Inclined Plane

Many dream of flying, and being a pilot in a powerful fighter jet, going through clouds at supersonic speeds. However, those of you who are reading this are probably not pilots, and even less one of the elite who fly combat jets.So here is a spectacular photo taken from the cockpit of a fighter... Platforms: Windows

The Tower of Pisa is nothing more than the bell tower for the cathedral. However it has become much more popular and famous due to its leaning, a result of many errors and defects both of construction and maintenance. The tower is more than 55 metres tall, and starts vertically but soon becomes... Platforms: Windows

ThreeBody is an application that shows some solutions to the problem of three bodies, well-known in celestial mechanics. This three body problem tries to determine the trajectories in a universe limited to three planets and subject to the universal law of gravity.The interesting thing about the... Platforms: Windows

"Go beyond personalizing the email messages in your autoresponder!...Extend it to even personalizing your WebPages in real time!" Sales Doubler is an amazing free sales tool with new technology that personalizes your web page, calls your subscriber by his name and makes him feel good when he... Platforms: Windows, *nix

Astro::Aladin::LowLevel is a Perl class designed to drive CDS Aladin Application. SYNOPSIS my $aladin = new Astro::Aladin::LowLevel( ); Drives the CDS Aladin Application through a anonymous pipe, expects the a copy of the standalone Aladin application to be installed locally and pointed to... Platforms: *nix

Tkabber is a Free and Open Source client for the Jabber instant messaging system. Tkabber provides a Tcl/Tk interface to the Jabber instant messaging and presence service. Tcl/Tk is a graphical scripting language that runs on the Unix, Windows, and Macintosh platforms. The choice of Tcl/Tk... Platforms: *nix

Unicode Utilities project are a set of programs for manipulating and analyzing Unicode text. uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. Command line options allow undesired information to... Platforms: *nix

PDL::Transform::Cartography Perl module contains useful cartographic projections. SYNOPSIS # make a Mercator map of Earth use PDL::Transform::Cartography; $a = earth_coast(); $a = graticule(10,2)->glue(1,$a); $t = t_mercator; $w = pgwin(xs); $w->lines($t->apply($a)->clean_lines());... Platforms: *nix

PDL::Transform is a Perl module that coordinate transforms, image warping, and N-D functions. SYNOPSIS use PDL::Transform; my $t = new PDL::Transform:: ( ) $out = $t->apply($in) # Apply transform to some N-vectors (Transform method) $out = $in->apply($t) # Apply transform to some... Platforms: *nix

phpMyID is a small, fairly lightweight, standalone, single-user Identity Provider for OpenID authentication. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity (I stole that from their website). But what does it mean? Well, basically OpenID is a way to... Platforms: *nix

myOpenID is a small, fairly lightweight, standalone, single-user Identity Provider for OpenID authentication. The project comprises a single PHP script that can be used by one individual to run their own personal OpenID "IdP." The program requires no external libraries, and has very minimal... Platforms: *nix

Encode::JIS2K is a Perl module forJIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings. SYNOPSIS use Encode::JIS2K; use Encode qw/encode decode/; $euc_2k = encode("euc-jisx0213", $utf8); $utf8 = decode("euc-jisx0213", $euc_jp); ABSTRACT This module implements encodings that covers JIS X 0213 charset... Platforms: *nix

Packer is a tool that helps in the creation of packages. Packages are a great convenience for gurus and new users alike. Thus, users may be less inclined to use software that is not packaged. This is unfortunate for GNU/Linux software developers since packaging software is a huge pain,... Platforms: *nix

PHP Trouble Ticket project provides a centralized means of problem reporting and tracking in multi-user environments (medium to large companies, development groups, etc.). It helps direct problem reports to the responsible administrator(s), keeps track of the status of a problem being worked... Platforms: *nix

Shaaft is an OpenGL 3D falling block game similar to Blockout. It currently runs on Linux and Windows. There is still a lot missing. No menu system, forgets highscore, some of the sound effects need work (Clearing a single plane sounds like a f*rt. Try clearing >1 plane, though...), etc. That... Platforms: *nix

GnomeRSVP project is a rapid serial visual projector. GnomeRSVP is a "Rapid Serial Visual Projector" similar to products like AceReader. In this dynamic representation of text, each word is flashed on the screen one at a time in succession. The reader is less inclined to "oralize" the text,... Platforms: *nix

Bcrypt project is a lightweight blowfish file encryption utility which aims for cross-platform portability of not only the actual code, but the encrypted files as well. In addition to providing 448-bit encryption, Bcrypt overwrites input files with random garbage. Installation: If youre so... Platforms: *nix

iogen is an I/O generator. iogen forks child processes that each run a mix of reads and writes. The idea is to generate heavily fragmented files to make the hardware suffer as much as possible. This tool has been used to test filesystems, drivers, firmware, and hardware devices. It is by no... Platforms: *nix

Magic Cube 4D project is a four-dimensional Rubiks Cube. MagicCube4D is a fully functional four-dimensional analog of Rubiks cube. The image above shows the puzzle in its solved state. Click on it for a simple resizable applet version that you can interact with to get a feeling for how it... Platforms: *nix

Geo::Ellipsoids is a package for standard Geo:: ellipsoid a, b, f and 1/f values. SYNOPSIS use Geo::Ellipsoids; my $obj = Geo::Ellipsoids->new(); $obj->set(WGS84); #default print "a=", $obj->a, "n"; print "b=", $obj->b, "n"; print "f=", $obj->f, "n"; print "i=", $obj->i, "n"; print... Platforms: *nix