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Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game
in the style of Go. It can support many frontends and backends, so you
can select how clever your computer opponent is, and whether you like to
play using the console or a GUI. You can also let one AI engine play
against another one.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The notation of the coordinates has been corrected. There is also a new frontend, which can be used as a reversi CGI backend. The frontend can be used to make single Othello moves with a given AI engine using any board setup. otf2bdf is a command line utility that uses the FreeType 2 font rendering library to generate BDF bitmap fonts from OpenType outline fonts at different sizes and resolutions. This program is essentially the same as the ttf2bdf program except that it uses FreeType 2.*, not FreeType 1.*. 
gbdfed is a GTK+-based BDF font editor. Multiple
fonts can be loaded from the command line.
Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts, font
name and property editing, and built-in online
help. It imports PK/GF, HBF, PSF, CP, Linux FNT,
VFONT, OpenType/TrueType, and some FON/FNT fonts.
It can export PSF2 fonts.
License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes: Many changes since version 1.0. ACL Policy Daemon communicates with the Postfix MTA using the Policy Delegation Protocol, implementing an ACL (Access Control List) system. Key features: greylisting with flexible storage using memory for fast responses or disk for high persistence, SPF validation, control of messages by day/time, variable message size limits per domain or email, multiple RBL checking, and various ACLs available to use and combine. The configuration is simple and intuitive. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A new country ACL to discover where the connection is coming from. A new stress ACL to detect if Postfix is under heavy load. A new memcached backend for greylisting, greatly improving performance and memory control. Packaging configuration for deb and RPM. Doapfiend is a command line client and Python library for fetching, displaying, and manipulating DOAP (Description of a Project) RDF files. Doapfiend uses rdflib with RDFAlchemy as an ORM to query and create DOAP. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: This release adds a plugin to get DOAP for Ohloh projects. It adds a plugin to get DOAP for any projects found in a FOAF file. Trash is a command line interface trash can that implements the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification. For each trashed file it will remember the name, original path, date of deletion, and permissions. It interoperates with KDE Trash, and is CLI compatible with the rm command. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Now empty-trash remove directories without failing. An incompatibility with KDE Trash has been fixed. itvp-dl is a tool to download movies from itvp.pl. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: itvp.pl has changed the way they stream movies, which caused itvp-dl to stop working. Now it works again. mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported. Currently, this is limited to RPM-based distributions. This clean build root can be used for making clean packages, running jailed services, testing builds, or making disk images of clean roots. 
Mail Notification is a status icon (aka tray icon)
that informs you if you have new mail. It works
with system trays implementing the freedesktop.org
System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel
Notification Area, the Xfce Notification Area, and
the KDE System Tray. Mail Notification features
include multiple mailbox support, Evolution, Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products, POP3, Sylpheed, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail support, SASL and APOP authentication support, SSL/TLS support, automatic detection of mailbox format, immediate notification, message popups, and HIG 2.0 compliance.
License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: The regression that caused some read IMAP messages to be reported as unread has been fixed. 
PerlGtk Adsense Checker is a small script that
runs in the background and checks your adsense
account every 30 minutes and shows your actual
earnings in a small popup window in the center of
your screen. If you put your mouse pointer over
the systray icon, a tooltip with the same
information is shown.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The login has changed to support the new login from Google acocunts. The Debea Database Access Library is a collection of interfaces that map C++ objects to relations in various SQL and file databases. The library uses a plug-in architecture to support various SQL RDBMSes and provides one simple interface for query processing and object serialization. There is a wrapper for wxWidgets that replaces the original dba API with a wx-friendly version. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This release fixes compilation errors for gcc 3.4 and 4.x. Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment, database, cursor, sequence, and transaction objects, and each of these is exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. It has complete support for Berkeley DB distributed transactions and complete support for Berkeley DB Replication Manager. The goal is to mirror most of the real BerkeleyDB API. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: Support for Berkeley DB 4.7.x. Support for the RPC client service. Support for Replication Manager has been completed. 
