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Ad-aware
AVG 7 Anti-virus
QCD player
Real & Quicktime Alternative.
Skype
Miranda
SoulSeek
FileZilla

Omitting the ones that have been well-referenced by other posters:

• ConText
• Media Player Classic
• VideoLAN
• Gordian Knot (note: included DivX 5.x codec can be installed in ad-free mode, but encoding is restricted)
• Foobar2000

More to come as I think of them.

Installed on my computer right now are:

Avast! Antivirus
OpenOffice
Ad-Aware
Audacity
Azureus
CDex
ExplorerXP
FeedReader
Gaim
Mozilla
Spybot S&D
Tweak UI
TightVNC
OpenSSL
MP3Gain
PowerMenu

All of those programs are truly free with no spyware or nag screens.


When I'm looking for new programs, I go to:
TinyApps.org
Pricelessware
SourceForge
In that order.

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

• CDex
• WinMerge
• Media Player Classic
• Filezilla
• RSS Bandit
• Feedreader
• ClamWin AntiVirus
• Tortoise CVS
• Miranda IM
• WinSCP
• SharpDevelop
• Eraser

Media player classic is part of the "guliverkli" suite of multimedia opensource tools and applications.

It is much better than any other free player that I have tried, such as WMP, BSPlayer, and others.

I found out that most problems related to subtitles, audio, and codec-specific sync issues, which occur in many other players, never happened in Media Player Classic.

This could be a nice addition to CleanSoftware.org

Media player classic is part of the "guliverkli" suite of multimedia opensource tools and applications.

It is much better than any other free player that I have tried, such as WMP, BSPlayer, and others.

I found out that most problems related to subtitles, audio, and codec-specific sync issues, which occur in many other players, never happened in Media Player Classic.

This could be a nice addition to CleanSoftware.org

FileZilla is a nice FTP/SFTP client and apparently a server too, but I've never tried using it for that.

Depending on what you're looking for, gaim is even better.

Performace is better, though skinnability (and your own personal concept of aesthetics) is less.

-transiit

BSPlayer
Media Player Classic
ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/)
mIRC
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• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• Outpost Firewall
• Cygwin
• The GIMP
• Spybot
• adAware
• Trillian
• Google Desktop Search
• SETI@home
• iTunes

PuTTY is listed: Utilities

But they can add Filezilla and SciTE to that list

I use VirtualDubMod (http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net) and AVISynth (http://www.avisynth.org) extensively for video processing. They're the two big reasons why I keep a Windows XP partition on my computer.

You can find a large collection of AVISynth filters at http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/. I don't do much filtering in VirtualDubMod (I use it mostly for viewing AVISynth output, writing AVISynth scripts, performing compression, and muxing), but you can find a good starting list of VirtualDub filters at http://neuron2.net.

The doom9 forums for AVISynth development are also a good place to look for software and hints.

• CD Burner XP Pro
• Ultra VNC
• POV Ray
• Sygate Personal Firewall
• IconShop

By the way, how do you plan to take submissions in the future and filter out bunk submissions? It'd be nice to have a moderated system that could evolve some.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned cscope yet. We used that in the multi-million line project I worked on until a couple of years ago. My division was only responsible for a few hundred thousand lines of code with a relatively well defined interface, so we generally kept our own cscope subset (Hint: cscope has an option to cache its results, and I highly recommend doing that if your project is more than a few thousand lines). I never actually had to use cscope for the entire source tree, but it worked VERY well for my area of responsibility (several tens of thousands of lines).

In order to stick to the original question, I should also mention that most nontrivial programs end up using dynamic programming styles, and there's no way to graphically display those. I also want to point out is that no source code analyzer is going to do a even a half-assed job at figuring out dynamic relationships, so if your project contains any drivers/vtables/virtual functions, then you're basically S.O.L, and you may as well just use cscope. However, if you really insist on getting a graphical output, check out the free code graphing project. It has a nice picture of the linux kernel.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned cscope yet. We used that in the multi-million line project I worked on until a couple of years ago. My division was only responsible for a few hundred thousand lines of code with a relatively well defined interface, so we generally kept our own cscope subset (Hint: cscope has an option to cache its results, and I highly recommend doing that if your project is more than a few thousand lines). I never actually had to use cscope for the entire source tree, but it worked VERY well for my area of responsibility (several tens of thousands of lines).

