ChessDB is a popular free chess database. With ChessDB, you can maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends and produce printable reports on players and openings. There are many more features (see below).
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Crafty – computer chess program
Crafty is a strong chess program. It is a chess engine, and concerns itself with playing chess and not with providing a graphical user interface. This means that Crafty is typically invoked indirectly by using a chess client. Crafty uses
Read moreGlaurung – UCI chess engine
Glaurung is a free chess engine. It is not a complete chess program, but uses the UCI (Universal Chess Interface) for chess engines as its communication protocol. Therefore to play against the engine, you either need to use a UCI
Read moreToga II – chess engine
Toga II is a derivative of the Fruit chess engine. It enhances on Fruit by offering greater chess knowledge and a better search algorithm. It is an UCI-only chess engine, and is reliant on a chess interface such as xboard
Read moredecaf – Java chess client
decaf is a Java based chess client for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) with attractive board and piece sets. FICS is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet. There is an optional speech
Read moreWink – tutorial and presentation creation software
Wink is a software tool to make presentations and tutorials about using software programs. A Wink presentation will resemble a live walkthrough about how to use the software. The author of the presentation can also add comments and explanations to
Read moreIstanbul – desktop session recorder
Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again.
Read morexvidcap small tool to capture display
xvidcap is a tool that captures movement on an X11 display for illustration or documentation purposes. It works in two distinct modes: In single-frame capture mode xvidcap takes a configurable number of screenshots per second and saves them to individual
Read morepyvnc2swf – screen recording tool
Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool. The sofware captures screen motion through the VNC protocol and generates a Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie. Pyvnc2swf suite comes with three separate Python programs: 1) vnc2swf.py – a program captures a VNC sessions
Read moreByzanz – record your desktop
Byzanz is a command-line / GNOME Panel applet which allows users to record their current desktop or parts of it to an animated GIF file. This is especially useful for publishing on the web, since every browser understands the GIF
Read moreOpsview – network and application monitoring tool
Opsview is a network and application monitoring tool that extends the capabilities of Nagios. Opsview is enterprise system monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. It is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular Open Source
Read moreDocBook Doclet – generate DocBook XML from javadoc or HTML
The DocBook Doclet (dbdoclet) creates DocBook code from Java source documentation. This software helps if you want to create reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a
Read moreD.U.M.A – Detect Unintended Memory Access
DUMA is an open-source library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs. DUMA helps developers detect common programming bugs: Overrunning the end (or beginning) of a dynamically allocated buffer. Using a dynamically allocated buffer after returning
Read moreFreeNX – remote display server
FreeNX is a GPL implementation of the NX Server and NX Client Components. NX is a technology for remote display. It provides near local speed application responsiveness over high latency, low bandwidth links. The core libraries for NX are provided
Read moreLTSP – Thin Client Solution
The Linux Terminal Server Project adds thin-client support to Linux servers. LTSP is a flexible, cost effective solution that enables schools, businesses, and organizations all over the world to easily install and deploy desktop workstations. LTSP is an add-on package
Read moreOmnitux – various educational activities
Omnitux is a set of educational activities based on multimedia elements (images, sounds, and text). Omnitux provides various different activity types including associations, puzzles and counting. Omnitux activities are described in relatively simple XML files. Therefore, people without programming skills
Read moreSage – lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. Sage improves on Mozilla Firefox’s live bookmarks with an RSS feed reader extension that adds better organization and a much more attractive display. The software integrates with
Read moreBloglines – personal news aggregator
Bloglines is a web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client. This is a server-based aggregation system, in which software and technology is automatically handled to collect syndicated feeds from 80 million online information
Read moreGoogleReader **AWOL**
GoogleReader is discontinued. Return to News Aggregators Home Page
Read moreThinFeeder – tiny RSS / Atom aggregator
ThinFeeder is an open source software that aims to provide a cross-platform, powerful and tiny RSS / Atom (currently RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0 / RDF, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3) aggregator for the desktop. ThinFeeder’s goal is to provide a
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