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
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Wink – 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 moreROBODoc – automating the software documentation process
ROBODoc is a program documentation tool. The idea is for every function or procedure to include a standard header containing all sorts of information about the procedure or function. ROBODoc extracts these headers from the source file and puts them
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
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