cbrPager is a no-nonsense, simple to use, small viewer for
CBR and CBZ (comic book archive) files. It views JPG, GIF, and PNG images, and you can zoom in, out, and fit-to-window. Viewing can be in 1- or 2-page mode. Navigation is possible by mouse or keyboard.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Keyboard shortcuts for the navigation bar are now editable in Preferences. Select the last page, select the shortcuts to be edited, and click on the shortcut. You will then be able to directly type in the new shortcut. Changes will be saved. tinypy is a minimalist implementation of Python in 64k of code. It includes a parser and bytecode compiler written in python. tinypy runs on its own C-based virtual machine with garbage collection. It supports a fairly decent subset of Python, including classes with single inheritance, functions with variable or keyword arguments, strings, lists, dicts, numbers, modules, list comprehensions, exceptions with full traceback, some builtins, and several modules. AntiWM is a minimal, full-screen, keyboard driven window manager for X. It is inspired by ratpoison. All windows are managed in full-screen mode, optimizing workspace, and the keyboard operated management system allows for little to no use of the mouse. Ropevim is a Vim mode that uses the rope library to provide features like Python refactorings and code-assists. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version supports most of the refactorings and code-assists provided by rope. The yawiki engine is the underlying rendering engine of the yawiki application. It is a standalone rendering engine to convert wiki markup into HTML. It can be included in any application. So far it covers three different markups: BBCode, the old yawiki markup, and the Creole 1.0 specification. License: Other/Proprietary License with Source Changes: A problem with lists that were not closed correctly if nested was fixed. Several bugfixes were made to URL rendering. Bold and italic now stop at a line break even if ** or // is missing. The PDF is included in the release. Some minor additional bugs were fixed. The Funambol SOGo Connector allows any SyncML enabled devices (mobile phones, PIM devices, etc.) to fully synchronize contacts, events, and tasks with SOGo. The connector is fast and reliable. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Item comparison after a slow sync was improved. Many small bugfixes and other general improvements were made. 
TabView makes it possible to view and print
PowerTab tablatures. With TabView, you can also
export your tabs in MIDI format or follow the
playback on screen to help your learning process.
PowerTab is a well-known and widely adopted
tablature editor for Windows systems. You can
easily find thousands of song transcriptions in
this format on the net. TabView is a Universal
application, so it runs natively both on PPC and
Intel based Macs.
License: Shareware Changes: This version fixes a problem that sometimes caused the "Play from selection" function to work incorrectly in the presence of repeated sections. 
Oroboros is an astrology application. It is based
on the Swiss Ephemeris (pyswisseph) for planetary
calculations, the Olson timezone database (pytz)
for date and time resolution, and the Qt4 toolkit
(PyQt4) for the graphical user interface.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source Changes: Bugfixes and interface improvements were made. The dates now cover the entire swisseph time range (-5400 to 5400). A chart wheel can be saved as an image file (PNG, JPEG, BMP, PPM, TIFF, XPM, XBM, or SVG). Inter-aspects data is displayed (including midpoints and inter-midpoints). Chart comments are formatted with reStructured Text, thanks to docutils. 
GNU GTick is a metronome application. It features a
scale from 10 beats per minute to 1000 BPM and
arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+2 and
OSS.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Several new translations have been incorporated. Some minor bugfixes and adjustments have been done. 
jfSnip is a tool to manage and edit your
collection of text clippings. You can insert your
snippets in any open application and access them
easily from your status bar. Use it to answer your
email, write HTML, and more. It is a universal
binary and compatible with Leopard.
License: Shareware Changes: With the new hotkeys, you can insert your snippets without removing your hands from the keyboard. A clipboard prevents adding the same snippet to the history twice. Backup files can be created and restored easily from the preference panel. The icon in the statusbar was revised, so now it inverses on click. The preference menu was revised. pyswisseph is a Python extension to AstroDienst's Swiss Ephemeris C library (also known as swisseph). This extension implements very accurate astronomical calculations for astrological purposes. License: Other/Proprietary License with Source Changes: A function was added to get the number of astrological years difference between two Julian days. Very nice API documentation was written. 
Wing IDE is a development environment for Python.
It provides powerful editing, code intelligence, testing, debugging, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source Changes: This release fixes the template tool to properly supports 2nd+ like-named fields, adds several VI mode improvements, fixes replace in selection, avoids altering the caret position when auto-stripping trailing white space, avoids trying to use unsupported Python versions, and introduces about 20 other bugfixes. gjrand is a programmer's library for pseudo-random numbers. It includes random number generator testing code and is intended for simulation, games, and "Monte-Carlo" algorithms. It produces pseudo-random numbers of the types: uniform integers, uniform reals, normally distributed reals, binomial, Poisson, integer permutation, chi-squared distribution, "Student" T distribution, and spherical distribution. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: There is a new underlying generator. This should be cleaner, smaller, and faster in most cases. One deprecated API call was removed. Otherwise, the API is the same. The same seeds as before will make different sequences. Test code is somewhat cleaner but functionally unchanged. 
