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Afghan Hound Quote of the Day Daemon project is a TCP/UDP quote-of-the-day server. Afghan Hound Quote of the Day Daemon uses both TCP and UDP port 17 to return a random quote from fortune(6) style quote files. It has performance benefits over other programs which use fortune(6) to source their... Platforms: *nix

Single of the Week Widget... Always forgetting to download the latest free "Single of the Week" from the iTunes Music Store? This is a free Dashboard Widget to get you to the iTunes Music Store's free weekly song. Just click the image on the widget and download the free song posted on iTunes... Platforms: Mac

Quotations of the Day is a free Dashboard widget that taps into the large and growing database of quotations at QuotationsBook.com. Each day you'll get a set of interesting quotations for your enjoyment, presented in a highly readable format. But thereNs more!easily and quickly search for other... Platforms: Mac

This freeware screensaver has been specially created for all the fans of The Lord of the Rings and Tolkein. The background is made of a map of Middle Earth, in the foreground you can see the Ring of Sauron engraved with the spell written in the ancient Elvish characters but in the Language of... Platforms: Windows

TurboX2 is a client for the XMMS2 music player that exploits all the possibilities of the Web 2.0 buzzword. It allows for complete manipulation of the active playlist, and browsing of the Media Library from one dynamically generated page. TurboX2 also has up to the second playback information,... Platforms: *nix

Escape of the Unicorn project is a side-scrolling, 2D flying shooter game. Welcome to the land of miraculous creatures. Take a risk and play the game called Escape of the Unicorn. You play a unicorn, a noble and most beautiful animal, the most beautiful to have ever existed. Your goal is... Platforms: *nix

Scum of the Universe is a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy. On one side, its a classic vertical-scrolling space shooter game. On the other side, it is an adventure and strategy. You should choose whether youll be an independent space trader, firearms smuggler,... Platforms: *nix

Abacuth Search the web is a small floating window where you can enter words you want to send to a search engine. Results are displayed in your default web browser. You can search using predefined search engines, or using your own list (search engines, but also merchant sites, online catalogues,... Platforms: Windows

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open-source implementation of the Web Services Management specification and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and... Platforms: *nix

SnapLogic project is an Open Source solution that transforms data into services using the standard technologies of the Web. The problem of getting data from one place to another is universal. The Internet has solved that problem for documents, but integrating the underlying data remains a... Platforms: *nix

View dictionary.com's Word of the Day with this widget... Platforms: Mac

The CommonName Agent software provides users with various tools, each with the objective of enhancing the usability of the web. The core functionality allows users to navigate to web sites by entering a 'CommonName' into their browser's address bar, rather than a URL. Similarly, users can send... Platforms: Windows

Teriodic project is a training tool for the periodic table of the elements. Starting from 1 (hydrogen), it quizzes the abreviations of each element in numerical order. If you make a mistake, it shows you the next five elements and lets you start again from hydrogen. Knowing the periodic... Platforms: *nix

FoxyTunes connects between your music and the Web - starting with controlling your favorite media players without ever leaving your browser and all the way to exploring the Web and learning more about the music that you hear. The goal is very simple - to make listening to music with any media... Platforms: Windows, *nix

FeW (File Explorer on the Web) is a php script that allow users to manage their files via the web. Users can create, delete, rename, zip, upload and download files and directories. Being serverside, makes it easily viewable by light/old browsers. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

Seven Wonders of the World Windows 7 Theme is dedicated to the seven wonders of the world at different periods of history including Ancient, Medieval and Modern wonders. This is a high resolution Windows 7 Theme which will fit very well into nearly all desktop and laptop screens with Windows 7... Platforms: Windows

Some of the indicators calculated are GRS80 free air anomalies, EIGEN-CG03C (an remaining topography reduction), normal gravity GRS67 and GRS80.The place of the study that was the base of the research is a region of Canada (lat:56 to 60 deg,long:-120 to -114 deg). Requirements: - MATLAB 7.6 or... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Matlab, BSD Solaris

This WordPress plugin replicates the custom column feature of the manage posts page. This is in response to the long-standing enhancement request.It provides a manage_pages_custom_column action and manage_pages_columns filter which can be used similarly to the manage_posts_custom_column action... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

This PHP image of the day script will display an image based on the day of month.If you only have 6 photos in the image folder and it is past the 6th of the month the script will display a random photo each day untill the first of next month.The script will swap / change the image daily.NOTE:... Platforms: PHP

Botany Photo of the Day Read the text and view a preview of each day's Botany Photo of the Day. Click the preview to see the full-size version on the BPotD web site, a project of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. Thanks to Daniel Mosquin for his support (and for the BPotD).... Platforms: Mac