Newsletter for Sunday, August 31st 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::
[001] - AFNIX programming language 1.7.1
[002] - Ampache 3.4.3
[003] - Clover framework 2.5.0
[004] - ConstructrCMS 3.01.9 Beta
[005] - Data Crow 3.4
[006] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0
[007] - deco-archive 1.1
[008] - DOMjudge 2.2.1
[009] - DoubleType 0.2.3
[010] - GNU nano 2.1.5 (Unstable)
[011] - GSTFS 0.1
[012] - HeliDB 1.0
[013] - ipv6check 1
[014] - JBIG-KIT 2.0
[015] - jsapigen 0.2.0
[016] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.49
[017] - Kimai 0.8.0
[018] - Kuklomenos 0.2
[019] - lighty-stats 0.2.3
[020] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.67
[021] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3
[022] - MTX 1.3.12 (Stable)
[023] - OCaml Batteries Included 0.0
[024] - openBmap 1.3
[025] - OpenMW 0.4
[026] - pdfrecycle 0.04
[027] - Perl Audio Converter 4.0.3
[028] - PG Calculator 2.2-10
[029] - phlyMail Lite 3.09.65
[030] - phlyMail MessageCenter 3.09.65
[031] - RwdTinker 1.70
[032] - Sahi 2008-08-31
[033] - Simple Groupware 0.421
[034] - Simple Movie Catalog 1.0.2
[035] - Tin Hat 20080830
[036] - Topal 63
[037] - ttyutils 1.4.2
[038] - u2ps 0.8
[039] - uni2ascii 4.10
[040] - vbackup 0.1.6
[041] - Velosurf 2.2
[042] - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.1.0
[043] - VMware 6.0.5 (Workstation)
[044] - VMware 2.0.5 (Player)
[045] - VMware 1.0.7 (Server)
[046] - Wandora 2008-08-28
[047] - werc 0.9
[048] - xdiff-ext 0.1.0
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - AFNIX programming language 1.7.1
by Amaury C. Darsch (http://freshmeat.net/users/amaury/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 08:59
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: AFNIX is a multi-threaded functional programming language with
dynamic symbol bindings that support the object oriented paradigm. It has a
rich set of features providing runtime compatibility with C++. The engine
runs on both 32- and 64-bit platforms, and it is designed to be portable
across platforms.
Changes: This is an emergency release that corrects a major problem in the
evaluation engine.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/afnix/
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[002] - Ampache 3.4.3
by Karl Vollmer (http://freshmeat.net/users/vollmerk/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:12
Communications :: File Sharing
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Ampache is a Web-based audio file manager. It allows you to view,
edit, and play your audio files via the Web. It has support for playlists,
artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via HTTP with
on-the-fly transcoding and downsampling, vote based playback, playback via
MPD and Icecast, an integrated Flash player, and per-user themes and song
play tracking. You can also link multiple Ampache servers together using
XML-RPC. Ampache supports gettext translations and has full translations
into many languages.
Changes: This release addresses a non-critical security issue due to
unsafe creation of temporary files by a shell script included with, but not
used by, the application. It also fixes a few other minor bugs and adds the
ability to install Ampache without full rights on your database server
(Hosted Solutions).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampache/
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[003] - Clover framework 2.5.0
by David Pavlis (http://freshmeat.net/users/dpavlis/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:04
Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Information Management
About: CloverETL is Java-based framework for data integration and creation
of data transformations. It is component based and follows the concept of
transformation graphs which consist of individual nodes/components
performing simple (or complex) operations on data. Any transformation can
be defined as a set of interconnected nodes through which data flows.
CloverETL can be used as a standalone application or be embedded into a
larger project.
Changes: Major changes include incremental reading of input data (file or
DB), a reworked JDBC connection that now supports database-specific
handlers (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.), and enhancements of readers and
writers which can, aside reading from files (local or remote), read/write
data from/to an internal data dictionary.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cloveretl/
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[004] - ConstructrCMS 3.01.9 Beta
by constructr (http://freshmeat.net/users/constructr/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 16:30
About: ConstructrCMS is a content management system that features clean
frontend URLs, a frontend cache system, backend user management and rights
management, nested_sets logic for page structuring, TinyMCE integration,
Prototype and Scriptaculous integration, a file based template system, the
ability to use a frontend that fits your special needs, and an asset center
for your uploads. Automatic synchronization is done after FTP uploads.
