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AFT is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form meaning that there is little intrusive markup. AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. AFT has a few rules for structuring your document and these rules have more to do with formatting your text rather than... Platforms: *nix

Caml-get project is a tool to distribute and get Objective-Caml code in a way similar to the apt-get utility. We all have various functions, types, or even whole modules that we use in many different programs or libraries, but that somehow we dont put in a separate library. I see two reasons... Platforms: *nix

Menoku is an innovative new menu system that combines the best features of several common application launching schemes. Menoku project lets you graphicaly search through neatly organized icons and choose any icon quickly with a short sequence of keys. It supports hierarchical submenus and is... Platforms: *nix

Dialog is a Perl interface to dialog(3). SYNOPSIS B< use Dialog; > #now we are creating the new dialog window $dlg = Dialog->new(title, y,x,height,width); #inserting input line $line = $dlg->inputline(name, y, x, width, text); #adding button $btn = $dlg->button(name, y, x, text,... Platforms: *nix

Albatross library is a small and flexible Python toolkit for developing highly stateful web applications. The toolkit has been designed to take a lot of the pain out of constructing intranet applications although you can also use Albatross for deploying publicly accessed web applications. In... Platforms: *nix

ogre4j project enables the use of the OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) libraries in Java applications. The first approach was made by Ivica Aracic aka bytelord (http://www.bytelords.de). Thanks to him for taking the first steps! The last stable CVS version located at the OGRE... Platforms: *nix

GIMP circle brushes provides circle brushes for use as "rubber stamps" in the GIMP. GIMP circle brushes can be used with one click instead of creating outline circles by making a circle, filling with black, shrinking, and filling with white. The following pixel sizes are provided: 6, 12, 15,... Platforms: *nix

Dataxi project is a collection of tools for developing form-based information systems. Dataxi enables one to quickly build an application based on forms with which the user can access the underlying database in order to query, read, edit and write. Dataxi is the link between the user interface... Platforms: *nix

Rails Live CD project was born on Ezra Zygmuntowicz blog and realized with help from Brian Ketelsen. Rails Live CD is based on PCLinuxOS which is a great Linux distribution for creating LiveCDs. More information at PCLinusOS.com To use it, just download, burn and reboot! Or if you have a... Platforms: *nix

Password Hasher enables a good security practice. What good security practice demands: * Strong passwords that are hard to guess. * Different passwords at each site. * Periodically changing existing passwords. Why you probably arent practicing good security: * Strong passwords are... Platforms: *nix

stephanie is a program for hardening OpenBSD for multiuser environments. Mmmmm, OpenBSD. Functional, secure, free. With an emphasis on security and integrated cryptography, it carries an excellent reputation for plain old "you-just-cant-hack-this-ness". Not perfect, but nothing is, at least... Platforms: *nix

Slirp provides a SLIP/PPP emulator over shell/telnet/ssh/etc. Slirp is a (C)SLIP/PPP emulator based on the original BSD sources. It allows the user to pull up a full internet connection over a shell connection, and features sharing multiple modems for additional bandwidth. Slirp emulates a... Platforms: *nix

PHPReports project started when I needed something to create some reports on the browser as replacement of those ones my company used to generate using tools like FoxPro, Visual Basic and all that m$ stuff you dudes know about. I was starting PHP programming (still am) and was really excited... Platforms: *nix

Tersus is a visual programing platform that lets you create enterprise Web applications easily by drawing visual diagrams instead of writing code. If you need to create enterprise web applications, Tersus is for you. With Tersus, a single person or a small team can quickly accomplish what would... Platforms: *nix

Apt-get Install / Remove Packet is a tool to install/remove packets with debian apt-get. About Apt-Get: Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a package management system used by Debian and its derivatives. APT was originally designed to work with .deb packages on Debian systems, but it has... Platforms: *nix

WaterRace is an offshore racing game with unique characters, levels and ships, each having their own technical characteristics. Mastering the different ships and levels is an extraordinary challenge. The beauty and the diversity of the circuits located in different parts of the world, and the... Platforms: Mac

KeyboardRemap remaps your keyboard to thenow-discontinued IBM split keyboard, which may make a gigantic difference in your ability to type without pain (along with better posture, exercise, etc.) The closest keyboard to its layout that is now sold is the Goldtouch adjustable keyboard. Platforms: Mac

DoubleCommand is the most capable keyboard remapper I have foundfor OS X, but it's a pain to configure. So... here's a littlescript that configures it for you.Requires tcl/tk - you can use TclTkAqua or any other Tcl/Tk implementation. Platforms: Mac

[ Via Apple.com ] Ben, nine years old, is in remission from Leukemia. He also had a unique wish.T BenOCOs wish was to create a video / computer game in which the hero kills cancer cells. The game would have several levels of battling the cells. Ben felt that this game would be helpful for kids... Platforms: Mac

For those of you that don't know about timers in Halo:Halo works by spawning items (such as power ups) that given time intervals despite when the item was picked up by a player and so this program will tell you when that item is spawning (literally will speak to you as well as many other methods... Platforms: Mac