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Date: Sun May 13 2007 - 02:10:07 CDT
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[001] - Accerciser Accessibility Browser 0.1.2
[002] - BLAG Linux And GNU 60001
[003] - Blitz templates 0.4.16
[004] - cxxtools 1.4.3.6 (Development)
[005] - DisTract 0.2.3
[006] - dzen 0.2.3
[007] - FBReader 0.8.3b
[008] - FlowPlayer 1.17
[009] - gmap 0.0.4
[010] - Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player 1.0
[011] - Howto: PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD 2.6
[012] - JoSQL 1.6
[013] - LCD-Linux 0.12.5
[014] - MicKI 2007_05_12
[015] - nautilus-follow-symlink 1.0.2
[016] - nss-mdns 0.10
[017] - PyYAML 3.05
[018] - sharehound 1.2.2alpha
[019] - SSL-Explorer: Community Edition 0.2.13
[020] - tntdb 0.9.2
[021] - Tntnet 1.5.3.6 (Development)
[022] - velocity2js 0.3
[023] - Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.0.7a
[024] - Vim 7.1
[025] - webcheck 1.10.0
[026] - WeOCR 0.11
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[001] - Accerciser Accessibility Browser 0.1.2
by Eitan Isaacson (http://freshmeat.net/users/eeejay/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 01:21
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing
About: Accerciser lets you test all aspects of accessibility on the GNOME
desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to
check whether an application is providing correct information to assistive
technologies and automated test frameworks. It has a simple plugin
framework that you can use to extend and customize the accessibility
information displayed. It is written in Python and uses the pyLinAcc
component from LSR to interact with AT-SPI using pyORBit. In essence, it
is a next generation at-poke tool.
Changes: pyatspi, the new and official Python at-spi library is now used.
The interface viewer plug-in was rewritten rewritten. Start-up is now
faster. New role icons and plug-in tab context menus were included.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/accerciser/
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[002] - BLAG Linux And GNU 60001
by Stephen Clement (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevo32/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:43
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: BLAG is a single-CD Linux distribution that has a suite of
graphics, Internet, audio, video, office, and peer-to-peer file sharing
applications. It is based on Fedora Core, Dag, Freshrpms, etc. It is
up-to-date with all Fedora errata updates at the time of release, and uses
apt/synaptic for easy upgrades and installation of new applications.
Changes: This version is an incremental update from 60000, rolling in over
200 updates and several new packages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blag/
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[003] - Blitz templates 0.4.16
by Alexey Rybak (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexeyrybak/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:03
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled
as a PHP module. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed
into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers (custom
view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in HTML).
Benchmarks show that it is one of the fastest template engines for PHP,
even though it's not trivial and makes Web application closer to the MVC2
architecture model. It was designed for big Internet projects with a lot
of complex presentation logic.
Changes: Minor template parsing fixes were made.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blitz-templates/
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[004] - cxxtools 1.4.3.6 (Development)
by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:31
Software Development :: Libraries
About: cxxtools is a library of unrelated but useful C++ classes. It
contains an argument parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to
iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket
classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a
pool template (e.g. for a connection pool in a multi-threaded
application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters
(GET and POST) in a CGI program.
Changes: Some bugs were fixed and some small improvements were done.
Cxxtools builds now on Solaris with SunStudio.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cxxtools/
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[005] - DisTract 0.2.3
by Matthew Sackman (http://freshmeat.net/users/scroteman/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:13
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: DisTract is a distributed bug tracker. DisTract allows you to
manage bugs in a distributed and potentially offline manner through your
Web browser on your local machine. The distribution is achieved by making
use of a distributed software control system, Monotone. Thus Monotone is
used to move files across the network, perform merging operations, and
track the development of every bug.
Changes: Parsing the output of Monotone no longer makes assumptions about
the locale. Thus DisTract should now work without problems in non-English
locales. Calling any of the binaries with -v or --version will cause them
to output the current version of DisTract. Further, generated HTML now
indicates the version of DisTract used for the generation in the footer. A
bug that caused the rows in the table in the bug listing to lose their
even-odd classes was fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/distract/
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[006] - dzen 0.2.3
by rob01 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rob01/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 02:17
Desktop Environment :: Tools
About: dzen is a scriptable notification, messaging, and launching
application. It provides user control through a flexible event/action
mechanism.
