My Media System is a media-driven system for easy movie and audio playback, image viewing, game playing or watching TV. It supports many common file formats, including MP3, OGG, DivX, XviD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. It is controlled using a remote control, USB device, or keyboard. It supports DXR3, DVB, X11, SDL, and framebuffer output.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Over 40 bugs have been fixed and a few translations have been updated.
libnetfilter_log is a software library to
interface with the nfnetlink_log mechanism in
Linux 2.6.14 and later. The library enables
programs to receive and process packets logged by
the Linux packet filter (iptables).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a new API to handle the hardware link layer.
LightBlue is a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API
for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and Python For Series 60.
It provides easy programmatic access to device and
service discovery, RFCOMM sockets, L2CAP client sockets, sending and receiving files over OBEX, service advertising, and local device information.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
Deprecation warnings no longer appear for Mac OS 10.5. Sockets have been fixed to raise socket.timeout correctly. Bugs have been fixed in connect() and disconnect() in OBEXClient for both Mac OS and Linux. OBEX transfer speed for OBEXClient on Linux has been fixed.
Usermin For Webmail is a modified version of the
Usermin package that is pre-configured for use as
a Web-based email client. It is designed to work
on systems running a local IMAP server, such as
Dovecot. By default, users can read email, setup
autoresponders and forwarding with Procmail,
filter mail with simple rules, change their
passwords, and manage folders.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
This release preserves read flags when moving mail between folders, and better handles MIME-words encoded headers.
Usermin is a Web interface that can be used by any
user on a UNIX system to easily perform tasks like
reading mail, setting up SSH, or configuring mail
forwarding. It can be thought of as a simplified
version of Webmin designed for use by normal users
rather than system administrators.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
This release preserves read flags when moving mail between folders, better handles MIME-words encoded headers, allows scheduled background downloads, and better supports SSH version 2 key generation.
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms, you can setup user accounts, internet services, DNS, file sharing and so on.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
This update includes a new TCP Wrappers module, many translation updates, several BIND module improvements, support for Linux I/O scheduling classes, and much more.
delsafe is a set of utilities to hopefully allow you to recover recently
deleted files. Basically, when you delete or in certain cases overwrite
a file the original file is moved into a trash can. It does this by
overriding the original unlink, rename, open, and fopen library calls
using the Linux LD_PRELOAD mechanism. Trash cans are placed on top of
each mount point and are accessible by each user directly or through
links placed in the user’s home directory. This makes deletion very fast
because, in fact, it is only a renaming. To each filename in the trash
can is appended a time/version stamp.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release handles the situation where the trash filename exceeds 255 characters. Some minor bugs have been fixed.
Crossroads is a daemon running in user space, and features extensive configurability, polling of back ends using wake up calls, status reporting, many algorithms to select the ‘right’ back end for a request (and user-defined algorithms for very special cases), and much more. Crossroads is service-independent: it is usable for any TCP service, such as HTTP(S), SSH,
SMTP, and database connections. In the case of HTTP balancing, Crossroads can provide session stickiness for back end processes that need sessions, but aren’t session-aware of other back ends. Crossroads can be run as a stand-alone daemon or via inetd.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release introduces dispatch algorithms by client IP (hashed or direct) and a flag to avoid “lingering” sockets. A portability issue for 64-bit Linux has been solved.
It’s football time rookie! Join The Lineup trio in our special Madden NFL 09 episode.
BrianWCarver writes “It was inevitable. One can now run the entire Debian distribution (ARM port) on the Openmoko Neo Freerunner. We previously discussed the July 4th launch of this GNU/Linux-based smartphone, which is open down to its core, with the company providing CAD files and schematics for the phone. Openmoko released an update to their software stack earlier this month, called Om2008.8, which is still a work in progress. But now one can use these instructions on the Debian wiki to open up the possibility of using apt-get to access Debian’s more than 20,000 applications on your phone, which, due to integration with freesmartphone.org efforts, can also actually be used as a phone. There were previous efforts to run Debian on the predecessor product to the Neo FreeRunner, the Neo 1973, but with the wider adoption of the Neo FreeRunner and the hard work of many Debian developers at the ongoing DebConf 8, carrying Debian in your pocket has just gotten a lot easier.”
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Cocoto Fishing Master (PS2)
A simple, inoffensive fishing adventure that proves itself to be far better on the PS2 than it was on WiiWare.
Lucasarts shows us some choice moves their upcoming lightsaber duels game.