Thumbnails are automatically created for image uploads.
Changes: The frontend cache system was added. The backend files were
updated. The index.php and .htaccess files were updated. Bugs in user
management were fixed. Bugs in rights management were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/constructr/
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[005] - Data Crow 3.4
by rwaals (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwaals/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:37
Home Automation
Multimedia
About: Data Crow is a movie, video, book, image, software, and music
cataloger/media manager. Data Crow uses MusicBrainz, Amazon, IMDb, and many
other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly
customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It helps you to keep track of
your loans, allows you to create reports, enables you to create your own
modules (using wizards) and, most importantly, enables you to easily manage
all your collections.
Changes: Improved overall performance. Startup time has been reduced
dramatically, as well as the online search (for large databases). The
upgrade process has been streamlined. Locations have been converted to
container objects.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/datacrow/
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[006] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0
by DataNucleus (http://freshmeat.net/users/datanucleus/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:26
Database
Database :: API
Database :: Front-Ends
About: DataNucleus Access Platform is a standards-compliant Java
persistence product. It is fully compliant with the JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, and
JPA1 Java standards. It also complies with the OGC Simple Feature
Specification for persistence of geospatial Java types. It allows access to
all popular RDBMSs available today, together with db4o, LDAP, NeoDatis,
JSON, Excel documents, and XML databases.
Changes: JDO persistence has been migrated to the forthcoming JDO2.2
standard. Support for JDO2.2 dynamic fetch groups has been added (this was
previously a vendor extension). Generic query compilation support for
chained method invocations was added. Support for dynamic RDBMS schema
upgrades for 1-1 interface fields was added. Support for the use of
datastore identity with Excel datastores was added. Support for cascade
delete with NeoDatis datastores was added. A bug was fixed in cascade
delete for db4o datastores. A bug was fixed for persistence/retrieval of
object wrapper field values with Excel datastores.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/datanucleusaccess/
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[007] - deco-archive 1.1
by P. Hartlich (http://freshmeat.net/users/phartlich/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:08
System :: Archiving
About: deco-archive is a collection of extractor wrappers for the deco
file extraction framework. It provides support for dozens of popular
archive formats such as tar, rar, and zip.
Changes: Support for multi-part 7z archives has been added. Obsolete parts
of older versions are now automatically removed during installation and
uninstallation. Two regular expressions have been slightly simplified.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/deco-archive/
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[008] - DOMjudge 2.2.1
by Thijs Kinkhorst (http://freshmeat.net/users/kinkhorst/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:49
Other/Nonlisted Topic
Software Development :: Testing
About: DOMjudge is an automated judgement system to run programming
contests. It provides a mechanism to submit problem solutions and
interfaces for teams, the jury, and the general public. It is lightweight,
and depends on standard software to do its task. It has a Web interface for
portability and simplicity. It is scalable, so distributed judging is easy.
There is a modular system for plugging in languages and compilers. It
features rejudging, clarifications, and detailed submission/judging info.
Changes: This is a maintenance release that mainly addresses a usability
annoyance and improves the documentation.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/domjudge/
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[009] - DoubleType 0.2.3
by eed3si9n (http://freshmeat.net/users/eed3si9n/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:37
Desktop Environment :: Fonts
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
About: DoubleType is an attempt to make a type designer (font editor) that
builds TrueType font files. It is designed with collaborative creation in
mind. Unlike other programs that work on a single binary file, DoubleType
stores each glyph in a separate text file.
