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| IrfanView |
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- IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for
non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows.
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| KMLEditor |
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- KMLEditor, the Japanese language editor profiled a few days ago, now has
English localization.
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| KML Editor
(Northgates) |
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- KML Editor makes it easy to create and edit KML files to be viewed in
Google Earth.
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| Knoppix |
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- KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a
representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support
for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX
can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system,
or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos.
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- It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk.
- Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable
software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).
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| ManyEyes |
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- Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find
patterns.
- Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new
social kind of data analysis.
- We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better.
- It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football
stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox.
- But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves.
- When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.
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| MediaWiki |
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- MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for
Wikipedia.
- It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia
Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
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- Linking to a Word Document uploaded to the Wiki
[[Media:Open_Source_Industry_News001.doc]]
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| MindTouch Deki |
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- The most sophisticated Wiki-based collaboration offering in the market,
MindTouch Deki Standard allows people to connect with each other through Wiki pages that
can be created, edited, and processed by the entire team in a variety of ways.
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| Mulberry |
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- Mulberry is an email, calendar and contact client supporting various
internet standard protocols.
- Mulberry is now Open Source, distributed under an Apache 2 style license.
- The Mac OS X, Windows and Linux code is all available.
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| NetStumbler |
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- Network Stumbler (also known as NetStumbler) is a tool for Windows that
facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN
standards.
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- It runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 to
Windows XP.
- A trimmed-down version called MiniStumbler is available for the handheld
Windows CE operating system.
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| OmniFind Enterprise
Search |
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- IBM® OmniFind™ Enterprise Edition provides scalable, secure,
high-quality enterprise search.
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| OmniFind Personal
Email Search |
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- OmniFind Personal Email Search is a new email search tool born out of
work within IBM Research in the area of text analysis and semantic search.
- IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search installs on your desktop or laptop
computer running Windows.
- It indexes all your email in Outlook or Lotus Notes and makes it
available for quick and accurate searching.
- The difference between OmniFind Personal Email Search and however you
might be searching your email today is in the semantics.
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- Unlike traditional search engines which only look for word matches with
at best some word stemming and synonyms applied, this semantic search engine understands
how people use key concepts in email such as people, organizations, phone numbers, and it
is configurable so you can teach it new semantic rules.
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| OpenSimulator |
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- OpenSimulator is a 3D Application Server.
- It can be used to create a 3D Virtual World, ala Second Life, and
includes facilities for creating custom avatars, chatting with others in the environment,
building 3D content in world, and creating complex 3D applications in world.
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- OpenSimulator can also be extended via loadable modules or web service
interfaces to build more custom 3D Applications.
- OpenSimulator is released under a BSD License, making it both open
source, and commercially friendly to embed in products.
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| Password Safe |
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- Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and
encrypted user name/password list.
- With Password Safe all you have to do is create and remember a single
"Master Password" of your choice in order to unlock and access your entire user
name/password list.
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| Photoshop |
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- Black & White
Select Area You Want > Image > Adjustment > Desaturate
- Chalk & Charcoal Drawings
Filter > Sketch > Chalk & Charcoal
- Night Vision Look
- Foreground Color = 07BC07
Background Color=Black
Details=7
Darkness=8
- "Photocopy" Look
Filter > Sketch > Photocopy
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| PSPad |
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- Insert a carriage return: Tools > Macro > Start Recording
"hit enter" then move cursor down once, total of five times
Tools > Macro > Stop Recording
Will assign macro to F5 by default
- Remove Blank Lines
Edit > Lines Manipulation > Remove Blank Lines
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- Remove carriage returns: Tools > Macro > Start Recording
"hit home" then move cursor up once, then "backspace" total of five
times
Tools > Macro > Stop Recording
Will assign macro to F5 by default
- Tools > Text Differences > Text Diff with this File
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| Puppy OS |
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- Puppy Linux is an operating system, which means it is that which makes a
computer able to function at all, it is that which allows all the hardware on a computer
to talk to each other and that which enables applications to run.
- Other famous operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Apple's OSX and
MSDOS.
- Puppy takes its ancestry from Linux and so, like most other Linux-based
operating systems, it is a completely free and open source.
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- Puppy is aimed to be as easy to use as possible and very little technical
knowledge is assumed.
- As much hardware is automatically detected as possible, you will often
find that, whereas on other operating systems you had to install extra driver software to
get your particular device functioning, Puppy will successfully detect and install the
driver without user prompting.
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| Putty |
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- PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix
platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
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Repositories of Free Software |
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| ScreenPrint32 |
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- ScreenPrint32 allows you to print and/or capture to disk or clipboard,
the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen.
- Add user defined headers and footers with date and time stamps etc,
resize the printed image, convert to gray scale or negative image, fade or resize the
image to reduce toner/ink usage, print by default to any available printer.
- It can be set up to be completely transparent to the end user.
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| Second Life |
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- Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world video
game launched on June 23, 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as
Linden Lab), which came to international attention via mainstream news media in late 2006
and early 2007.
- A free downloadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables
its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional
avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general
aspects of a metaverse.
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- Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in
individual and group activities, and create and trade items (virtual property) and
services with one another.
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| SimpleMU |
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- SimpleMU is an internet client for all MUD type games including MUSH,
MOO, MUCK and MUSE.
- It is a fast, small client that supports a highly customizable interface
including background images and full ANSI Color support with custom color
configurations.
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| Sugar CRM |
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- SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes.
- Sugar easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more
flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications.
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- SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily
customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain
more profitable relationships.
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