Paul Williams writes “Develop Magazine has posted a fascinating multi-part interview with Sam Houser, president and founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games. Houser is rarely quoted outside of press releases, and almost never does interviews. So, reading his frank views on things like Rockstar’s critics, the creative secrets that make games like GTA IV a success, and how the developer rejects things like focus testing — a common practice at the likes of EA but an ‘anathema to creativity’ according to Houser — is very interesting. Houser has even written a mini biography of his career with some fun references to the Hot Coffee scandal: ‘July 2005: Residue code found in San Andreas. Hackers modify it and it turns into scandal known as “Hot Coffee.” Get dragged into legal nightmare, ending in trip to Washington in February 2006 to sit in front of federal trade commission staff — for nine hours.’”
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Celebrity Sports Showdown (Wii)
Your celebrity obsession comes to the Wii.
Boogie SuperStar (Wii)
We boogie down with EA’s casual sequel.
Bionic Commando Rearmed (X360)
A slew of new goodies to commemorate the launch of Rearmed.
Dark Void (PS3)
Jetpacks and beating up ET. How can you possibly go wrong?
Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual
N-Back mental exercise. This exercise is the only
mental activity that is scientifically proven to
improve your short-term memory and fluid
intelligence (IQ). The game involves remembering a
sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of
positions of a square at the same time. Brain
Workshop includes an optional Triple N-Back mode
that introduces differently colored squares as a
third stimulus.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Three consecutive scores of >=80% are now required to advance levels. A 100% score will advance levels instantly. The history chart has a new look. This release reduces CPU usage on OS X and disables Vsync to eliminate an error message on certain machines. New columns have been added to the stats file.
CRM-CTT Interleave allows you to create entities (tickets) to which you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual and customizable. It can be used for any department in which something comes in, must be handled, and goes out, such as bug tracking, systems management (including assets), helpdesk call tracking, and even as a CMS to host your complete Web site. It creates management information and exports in PDF and Excel, and reports and invoices in RTF format.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release introduces a whole set of new tools to use the application better and faster. FlexTables are also introduced. With FlexTables, you can create your own tables and refer to and from them.
Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is an enterprise
ready browser-based communication suite. Users can
read, send, and organize email messages and manage
and share calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes
with the standards compliant components from the
Horde Project. It bundles the separately available
applications IMP, Ingo, Kronolith, Turba, Nag, and
Mnemo. It can be extended with any of the released
Horde applications or the Horde modules that are
still in development, like a file manager, a
bookmark manager, a forum, or a wiki.
License: OSI Approved
Changes:
Update functionality has been added to the setup script. The address book with favorite recipients has been activated. Sending messages while using the SQL token driver has been fixed.
coondoggie brings us this NetworkWorld article, which begins: “In the ever-growing desire to produce smaller, less costly, yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers today said they are looking at a way to use self-growing fabrics that will let manufacturers build nano-sized high resolution semiconductors and arrays to answer that craving. Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have come up with a method that uses existing technology to combine the lithography techniques traditionally used to pattern microelectronics with novel self-assembling materials known as block copolymers, researchers said. When combined with a lithographically patterned surface, the block copolymers’ long molecular chains spontaneously assemble into the designated arrangements.”
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The Docx to Text project aims at generating
equivalent text files from Microsoft .docx
document files, preserving as much formatting and
document information as possible along with
appropriate character conversions for a good text
experience.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Docx text extraction can now be done in two ways (check the version README for further details): “docx2txt.sh file.docx”, or “docx2txt.pl infile.docx outfile.txt”.
SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible. DS9 is a stand-alone application that requires no installation or support files. It supports advanced features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
This release fixes a bug relating to Mac OS X with a firewall enabled. There are assorted enhancements and bugfixes.
The CWP/SU Seismic Un*x (SU) package is a software environment for seismic processing and seismic and wave-propagation related research. It is used not only in seismology but in other areas involving time-dependent data, such as Ground Penetrating RADAR.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release adds a 2D cellular automata program for generating rough velocity models with voids, the ability to generate a histogram of the Probability Density, and a routine to convert latitude and longitude into UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates. It adds the ability to sense machine endianness automatically. Other minor improvements and enhancements have been made. The documentation has been cleaned up, and extra examples have been added. There are minor bugfixes.
Horde Groupware is an enterprise ready
browser-based collaboration suite. Users can
manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, and
notes with the standards compliant components from
the Horde Project. Horde Groupware bundles the
separately available applications Kronolith,
Turba, Nag, and Mnemo. It can be extended with any
of the released Horde applications or the Horde
modules that are still in development, like a file
manager, a bookmark manager, a forum, or a wiki.
License: OSI Approved
Changes:
Update functionality has been added to the setup script.