Changes: This release fixes a bug that caused fonts to be monospaced
incorrectly. It also includes a sample typeface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/doubletype/
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[010] - GNU nano 2.1.5 (Unstable)
by Chris Allegretta (http://freshmeat.net/users/astyanax/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:08
Text Editors
About: GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an
enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
Changes: This release contains a better fix for incorrectly reported
successful writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when an
internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for various combinations
of configure-time options and compiler flags. Also included is new support
for changing the rc file name at configure time, and using GNU-style
regexes for word-boundaries on systems that do not support them natively,
as well as the ever popular translation updates.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nano/
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[011] - GSTFS 0.1
by Bob Copeland (http://freshmeat.net/users/bobc/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 16:44
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
System :: Filesystems
About: GSTFS (GStreamer FS) is a filesystem for on-demand transcoding of
music files between different formats. It utilizes the GStreamer library
for conversion, so any formats supported by GStreamer should also be
supported by GSTFS.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gstfs/
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[012] - HeliDB 1.0
by Karl Gustafsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/kargu/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:15
Database :: API
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: HeliDB is a database for storing key-value pairs from a Java
program. The client program creates one database object per database file.
The database objects can be configured to support different capabilities.
In its simplest configuration, a database is a file-backed map. More
advanced configurations can give it transaction support or fast record
searches by indexing records in a B+ tree.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/helidb/
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[013] - ipv6check 1
by jean-lucien (http://freshmeat.net/users/chark/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: Ipv6check is a Web script to check if you are connected to the
Internet via IPv6 or IPv4. To detect an IPv6 connection, this script needs
to be on a Web server which is connected via IPv6.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipv6check/
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[014] - JBIG-KIT 2.0
by Markus Kuhn (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkuhn/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:07
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Software Development :: Libraries
About: JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm
for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents.
It provides a portable C library of compression and decompression functions
with a documented interface that can easily be included into image or
document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT provides ready-to-use
compression and decompression programs with a simple command line interface
(similar to the converters found in netpbm). It implements the
specification ISO 11544 and ITU-T T.82, which is commonly referred to as
the "JBIG1 standard".
Changes: This major release adds a much more lightweight jbig85.c variant
of the library that implements only the black/white fax profile (single bit
per pixel, no progressive coding with multiple resolution layers) specified
in ITU-T T.85. It keeps only 3 lines of the uncompressed image in memory at
any time, and only a few bytes of compressed data, and leaves all memory
allocation to the caller. This benefits in particular embedded low-memory
applications, and those processing extremely large images. (There are also
extensions to the original jbig.c library and its command-line tools.)
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jbigkit/
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[015] - jsapigen 0.2.0
by Thomas Zimmermann (http://freshmeat.net/users/tdz/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:40
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: jsapigen generates glue code for embedding Mozilla's JavaScript
engine (SpiderMonkey) into C applications. A simple interface definition
language is used to describe the connection between native C code and the
JavaScript engine. jsapigen takes such descriptions and converts them into
C code. This code is then compiled into the application.
Changes: The documentation has been significantly extended with a tutorial
and many examples, which should users get started. There is a macro for
integration with Autoconf. This release has been built and tested on
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and MinGW with GNU GCC or Sun Studio.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsapigen/
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[016] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.49
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:42
About: The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based application that allows
you to manage your goods at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster
management, and it automatically creates shopping lists that can be printed
out or downloaded by cellphone. It also watches "best before" dates and
informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that date. The complete
application is a system that can be accessed from nearly everywhere and
offers you the possibility to find out what you really need next from the
supermarket.
Changes: Products can be put into groups now so that not every single
product variation is listed in the shopping list, but only the more general
group.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kaufkauf/
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[017] - Kimai 0.8.0
by kimaidev (http://freshmeat.net/users/kimaidev/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:53
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Kimai is software that tracks work time and classifies it. It
tracks time and prints out a summary (time sheet) of your activities on
demand. The reports can be yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project,
or by action. Its interface is based on using a Web browser. You can
install it as a Web service or as a single-user program on your local
workstation. It is appropriate both for multiple simultaneous users or a
single user. Kimai does not have to run to do the recording.
Changes: This release has been redesigned.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kimai/
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[018] - Kuklomenos 0.2
by mbays (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbays/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:39
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: Kuklomenos is a simple but challenging abstract shoot-em-up game.
