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The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class
library for creating PDF documents. The Extended
Edition offers the ability to create and edit
AcroForms, PDF’s answer to the HTML form. Like
HTML forms, PDF forms can contain text boxes,
radio buttons, and can call JavaScript functions.
The Extended Edition also includes a PDF reader
for importing and editing, along with FDF support,
verification for digital signatures and text
extraction. Both variations offer full Unicode
support, encryption, embedded TrueType and Type1 fonts, barcodes, hyperlinks, and spot and calibrated
color.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
A memory leak occurring when creating new form
fields with 2-byte fonts was fixed. Reusing subset
2-byte OpenType fonts across documents now works
correctly. Some fixes were added to PDF/A document
creation and validation. Fixes were made for
reading byte-aligned Group 4 and some 2D Group 3
CCITT streams. Inverted 1-bit images for certain
unusually constructed PDFs were fixed. Some XFA
forms wth pageArea objects were fixed.
Improvements were made to the Swing “Look & Feel”
for Viewer on Windows and Linux.

jPersist is an extremely powerful
object-relational database persistence API that
manages to avoid the need for configuration and
annotation; mapping is automatic. It uses JDBC,
and can work with any relational database and any
type of connection resource. It uses information
obtained from the database to handle mapping
between the database and Java objects, so mapping
configuration is not needed, and annotation is not
needed. In fact, there is no configuration needed
at all.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This is a major milestone release. It contains
updated documentation, usability enhancements, and
major bugfixes. Support for several more databases
was added. jPersist now directly supports DB2,
Oracle, MySQL, H2, HSQL, Derby, and PostgreSQL.
All jPersist functionality is available. A problem
that resulted in a previous refactoring that led
to an inheritance problem was fixed. Generated key
support and imported/exported key support were
also improved. This release will likely become a
final release.

dicelab allows you to express complex dice rolling
schemes in a functional language and then roll
dice according to such a scheme or analyze the
statistic distribution of values. This is useful
when designing games (and to some degree when
playing them).

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
The program is much faster now.

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MacSlow’s Cairo-Clock is an analog clock
displaying the system time. It leverages the
visual features offered by Xorg 6.9/7.0 in
combination with a compositing manager (e.g.
xcompmgr), GTK+ 2.8.x, and Cairo 1.0.2 to produce
a time display with pretty pixels.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
gettext is now used and the program is localized
for: da, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, it, nl, pl, pt_PT,
ru, sl, sv, tr, zh_CN, and zh_TW. GOption, GList,
and GString are used for theme-list handling.
Checking is done for a composited
desktop-environment, thus depending on GTK+ >=
2.10.0. A new theme is included:
gremlin/gremlin-24. Hand animations are smooth.
Background clear-color is no longer flashed upon
startup. The close button in the “about” dialog
was fixed. A workaround for the “white rectangle”
bug in xserver was added.

tclterm is used to extend the Tcl core with
terminal control capability.

jWebApp is a Java-based Web application
development framework that is specifically
designed to satisfy the need for simple Web
development. jWebApp is configuration free,
straightforward, and extremely easy to work with.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This is a major milestone release. It contains
updated documentation, usability enhancements and
major bugfixes. A null pointer error that would
make entering an invalid URL hard to figure out
was fixed. getAbsoluteUrl was added, which allows
software to get a built URL for inserting into
generated content. The main controller was
factored out, which allows for custom controllers.

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NmnNewsletter is a Web application designed to
provide a simple but full featured newsletter and
messaging manager for Web sites running on PHP 4.x
or 5.x and MySQL. It implements lots of useful
features including newsletter saving and editing,
previewing and presending to test addresses, logs,
and statistical data concerning newsletters and
users alike. It also has some extra features like
HTML to text auto conversion for sending
multi-part messages, auto generation and insertion
of an unsubscribe link, tracking of who reads your
messages and when, and more.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
Absolute URL bugs were fixed in tinyMCE along with a character encoding bug and a slashes bug with newsletter editing. Extra security was added to the subscribe/unsubscribe process with encryption of a unique key.

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SwingWT is an implementation of the Java Swing and
AWT APIs which instead drives SWT applications.
This allows existing Java/Swing/AWT applications
to be compiled natively under Linux with gcj (or
simply to allow native widgets for existing Swing
apps without recoding).

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release contains many fixes and compatibility improvements, including support for AudioClip and SWT 3.2.

Cook is a tool for constructing files. It is given
a set of files to create, and recipes of how to
create them. In any non-trivial program there will
be prerequisites to performing the actions
necessary to creating any file, such as include
files. Cook provides a mechanism to define these.
When a program is being developed or maintained,
the programmer will typically change one file of
several which comprise the program. Cook examines
the last-modified times of the files to see when
the prerequisites of a file have changed, implying
that the file needs to be recreated as it is
logically out of date.