Config::Model::CursesUI provides a curses user
interface for all configuration descriptions
created for config-model. This project is based on
the Curses::UI Perl module.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This version was adapted to Config::Model 0.623 by changing the "permission" parameter to "experience" in the models' declarations. 
123 Flash Chat is a Java chat server with a Flash
client with custom skins, linkable to external
databases. It is fast, easy, secure, and scalable
to support businesses of any size. It can be used
for community chat events, online dating sites,
etc. It's also flexible with moderated chat, CRRC,
avatar chat, and event chat.
YourKit Java Profiler is a CPU and memory profiler
that makes it easy to solve wide range of CPU- and
memory-related performance problems. It features
automatic leak detection, powerful tools for the
analysis of memory distribution, an object heap
browser, comprehensive memory tests as part of
your JUnit testing process, extremely low
profiling overhead, transparent deobfuscation
support, and integration with Eclipse, JBuilder,
IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and JDeveloper IDEs.
License: Free for non-commercial use Changes: Loading of big snapshots was improved, especially when the profiler runs on a 64-bit JVM. Quality of sampling was improved for programs that use java.util.concurrent blocking. Eclipse 3.4 M7 is supported. Navigation to inner classes was improved for the Eclipse IDE. Integration with 64-bit Windows and Linux was improved. 
Mac Mass Mailer for Leopard is a fully-featured
mass mailer.
It offers everything you need to create and
maintain mailing lists for different needs and
send messages directly from your computer. The
recipient database is fully customizable and
supports custom fields for the purpose of
personalizing your messages. The message creation
mechanism is the same as in Apple Mail. The import
and export features allow you to import email
addresses and other recipient data from virtually
any file, and the program can even search your
hard drive and extract all email addresses from
all of your files and directories.
License: Shareware Changes: Apple Address Book group entries can now be imported. Problems with automatic detection of Unicode text encoding in the Import Wizard, status bar refreshing after performing an Import, and with the group list not showing a scroll bar during Address Book import were fixed. 
XMMS-SID is an XMMS plugin which provides support
for playing the so-called "SID tunes". For the
actual playing, XMMS-SID uses the libsidplay
SID-chip/6502 emulator engine. It features a
file-info window, STIL-database support, and good
configurability.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Support for the CVS version of libSIDPlay2 (e.g. the new COM-style API) was added. Small improvements were made in the GUI. A few portability and other bugs were fixed. Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback even on relatively slow CPUs. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This release fixed libmpg123 return values, stack alignment with the library and different compilers, and CPU detection and mono playback on Win32 systems. Users of IDT CPUs, serious users of libmpg123, and users of Windows systems should upgrade to this version. 
Spensierato is a simple-to-use Web site CMS. It is
designed to allow in-site editing so that
non-technical users can just find the page, update
an element, and save it.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Code updates, new features including registration, and the use of simple and advanced TinyMCE editors. 
Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform,
and Load) tool. Talend Open Studio can perform
jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding to
database synchronization, as well as file format
transformations. Its graphical interface is made
with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl or Java. The application was
designed to be extended with components written by
users.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Bugs were fixed. 
JGraph Layout Pro is a high performance graph
layout library for JGraph that automatically
positions your graph, diagram, or network in a
visually pleasing manner. Layout Pro provides
flexibility and a simple design, enabling you to
use circular, tree, force-directed, and
hierarchical layouts with ease. Example uses are
organisational charts, workflow and process
diagrams, call charts, network diagrams, UML
tools, and more. It comes with its own
documentation and an example applet.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source Changes: This release corrects EAST, WEST, and SOUTH orientated multiple tree layout spacings. The setProgress method resets to 0 on a layout progress reset instead of 1. Additional hooks were provided for new energy factors in the organic layout. 
P4A (PHP For Applications) is a RAD and object oriented PHP framework for building event-driven stateful Web applications. It features
tableless HTML, accesskey support, transparent AJAX support, auto data type recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support,
handheld "zero code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR integration.