Defend yourself and the Nodes from encroaching Evil. Control and destroy
the Nodes before Evil can extract enough from them to destroy all.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kuklomenos/
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[019] - lighty-stats 0.2.3
by derf (http://freshmeat.net/users/derf0/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:36
Internet :: Log Analysis
About: lighty-stats is a CLI lighttpd log file analyzer which, unlike most
other tools, prints the result directly to the terminal. Since most Web
servers use the same log format, it can be used for other httpd software as
well.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lightystats/
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[020] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.67
by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:09
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for
those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage
expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save
complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs
for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock
prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX
data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and
also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card
accounts.
Changes: Italian and Dutch translations have been added. Display of column
sort icons has been fixed.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mjrz/
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[021] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3
by Eduardo Aguiar (http://freshmeat.net/users/aguiar/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:52
Security :: Forensics
About: Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in
Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract
interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined
using XML files for easy integration with other tools.
Changes: A case manager has been implemented. Support for extensions has
been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mobiusft/
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[022] - MTX 1.3.12 (Stable)
by Robert Nelson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RobertNelson/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 16:44
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Hardware
System :: Networking :: Monitoring :: Hardware Watchdog
About: MTX is a set of programs for controlling tape drives and the
robotic mechanism of autoloaders and tape libraries.
Changes: This release fixes a problem when UNIT ATTENTION is pending when
mtx is started. This can occur if the door is opened on some libraries or
the SCSI bus is reset. The change eliminates the requirement to rerun the
mtx command. Debian packaging support has been added. The unsupported
program nsmhack is no longer built by default nor is included in any of the
binary packages. It is still included in the source tar and can be built
manually using "make nsmhack".
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mtx/
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[023] - OCaml Batteries Included 0.0
by Yoric (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yoric/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:38
Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: OCaml Batteries Included serves the following purposes: define a
standard set of libraries that may be expected on every compliant
installation of OCaml, organize these libraries into a hierarchy of modules
with one source of documentation, and provide a consistent API for
otherwise independent libraries.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/batlib/
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[024] - openBmap 1.3
by Mike Butt (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbeauvai/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:45
Communications :: File Sharing
Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
About: openBmap is a map of wireless communicating objects such as
cellular antenna or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices. It provides tools to
mutualize data, and to create and access this map.
Changes: A new C# RIL implementation was created to get mcc, mnc, lac,
cell id, and current cell signal strength. A new way to open a
GPRS/3G/HSDPA connection was implemented. A bug in which the configurator
adds a back slash at the end of the original photo path was corrected.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbmap/
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[025] - OpenMW 0.4
by Nicolay Korslund (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkorslund/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:00
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: OpenMW is an attempt to reimplement the popular role playing game
Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable implementation of the game that
will run on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. No game data is distributed with
the code; the user must already own a copy of Morrowind to use the
software.
Changes: The sound library was switched from Audiere to OpenAL and FFmpeg.
Various other updates were done.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmw/
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[026] - pdfrecycle 0.04
by fdiesch (http://freshmeat.net/users/fdiesch/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:48
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
Utilities
About: pdfrecycle creates a PDF file by composing pages from other PDF
files. It lets you define PDF bookmarks, scale and rotate pages, put
multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet, and add metadata. It uses
a simple text file format to define the layout and what pages to include.
>From this input file, it creates a LaTeX file and then runs pdflatex to
produced the PDF file.
Changes: Bookmarks created with MARK1, MARK2, etc. had the wrong hierarchy
level.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfrecycle/
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[027] - Perl Audio Converter 4.0.3
by Philip Lyons (http://freshmeat.net/users/viiron/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:06
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
About: Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types
from one format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK,
CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MMF, MP2,
MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2,
SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also
convert audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG,
MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV,
and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag
preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing,
and extensions for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are also provided.