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License: GNU General Public License v3

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Changes:
Some build and portability fixes were made. The license was changed to the GPLv3.

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Zarafa allows you to share Outlook email and
calendars, even when you are out of the office,
via Outlook, with your PocketPC or through
WebAccess. Command line tools are provided to
integrate with your existing MTA for email
delivery and for user creation/editing.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
This release fixes various bugs and adds many speedups. Most importantly, the installer is Vista-compatible, and the IMAP gateway correctly works with Thunderbird 2.0.

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The Origo Eclipse Plug-In allows you to manage
releases and workitems of an Origo project
directly from within Eclipse.

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TeleKast is a teleprompter. Scripts are created
and used to create content for the teleprompter.
The scripts can also be used for doing feature
stories and interviews.

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License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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Changes:
Fixed a major bug which causes the editor to hang after entering one segment in the script. Also updated XULRunner and jsLib.

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Interchange is a mature Web application development environment with a focus on ecommerce and dynamic content management. It offers session and user management, database connectivity (both via SQL and a database abstraction layer), templating, a shopping cart, payment processing, inventory, encryption (via GnuPG, PGP, etc.), tax and shipping calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language akin to CFML, and the full power of Perl. It grew out of two earlier projects, MiniVend and Tallyman.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
Process management in PreFork mode was greatly
improved, making Interchange scalable to a new
level. The Vend::Swish2 module was added. This is
superior to Vend::Swish because instead of running
the swish binary it uses the Swish Perl API.
Control of the session per IP lockouts when
RobotLimit is set was improved. A minor DoS attack
hole was closed. Many other bugfixes and minor
enhancements were made.

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netInvoicing::Customer Manager, Invoicing &
Billing is a straightforward, powerful, and
intuitive billing and invoicing system. It keeps
track of clients and subscriptions. It generates
invoices for the items you want, and automatically
emails the invoices to clients.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
Several new options have been added to this release, including a new Invoice PDF format and a new Windows installation wizard. The ability to import data from QuickBooks (Customers, Transactions, and Products) has been added. All known bugs have been fixed.

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KONSEC Kolab Server is a highly scalable,
cluster-capable messaging and collaboration server
that is based on the outstanding open source
project, Kroupware. The KONSEC Konnektor is a
simple client extension that gives Outlook
complete group functionality through the Kolab
Server, which employs the open standard IMAP
together with ACLs, thus enabling you to
collaborate in a unique mixed Windows/Linux
environment.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
This version solves issues associated with umlauts
in Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002. In addition,
some convenience features have been implemented
and some minor bugs and performance issues have
been fixed.

Site Checker can be used to find broken links in
Web pages. First, it retrieves the list of all
pages of the Web site, either static pages or
dynamic pages generated from data stored in a
database. Then it checks the links in each of the
pages to verify if they are on the list. Links to
external sites can also be verified by performing
HTTP requests to the remote Web servers to check
whether the pages still exist.

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BugHotel Reservation System is a hotel booking and
accounting software package which uses the
Internet to “network” your corporate office to
each of your hotels. All data processing occurs at
the Application Service Provider (ASP) data
center. Income statements, reports, etc. may be
customized.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
This release adds several new options and fixes several known bugs. It adds a forgotten password option, the ability for corporate partners to list their bookings, Javascript email validation, minor validation in checkout/reservation (numebr of persons), and a new front desk module. It has a minor fix in Hotel Cache cachereceive, a minor license update fix, and a minor fix in Extra Services (Update). Corporate partner login has been improved. Hotels are now sorted by description in New Extra Services.

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The Karmasphere DP language is a high-performance
non-blocking parallel language for performing data
processing. It is designed to give the user a high
degree of control over the usage of system
resources, such as how many CPU cores or how much
disk I/O time to use, without requiring the
software developer to explicitly consider these
issues in code. The implementation is a
stand-alone library that can be used in any Java
1.5 environment. It can take full advantage of
multiprocessor (SMP or NUMA) systems, and may be
scaled sideways: since the interpreter and
environment are stateless, an entire cluster of
machines may run the interpreter in parallel
without any need for synchronization.

Freedup uses filesystem links to eliminate
duplicate files and thus reduce the amount of used
disk space within one or more file systems.
Freedup searches all given file system trees for
identical files and links them to the most
frequently referenced inode or to the inode of the
first file tree. If the devices differ, a symbolic
link is used instead of a hard link. Symbolic
links will not replace files when at least one of
the directory trees does not start with a “/”
(unless overridden by the -s option).

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
The performance of freedup was improved by reducing the number of file system reads. Additional functionality is provided, since “locate” (or other applications) are allowed to send file names to standard input of freedup. A man page was added with more detailed information than help. In order to improve quality, further tests and rules were added to the Makefile. The bugs concerning “-a” support and the incomplete basename macro were fixed.