In order to stick to the original question, I should also mention that most nontrivial programs end up using dynamic programming styles, and there's no way to graphically display those. I also want to point out is that no source code analyzer is going to do a even a half-assed job at figuring out dynamic relationships, so if your project contains any drivers/vtables/virtual functions, then you're basically S.O.L, and you may as well just use cscope. However, if you really insist on getting a graphical output, check out the free code graphing project. It has a nice picture of the linux kernel.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned cscope yet. We used that in the multi-million line project I worked on until a couple of years ago. My division was only responsible for a few hundred thousand lines of code with a relatively well defined interface, so we generally kept our own cscope subset (Hint: cscope has an option to cache its results, and I highly recommend doing that if your project is more than a few thousand lines). I never actually had to use cscope for the entire source tree, but it worked VERY well for my area of responsibility (several tens of thousands of lines).

In order to stick to the original question, I should also mention that most nontrivial programs end up using dynamic programming styles, and there's no way to graphically display those. I also want to point out is that no source code analyzer is going to do a even a half-assed job at figuring out dynamic relationships, so if your project contains any drivers/vtables/virtual functions, then you're basically S.O.L, and you may as well just use cscope. However, if you really insist on getting a graphical output, check out the free code graphing project. It has a nice picture of the linux kernel.

<a href="http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/">Source-Na vigator</a>

<URL:http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/>

<a href="http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/">Source-Na vigator</a>

<URL:http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/>

So yes, the IR receiver wasn't really necessary (maybe he did it for the learning experience though, or maybe he can use the code for something else).

But Win98, WTF? This is probably the first picture frame that has to be rebooted daily.

Personally, I'm a big fan of single-window/palette-based interfaces. Examples are Blender and ZBrush. Though both look quite distinct, they both keep everything in a single window, and keep everything organized for you. Tools can be reorganized by dragging palettes around, but they always fit neatly into shelves and panels, instead of floating over the image you're trying to edit. The key being that the computer is plenty smart enough to take care of managing my windows for me; I'd much rather be doing art than damaging the already sore muscles in my wrist by carefully positioning windows manually. (Incidentally, I've been experimenting with a palette-based interface of my own http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net/, which is probably why I'm so attached to them. ;) )

I like Emacs Code Browser, it's fast, featureful, and it deals with a bunch of different languages, see the screenshots
Of course, if you don't use emacs, it won't be nearly as handy.

I like Emacs Code Browser, it's fast, featureful, and it deals with a bunch of different languages, see the screenshots
Of course, if you don't use emacs, it won't be nearly as handy.

how about LXR?

I've been using it to browse linux source code lately: here

from the site:
A general purpose source code indexer and cross-referencer that provides web-based browsing of source code with links to the definition and usage of any identifier. Supports multiple languages.

except for lack of syntax hilighting, it works well.

-metric

PHPXRef: PHP Cross Referencing Documentation Generator
http://phpxref.sourceforge.net/

A good example of seperating content from presentation is to use an XML-type file (at least have a structured document model) where the music data is defined. Then, have somthing like an XLS sound stylesheet to define how the data will sound like. As a developer, this would create greater posibilities what I could do with the sound that my application processes.

On a side noce GNoise [sourceforge.net] is a good sound editor that I recommend to anyone doing edeting or large sounds like game-music (that is uncompressed in raw format.) os

Funny, the Slashdot blurb accuses him of saying that no other system today does SSI, while according to the article he simply said their (future, potential) SSI plans will beat GNAA/Linux's (present, working) SSI clustering.

Anybody have thoughts comparing the DragonFly SSI [shiningsilence.com](warning, PDF) and the GNAA/Linux [sourceforge.net] one?
(Open)Mosix has had craploads of work done on it, and by the time DragonFly's is done, it will be even further ahead. I somehow doubt DragonFly's will end up being better.

PK xbp

from the changelog:
" * - Fixed cublic spline interpolation. It should actually save the option now! [pagefault] "

Why would curve interpolation be needed in an emulator?

Look at this and all your confusion about which release this is will disappear: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=19677&package_id=14321

It sounds like an artificial intelligence (AI).

An AI is really sophisticated when it can ask its own questions of the user.

I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

• it's open source
• can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
• it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
• it converts recorded programs into MP3s
• MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
• there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
• radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
• programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
• here's some (old) screenshots

Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

- David Janes

I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

• it's open source
• can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
• it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
• it converts recorded programs into MP3s
• MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
• there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
• radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
• programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
• here's some (old) screenshots

Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

- David Janes

I think he meant something like Password Safe where you control the master key, and that protects all the others.

