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Thoggen – DVD backup software

Thoggen is a DVD backup utility (‘DVD ripper’), based on GStreamer and Gtk+. Thoggen is designed to be easy and straightforward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults

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recordMyDesktop – desktop session recorder

recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobtrusive as possible by processing only regions of the screen that have changed. The program is separated in

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Stopmotion – create stop-motion animation movies

Stopmotion is software for creating stop motion animations. A stop motion animation is an animation which is built by taking many pictures of some object while moving it a little between each picture. When these pictures are run you get

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Celtx – free scriptwriting software

Celtx has been discontinued and is no longer available to download from the developer’s website. As the software was released under an open source license, you can find copies of the software available from other sites. Celtx is screenwriting software

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Breakage **AWOL**

Breakage is an intelligent drum machine designed to make it easy and fun to play complex, live breakbeat performances. Breakage is a software drum machine, like FLStudio or HammerHead. Drum machines are musical instruments for composing drum beats. A drum

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Ario – GTK2 client for MPD

Ario is a GTK2 client for MPD (Music player daemon). The interface used to browse the library is inspired by Rhythmbox, but Ario aims to be much lighter and faster. The software is released under an open source license. Features

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Gnome Music Player Client – MPD client

Gnome Music Player Client (GMPC) is a front end for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It began life as traymp, a simple tray notification client and has grown into much more. It’s focused on being fast and easy to use,

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Streamripper – record streaming mp3 to your hard drive

Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style streams it finds the “meta data” or track separation data, and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated. Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music.

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Listen **AWOL**

Listen is an audio player which helps you to organize your music collection. The software offers many features such as Podcast management, browsing Shoutcast directory, and provides direct access to lyrics, lastfm and wikipedia information. Listen can automatically generate playlists

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KPlayer – KDE multimedia player

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards. Standard player controls like seeking, volume, contrast, brightness,

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Mercury Messenger **AWOL**

Mercury Messenger is a popular Java based MSN client. With Mercury you can do the same things as with your normal messenger. But Mercury has some additional functionality that a typical messenger does not have. Mercury has an interchangeable interface,

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SSL Explorer **AWOL**

SSL-Explorer is a fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, access to multiple file systems and application launching/tunneling through a standard browser. It is designed to be installed upon a

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