Changes: This release adds support for M4B. Various bugfixes/improvements
were also made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pacpl/
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[028] - PG Calculator 2.2-10
by Piotr Gridniew (http://freshmeat.net/users/gridniew/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:11
Office/Business
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Utilities
About: PG Calculator is a powerful scientific calculator and an excellent
replacement for standard calculator. It offers a fully customizable user
interface and resembles a real calculator. It works in Algebraic and RPN
modes, recognizes real and complex numbers, and allows vectors
manipulations. It supports up to 120 units of measure with the ability to
make conversions between consistent units, and allows input in binary,
octal, hexadecimal, and exponential formats. Eighty built-in algebraic,
trigonometric, hyperbolic, logical, conversion, and statistical functions
are provided along with a list of commonly used mathematical, physics, and
chemical constants. Simple financial calculations are possible with
built-in Time Value of Money Solver.
Changes: A couple of minor bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pgcalc/
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[029] - phlyMail Lite 3.09.65
by Matthias Sommerfeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/flyingbit/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:26
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
About: phlyMail is a Webmail and data hosting application. It features
folders, unlimited POP3/IMAP profiles, quotas, an integrated address book,
a calendar, a file manager, SMS support, themes, and multilingual support.
It uses either sendmail or SMTP to send email, and can handle MIME. Support
for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) is included. Through its modular
design, various new functions (like RSS, personal file storage, a bookmark
manager, etc.) are easily included.
Changes: Many outstanding bugs have been fixed, although this build still
is not compatible with Internet Explorer. IMAP has been rewritten with its
own code and the SASL methods CRAM-SHA256 and CRAM-SHA1 have been added.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phlymail/
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[030] - phlyMail MessageCenter 3.09.65
by Matthias Sommerfeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/flyingbit/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:27
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
About: phlyMail is a Webmail and data hosting application. It features
folders, unlimited POP3/IMAP profiles, quotas, an integrated address book,
a calendar, a file manager, SMS support, themes, and multilingual support.
It uses either sendmail or SMTP to send email, and can handle MIME. Support
for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) is included. Through its modular
design, various new functions (like RSS, personal file storage, a bookmark
manager, etc.) are easily included.
Changes: Many outstanding bugs have been fixed, although this build still
is not compatible with Internet Explorer. IMAP has been rewritten with its
own code and the SASL methods CRAM-SHA256 and CRAM-SHA1 have been added.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phlymail/
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[031] - RwdTinker 1.70
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:49
Desktop Environment
About: rwdtinker is the core application for a Ruby application framework
using the RubyWebDialogs GUI. It provides a system for developing programs,
and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a developer to combine and create
applets to implement an application. It features built-in bug report
submission, remote control with UDP ports, a test framework, and
context-sensitive help.
Changes: This version has changes and major updates to applet loading
routines so that a properly prepared applet should be loadable and
unloadable live without restarting. Localization is not yet updated in live
applet loading. Network line debugging output has been removed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rwdtinker/
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[032] - Sahi 2008-08-31
by V Narayan Raman (http://freshmeat.net/users/narayanraman/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 18:51
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: Sahi is an automation and testing tool for Web applications, with
the facility to record and playback scripts. Features include, in-browser
controls, text based scripts, ant support for playback of suites of tests,
and multi threaded playback. It supports HTTP and HTTPS. Sahi runs as a
proxy server, and the browser needs to use the sahi server as its proxy.
Sahi then injects JavaScript so that it can access elements in the Web
page. This makes the tool independent of the Web site or Web application.
Changes: This release uses Rhino as the scripting engine, thus moving most
of the script execution to the proxy. This should go a long way in
simplifying Sahi scripts. This build also has some important changes to the
SocketPool, which will fix issues related to too many sockets being used
and errors due to BindExceptions. Suite execution has been changed such
that even if the browser crashes, the suite will continue with the next
script and thus not hold up a build. DB methods now close connections
properly.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sahi/
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[033] - Simple Groupware 0.421
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:41
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: Searching for items with special conditions like modules or last
modification was added. New PmWiki markup was added to fetch content from
other Web pages and RSS feeds. Fixes were applied to the setup for
PostgreSQL and MySQL in combination with Funambol.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplegroupware/
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[034] - Simple Movie Catalog 1.0.2
by Damien Langg (http://freshmeat.net/users/damienlangg/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 16:46
Multimedia
About: Simple Movie Catalog will scan a given directory for movies, query
IMDb for info, and generate a catalog in HTML that offers sorting and
grouping of found movies by different criteria.
