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About: Fresh Memory is a program for studying foreign words. It can manage flashcards stored in dictionaries. The user can create and edit the dictionaries. The flashcards are used to study words with word drills (random flashcard browsing) or spaced repetition. It can also be used to study any structured data. The examples could be capitals of countries, chemical elements, or even birthdays of friends. Changes: A spaced repetition algorithm based on SM-2. The study data is kept in a user-specific directory. Support for multiple fields in cards. A dictionary can have cards with many languages. All dictionaries, cards, and fields are identified with UUIDs. It is possible to add/remove cards or fields in a dictionary without any negative effects to the study data. Support for image includes. Basic HTML tags. Backwards compatibility with 0.3 version dictionaries
About: Boxtream is both an audio and video encoder and streamer and an assembly of audio and video hardware, forming a mobile video streaming studio. It is designed to easily record and stream live presentations, including a presenter and synchronized slides, or slides only, or presenter only. It was built to stream live courses over the Internet for distance learning students. It supports and autodetects several brands and models of video switchers. It can be entirely controlled remotely over XML-RPC, and includes an X11 interface. By default, it supports five different streaming and recording scenarios. The software part can also be used with very minimal hardware, like a DV camcorder and a laptop. Changes: For the very first time, three basic scenarios have been added for people with minimalistic hardware like a single USB Webcam or mini-DV camcorder, so finally Boxtream can be used by everybody. An example script to start both the backend and the frontend on the local machine has been added to further simplify use. Axis Webcams are now handled with the souphttpsrc GStreamer plugin. Minor bugs were fixed all over the place. A small French presentation of the project's history was added to the distribution in the OpenDocument format.
About: WYMeditor is a Web-based WYSIWYM editor (What You See Is What You Mean) whose goal is to produce XHTML-CSS compliant code. It lets the writer concentrate on the structure and the content of the document, not on the visual layout. Changes: This release has new translations, and new API calls: wrap() and unwrap(). These new helpers bring support for more inline elements, such as acronym, abbreviation, cite, code, span, etc. Many bugs have been fixed since beta1. The documentation and the test suite have been improved. New example pages have been added. Last but not least, work is being done on a WYMeditor-based RDFa editor. A proof of concept is available in the package or the repository browser.
About: pppd-sql is a plugin for the Point-to-Point server (pppd) on Linux and Solaris that adds an authentication backend using a MySQL or PostgreSQL database for the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) and Password Authentication Protocol (PAP). It supports MS-CHAPv1 and MS-CHAPv2 too. The IPCP negotiation after authentication handshake is also supported. pppd-sql supports a flexible configuration scheme, has built-in failover functionality (no load-balancing), and comes with easy and handy documentation.
About: DSSH was written as a direct replacement for the OpenSSH client. It adds SSH over SSH tunneling capabilities (for example, to log in to a network hidden by a firewall), scripting support (using Groovy), an advanced agent (which allows storing of passwords) and "su -" interactive logging for machines that have disabled direct root login. All of this was done to enable automated scripting and logging to many machines based on a few simple rules. It uses the Trilead SSH library (slightly patched). Changes: This release adds support for the AMD-64 architecture on Linux.
About: This class can be used to perform image manipulation operations with the ImageMagick program. It calls the ImageMagick program passing parameters to process several types of operations on image files. Currently, it can resize images, create thumbnails, darken or brighten images, add watermarks, rotate, flip, crop, convert to greyscale and invert images, create text images, and generate thumbnails from PDF or video files.
About: Frinika is a free, complete music workstation program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0). It features a sequencer, soft-synths, real-time effects, and audio recording. Changes: This release fixes some annoying bugs in 0.5.0, which was never announced to the public. It is bundled with the Gervill soft synthesizer, and has audio recording/editing improvements, a drum pad, priority fixes for Linux, Toot Mixer effects, and much more.
About: phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much more. Changes: This release is for PHP 5 only. It has new modules (PHPWSBB, Checkin, and Skeleton), a new theme (vv_3col), many new features, and bugfixes.
About: MySpace for Mac is a MySpaceIM client. It is very simple and easy to use, supports multiple chats in one window, and has no annoying ads.
About: SimpleKB is a powerful and simple knowledge base system written in PHP/MySQL. You can add menu items and content easily. It can display the most frequently viewed documents and top contributors.
About: FreeCC (formerly KawaDD) is parser/lexer generator written in Java. It is a development fork of the well known JavaCC parser generator originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has extra features such as "code injection" and more flexible tree-building strategies. Also, it is far easier to customize the code the tool generates, because it uses FreeMarker templates that can be tailored for one's needs. Changes: This release contains a host of minor bugfixes, as well as some extra polish, such as an Ant task.
About: WANem can be used to emulate wide area network conditions in a LAN environment. It can emulate network characteristics like Bandwidth, latency, loss, disconnection, duplication, reordering, asymmetric networks, etc. It is distributed in the form of a bootable CD.
