6 July 2009
06 Jul 21:29
UsbCryptFormat 9.06.06
UsbCryptFormat is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the encryption of USB flash drives or external hard drives. It allows the user to reformat a USB flash drive, an SD card, or an external hard drive with an encrypted filesystem very easily and without the danger of destroying data on an internal hard drive because of incautious handling of device names. So it is usable even for a layperson.
Release Notes: This release will call "udevadm info" instead of deprecated "udevinfo", and should now work with Ubuntu 9.x and later.
06 Jul 21:22
OCILIB 3.3.0
OCILIB is a cross-platform Oracle Driver that delivers very fast and reliable access to Oracle databases. It offers a rich, full featured, and easy-to-use API. Written in ISO C on top of OCI, OCILIB runs on all Oracle platforms.
Release Notes: This release adds SQL command and verb retrieval, support for batched errors for Array DML, extended Lob support, an extended Collection API, a modified and extended Bind API, miscellaneous changes, and miscellaneous fixes.
06 Jul 21:21
cclive 0.4.5
cclive is a lightweight commandline video extraction tool for Youtube and similar video Web sites. It is a rewrite of the clive software in C++ with a smaller system footprint and fewer dependencies. It is primarily a "video download tool", but can be used with video player software like "mplayer" for viewing streamed videos in place of the Adobe flash player.
Release Notes: This release adds tests, fixes Google mp4 support, implements return codes, and adds experimental mingw32 support.
06 Jul 21:20
darktable 0.2
darktable is a virtual light table and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable light table. It also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
Release Notes: There have been some major changes in the last months. First, the processing backend has been replaced completely, based on an interface that is able to use libgegl. All operations are now encapsulated in run-time loaded plug-ins. Raw reading is now based on LibRaw-0.8. The light table has a slightly different look, and more image operations have been implemented (e.g. luma/chroma denoising).
06 Jul 21:18
NolaPro 4.0.4666
NolaPro is a free Cloud Accounting suite that can be securely run from your PC. Refine and manage your business with its flexible and powerful Customer tracking, Billing, Payables, General Ledger, and Reporting features. Optional modules include Inventory Control, Service/Labor Order management, POS/Fulfillment Order support, a B2B Web portal, eCom Shopping Cart, vTiger add-on, Employee Timeclock, QuickBooks converter, development API, and many more. White Label partner revenue versions are available for CPAs, VARs, and consultants. For international users, it offers multi-currency, VAT/GST support, multi-language capability, and currency, decimal, and temperature flexibility. However NolaPro's customization is its best feature. It can be modified upon request to fit any industry spec or business requirement, as well as integrated with most 3rd party applications to provide backend accounting support. Secure Business Cloud hosting and a Linux version are also available.
Release Notes: This release adds translation support for 26 additional languages. Order pages are revamped to comply with the upcoming multi-currency module. New report: Invoices by State. Invoices now display payment check numbers. Changes made to support multiple AR/AP accounts. Data importing is now tracked in the User Activity Monitor add-on. Multi-AP account functionality in PO-to-AP pass. The Bank Deposit Add page now has an option to auto-select payments. You can now track inventory usage by actual cost of purchases. An option has been added for required costing by "First Cost".
06 Jul 21:15
Neuroph Framework 2.2
Neuroph is lightweight Java Neural Network Framework that can be used to simulate common neural network architectures. With a small number of basic classes that correspond to basic NN concepts, it is easy to learn. It also has a nice GUI application.
Release Notes: This release brings momentum for back propagation, importing training sets from txt files, network error graph during the training, support for Instar, Outstar, and BAM networks, XML support for neural networks and training sets, a basic help system, and a sample image recognition application. It also provides a full NetBeans project tree, which will make it easier to develop and build a project according to its original structure.
06 Jul 21:13
tmux 0.9
tmux is a "terminal multiplexer". It allows a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. It is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
Release Notes: Changes include: an overhaul of the build infrastructure; an option to monitor a window for content changes; some additional layout-related commands; a clean-history command; improved UTF-8 detection; a confirm-before command to confirm dangerous commands; status line improvements, and support for some addition terminal features.
06 Jul 21:10
Drizzle 2009.07.1088
The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU/core architectures. The code is originally derived from MySQL.
Release Notes: This release has a lot of code clean up. It also features work towards extracting I_S out into plugins. It supports protobuf 2.1, except when using gcc 4.4 or if you are running on Solaris. Work is being done on the gcc 4.4 issue.
06 Jul 20:58
get_iplayer 2.06
get_iplayer allows a user to stream or make recordings of any BBC iPlayer TV (H.264/Quicktime), BBC iPlayer Radio (MP3/AAC/RealAudio), or BBC Podcasts (MP3/AAC). It downloads iPlayer subtitles, metadata, and thumbnails. It has full PVR functionality for automatic searching, queuing, and stream recording. Its plug-in architecture allows third-party channels to be added. Live and embedded iPlayer TV and Radio recording and streaming is also supported. The optional Web PVR Manager allows full PVR searching, recording, and playback support of available and recorded material.
