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aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between...

Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO will explain how to get various multimedia apps working under Fedora Core. How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned Things (AVI, Flash, Java, MP3, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media) working under Fedora Core using your normal...

SQL::Translator::Producer::GraphViz is a GraphViz producer for SQL::Translator. SYNOPSIS use SQL::Translator; my $trans = new SQL::Translator( from => MySQL, # or your db of choice to => GraphViz, producer_args => { out_file => schema.png, add_color => 1, show_constraints => 1,...


Platforms: *nix

Math::BaseArith is a Perl extension for mixed-base number representation (like APL encode/decode). SYNOPSIS use Math::BaseArith; encode( value, base_list ); decode( representation_list, base_list ); The inspiration for this module is a pair of functions in the APL programming language...


Platforms: *nix

GoblinX Mini Edition is a son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as windows manager and GTK2/GTK based applications. The edition is indicated for those users whose want to remaster the distro and also those with difficulties to download more than three hundreds of megabytes, original size of...


Platforms: *nix

GTKPool project is a simple 2D GTK+ pool game. GtkPool brings that classic favourite of lounge lizards to a Linux box near you. It currently has a rather simple playing interface, but supports a really nifty customizable physics system..


Platforms: *nix

KuFtp is a graphical FTP client for the K Desktop Environment. The project is written in C++ using the QT/KDE libraries. It implements many features required for usable FTP interaction. Most notable features is Tab Sessions like Konqueror or Firefox, that is,you can have multiple simultaneous...


Platforms: *nix

Avast-ng project is A Versatile Ajax Syslog Tailer for syslog-ng. Avast-ng gives you the ability to sift through vast amounts of log files, and display current syslog data which is useful to you. Its a heads up view, that sifts out all the normal flotsam in your log files, and just displays...


Platforms: *nix

FmpegPlayer is an MP3/MPEG/audio CD player for Linux. It combines smpeg, SDL, mpg123, and gtkhtml in an original way. It contains a built-in browser for radio channels from shoutcast.com, allowing you to listen to a channel directly in your player with a single click. There is also a "jukebox"...


Platforms: *nix

IFF Format Library provides header structures and utility functions for reading and writing data files in the Interchange Files. The Interchange File Format is a simple structured binary file format consisting of sized and typed chunks of data, selectively readable without having to know the...


Platforms: *nix

Hayes is the playlist for Noatun 2 / KDE 3 that attempts to be efficent for those users with large directories full of music. For these users, Hayes should be more efficient in speed and memory than the usual playlist. Plus, the playlist is updated in realtime as the directories change on-disk,...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::FIDE is a Perl extension for FIDE Rating List. SYNOPSIS use Chess::FIDE; my $fide = Chess::FIDE->new(-file=>filename); $fide->fideSearch("surname eq Kasparov"); Chess::FIDE - Perl extension for FIDE Rating List. FIDE is the International Chess Federation that every quarter of the...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::FIDE::Player is a Perl module to parse player data from FIDE Rating List. SYNOPSIS use Chess::FIDE::Player qw(@FIDE_field); my $player = Chess::FIDE::Player->new(%param); print $player->id() . "n"; $player->value(field); Chess::FIDE::Player - Parse player data from FIDE Rating...


Platforms: *nix

perltoot is Toms object-oriented tutorial for perl. Object-oriented programming is a big seller these days. Some managers would rather have objects than sliced bread. Why is that? Whats so special about an object? Just what is an object anyway? An object is nothing but a way of tucking away...


Platforms: *nix

How many Internet programs do you use? Two? Five? Ten? Heck, even if you consider yourself a minimalist, we're guessing more than one. After all, if you want to get the most out of our Fifty Fabulous Freebies, you'll soon have one or two new ones traveling through your modem. To this end we'd...


Platforms: Mac

Boot Config's a nifty little program that lets you enable/disable startup items on your computer.


Platforms: Mac

SmallScreenX allows you to have multiple, moveable, resizeable screens open at a time (supports dual-monitors) along with other nifty features.


Platforms: Mac

Secret Service a nifty app that lets you make files and folders invisible by simply dropping them on a small picture on the desktop. It lets you access those hidden files after you enter your password.


Platforms: Mac

CleanArchiver is a simple and nifty archiving utility.It supports not only standard archive types such as gzip, bzip2, and zip, but also compressed Disk Image. In addition if the DropStuff application published by Allume Systems Inc. is installed on your system, CleanArchiver can create StuffIt...


Platforms: Mac

Ashed will place any image you like on your dashboard. This is a gallery style widget that you click to scroll through any number of pictures. To view your own single shot, just drag your file onto the widget. To adjust the slideshow, you can set the slide timing on the backside of the widget....


Platforms: Mac