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Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for Unidentified Devices in the Windows Device Manager. This tool was designed to be very simple and easy to use.... Platforms: Windows

FastSig project is “yet another” implementation of signals/slots mechanism in C++. Typically, I’m not really in favor of implementing things that exists already and are good enough – and there are indeed a plenty of good signals/slots implementations for C++. However, I was not able to... Platforms: *nix

streamripagent is a simple Amarok script that watches the tracks streamed in Amarok. If any of the regexps in ~/.streamripagent matches the current title, streamripper is started and the track is ripped to a specified directory. Its not exactly an amarok script that you can manage with the... Platforms: *nix

Scorched 3D project is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games". Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both... Platforms: *nix

cdevour script is designed to make CD ripping painless. Aside from swapping discs, it aims for as little user interaction as possible. Drives are continually polled for discs. Upon finding a disc in a drive, it determines what CD it is, makes sure it has enough disk space, and rips. Names are... Platforms: *nix

crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux. It is well-suited for anyone (especially the perfectionist) who seeks to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all properly labeled and professional-quality with a minimum of hassle... Platforms: *nix

pipo project is a quick tool to scan and parse directories recursively and find images based on user-specified criteria, such as independent resolution on both image axis or dominant color searches, and supporting a large number of graphical formats. Similar to a find utility, pipo should prove... Platforms: *nix

FSHeal aims to be a general filesystem tool that can scan and report vital "defective" information about the filesystem like broken symlinks, forgotten backup files, and left-over object files, but also source files, documentation files, user documents, and so on. It will scan the filesystem... Platforms: *nix

wmapcmon is a dockapp to display the status of an APC backup UPS. Requires apcaccess program from the apcupsd package. To build the dockapp, just type make from the toplevel directory. It will produce a binary named wmapcmon in the toplevel directory. Note - you will have to build and install... Platforms: *nix

Boost::Graph is a Perl interface to the Boost-Graph C++ libraries. SYNOPSIS use Boost::Graph; # Create an empty instance of a Graph my $graph = new Boost::Graph(directed=>0, net_name=>Graph Name, net_id=>1000); # add edges $graph->add_edge(node1=>a, node2=>b, weight=>1.1, edge=>edge... Platforms: *nix

KBookRipper is a CD-riper based on cdparanoia focused on audio books delivered on CD. The project will rip a set of CDs with the same meta data. The output format is OGG, not MP3. The CDs assumes to be part of a audio book. I wrote it since I was very annoyed that the meta data for a book... Platforms: *nix

GNoise is a wave file editor for Linux. Prime considerations were for it to be speedy and be able to handle big files. So far it can: load and display files, generate a display cache, play the file, cut, copy, paste, (unlimited) undo, mute, fade in/out, reverse, normalize, and more. The primary... Platforms: *nix

Audio Input-Output Library (libaio) is meant to solve the problem of differing digital audio platforms once and for all. JACK is unnecessarily complex for most applications, and while libaos support for file output is cool, it limits what the API can do and is therefore inadequate for any kind... Platforms: *nix

Gronk is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. Gronk project generates heavily-hyperlinked Web pages listing all of your ripped CDs, by extracting information from CDDB data. These Web pages allow easy selection of songs or albums to play, and when nothing has been explicitly selected, it selects songs... Platforms: *nix

otto is a web based mp3 database and jukebox which can gracefully organize a very large number of albums. it is suitable for home or office workgroup use, or as an interface to a streaming internet radio station. otto is written in perl. it requires perl5, mysql, the DBI and DBD::mysql perl... Platforms: *nix

Mobile Web Proxy is a (CGI) tool to make more Web pages available from some mobile devices (cell phone Web browsers, etc.). When I began using my cell phones mobile web browser, one of the things I realized was that there were a lot of web pages that my cell phones web browser simply wouldnt... Platforms: *nix

Cxmame project is a simple console-based frontend for xmame. It uses the ncurses library. It was originally intended for xmame.svgalib, but works with all xmame targets. Before you run cxmame you have to create a ~/.cxmamerc file containing the name of the xmame exectable you want to use... 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

Mp3Splt is a command line utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. Mp3splt project is very useful to split large mp3/ogg to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can... Platforms: *nix

id3tool is a command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3 tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files. id3tool is a fully GPLd program. Warm-fuzzys are 100% optional. id3tool was written as a test program for a small id3 stub Id written for the "Ultimate MP3 Player" which is still a... Platforms: *nix