Release Notes: An improved and simplified CDN parser for iPlayer mediaselector data. New iPlayer CDN streams will now mostly be automatically found when added by the BBC. Checks for invalid and deprecated options in options files and presets. iPlayer TV PIDs starting with p0 are recognized. iPhone redirect URL is no longer looked up if iphone is not a selected mode. BBC Radio 4 Long-Wave has been added into the liveradio channel list. There are --rtmplivetvopts and --rtmpliveradioopts options. flvstreamer v1.8b is recommended for better reliability. flvstreamer timeout has been reduced to 10 seconds.
06 Jul 20:52
GPX Viewer 0.0.5
GPX Viewer is a simple program to visualize a GPX file. It uses libchamplain and cairo for the plot. It can show multiple GPX files, show waypoints and multiple tracks per GPX file, highlight a selected track, show a speed vs. time graph, and show distance, duration, average, moving average, max speed, moving time, and GPS points. It supports zooming, smoothing of the speed graph, and highlighting points in a speed graph on a map.
Release Notes: The first release, with most functions implemented.
06 Jul 18:11
grabby 0.5
Grabby retrieves images from a video4linux or video4linux2 compatible Webcam or TV card. It can send them to an FTP server, can write them to disk, supports JPG and PPM, can auto-tune contrast/brightness, and lots more. It has tons of special effects. It also can display the effects in real time in a window or stream the result to a Web browser.
Release Notes: This release writes images to a temporary file first to prevent errors in e.g. Web browsers, and exits with an understandable error message when the device refuses the selected resolution. There are several fixes in color conversions. You can now set owner of image files as they are created, and can now execute a script after a new image is written to disk (to do any post-processing).
06 Jul 18:07
aTunes 1.13.2
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager. It currently plays MP3, Ogg, wma, wav, FLAC, MP4, and radio streams allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music, and rip audio CDs.
Release Notes: Minor bugfixes. Croatian and Danish translations have been added.
06 Jul 18:05
Addjob 0.06
Addjob lets you distribute jobs over a network. You just run "addjob-server", and then submit jobs like "addjob gcc -c foo.c". You can still interact with your program via the command line, and exit-codes are preserved, so it integrates well with Makefiles.
Release Notes: This is mainly a maintenance release to bring the software up to date for Ruby 1.9. There have also been minor reliability improvements to accommodate slow NFS systems.
06 Jul 18:04
Performous 0.3.1
While Performous might be classified as a karaoke program, it is actually much more than that. Instead of just displaying the lyrics, notes are also displayed, and the performance is scored based on how well you actually hit the notes. Unlike in many other games in this genre, you will also see the pitch that you are singing, so you can see what you are doing wrong and easily (well, everything is relative) correct your pitch.
Release Notes: Up to four player multi-player games with many mics from many sound cards. A totally new XML-based configuration system. The song list exporter has been reworked (based on XML+XSLT). A new eye-candy song browser (reflections, animations, etc.). Many requested features (karaoke mode, performance mode, etc.). Better in-game configuration (audio round-trip, video delay, etc.). Many build fixes and bugfixes, including ffmpeg. Many other changes.
06 Jul 18:02
GADMIN-OpenVPN-Client 0.0.5
GAdmin-OpenVPN-Client is an easy to use frontend for the OpenVPN client. It handles multiple connections and can import exported connection setup packages from the GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server.
Release Notes: This release adds a Swedish translation. It adds the start parameter --script-security 2. It uses more secure chmod for the certs and passfile. It reverts de.po strings with questions to English.
06 Jul 18:00
Voreen 1.6-snapshot18
Voreen is a computer graphics library and development platform for interactive volume visualization. It provides several visualization techniques for volumetric data and makes use of modern programmable graphics hardware to accelerate rendering. The accompanying VoreenVE application allows for creating and testing new rendering techniques using visual programming. Voreen is implemented with C++ and uses OpenGL/GLSL for rendering.
Release Notes: This release adds an improved transfer function editor, workspaces for VoreenVE, volume processors, and a new example volume. The VoreenDev application is replaced by VoreenVE, which now supports visualization and network editor mode.
06 Jul 17:59
CELT audio codec 0.6.0
CELT (Constrained Energy Lapped Transform) is an ultra-low delay audio codec designed for realtime transmission of high quality speech and audio. This is meant to close the gap between traditional speech codecs (such as Speex) and traditional audio codecs (such as Vorbis).
Release Notes: This release brings in many quality improvements, including better stereo coupling, better handling of transients, and better handling of highly tonal signals. In addition, packet loss robustness has been improved through the optional use of independent (intra) frames. CELT now supports a larger dynamic range, suitable for encoding 24-bit audio (float version only). There is also a very early VBR implementation.
