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MailWatch – web-based front-end to MailScanner

MailWatch for MailScanner is a web-based front-end to MailScanner written in PHP, MySQL and JpGraph. MailScanner is a highly respected open source email security system design for Linux-based email gateways. It is used at over 40,000 sites around the world,

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Pine – Program for Internet News & Email

Pine is a program for Internet News & Email: a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by UW Technology at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to

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KMPlayer – media player software

KMPlayer is a basic audio/video viewer application for KDE, and a video player plugin for the Konqueror web browser. You can use this software for watching all the movie file formats that MPlayer, xine or GStreamer support, as well as

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Ogle **AWOL**

Ogle is an open source DVD player that supports DVD menus. It has many useful features like bookmarks, time skipping, multichannel audio, and crop & zoom video. Ogle supports playing CSS encrypted DVDs. It also plays DVDs with or without

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FreeJ – vision mixer

FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. It features realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen (through dynamically

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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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