Oxygen Laptops

Devicescape lets you connect your laptop to wireless and domestic networks, without depending on usernames, keywords or passwords. Simply open your laptop, and you+ll find yourself instantly browsing the Internet or checking your emails in a question of seconds.Devicescape has support for more... Platforms: Windows

Invisionix Systems announced this month the pre-alpha release of a portable Instant Messenger (IRSIM), which boasts to be the only one of its kind using PHP, Javascript, mySQL, and multi-transport jabber technologies. This Open Source program interacts with ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and Jabber IMs. It... Platforms: Windows, *nix, Palm OS, Windows CE

ScreenStream lets others 'watch' your screen while you work. It can be used as the modern equivalent of the overhead projector. When you run this program on your computer anyone else on your network (or even the internet) can view what is on your screen by typing the link (and optional access... Platforms: Windows

WHOS-IN Pro is an easy to use Windows in-out board program for businesses that need to keep track of who's in and who's out of the office. With WHOS-IN there is no more time wasted checking a wall-mounted Office Board to see if someone is In, Out, or at Lunch... all the information you need is... Platforms: Windows

GNOME Panel Applet can display system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings from hardware sensors under Linux. Supported interfaces: - ACPI thermal zones, via the Linux kernel ACPI modules - Linux kernel i2c modules (for kernel 2.6). - lm_sensors and i2c packages (for kernel 2.4) -... Platforms: *nix

BasicLinux is designed specifically for old PCs. It uses a small kernel and busybox to provide a low-RAM Linux, capable of browsing the web, doing email, and functioning as an X terminal. The current release of BasicLinux is particularly suitable for old laptops -- it has PCMCIA capability and... Platforms: *nix

acpitail project shows in a tail-like way information off the battery-state, fan-states, temperatures, etc. of an ACPI capable system (mostly laptops). Screendump: laptop:/home/folkert/acpitail-0.1# ./acpitail -A 2 Mon Jun 18 15:28:45 2007 BAT0 remaining capacity: 99% (0 minutes) Adapter... Platforms: *nix

Gnome Multimedia Keys is an Amarok script that will allow the use of keyboard multimedia keys in Gnome 2.18 and above (eg. ubuntu feisty) to control playback. This includes most multimedia buttons found on many laptops. Support for this was broken due to changes in the handling of keyboard... Platforms: *nix

KPowersave provides battery monitoring and suspend/ standby triggers for KDE. It is based on the powersave package and therefore supports APM and ACPI. Whats New in 0.6.2 Stable Release: - This release depends on powersave >= 0.12.18. - It fixes autosuspend and inactivity detection... Platforms: *nix

phpMyInventory (PMI) is a web-based inventory program designed to keep track of all your systems, software and peripherals. "Systems" include: PCs, servers, laptops, network printers, etc. See the project page to download v2.81 or to read the change log. Some screenshots are available on the... Platforms: *nix

kwin dropshadow patch for kde is the well known KDE KWin dropshadow patch ported to KDE Version 3.5.7, but it may apply to all 3.5.x Versions (untested!) For all ATI users and those whose laptops are too slow for real composite (like mine is).. kwin dropshadow patch for kde 3.5.7 KDE-Apps.org... Platforms: *nix

ifplugd is a Linux daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled. Installation: As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run ./configure inside the distribution directory for... Platforms: *nix

keyfuzz project is a Linux input layer scancode table manipulation tool. You may use keyfuzz to manipulate the scancode/keycode translation tables of keyboard drivers supporting the Linux input layer API (as included in Linux 2.6). This is useful for fixing the translation tables of... Platforms: *nix

Goodgoat is an easy to use desktop that can run from a bootable cd or it can be installed to the hard drive. Goodgoat uses portage to handle updates for the installed version. I started goodgoat as an os for my low cost computer. I thought that the Linux I had created would be useful to other... Platforms: *nix

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI. I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues... Platforms: *nix

XMMS-Control provides a Web-based control for XMMS. XMMS-Control is a web-based interface for the XMMS (X MultiMedia System). XMMS is an MP3 player for Linux based systems (it also plays other media formats). XMMS-Control is a graphical interface for the command-line utility XMMS-Shell.... Platforms: *nix

CD-Rchive2 is a complete revamp of the popular but now aged CD-Rchive program. It is intended to be used with cdrecord-ProDVD, cdda2wav, and mkisofs for the production of data and music CDs and data DVDs. Built in tools allow cloning of a complete CD or DVD and writing copies. A Boot Wizard... Platforms: *nix

Prozessordrossel (German for CPU throttler) throttles your CPU using the Linux ACPI interface of 2.6 kernel. If your CPU supports it, you can change your processor speed (commonly found in Laptops), or throttle it (meaning it will only run a command every other time, thereby using about half... Platforms: *nix

firmware-tools is an architecture that utilizes native Linux packaging formats (.rpm and .deb) and native Linux change management frameworks (yum, apt, etc) for delivering and installing system firmware. firmware-tools architecture is OS distribution, hardware vendor, device, and change... Platforms: *nix

wmpower is a Window Maker dock application allowing the user to graphically see (and set) the power management status of his laptop. Points of strength: -It works ;-) -Battery status display (you chose the battery) -Both APM and ACPI kernels are supported -On ACPI kernels you get fan status and... Platforms: *nix