Changes: This release added a "-ta" option that aligns the contents of the
title window (left, center, right) and removed the "-a" option in favor of
the "onstart" event.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dzen/
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[007] - FBReader 0.8.3b
by Nikolay Pultsin (http://freshmeat.net/users/geometer/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 01:22
Text Processing
About: FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp
Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet
Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones, PepperPad 3, IRex
iLiad, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop computers. It supports
several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion
text), OEB, OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.
Changes: Mobipocket format support has been improved. In Qtopia-based
versions, selection has been fixed. In the PdaXRom (GTK+) version, an
infinite loop during startup has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbreader/
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[008] - FlowPlayer 1.17
by api (http://freshmeat.net/users/apiatikidotfi/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:40
Communications
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: FlowPlayer is a video player for Flash Video in FLV format. The UI
is clean and simple. The player is easy to configure and embed into your
home page, site, or blog. The player supports progressive download with
HTTP and also streaming with Flash Media Server and Red5.
Changes: A button to open the full screen mode was added. The menu
auto-popup was removed. The ability to include PNF files in playlists was
added. These are especially useful for creating transparent splash images
that have a big play button image. An "autoRewind" option was added and is
used to rewind back to the first clip in the playlist after the list has
been completed. A per clip parameter, "allowResize", was added and can be
used to override the scaling controlled by the menu and by the
"initialScale" configuration option.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flowplayer/
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[009] - gmap 0.0.4
by Clive Stubbings (http://freshmeat.net/users/clivestubbings/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:05
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
About: GMap is a graphical tool for editing GPS maps. It can import data
from gpx, kml, and polish format files and will write files suitable for
compilation by the cGPSmapper Garmin map compiler.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmap/
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[010] - Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player 1.0
by Andy Balaam (http://freshmeat.net/users/axis3x3/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 01:21
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player is a small, simple music player
that keeps out of your way whenever possible. It remembers what you were
playing when you exited, and continues in the same place the next time you
start. It doesn't build a database of your audio tracks: instead it works
with your files and directories directly. It remembers tracks you have
been playing recently, and allows you to pick them up where you left off.
Changes: The new filename is now shown immediately when you click next. An
icon is now displayed in top left corner of the window. Some minor bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gssmp/
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[011] - Howto: PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD 2.6
by Scatman (http://freshmeat.net/users/scatman/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:09
Documentation
Internet
System :: Networking
About: The PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD Howto is a document
which explains how to build an OpenBSD based router for a small
flat-sharing community with four residents. The router should manage the
available bandwidth fairly between the paying users and their guests. For
the residents, it should be possible to use incoming ports for services
like Skype or Emule. The howto basically addresses IT professionals with a
rough idea of what OpenBSD is about.
Changes: The packetfilter configuration and installation description were
rearranged to match OpenBSD 4.1 release.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbsd_altq/
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[012] - JoSQL 1.6
by Gary Bentley (http://freshmeat.net/users/barrygently/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:06
Database
Database :: API
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
About: JoSQL provides SQL capabilities for querying, ordering, and
grouping of collections of Java objects (POJOs). It allows a SQL statement
to be applied to the collection of objects and the matching set returned,
ordered, and grouped.
Changes: A couple of bugs were fixed. A new ExpressionEvaluator class was
added to easily allow an expression to be evaluated against an object.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/josql/
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[013] - LCD-Linux 0.12.5
by Mattia Jona (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjona/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:08
System :: Hardware
About: LCD-Linux is a Linux software abstraction layer to drive LCD
alphanumeric displays. It features complete VT102 console emulation and
aims to be as general and flexible as possible. It consists of two kernel
modules, lcd-linux and the display driver. Currently, only the Hitachi
HD44780 is supported, but drivers for other LCD controllers can be easily
written.