About: refbase is a Web-based bibliographic manager that can import and export references in various formats (including BibTeX, Endnote, ISI, RIS, PubMed, MODS XML, OpenOffice, and Word 2007 XML). It can make formatted lists of citations in HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX, and offers powerful searching and RSS support. Its OpenSearch and SRU/W services and support for unAPI and COinS metadata allow for easy access by clients and search engines. Changes: This release sports a refined interface, offers a query history and search suggestions, and supports more record types as well as searching for duplicates. It can now import from SciFinder and Endnote XML as well as from ArXiv ID or DOI. It also supports additional export formats (ADS, Atom, ISI, OAI_DC XML, and Word XML) and citation styles (AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, and Vancouver), and allows you to dynamically include results into foreign Web pages. Support for the OpenSearch protocol allows users of OpenSearch-enabled browsers to search refbase directly from their browser's toolbar.
About: 4Pane is a four pane detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully-featured without bloat, and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including 'virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator, and user-defined tools. Changes: This release has a Quick-Grep dialog that provides the most common grep options on a single page. The original, multi-page Full-Grep is still available.
About: EXIficient is an implementation of the W3C Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format specification written in the Java programming language. The EXI format is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. Changes: Expected but type-invalid attributes are handled correctly. Restricted character sets for built-in EXI data types have been implemented. Integer facets (n-bit Integer, Unsigned Integer, and Integer). Boolean pattern facet (2-bit Boolean) has been integrated. More (possibly all) schema deviations are handled. Processing performance has been improved
About: Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) is a compiler infrastructure designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs from arbitrary programming languages. It currently supports compilation of C, Objective-C, and C++ programs, using front-ends derived from GCC 4.0, GCC 4.2, and a custom new front-end, "clang". It supports x86, x86_64, ia64, PowerPC, and SPARC, with support for Alpha and ARM under development. Changes: This release includes improved compilation speed, support for multiple return values in LLVM IR, and initial support for PIC16. llvmc2 (the generic compiler driver) gained plugin support. It is now easier to experiment with llvmc2 and build your own tools based on it. This release also includes an optional build system based on CMake. It still is in its early stages, but can be useful for Visual C++ users who cannot use the Visual Studio IDE. Other improvements in LLVM internals include a more efficient representation that leads to lower memory usage and better vector support.
About: Project Observer is an autodiscovering network management system focused primarily on Cisco and UNIX networks. Networks can be autodiscovered using CDP data and SNMP scans. Changes: This release cleans up some configuration settings, adds more connection type rewrites, adds the ability to change device names, and cleans up IPv6 and CDP discovery. It has some security fixes.
About: WANem can be used to emulate wide area network conditions in a LAN environment. It can emulate network characteristics like Bandwidth, latency, loss, disconnection, duplication, reordering, asymmetric networks, etc. It is distributed in the form of a bootable CD. Changes: This release uses Knoppix 5.3.1 as base, which uses kernel 2.6.24 Users will see better timing accuracy. It adds support for the latest hardware.
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. Changes: This release mainly improves already existing features. Most options now have short option alternatives, and the zsh completion for lighty-stats was improved. A makefile for system-wide install was added.
About: Moose File System is a networking, distributed, fault tolerant file system. It spreads data over several servers visible to a user as one resource. For standard file operations, MooseFS, mounted with FUSE, acts as other Unix-alike filesystems. Changes: An improved rebalancing algorithm. Protections against overriding metadata.mfs.back by older metadata.mfs. Fixes to build mfstools, mfsmaster, and mfsmetarestore with Large File Support on Linux (previously only mfsmount had LFS enabled). Less verbose logging in mfsmaster. This release logs chunkserver disconnections in mfsmaster.
About: Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet it gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. It lets you collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various sources. Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively transparent to authors. Changes: The release fixes a number of issues, including problems with WebDAV locking.
About: Videoporama (formerly known as Images2dvgui) is an application to make a video images slideshow. The supported export formats are DV (Raw .dv, Raw.dif, AVI Type 1, and AVI Type 2) and MPEG (VCD, SVCD, XVCD, and DVD). It's possible to add sound. It's possible to add transitions between images, and the transition type can be defined for each image. Changes: A bug where the encoding process was sometimes interrupted before the end, and more frequently with DVD encoding format was fixed. The code was changed for compliance with Python 2.6 and future versions.
About: AjaXplorer is an easy-to-install file explorer for remotely managing files on a Web server. Its rich GUI makes it accessible to any end-user. Its main features are common file actions (uploading, downloading, moving, renaming, etc.), online file editing, image preview, a bookmarks system, and more. It requires PHP to run and FTP access only for installation. Changes: This releases focuses on bugfixes (special charset encodings, Internet Exporer display, repositories deleting and replacing) and minor features (FLV files preview, language files auto-detection, admin features enhancements). There is also a new skin.
About: Animath is a Finite Element Method library entirely implemented in C++. It is suited for fluid-structure interaction simulation, and it is mathematically based on higher-order tetrahedral elements. It provides front-ends to matrix solvers and mesh generators. Changes: Much time went into the development of mesh manipulation code, i.e. edge collapse and vertex clustering routines (see the surfacemodel_c interface). Parallel solving of vector-valued problems that have decoupled components is now made easy by means of threads and employed in a new fluid solver. Some quite significant enhancements can also be found in the visualization code.
