa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Galawa/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:46

Office/Business

About: SMI (Services Maintenance Interventions) is a complete free
solution to manage services and technical support to customers with
frontoffice and backoffice modules. 

Changes: Cost calculation was improved by integrating the means of
transport. Minor bugs were corrected. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smiservicesmaintenanceinterventions/

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[032] - SmokePing 2.3.6 (Stable)
  by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:51

System :: Benchmark
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: SmokePing is a network latency monitor. It measures network latency
to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its
findings in easy-to-read Web pages. SmokePing has support for distributed
monitoring as well as for dealing with dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing
uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end, making the system very
efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web is done through a CGI
with some AJAX capabilities for interactive graph exploration. 

Changes: Smoke is even present when the graph is cut at the top. The link
style is honored when zooming. A better error message is printed when CGI
can not read a secrets file. A custom style is used for the active menu
link. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smokeping/

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[033] - TAU 1.7.14 (Linux Kernel TAU)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 03:51

Education
Education :: Testing
Software Development

About: TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing
the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more
information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix
utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information,
inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to
organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems,
per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for
each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary
sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined
events.

Changes: This release added mechanisms for evaluating and excluding kernel
"noise" from profiling results. It was ported to 2.6.22.1 on x86_64 and to
2.6.15 on SiCortex MIPS.

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tau/

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[034] - uni2ascii 4.7 
  by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 18:22

Software Development
Software Development :: Internationalization
Text Processing :: General

About: uni2ascii and ascii2uni convert between UTF-8 Unicode and 29 7-bit
ASCII equivalents including: hexadecimal and decimal HTML and SGML numeric
character references, \u-escapes, standard hexadecimal, raw hexadecimal,
and RFC2396 URI format. Such ASCII equivalents are useful for entering
Unicode in program source or in programs that are not 8-bit safe, and for
testing and debugging. Several options allow Unicode to be converted to
approximately equivalent ASCII, e.g. by stripping diacritics. An optional
GUI is provided. 

Changes: This release adds options to uni2ascii to pass through
untransformed Unicode rather than converting it to ASCII escapes and as a
shorthand for cdefx. Several characters have been added to the -e and -x
options. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uni2ascii/

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[035] - Xtables-addons 1.5.4.1 
  by Jan Engelhardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/jengelh/)
  Sat, Apr 26th 2008 17:45

System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Xtables-addons is a package that mostly supersedes the old
patch-o-matic repository for the Linux kernel and iptables. Instead of
patching the kernel source, extensions are built as modules and thus allow
extending kernels without recompilation. 

Changes: Compilation for Linux kernels from the 2.6.18.x-stable series was
fixed. The minimum requirement is now 2.6.18.5. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtables-addons/



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