Changes: Support for TV series was improved.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smoviecat/
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[035] - Tin Hat 20080830
by Anthony G. Basile (http://freshmeat.net/users/blueness/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:38
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: Tin Hat is a Linux distribution derived from hardened Gentoo. It
aims to provide a very secure, stable, and fast desktop environment that
lives purely in RAM. Tin Hat boots from CD, or optionally USB pen drive,
but it is not a LiveCD in that it does not mount any file system from the
boot device. Rather, Tin Hat employs a massive squashfs image which expands
into tmpfs upon booting. This makes for long boot times, but remarkable
speeds during human-computer interaction.
Changes: Security updates and bugfixes to many packages, syncing upstream
with Gentoo. Partial support has been added for wireless and Bluetooth.
Support has been added for RAID, LVM, FUSE, and EncFS filesystems.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinhat/
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[036] - Topal 63
by Phil Brooke (http://freshmeat.net/users/philb328/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 16:43
Communications :: Email
About: Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It
offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple
PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and
verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the
passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and
received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine.
It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages.
There is a remote sending and decryption mode for reading email on a
distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a
high level of configurability.
Changes: Warning messages about missing secret keys were improved. Initial
support for remote decryption of messages was added. Signal handling for
the remote server was improved.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/topal/
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[037] - ttyutils 1.4.2
by xiaohu (http://freshmeat.net/users/xiaohu417/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:36
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: Ttyutils is a suite of UNIX terminal tools. It includes ttyexec,
ttylook, ttyadmin, and a few extension programs. ttyexec executes command
in a pseudo terminal, captures all stdandard output from the command, and
passes it to a built-in virtual terminal emulator and real terminal.
ttylook is similar to the BSD watch(1) program, but has fewer limits and
can interact with existing ttyexec instances. ttyadmin is a administrator
tool which uses an ncurses interface to view and control existing ttyexec
instances.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttyutils/
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[038] - u2ps 0.8
by Alex Suykov (http://freshmeat.net/users/axsiag/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:15
Text Processing
About: u2ps is a text to Postscript converter similar to a2ps, with
Unicode support. It supports various input encoding and ANSI sequences. It
is written in Perl and Postscript, and requires no external libraries to
work.
Changes: Initial release. Left-to-right scripts only; fancy rendering
(Indic scripts, etc.) is not supported. ANSI sequences for color/font style
change and basic cursor movement are implemented. Supplied with fontsets
for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Georgian, Japanese, and Thai scripts, and also
contains IPA and various scientific symbols.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/u2ps/
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[039] - uni2ascii 4.10
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:09
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 fixes a bug that made the Y argument to the -a flag
of ascii2uni a no-op, and corrects the man pages and help for the Y and Q
arguments to the -a flag for both programs. The Y argument is now an error
for uni2ascii. The version information and action summaries are more
informative.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uni2ascii/
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[040] - vbackup 0.1.6
by V13 (http://freshmeat.net/users/v13/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:43
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Systems Administration
About: Vbackup is a modular backup utility that can be used to perform
full or incremental system backups. It consists of a set of scripts that
can be used to create backups using tar and xfsdump. It can also make
backups of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases. It has a module for backing up
the Debian package list, and can store the backups to a local or remote
directory. It is modular, and can be extended to perform other functions.
Changes: This version adds new methods that support dpkg, RPM, MBR, mdadm,
and LVM backups. There are more configuration options and a wizard for easy
basic configuration. The documentation is improved and man pages were
added. There are also various bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vbackup/
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[041] - Velosurf 2.2
by Claude Brisson (http://freshmeat.net/users/clod/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 15:39
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: Velosurf is a database mapping layer library for the Apache
Velocity template engine. It provides automatic database mapping of tables
and relationships without any code generation. In the context of a Webapp,
it also provides handy tools for authentication, localization, and forms
validation.