06 Jul 17:52
XPTracker 20090706
XPTracker is a radical alternative agile planning tool aimed at keeping out of your way and making sure you can see the stuff you care about at a glance. Included in this tool is a very advanced search system based on Lucene, an easy-to-use planning system based on Queues, and a customizable reporting engine (with burndown/scope creep charts) called Timelines.
Release Notes: The search box has been fixed.
06 Jul 17:47
iWeb Valet 2.2.1
iWeb Valet adds many features to sites made with iWeb. It is both easy to use and powerful. You don't have to know anything about programming or Web authoring languages such as HTML or JavaScript. iWeb Valet widgets give you the power to add new interactive widgets to your Web pages. For example, you can add dropdown menus, clocks, scrolling news, internal search engines, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, falling snow, and much more. Finally, you can have your Web site uploaded to an FTP or iDisk server.
Release Notes: A new widget that uses Google to enable comprehensive search on your site. New app icons and logos. A fix for an error when resizing images with incorrect parameters entered by the user.
06 Jul 17:40
Dyadic Snapshot Scheduler 0.1.3
DSS creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote or local host using rsync's link-dest feature.
Release Notes: You can now specify pre-rm/post-rm-hooks that are executed whenever a snapshot is deleted. This release adds better compatibility with rsync 3.0, and avoids busy loops when automatically restarting the rsync process.
06 Jul 16:00
dbus-cxx 0.4.1
dbus-cxx is a C++ wrapper for dbus that supports introspection and includes a proxy/adapter generator (dbus-cxx-xml2cpp). What differentiates dbus-cxx from other C++ wrappers is that dbus-cxx relies heavily on sigc++ and explicitly exposes the wrapped D-Bus C API.
Release Notes: This release adds support to dbus-cxx-xml2cpp for allowing proxies to multiply inherit virtual interfaces. An example demonstrating how to use this feature can be found in examples/xml2cpp/calculator-interface. Additionally, a few warnings were cleaned up, including one regarding unused values when debugging output is turned off.
06 Jul 15:55
Granite Data Services 2.0.0.SP1
Granite Data Services (GraniteDS) is a comprehensive development and integration solution for building Flex / JavaEE RIA applications. The primary goal of this project is to provide a framework for Flex 3+/EJB3/Seam/Spring/Guice/POJO application development with full AMF3/RemoteObject benefits. It also features a Comet-like Data Push implementation (AMF3 requests sent over HTTP) and ActionScript3 code generation tools (Ant task and Eclipse Builder).
Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix release.
06 Jul 15:54
Source-Highlight-Qt 0.1
Source-highlight-qt is a library for performing syntax highlighting in Qt documents by relying on the GNU Source-Highlight library. It provides an implementation of the Qt abstract class QSyntaxHighlighter class, and it deals both with Qt3 and Qt4, although you will need to build a separate version of the library for the two different Qt framework versions. The Qt3 version has fewer features and it is there only for old Qt applications. Furthermore, the QSyntaxHighlighter class in Qt3 has some design problems which make it quite inefficient to use.
Release Notes: This is the initial release.
06 Jul 15:38
GROUP-E 1.705
GROUP-E is collaboration software which integrates groupware, project management, and business server on one platform. The solution is based on a LAMP architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). GROUP-E offers project management, transparent Samba (file server) integration, integration of Cyrus IMAP server with administration and personal SIEVE filters, support for SyncML 1.0, LDAP-based user management with single sign-on authentication, and LDAP contact databases. GROUP-E also provides ActiveSync for synchronization.
Release Notes: Several minor bugs were fixed. A DAV interface was added for the internal file manager. Mass editing of adresses was added. Searching for mailfolders was made faster. Email messages can be exported as .eml files. User email adresses can be assigned for absence messages. Complete icalendar support was added (for importing and exporting ICS). Supplementary rejecting of appointments and tasks was implemented.
06 Jul 15:33
schily 2009-07-06
The "Schily" Tool Box is a set of tools written or managed by Jörg Schilling. It includes programs like: cdrecord, cdda2wav, readcd, mkisofs, smake, bsh, btcflash, calc, calltree, change, compare, count, devdump, hdump, isodebug, isodump, isoinfo, isovfy, label, mt, p, patch, sccs, scgcheck, scpio, sdd, sfind, sformat, smake, sh, star, star_sym, suntar, gnutar, tartest, termcap, and ved.
Release Notes: Wide char support now works on Mac OS X. The command line history editor from bsh (also used by the included Bourne Shell) now correctly uses wcwidth() to compute the visible char width (which is needed for Japanese chars). sdd now supports a -md5 option. libxtermcap now correctly checks for octal numbers in \ooo escapes. The termcap compiler now includes much better checks for correct syntax in the termcap entries, as well as checks for correct quoting in string parameters and for correct format specifiers in parameterized strings. Cdrtools was bumped to 2.01.01a61.
