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Irssi is a modular IRC client for UNIX that currently has only text mode user interface, but 80-90% of the code isnt text mode specific, so other UIs could be created pretty easily. Irssi also isnt really even IRC specific anymore, theres already working SILC and ICB modules available. Support...

DecryptHD software can be used for realtime HD DVD decryption while streaming the decrypted movie to the player. It uses drive authentication to obtain the volume ID from it. This means it doesnt use a key database, but you do need a real drive. Without a real drive theres probably no point in...

When an evil ruler greedily taxes his people to near starvation, theres always one who rises against all odds to fight for whats right ... but Fighting for the good of the people often results in fighting for ones family. Help our brave new Hero rise from humble beginnings to becoming the...


Platforms: Mac

Theres no doubt that Apples iPhone has taken the mobile industry by storm. This week, that storm takes the shape of our latest freeware icon release. Inspired by the familiar forms and functions of the iPhone and iPod touch, comes Flurry System for your desktop. This massive set of 100 icons...


Platforms: Mac

Theres a problem when a computer has multiple versions of applications like Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop... installed. Double-clicking a files icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, a designer will unwittingly re-save a...


Platforms: Mac

Disable Auto Eject application was developed to be a small tool for disabling the CD / DVD tray auto eject feature in Windows Vista, when the user click on the CD / DVD drive icon, and theres no cd/dvd in the drive. Have you ever accidentally clicked your CD / DVD drive icon when there wasn't a...


Platforms: Windows

AlphaXP Lite is a great Windows transparency program. With it, you may change a window's transparency with a customizable keyboard shortcut. Also included is support to change the taskbar to any transparency you wish (theres even a cool Fade In option with settable speed which performs a smooth...


Platforms: Windows

Call this script from the Autostart folder, and it will update Kopetes away message for each interval (requires Kopete 0.12 or higher). The away messages are by default defined in ~/.kopete-away-msgs. Each line can contain either: - a comment (starting with a #) - flags message The flags...


Platforms: *nix

MiniKnoppix is a all-in-one sysadmin rescue CD. MiniKnoppix is a Linux Live CD based on Knoppix. Basically it is a complete and totally functional GNU/Linux operating system that boots and works from the CDROM. This way theres no need to install it on the hard drive. Knoppix is (possibly) the...


Platforms: *nix

WorldForge::Mason is the second game system being developed by WorldForge. The primary focus for Mason is to enable players to build a persistent world in-game. Players will be able to manipulate items by creating new items from raw materials, attaching existing items together or splitting items...


Platforms: *nix

LibBand is a simple library wrapper written in assembly and C (but I plan to rewrite everything in C) useful if you want to limit the bandwidth used by a program. It simply overrides some libc functions, using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, and puts some pauses in the program to clamp the...


Platforms: *nix

Fair NAT is a script for configuring NAT on dedicated Linux routers. This is the home of my linux router shaper script which allows something like fair bandwidth sharing among clients in the local network. The script is not great or anything - please dont expect the holy grail here - I just...


Platforms: *nix

SYNOPPSIS use LWP::Simple use XML::Parser; use XML::Parser::YahooRESTGeocode; #connect to yahoo geocode service my $url = http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode; my $get = appid=YahooDemo&street=701+First+Street&city=Sunnyvale&state=CA; #call yahoo geocode service my $xml =...


Platforms: *nix

Java::JCR is a module to use JSR 170 (JCR) repositories from Perl. SYNOPSIS use Java::JCR; use Java::JCR::Jackrabbit; my $repository = Java::JCR::Jackrabbit->new; my $session = $repository->login( Java::JCR::SimpleCredentials->new(username, password) ); my $root =...


Platforms: *nix

Tree::BPTree is a Perl implementation of B+ trees. SYNOPSIS use Tree::BPTree; # These arguments are actually the defaults my $tree = new Tree::BPTree( -n => 3, -unique => 0, -keycmp => sub { $_[0] cmp $_[1] }, -valuecmp => sub { $_[0] <=> $_[1] }, ); # index the entries in this...


Platforms: *nix

Sysmon-NG is derived from cynapses-karamba that can monitor your CPU, memory and network. This is an early-stage experiment to make the theme look more like I want it to. Green digital numbers, and the presence of red bars drawn underneath RAM and disk space, are the most readily apparent...


Platforms: *nix

Lyriki-Lyrics used to be a lyrics plugin to interface with lyriki.com. Its been now completely rewritten and extended to form a collection of lyric scripts. Whats interesting about these scripts is that they query the other scripts when they cant provide the lyrics for a song. Support for other...


Platforms: *nix

JSON::Syck - JSON is YAML. SYNOPSIS use JSON::Syck; my $data = JSON::Syck::Load($json); my $json = JSON::Syck::Dump($data); JSON::Syck is a syck implementatoin of JSON parsing and generation. Because JSON is YAML (http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/yamlIsJson.html), using syck gives you...


Platforms: *nix

Menu Buddy plugin currently comprises a couple of Python scripts for creating GNOME panel menus from a directory hierarchy of music files. These menus can be used to play or enqueue songs in XMMS, as well as pause or skip XMMS. These scripts are not terribly powerful yet, but there is...


Platforms: *nix

Encode::HanExtra Perl module contains extra sets of Chinese encodings. SYNOPSIS use Encode; # Traditional Chinese $euc_tw = encode("euc-tw", $utf8); # loads Encode::HanExtra implicitly $utf8 = decode("euc-tw", $euc_tw); # ditto # Simplified Chinese $gb18030 = encode("gb18030",...


Platforms: *nix