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EPM package is a free UNIX software/file packaging program that generates distribution archives from a list of files. EPM Can: - Generate portable script-based distribution packages complete with installation and removal scripts and standard install/uninstall GUIs. - Generate "native"... Platforms: *nix

SRESI is a smart bookmarks manager: from a list of tagged bookmarks, it can generate an exhaustive tree or a portal, where each bookmark is at every place in the hierarchy you can expect to find it, and with absurd branches absorbed back in their saner versions. An import function is provided... Platforms: *nix

Group a list into sequential n-tuples function returns a list of n-tuples from a single "flat" list. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

A recursive function to get permutation of a list script allows you to make permutation on a list of objects. The script does not work on repeated items in the list. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

This script is a simple oneliner to built a dictionary from a list. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

Displays a list (typically, in your sidebar) of your visitors' recent comments. By default, shows the latest comment from each of the last five commented-on posts.You control: * how many recent comments to display * how many characters of the post title to display * how to style each comment in... Platforms: PHP

extract filename from a full path string easily returns the filename component of a path with the built-in PHP basename() function. Useful for splitting a string path to get the filename. Platforms: Windows, *nix, PHP, BSD

This module takes a list of equal length lists and converts it into XML. If the first sublist is a list of headings, these are used to form the element names of the rest of the data, or these can be defined in the function call. Root and "row" elements can be named if required. If you want to use... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

This  class emulates a list of dictionary objects without the memory and pickle storage overhead which occurs when storing every item in the list as a dictionary. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

This script allows you to transpose a list of lists of different lengths. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

This function can extract a inner function from a class or a function. It may be useful when writing a unit test code. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

The fastest way to remove duplicates from a sequence depends on some pretty subtle properties of the sequence elements, such as whether they're hashable, and whether they support full comparisons. This script defines the unique() function that tries three methods, from fastest to slowest,... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

CSMV calculates distances from a given set of points to a set of linear segments SYNOPSIS: [squared_distances_to_segments I]=csmv(P,R,Q,to_plot) [squared_distances_to_segments I]=csmv(P,R,Q,...) INPUT P,R : arrays of coordinates of 2n segment endpoints (i.e., if there are n segments considered in... Platforms: Matlab

sel_and_del Interactively select and delete points from a line object using mouse input. Left-click selects the point closest to the click and Right-click unselects it. The selected points are highlighted with a black square. The selection process is stopped by hitting any keyboard key when the... Platforms: Matlab

This script is an implementation of a round-robin algorithm for "fair" pairing of items from a list. The function produces a schedule of the pairings that can occur simultaneously. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

Twin Searching is a wizard like application that gives you the ability to insert a query into two search engines at the same time (selecting from a list of twelve), and follow the results in a dual frame pane of your default browser. The program permits only two search engines to be selected at a... Platforms: Windows

Network scanner is an IP scanner for network analysis that will allow you to see all network computers in several seconds. It can scan an unlimited number of IP address ranges or computers from a list. It scans computers not only for NetBIOS resources, but also for running FTP and web services.... Platforms: Windows

PaletteMaker creates a common 256-colour palette from a list of RGB pictures. It uses an iterative and interactive procedure in order to optimize those colours that you judge most important. PaletteMaker is flexible and achieves high quality. PaletteMaker knows about the peculiarities of the... Platforms: Windows

The Extract Movies action, extracts videos from a list of files, folders or nested folders and passes them on to the next action. This action is ideal for automating your video workflow. Currently the action supports the .mkv, .avi, .mov, .mp4, .wmv and .divx media container types. Platforms: Mac

Quite possibly this may be the fastest path from a list of image files to a full fledged slide show! MixMax PixelShow does away with complicated setup steps and puts you back in control. Drag and drop image files from the desktop into the PixelShow organizer and hit play. It's that easy. *... Platforms: Mac