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audiokonverter is a small utility to easily
convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA,
RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV, and movies to
MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV, and FLAC in Konqueror by
right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec,
faac, faad, flac, mplayer, wvunpack, and lame to
work. id3lib, metaflac, and vorbis-tools are
optional, but needed for full functionality.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
For handling MP3 metadata, the program has switched from id3tag (V1 and V2) to id3v2 (V2 only).

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SafeSquid is a content filtering proxy server. It supports ‘profiled’ Internet access, a browser based interface, very fast throughput, DNS caching, content caching, pre-fetching, bandwidth control, virus scanning, ICP, CARP, and ICAP clients, source, target, and time-based granular firewall style rules to allow or deny content like music, videos, Flash and Java applets, messengers, chats, cookies, ActiveX, scripts, etc., remote authentication, real-time text and image analysis for blocking pornography, and an URL filter.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
A couple of design (logical errors) flaws were resolved that affected SafeSquid in clustered environments. SafeSquid (slave) did not save the configuration to a physical file automatically upon synchronization. This has been taken care of. System library dependencies, specifically in context with OpenSSL libraries, were resolved. Flaws in the init script were resolved.

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metaf2xml parses and decodes aviation routine weather reports (METAR, SPECI), aerodrome forecasts (TAF), and synoptic observations (SYNOP) and stores the components in XML. They can then be converted to plain language (text, HTML), or XML with different schemas.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release brings changes to the user interface and a few smaller improvements and bugfixes.

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EiffelMedia is a multimedia library for Eiffel.
The library allows you to use 2D and 3D graphics,
sound, networking, and input via joystick and
keyboard. It has many smaller frameworks that make
life easier for a multimedia or game programmer.

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License: MIT/X Consortium License

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Changes:
Better Scene Graph and rendering features, bugfixes, and improvements in the installer.

pyxmdb is a database utility for exporting and
importing data between a delimited text file and
virtually any DBMS.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
A bug with the default logging format string was
fixed. Python 2.4 would generate an exception when
%(funcName)s was used from the “main” part of the
program. Support for Ingres (ingresdbi) was added
to the configuration file. Users may now choose
which DBMS module they wish to use as a default in
the [dbms] section of the configuration file. The
default is initially set to sqlite3. The dbserver
no longer defaults to localhost.

jNetPcap is a Java wrapper around the Libpcap
network packet capture library. The low-level API is
exposed in Java, which allows kernel buffer tuning,
flags, and other features. All captured packet
buffers are wrapped, not copied, in efficient
java.nio.ByteBuffer and delivered to Java by
reference. This allows not-in-memory copies of
packet data and very efficient and fast delivery of
packets. The software is released for various
platforms with the appropriate native library
bundled.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release is available in RPM format. A few new features have been added and some bugs fixed.

Error Management is a package to manage reports of
errors that occur in a system. It provides scripts
for generating pages to add, search, list, and
edit reports of error occurrences. The occurrence
records are stored in a MySQL database.

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GuYum is a GUI for Yum. It has a multi-tabbed
search interface. Repositories can be enabled or
disabled for each search request.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release focuses on compatibility with Fedora
7 and Python 2.5. The application was completely
rewritten in Python. C code was removed from the
project. Several incompatibility issues with Yum
have been fixed. Installation and searching
progress dialogs have been rewritten.

The Origo API Commandline Client allows you to
manage releases and work items of an Origo project
directly from the command line (e.g. from make or
Ant scripts). Interaction with Origo takes place
using XML-RPC calls. If you don’t want to send
them yourself, you can use the Origo API
Commandline Client and provide it with the
necessary arguments.

mod_auth_openid is an authentication module for
the Apache 2 Web server. It handles the functions
of an OpenID consumer as specified in the OpenID
1.1 specification. Once installed, a simple
configuration directive can secure a directory or
application on your Web server and require a valid
OpenID identity. You can configure
trusted/untrusted identity providers along with a
number of other options.

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License: MIT/X Consortium License

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Changes:
The license was changed to the less restrictive
MIT license to avoid legal nastiness with some
distributions. Sqlite support was added as an
alternative to bdb. An AuthOpenIDCookieLifespan
option was added. Some bugs relating to the
setting of the REMOTE_USER CGI environment
variable were fixed.

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The BugMall Shopping Cart includes everything you need to create, run, and manage an online store.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
This release implements many features, and all know bugs have been solved. It adds a localization translation table, adds a Page Views field to List Products, a new Fulfillment Report option, the ability to import customers from the Maintenance Option form, and META Title, META Keywords, and META Description fields in the products form. There is a new setup wizard for Win32 remote installation. There is a major fix in the ioncube distribution.