9 November 2007
SQL Power DQguru is an easy-to-use data cleansing and de-duping tool. The user interface puts a strong emphasis on straightforward visualization of your data and processes. It will help you cleanse your data, validate and correct addresses, and identify and remove duplicate records. Thus, you can provide your business users with complete and accurate data, and a single view of each customer, product, sales rep, and business unit.
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Ready Lisp packages an ANSI Common Lisp environment for Mac OS X users as a single application bundle. It repackages and configures the following components: Aquamacs Emacs, SBCL Common Lisp, the SLIME Lisp IDE, and more.
Release Notes: This version is for OS X Leopard, for users with 32-bit and 64-bit Intel-based Macs. It will not run on 10.4 or PowerPC architectures. Previous versions that run on 10.4 with 32-bit Intel processors are available.
GeoQO is a waypoint, geocaching, and waymarking database. It is extremely fast and offers a wide variety of utilities for manipulating waypoints. Though designed for geocaching and waymarking, it should be usable for any waypoint management. It is highly extensible; writing new import, export, search, display, and other plugins is easy to do.
Release Notes: A new modify plugin ("dropexisting") for imports that lets you only import data that isn't in the current database, fixes for the tagging and rating GUI screens so they actually apply the changes, a database statistics GUI screen, support for exporting to a plucker document, and various bugfixes
The SPT Relational Database Web Tool (RWT) is a simple application that can help developers connect to databases configured as a DataSource in the application server or directly through JDBC. The RWT application attempts to replicate basic features found in the popular Aqua Data Studio application. Per user settings (saved connection parameters, saved queries), single and batch query processing, a history browser, multiple query browsers, a tree view of database metadata, and other features are supported. Full source code is available.
Release Notes: The Oracle data dictionary is now used instead of information schema for Oracle databases. Export to Excel was implemented in the batch query processor and pagination of result sets was implemented in the batch query executor.
txt2html is a Perl program that uses the HTML::TextToHTML perl module to convert plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, hyperlinking and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout) and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
Release Notes: Fixes to XHTML output and documentation updates.
MidnightBSD is a FreeBSD 6 fork aimed at providing an easy-to-use desktop experience. It aims to provide a GNUstep desktop with a solid BSD core. MidnightBSD contains both BSD and GPL licensed code.
Release Notes: This release fixes security holes in bzip2 and OpenSSL. It also includes the new mports collection. This is the last release on x.org 6.9.
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.
Release Notes: Several more formats were added along with a few more translations. A few bugs/typos were also corrected.
Ctalk adds classes, methods, operator overloading, inheritance, and complex object expressions to otherwise standard C programs. Programs can use only a few Ctalk objects and methods in an otherwise standard C program, but the language can be used to write entire programs also. Ctalk works on most if not all of the systems that support GCC, the GNU C compiler. The package includes the language, class and run-time libraries, example programs, tutorial, and language reference.
Release Notes: This release provides improved global constructor handling, a simplified line numbering scheme, the example program ctrep.c, a simple pattern-replacement text filter, a new method or two, and many, many bugfixes.
The mod_w2ml Apache module is a W2ML processor. W2ML (Web 2 Markup Language) is a declarative markup language that extends XHTML with XML namespaces to make it possible to edit Web pages in the browser. W2ML handles server-side inclusion, access control, element-level editing, and templatized editing (WYSIWYG editing of structured data like list items, guestbooks, forums, and more). W2ML is processed on the server side and requires no browser plugin.
Release Notes: The Apache module has been ported to Windows. To simplify installation and provide UTF-8 support, Expat and PCRE libraries are now statically linked to the module distributed in .tar.gz and .zip files. Various bugs in the module initialization and cleanup phases have been corrected (portability, crash on restart after install). The big thread lock has been removed. Recursive inclusion detection is improved.
BlockHosts is a script to record how many times a local system is attacked, based on configurable scanning of system logs for sshd or other services. When a particular IP address exceeds a configured number of failed login attempts, that IP address is blocked using hosts.allow files, or by using null-routing, or by using packet filtering. An email notification facility is also available.
Release Notes: An ipblock option replaces the old iptables/iproute options, with the additional ability to accept a full pathname for iptables/ip route commands. Blockfile IP addresses with time strings that Python fails to parse are now handled by changing the time of IP address access to now, instead of exiting.
DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned. DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
Release Notes: This version adds an "undo/redo" feature as well as "open recent" and "open location" menu entries. More importantly, it now runs natively on Unix/X11, Mac OS X, and Windows.
JPokerTM is a poker tournament manager application to make life easier during home games or small tournaments (displaying blinds, time to next level, etc.).
Release Notes: Compilation errors induced by version 2.2 of Jython was fixed. This has primarily been achieved by using a Jython interpreter running from within a Java app. An audible warning was added at end of the current level.
duckmaze is a game about a duck that is in a maze. The duck can move walls, but only if there are no walls in the way.
Release Notes: The game now contains 18 levels, a faster level editor, and faster menus. A bug where time froze forever after restarting a level was fixed.
GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer with low memory usage. It's aimed at replacing the default image viewer of current desktop systems. Fast startup, low memory usage, and a simple user interface make it a good choice for a default viewer. It is extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage, has a simple and intuitive interface, minimal library dependencies (only GTK+ is used), and doesn't require any specific desktop environment. It was inspired by the Windows XP image viewer and gimmage.