From a blog entry I wrote a few weeks ago:

I wanted to record a couple of radio shows so that I can listen to them later on my linux machine. Basically I would like to listen to a mix of realplayer, Windows Media, Ogg and MP3 streams and save them as mp3 or ogg files so I can listen to them later on my computer or iriver ogg/mp3 player.

First I tried mplayer's dumpstream command

1) mplayer -dumpfile cores -dumpstream http://wm.warnermusic.com/France/the_corrs/summer_ sunshine/video/Summer_Sunshine_video_458.wmv
(thi s will give you a file called "cores" in your home-directory)

2) mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav cores
(this will convert the videofile to a wav audiofile)

3) lame audio.wav cores.mp3
(this will convert the file from wav to mp3)

However this process core dumped on realplayer recorder over 10 minutes. Also it doesn't know about ram files so you have to download them first (wget filename) and then open them to file the real link to the rm file. So I went on to look for some other tools.

Most of the tools seem to be wrappers around vsound and/or sox and lame/oggenc. Another tool I looked at is streamripper, which works for mp3 or ogg streams.

First I grabbed realcap which is a shell script front end to those tools. Downloaded, compiled and installed vsound.

Trick one - you have to ensure that realplayer is using OSS drivers
http://www.osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/

After that seemed to work I tried directly with vsound. vsound acts as a kind of virtual audio loopback cable ... it allows you to record the output audio stream of ... and line out jacks on the sound card.

vsound --timing -f myfile.wav realplay http://www.radio.org/ra/show.ram
oggenc myfile.wav

I also checked out the trplayer - which is a command line wrapper to realplayer. http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html

Got the error:
Failed to load rmacore.so.6.0: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Common/rmacore.so.6.0: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Well I figured out that they must be looking for the real player in /usr/lib when it was in /usr/local/ so I copied the directories over to where it wanted to find them and everything worked ok.

Also I tried out streamripper
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/, which seemed to work fine ripping various streams. It didn't seem to be able to read the .m3u file so I had to download the m3u file with wget and look at it and then use streamripper http://url.ogg for it to work. Cool - now I can listen to the BBC and CBC and ABC (Australian Broadcasting) and Netherlands Broadcasting when I want to and where I want to.

Finally I had a look at mp3record - a bash shell wrapper for lame and sox
Basically it does this:
(sox -r $strFreqRate -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp -t raw -c 2 -
| lame -s 44.1 -x -b $strBitRate -m s - $strFileName) &

Things to get working...
1) streaming directly to ogg with no intermediary wav step.
2) see if I can get this running from a cron job...

Source code for codecs included?

Generally no, except for free (FLAC) or trivial (WAV/AIFF) encodings, which are built-in.

SlimServer's trick is to take advantage of thrid-party codecs which are installed on your computer. This allows us to support Apple Lossless, for example, by leveraging Quicktime (Windows or Mac). The same goes for WMA. MP3 encoding is automatically enabled if a lame installation is detected.

It's all quite automatic - nearly always, if someone has Apple Lossless or WMA files, then they'll have Quicktime or Windows Media, respectively, installed. So whichever formats you're using will "just work" with SlimServer.

If we wanted to pay Fraunhofer "per anum" then we could distribute Lame, but it's easy enough to install separately.

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/openbb/read.ph p?TID=391

You do realise we're talking about a device that generates a number in sync with the server, and not a simple ascii file, right?

This, not this. (or this)

The source code is viewable in CVS on sourceforge. I see directories for both client and server code. The pieces of code I looked at are under GPL, and written in C++.

From reading their licensing page, it looks like they are making all the client and server code of the game GPL, but all the art, game rules, etc. that make it a particular world are under a special proprietary license. They have a very good argument for why they chose the licensing style they have, though myself I think they are perhaps over-paranoid of forks.

In summary, they make it easy to use their engine to create your own, entirely different game, but they don't allow you to create slight tweaks of their existing game. They also don't permit use of custom clients with their servers and content, as I read it.

The source is available in sf CVS. See here for instructions.

However, a source release is not available, not in their home page, not on sf.

Also, the project is not completely Open Source. Part is covered by the GPL and part by a proprietary license of some sort.

See their explanation.