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Tiny (160K) San Francisco Screen Saver cycles through dozens of beautiful color photos of San Francisco. The screen saver periodically downloads new images while it is running if an internet connection is available, so you will end up with new images as the screen saver runs. The high resolution...

Novelwriting project is a novelwriting generates random documents based on a grammar. It is similar to the Dada Engine, but is more extensible. The name is chosen for the Monty Python skit, available on such recordings as "Monty Python The Final Rip-Off", which purports to be a live radio...

cwm is a window manager for X11 initially inspired by evilwm. It developed out of modifications to evilwm, but eventually the code base of evilwm did not accomodate well for the new features added. So cwm was written from scratch. cwm has several novel features, including the ability to search...


Platforms: *nix

Virgil projetc is an new, object-oriented, light-weight programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level. Microcontroller programmers can now develop complete software systems, including hardware drivers and OS services, in...


Platforms: *nix

Transcend Game project is a retro-style, abstract, collage-building, musical, shooter game. The graphics are geometrical, and the pace is sometimes frenzied. Two features set Transcend apart from other games. First, its dynamic graphical engine, which can smoothly morph from one complex shape...


Platforms: *nix

nf-HiPAC is a full featured packet filter for Linux which demonstrates the power and flexibility of HiPAC. HiPAC is a novel framework for packet classification which uses an advanced algorithm to reduce the number of memory lookups per packet. nf-hipac package is ideal for environments involving...


Platforms: *nix

WebnoteHappy - a better bookmark manager for your Mac.WebnoteHappy lets you write a note for any web page that interests you, creating a bookmark in the process. But "web page bookmark with a note" is kind of long, so let's just call it a "webnote".You can write just a one word tag or you can...


Platforms: Mac

File System development is very difficult and time consuming. Even small changes to existing file systems require deep understanding of kernel internals, making the barrier to entry for new developers high. Moreover, porting file system code from one operating system to another is almost as...


Platforms: *nix

Genezzo is an extensible database with SQL and DBI. SYNOPSIS # partial DBI interface use Genezzo::GenDBI; # Users can directly create and manipulate database tables using # gendba.pl, an interactive line-mode tool. The Genezzo modules implement a hierarchy of persistent hashes using a...


Platforms: *nix

PyHP is a system to embed Python code in an HTML document in a way similar to how PHP works. PyHP allows use of the Python programming language in scripts similar to PHP. PyHP uses the Python 2.0 language to parse elements embedded in an HTML page. When I started this, I was enamoured with PHP....


Platforms: *nix

BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard buddy lists; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it is implemented in...


Platforms: *nix

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than...


Platforms: Mac

WindowLab project is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar that shares the same part of the screen as...


Platforms: *nix

Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played. What...


Platforms: *nix

Attack of the Beast is an illustration that recovers the tradition of epics and fantasy, filling the scene with a bloody battle. In it, a warrior, a wizard and an archer try to defeat a terrible and fiery dragon. An image that could be perfect for any Dragonlance novel.This Attack of the Beast...


Platforms: Windows

Majic is the interpreter for a language called Erc. It is written in Java and follows the documented standard for the Erc language. First, a word about Erc: Erc is a link-oriented language. In fact, it is the first link-oriented language. It uses a novel syntax with roots in TCL, Scheme, Bash,...


Platforms: *nix

Nanowrimo Meter is a Firefox extension that displays progress during National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/)..


Platforms: *nix

Transcend can best be described as retro-style, abstract, 2D shooter. The graphics are geometrical, and the pace is sometimes frenzied. Two features set Transcend apart from other games. First, its dynamic graphical engine, which can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another, produces...


Platforms: *nix

EarCandy is a music juke-box that presents music collections in the somewhat novel way of artist,album, title regardless of the underlying directory structure. This is the way that iNoize, a p2p music sharing company, presented music. I worked at iNoize for 18 months and really liked the...


Platforms: *nix

Venables is an abstract two-player strategy game with a special twist: instead of moving your pieces yourself, you control them indirectly by means of a cursor on an auxiliary board where the "squares" are icons specifying the moves you will make on the main board. Other unusual features of...


Platforms: Windows