Changes: This release brings a quite mature and stable version of the
library, with two years of enhancements and fixes.
License: The Apache License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/velosurf/
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[042] - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.1.0
by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas (http://freshmeat.net/users/plcl/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
About: Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver.
It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can
use the computer's keyboard or mouse to play MIDI notes. You can use the
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another
instrument or MIDI file player.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmpk/
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[043] - VMware 6.0.5 (Workstation)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 06:59
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a
400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: FreeType was updated to 2.3.7, resolving several security
vulnerabilities reported as CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807, and
CVE-2008-1808. Cairo was updated to 1.4.14, resolving an integer overflow
vulnerability CVE-2007-5503. Several ActiveX security issues, reported as
CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692, CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3694, CVE-2008-3695,
CVE-2007-5438, and CVE-2008-3696, were resolved.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[044] - VMware 2.0.5 (Player)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:01
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a
400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: FreeType was updated to 2.3.7, resolving several security
vulnerabilities reported as CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807, and
CVE-2008-1808. Cairo was updated to 1.4.14, resolving an integer overflow
vulnerability CVE-2007-5503. Several ActiveX security issues, reported as
CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692, CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3694, CVE-2008-3695,
CVE-2007-5438, and CVE-2008-3696, were resolved.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[045] - VMware 1.0.7 (Server)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:01
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a
400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: A remote denial of service vulerability in the VMware ISAPI
Extension, reported as CVE-2008-3697, was fixed. FreeType was updated to
2.3.7, resolving several security vulnerabilities reported as
CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807, and CVE-2008-1808. Cairo was updated to
1.4.14, resolving an integer overflow vulnerability CVE-2007-5503. Several
ActiveX security issues, reported as CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692,
CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3694, CVE-2008-3695, CVE-2007-5438, and
CVE-2008-3696, were resolved.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[046] - Wandora 2008-08-28
by akivela (http://freshmeat.net/users/akivela/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 09:17
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
About: Wandora is a general purpose data extraction, management, and
publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. Wandora has a
graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data
storage options, rich data extraction, import and export capabilities, and
an embedded HTTP server that enables dynamic publication of Topic Maps.
Wandora is well suited for rapid ontology construction and knowledge
mashups.
Changes: New features include a Firefox plugin to extract directly from
the Firefox Web browser, an OpenCalais classifier, an OpenCyc extractor, a
SOM classifier, a Wikipedia extractor, the ability to export GraphXML, and
Subject locator previews for MPEG videos and PDF documents.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wandora/
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[047] - werc 0.9
by Lost Goblin (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostgoblin/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 08:50
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: Werc is a minimalistic content management system implemented as a
collection of shell scripts written in the rc shell and taking advantage of
other Plan 9 tools available on *nix systems as part of "Plan 9 from User
Space". It is designed to be fast, simple, convenient, and easily
extensible (you can easily integrate your own dynamic content with the rest
of the site). It should handle well both small and big sites, including
seamless multi-domain handling. All data is stored as plain text files
without need of a database and there is support for blog directories with
automatic RSS feed generation (including feed aggregation).
Changes: A big code reorganization was done. This release is close to the
feature completion that is intended before version 1.0. A README was added.
Directory index pages are redirected to a canonical URL (to be more
"RESTful"). New debugging facilities that can be easily used from custom
scripts were added. The "API" for custom scripts was made more
well-defined. Permanent redirections can be set from _config files (and can
be regexp based). Hiding directories or files from the menu is allowed. The
code was modularized for clarity and to allow many new features in the
future. Many bugfixes and improvements were made.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/werc/
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[048] - xdiff-ext 0.1.0
by Serg (http://freshmeat.net/users/serg_z/)
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 07:16
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Software Development
Utilities
About: Diff-ext is an extension for file managers such as Windows
Explorer, Nautilus, Konqueror, and Thunar that allows the user to launch
diff and merge tools on selected files.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdiff-ext/
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