Changes: This release focuses on the improved VT102 console emulation.
Many new escape sequences are now implemented and the "end-of-line wrap"
behavior is now correct. It is now possible to use an LCD screen to
display an output generated with the ncurses lib. A serious buffer
overflow bug was fixed in the proc-related routines. Both the internal and
external kernel interfaces have been rationalized and improved, resulting
in cleaner and faster code.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lcd-linux/
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[014] - MicKI 2007_05_12
by michai (http://freshmeat.net/users/michai/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:08
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
About: MicKI is a minimal wiki incarnation, meant as a simple
collaboration platform with a minimal learning curve and installation
time, and lean demands on its environment. It is coded in C, runs as a
single executable, and doesn't use any database or revision control
system. It has no user management of its own (but knows how to use HTTP
basic authentication).
Changes: An optional post-edit hook was added for revision control,
notification, or other purposes. It is possible to make (non-volatile)
section-links within the current topic. It is possible to generate
printer-friendly pages from CGI and standalone.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/micki/
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[015] - nautilus-follow-symlink 1.0.2
by outlyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/outly3r/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:40
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
About: nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a context
menu entry to nautilus on symbolic links pointing to directories, which
once clicked opens the pointed directory (the real path) in a window. It
does so both when right clicking on the folder icon or on the contents of
an opened symbolic link.
Changes: The icon was fixed. In newer versions of GNOME, the icon wasn't
loaded and a default big, empty icon was shown in its place.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nautilus-follow-symlink/
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[016] - nss-mdns 0.10
by Mezcalero (http://freshmeat.net/users/poettering/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:09
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Networking
About: nss-mdns is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) which provides host name
resolution via Multicast DNS (a.k.a. Zeroconf, a.k.a. Apple Rendezvous,
a.k.a Apple Bonjour). This effectively allows name resolution by common
Unix/Linux programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain .local.
Changes: This version was ported to FreeBSD. The SPARC port was fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nss-mdns/
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[017] - PyYAML 3.05
by Kirill Simonov (http://freshmeat.net/users/xitology/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:49
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Text Processing :: Markup
About: PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python. PyYAML features a
complete YAML 1.1 parser, Unicode support, pickle support, capable
extension API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports standard YAML
tags and provides Python-specific tags that allow the representation of an
arbitrary Python object. PyYAML is applicable for a broad range of tasks
from complex configuration files to object serialization and persistence.
Changes: Windows binary packages were built with the LibYAML trunk. A bug
that prevented processing a live stream of YAML documents in timely manner
was fixed. A bug which occurred when the path in add_path_resolver contains
boolean values was fixed. A loss of microsecond precision in timestamps was
fixed. Loading an empty YAML stream was fixed. A number of other smaller
fixes and improvements were made.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyyaml/
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[018] - sharehound 1.2.2alpha
by artemv (http://freshmeat.net/users/artemv/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:45
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: Sharehound is a network file systems indexer and Google-like
searcher written in Java and based on Apache Lucene. It currently supports
SMB file shares (i.e. MS Windows-based network shares) and FTP resources. A
Web UI is used for search and crawl monitoring. An RSS feed is provided for
search results that include deleted files info.
Changes: A function to search by address was added to the hosts screen,
but only exact match is currently supported. A user feedback link was
introduced on each screen.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sharehound/
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[019] - SSL-Explorer: Community Edition 0.2.13
by Richard Pernavas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rpernavas/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:12
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business
About: SSL-Explorer is an SSL VPN solution that provides users with WebDAV
file access, intranet Web site proxying, Active Directory authentication,
and Java application deployment using a standard Web browser.
Changes: A number of changes have been made to the graphical interface.
The much anticipated delegation feature was introduced. Overall, this is a
more polished and faster version.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ssl-explorer/
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[020] - tntdb 0.9.2
by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:37
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Tntdb is a c++-class-library for database access. It implements a
database-independent layer, which loads the actual driver dynamically when
a connection is made. The classes use automatic resource management with
reference counts. Resources are freed when the classes go out of scope.