Release Notes: The application was rewrite in plain C language and all C++ dependencies were removed. Image files can now be sorted by filename. Support for JPEG lossless rotation was added. A simple preferences dialog was added and the about dialog was improved.
pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It's able to extract: graphics, text layer, hyperlinks, document outline (bookmarks), and metadata.
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Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level.
Release Notes: Code cleanup and refactoring, ready for several functional enhancements in the next several releases. The size of N-ary Generated Function Templates in Application Layer has been reduced. The obsolete KiwiSyslog KLOG back-end has been removed.
The Ecere SDK is a cross-platform toolkit for building software applications. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (through X11). With the Ecere SDK, you can develop applications once and deploy them on all supported platforms alongside a lightweight runtime environment. It introduces eC, an object oriented language derived from and fully compatible with C, compromising neither runtime performance nor ease of use. A built-in 3D engine supporting both Direct3D and OpenGL is fully integrated.
Release Notes: Working Unicode support (UTF-8 across the API). Support for fonts in the X driver, located through fontconfig. XRender support (bitmap scaling and alpha blending). Improved X events support. Linking with newer libpng.so.12. Tested with X.org. The integrated debugger is now working (experimental). A positioning issue with panels on the left and top edges has been resolved.
Spack is a standalone package manager with its own CPIO-based package format but aiming to keep total compatibility with Slackware Linux. Written in POSIX shell as much as it makes sense, it attempts to provide a fairly complete toolkit to build, install, remove, list, retrieve, and arrange your packages. It can be used as an alternative to Slackware's pkgtools, just to independently and properly manage your local software on any distribution, or as the main package manager of the distribution you build yourself.
Release Notes: The 'fgz' command was split into several ones (fgzadd, fgzbuild, fgzdel, fgzexport, fgzimport, fgzjump, fgzmod, and frogz) so that the distinction between primary and secondary options doesn't exist anymore. The '@' build syntax was also removed, so from now on all the options are introduced by the classic "-". The 'rainette' install script was rewritten in shell with some new features (and some useless ones were removed). This release also includes some other minor bugfixes and code improvements.
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.
Release Notes: This release implements support for recurring events. Key encoding and content sanitizers have been improved. There are various optimizations and minor bugfixes.
Infon Battle Arena is a networked multiplayer real-time programming game featuring little creatures fighting for food. You upload your Creature Code (written in Lua) to a game server using a telnet Interface. The game server then runs your code. The graphical client can be used to watch running games or replay recorded games.
Release Notes: Various parameters are now tunable without recompiling. The server was ported to Windows.
libdlna aims at being a reference implementation of DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards. Its primary goal is to provide DLNA support to uShare, an embedded DLNA and UPnP A/V media server, but it will be used to build both DLNA servers and players in the long term.
Release Notes: Complete decoding of AAC profile variants (LC/LTP/HE/BSAC). Fixes for memory leaks. A bug with ATRAC profile compliance has been fixed. Debian packages have been added.
XEmacs (formerly known as Lucid Emacs) is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to ate with recent versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of Illinois with additional support having been provided by Amdahl Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of volunteer effort.
Release Notes: This release provides InnoSetup kits for the Windows platform, making it trivial to install the stable release, the beta release, and a gnuclient kit.
Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that can use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. As a multi-paradigm language, it includes support for both prototypes and classes, protocols (interfaces), component-based programming through category-based composition, event-driven programming, and high-level multi-threading programming.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in the compilation of synchronized predicates that broke Logtalk on single-threaded Prolog compilers. The bug is present in the two previous Logtalk versions.
Fotoxx lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser and choose images to view or edit. Edit functions include brightness, contrast, color, white balance, tone mapping, red-eyes, sharpen, blur, noise suppression, smart erase, trim, resize, rotate, annotate, warp, art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Edit functions use movable curves and sliders. Feedback is live, using the whole image, with unlimited undo and redo. RAW files can be imported and edited with 16-bit color depth. Areas or objects can be selected using freehand draw, follow edge, and tone matching. Selections can be edited with adjustable blending. Selections can be cut and paste. You can add tags, dates, comments, captions, and ratings to images, and you can search using these criteria as well as file names. You can also define named collections of images, make slide shows, and view and edit metadata (EXIF etc.). Batch processing is available for rename, resize/export, CD/DVD burn, and add/delete tags.
Release Notes: HDR imaging: contribution from each input image can be adjusted independently for multiple brightness bands. HDR imaging: a live preview window with feedback as adjustments are made. Panorama: uses lens focal length instead of synthetic curve parameters. JPEG output files: the ability to set quality vs. compression tradeoff.
phpfspot allows you to present a photo collection prepared in F-Spot in Web browsers. F-Spot is a Mono-based photo software to organize your photos in a very comfortable way locally on your workstation. phpfspot allows tag selection from a tag cloud, and browsing through the album is eased with AJAX.
Release Notes: The thumbnail directory structure has changed to avoid thousands of files in one single directory when using larger F-Spot photos albums. It's now possible to generate an RSS feed out of phpfspot, which can be used with RSSv2.0-compatible readers (like Mozilla Thunderbird). If no native sqlite3 support is available, it's now possible to use PHP5's PDO layer to get sqlite3 support via a PDO driver. This is useful for Web hosts that do not yet support sqlite3. Additional configuration options for the thumbnail directory, Smarty template engine, etc. help make the installation easier.