Online Grades and Attendance – educational software

Online Grades is a popular open source project which allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site. The software accepts grade export information from popular gradebook software programs including Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City’s Grade

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OwnCloud Documents – ownCloud app

ownCloud Documents is an ownCloud app to work with office documents alone and/or collaboratively. It allows up to 5 individuals to collaborate editing .odt and .doc files in a web browser. ownCloud is a self-hosted file sync and share server.

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Hackpad **AWOL**

Hackpad is an open source web-based realtime wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative document editor. Hackpad allows users to share your docs realtime and it uses color coding to show which authors have contributed to which content. It

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Calmly Writer – focus on writing

Calmly Writer is billed as the ultimate distraction-free writing tool. It has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the interface. Calmly Writer also includes a “focus mode” option,

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Electric Fence – detect programming bugs

Electric Fence (eFence) is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming bugs: software that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory allocation, and software that touches a

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Bitbucket – Git and Mercurial Solution

Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. The software is written in Python using the Django web framework. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial code management for professional teams. Their main market

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GNU Screen – full-screen window manager

GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate “screens” on a single physical character-based terminal. Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus

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cool-old-term – terminal emulator

cool-old-term is an open source terminal emulator that is in a very early stage of development. It tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. The developer has not forgotten to include some eye-candy. The

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Final Term **AWOL**

Final Term is billed as a new breed of terminal emulator. Final Term is an open source terminal emulator written solely in Vala, an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code. Final Term’s source code is

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GnomeBaker – CD/DVD burning software

GnomeBaker is a free CD/DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GnomeBaker features an intuitive interface. It is part of the GNOME desktop environment. Features include: Create data CDs. Blank rewritable disks. Burn DVDs. Burn data cds

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ScreenCloud – makes screenshot sharing easy

ScreenCloud is an easy to use open source screenshot tool. With this software, users can take a screenshot using one of the 3 hotkeys or simply click the ScreenCloud tray icon. Users can choose where you want to save the

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HotShots – screenshot and annotation tool

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, …). You can also upload your creations to the web (FTP/some web services).

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Google Desktop **AWOL**

Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user’s email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed,

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LXQt – lightweight Qt desktop environment

LXQt is billed as an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects. The idea of pooling resources between the two projects is to

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PDFedit – a PDF editor

PDFedit allows users complete control of editing PDF documents. It’s primary created for simple editing and manipulation of documents in PDF format. There is a graphical and command line interface available. The software lets you change either raw PDF objects

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