Error handling is done with exceptions (derived from std::exception).
There are STL-like iterators for result sets and rows, and also the cursor
is an STL-like iterator. It is written in standard C++ with Linux. Drivers
for PostgreSQL, sqlite3, and MySQL are available.
Changes: The internal connectionpool was not working and has been fixed.
The maximum number of connections is configurable now.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tntdb/
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[021] - Tntnet 1.5.3.6 (Development)
by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: Tntnet is a Web application server for generating Web applications
in C++. HTML pages with some additional tags for inclusion of C++ code are
compiled into shared libraries and served from tntnet. It resembles PHP,
JSP, or Mason, but the programming language used is C++, and the pages are
compiled into native code before serving. Tntnet is fully multithreaded and
supports HTTP keep-alive for best performance. Its dynamic pages are faster
than static pages with other Web servers, while creating Web applications
is simple.
Changes: Handling of components has been simplified. Tntnet now runs with
Mac OS X and Sun Solaris with SunStudio. Some major bugs were fixed, which
made tntnet to crash under high load. Static files are now sent with
sendfile(2) when possible, which improves performance significantly.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tntnet/
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[022] - velocity2js 0.3
by Tobias Riemer (http://freshmeat.net/users/tobias_r/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 02:16
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: velocity2js compiles Apache Velocity templates to JavaScript
functions. These functions can be called with an associative array as the
input parameter (eg. received via JSON) and generate an HTML snippet as
output.
Changes: Support for the "velocityCount" variable was added along with
support for internationalization. Generated JavaScript files are now
UTF-8. The use of methods in #foreach was fixed. In the Ant task, error
messages were improved by linking to the source code in Netbeans, fileset
support was added, support for relative paths was added, and the ability
to specify the output JavaScript filename was added. Examples were
improved.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/velocity2js/
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[023] - Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.0.7a
by outlyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/outly3r/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:29
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a
contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed
over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information
on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and
length. It requires mplayer, ImageMagick (convert and montage), bc, and
ffmpeg.
Changes: New features include decimal point precision, soft shadows, funky
modes, and support for non-Latin file names. Workarounds were made for
various problems.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/video-contact-sheet/
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[024] - Vim 7.1
by Bram (http://freshmeat.net/users/vimboss/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:23
Text Editors
Text Processing
About: Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi.
Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax
highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and
block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on
many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga.
Changes: This is a stable version. There are many bug fixes and updated
runtime files. No amazing new features were added. Upgrading from a
previous version is highly recommended: a few crashing bugs and a security
issue were fixed.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vim/
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[025] - webcheck 1.10.0
by Arthur (http://freshmeat.net/users/tiearthur/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 23:43
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking
About: webcheck is a Web site checking tool for Web masters. It crawls a
given Web site and generates a number of reports. The whole system is
pluggable, allowing extra reports and checks to be added easily. It
supports retrieving Web sites over HTTP, file, and FTP protocols and
produces reports on site structure, broken links, old Web pages, overviews
of external links, and more. The links that webcheck considers external are
configurable through regular expressions, and webcheck honors robots.txt.
Changes: This release changes the HTML parser to BeautifulSoup (when
available). This parser is much more error-tolerant than the old
HTMLParser based solution but is also slightly slower. Some small output
improvements were made as well as some internal improvements to better
support Unicode content. Parsing of robots.txt files was re-enabled and an
--ignore-robots option was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcheck.py/
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[026] - WeOCR 0.11
by Hideaki Goto (http://freshmeat.net/users/hgot/)
Sat, May 12th 2007 11:05
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business
Text Processing
About: WeOCR is a platform for Web-enabled OCR (Optical Character
Reader/Recognition) systems. It enables people to use character
recognition over networks. A WeOCR server receives document images from
users, recognizes text in the images, and returns recognition results to
the users. WeOCR does not have its own character recognition engine.
Instead, it is intended to accommodate various existing character
recognition engines.
Changes: A minor fix has been made for showing tag-like text properly. The
source code of bin_disc has been released.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/weocr/
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