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Microsoft may be pushing for HTML Help, but unless your program requires Windows 98/2000, you're probably better off using the standard Windows Help. EclipseHelp is a fast way to create help files, all in one program. You don't need Microsoft Word; all you need is Microsoft Help Workshop, which...

WARNING: The functionality of this module can be achieved in a lot better way using Views Slideshows, which is a fantastic module (I use it all the time). This module is nice to get the easySlider plugin, but if you're an end user you're better off using Views Slideshows. To use this module, you...

This is a Django application which allows you to create simple APIs that use token-based authentication. You can easily open up existing views to the API by adding a single decorator. This is useful if you want to create applications on mobile devices which connect to your Django website, but...


Platforms: *nix

Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Mediawiki is a Mediawiki (MySQL) storage backend for Wiki::Toolkit. SYNOPSIS Implementation of Wiki::Toolkit::Store::Database which reads and writes to a Mediawiki 1.6 database running in MySQL. This is module is intended to be capable of running concurrently with a...


Platforms: *nix

cgichk is a Web vulnerability tool that automatically searches for a series of interesting directories and files on a given site. It also includes a whois lookup. I originally came upon a CGI vulnerability scanning late last year and for fun, decided to rewrite it (Im a sucker for organizing...


Platforms: *nix

Libmpeg3 supports advanced editing and manipulation of MPEG streams. MPEG is normally a last mile distribution format but with libmpeg3 you can edit it like a production format. Unless you have a need for MPEG editing and copying, youre better off using a consumer library like FFMPEG. Libmpeg3...


Platforms: *nix

File::Wildcard is a Perl module for enhanced glob processing. SYNOPSIS use File::Wildcard; my $foo = File::Wildcard->new(path => "/home/me///core"); while (my $file = $foo->next) { unlink $file; } When looking at how various operating systems do filename wildcard expansion (globbing),...


Platforms: *nix

App::SimpleScan::Plugin::Retry is a Perl module to implement retry pragma/command line option. SYNOPSIS simple_scan --retry 6 or in a simple_scan input file: %%retry 6 Both of these would retry fetches up to 6 times, pausing an increasingly-long time between each try. If all attempts...


Platforms: *nix

GNU font utilities to allow conversion of a scanned type specimen image into an outline (PostScript or Metafont) font. These fonts can be used with Ghostscript or TeX. Since the fontutils were originally written in the early 1990s, other programs have been developed which do a better job of...


Platforms: *nix

Knorpora is a modified version of the Knoppix 3.3 Live CD for students of corpus-based computational linguistics. Like Knoppix, the Knorpora CD allows you to run a fully operational Debian/Linux operating system from the CD-ROM drive, without installing anything on the computer. The Knorpora...


Platforms: *nix

Weather::Bug is a Perl module that can get realtime weather where available. SYNOPSIS use Weather::Bug; my $w = get_live_weather( KCMI ); print "It is $w->{temp} degrees in $w->{location}n"; Weather::Bug uses data from aws.coms live Java weather applet. Not all available stations report...


Platforms: *nix

CGI::MxScreen is a multi-screen stateful CGI framework. SYNOPSIS require CGI::MxScreen; my $manager = CGI::MxScreen->make( -bgcolor => "#dedeef", -screens => { "state_1" => [-class => "STATE_1", -title => "Hello"], "state_2" => [-class => "STATE_2", -title => "Hello #2"], },...


Platforms: *nix

Many sites neither need nor want a complex forum, but want instead an easy way for users to communicate. This simplistic, bare-bones Joomla! 1.5 native forum component is the "simplest forum" possible while still providing useful functionality. Simplest Forum allows role-based viewing, posting...


Platforms: PHP

Custom reports is a module for times when your client needs to export data from their Drupal site.This module is aimed at developers.If the data they need is a simple query your probably better off using the excelent Views module along with very helpful Views bonus pack.However if you need to : *...


Platforms: PHP

#D7CX: I pledge that Nodes in block will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.Nodes in block makes it possible to add nodes into a block. A number of configurable blocks are generated which you can assign to a region. Visibility settings of this block are...


Platforms: PHP

Changes in v3.0Added:+ contactlink will add a configurable class name to the links it creates, so you have full control of its markup.+ Added an option to ignore contacts inside table listings.+ Added an option to link only the last occurrence. (The options to link all occurrences or only the...


Platforms: PHP

I've found that a lot of the blogs I regularly read are discontinuing their blogs for various reasons, and I felt prompted to recontinue this blog. Not having blogged for so long makes me feel like there's a ton I ought to catch this up on, but I figure that can happen with time. In the meantime,...


Platforms: Mac

This plugin provides dynamic playlists for Amarok that are based on a similarity calculation instead on a set of rules as Amaroks own are. You start by dropping some tracks into the playlist and the plugin will try to fetch similar tracks from your local collection that fit in. The plugin is...


Platforms: *nix

Apache::Imager::Resize is a simple fixup class that only does one job: it resizes images before they're delivered. All you have to do is append either a width and/or a height parameter to any image file address, and AIR will make sure that an appropriately shrunken image file is returned. It...


Platforms: *nix

Better String Library is an abstraction of a string data type which is superior to the C library char buffer string type and C++s std::string. The library is totally stand alone, portable (known to work with gcc/g++, MSVC++, Intel C++, WATCOM C/C++, Turbo C, Borland C++, IBMs native CC compiler...


Platforms: *nix