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: IMDB User Votes have been added. They can be specified with the -user URL option.
About: OrangeHRM is an Human Resource Management (HRM) system that implements employee personal information management, leave and vacations, time and attendance tracking, benefits, applicant tracking (recruitment), configurable, user defined reports, and employee self service.
About: Monitorix is a lightweight monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services as it can. At this time, it monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users on the system. Network device activity, network service demand, and even the devices' interrupt activity are also monitored. It uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end. The current status of any corporate UNIX/Linux server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a Web browser. Changes: A missing "/" when removing /var/www/monitorix in the un_install.sh script was fixed. More than three network devices are now accepted. There were some parts that were not correctly upgraded to five. The parameter -w during the hddtemp call was added just to make sure that it will awaken the disk (if needed). The .sh extension and the she-bang in the crond script were removed for all Linux distributions, although problems were experienced only in the Debian based ones. More fixes and some enhancements were made.
About: Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications. Changes: The command line argument processing was converted to use a radix tree. The source archive can be built as an RPM again. The parallel tester was fixed and more tests were added.
About: Aubit 4GL compiler is an Informix-4GL compatible compiler and runtime environment. It translates 4GL source into executable programs, enabling very fast creation of screen/form-based applications. With support for SQL statements forming an intrinsic part of the language, it's especially suitable for developing database-oriented applications. Database connectivity is provided for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, and ODBC. It supports both ncurses (console mode) and GTK+ (GUI mode) output. Changes: A build problem in which the last version wouldn't compile unless you had a specific database installed was fixed. A couple of other minor fixups were done.
About: SafeSquid is a content filtering proxy server. It supports 'profiled' Internet access, a browser based interface, very fast throughput, DNS caching, content caching, pre-fetching, bandwidth control, virus scanning, ICP, CARP, and ICAP clients, source, target, and time-based granular firewall style rules to allow or deny content like music, videos, Flash and Java applets, messengers, chats, cookies, ActiveX, scripts, etc., remote authentication, real-time text and image analysis for blocking pornography, and an URL filter. Changes: A new parameter, OVERLOAD_FACTOR, has been introduced. A logical flaw in cache cleaning operation has been traced and fixed. A logical flaw in logged cache object size has been traced and fixed. The design of cProfiles has been modified to allow it to query for an almost unlimited number of Web sites simultaneously. Failure of the MD5 integrity check for cached objects has been corrected. A logical bug while updating or modifying the entries in cache has been corrected. Dynamically generated objects are not cached now. Memory requirements have been tremendously slimmed down.
About: Alkitab Bible Study is a desktop bible study software. It supports single/parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, daily devotions, etc. It also comes with a powerful search capability. It features rich and user friendly bible software study tools. Changes: This is a major release with many enhancements and some bugfixes.
About: alterMIME Pro is a server-side application that integrates with your existing Postfix, Sendmail, and Exim installations to provide disclaimer and X-header insertion facilities for email messages. Management is made easy via the Web administration tool. alterMIME Pro is designed with ease of use and email safety in mind. It was built on the alterMIME engine and extended with the most commonly wanted facilities. Changes: A postfilter feature was added.
About: iTunes Export provides the ability to export iTunes Playlists to the standard .m3u file format. Unfortunately, this feature is not included in the iTunes application and is extremely useful for users who wish to use iTunes with other applications or devices. iTunes Export is written in C# (.Net). iTunes Export provides a Command Line version (tested on Mono) and a GUI version, as well as a library that developers can use in their own applications. Changes: An issue with invalid characters in playlist filenames was fixed. Some characters are valid in playlist names (within iTunes), but not valid in filenames for the resulting playlist files. Multi-Language support was added for the GUI version. Descriptions are now available in English and French. The Library reader and all playlist writers were updated to use UTF-8 encoding. The export routine was changed to include audio streams. Disabled tracks (tracks that are unchecked in iTunes) are now ignored.
About: SOHT (Socket over HTTP Tunneling) allows you to tunnel socket connections through an HTTP proxy. Restrictive firewalls often prohibit all outgoing trafic except for HTTP. This application allows you to tunnel socket connections over the HTTP protocol. This application consists of a server that serves as a proxy and a client which tunnels a socket connection over an HTTP connection to the server. The current server is written in Java, and there are clients in Java and .NET. Changes: A patch to enable HTTPS connections and ignore certificate warnings was applied.
About: Adempiere is an ERP bazaar for open source developers that combines improvements from Compiere, CRM, shopfloor, POS, helpdesk, financial accounting, supply chain, knowledge, and business applications in an open and unabated fashion. Its focus is on the community. Changes: This virtual appliance is intended to give you an easy evaluation environment of a fairly recent version without going through any installation procedures.
About: AgileWiki is an SDK for assembling software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic inferencing. Changes: Freed disk blocks are no longer reused in the same transaction, with a substantial increase in overall robustness.
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