License: Affero General Public License Changes: File upload checks and error reporting were enhanced. A bug with file downloading within a non-Ajax environment was solved. Zend Framework was updated to 1.5.2. The P4A_Redirect_To_File() global function now checks if the file really exists within P4A_UPLOADS_DIR, otherwise it throws a P4A_Exception. P4A_Tab_Pane's pages' labels are now auto-translated with getAsString(). P4A_Field::getAsDate() no longer sets the field "readonly", thus dates can now be written by hand too. jQuery was updated to 1.2.5. jQuery::UI draggable and droppable were added. P4A_DB_Navigator's drag and drop movements were implemented. 
giv, the G(reat|tk|NU) Image Viewer, is an image
and hierarchical vector viewer. It was designed
especially for scientific vision and computational
geometry.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version adds automatic resizing of the data on window resize, image equalization, inversion, and normalization, and checkboard patterns behind transparent PNGs. Several bugs in line and polygon drawing were fixes. The zoom interaction was changed and should now be smoother. OpenWFEru is a Ruby-based workflow and BPM engine. It's a port of OpenWFE from Java to Ruby. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: The gem name has changed from "openwferu" to "ruote". The source code has moved from Rubyforge to GitHub. New "step" expressions were added for state-transitions based process definitions. seek-1f42 is a library for reading 1f42 H262 maps. The 1f42 H262 maps are H262 (or MPEG if you very much prefer) stream descriptions containing information such as stream frame rate, stream duration and number of frames, file position of stream frames, and so forth. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: An error recovery bug was fixed. The A52 audio stream ID has been added. 
The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that
allows Java developers to browse a database
structure, edit data in the tables, issue SQL
queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO,
SQL queries, JSP files, etc.) based on
customizable Velocity templates.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: This release includes various enhancements as well as a number of bugfixes. New features include support for generation of Hibernate domain classes and mapping XML files, support for displaying REF CURSOR out parameters from execution of stored procedures (Oracle specific), as well as various GUI and code generation related improvements. mapaaudio is an 1f42 A52A audio stream mapper. The written A52A audio stream maps contain information such as stream frame rate, stream duration and number of frames, file position of audio stream frames, and so forth. The output conforms to the 1f42 H262 map file format (for which specifications are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/x1f42/) and can be used by programs (such as Mylene1f4 MPEG audio player) in performing fast and accurate random access. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Support for non MPEG system embedded streams was added. 
Interchange is a mature Web application development environment with a focus on ecommerce and dynamic content management. It offers session and user management, database connectivity (both via SQL and a database abstraction layer), templating, a shopping cart, payment processing, inventory, encryption (via GnuPG, PGP, etc.), tax and shipping calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language akin to CFML, and the full power of Perl. It grew out of two earlier projects, MiniVend and Tallyman.
License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: This is a new stable branch that incorporates over 2 years of development. Perl 5.10.0 and threaded Perl are supported. The security of the standard demo 404 was fixed. An HTTP POST DoS was fixed. UTF-8 is supported. PreFork server mode was improved. A universal ITL "hide" attribute, four new payment modules, a native Perl Swish interface, the BounceReferrals directive, the SpecialSub weight_callout, and a uniform ActionMap calling interface were added. ccTLD is supported in DomainTail. Options were improved. Logging was improved and $0 was updated. More localization was done. Jerklib is a NIO based, event driven IRC library for Java. JerkLib can be used for a bot or an IRC client. It is very flexable and easy to extend. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: This release of JerkLib adds the ability to easily change the internal event parsing and handling. Other changes include a new mode parser and general API enhancements. The HL7 Browser is a tool that allows health care professionals to simplify the analysis and editing of HL7 records. Its main features are a tree-based message browser, a table-based reporting utility, and a TCP/IP MLLP network tool for sending and receiving messages over the network. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes some problems with the underlying HL7 parsing library. It also begins the process of splitting the code into the constituent parts, so it's important to try and use the JNLP (WebStart) installer if possible. 
XGalaga++ is a classic single screen vertical shoot ’em up. It is inspired by XGalaga and reuses most of its sprites.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The date is saved with each high score. There are now fewer scrolling stars in the background. There is now less randomness in bonus distribution. The documentation was updated. |
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