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NoSQL RDBMS »

NoSQL is a fast, portable, relational database management system without arbitrary limits, (other than memory and processor speed) that runs under, and interacts with, the UNIX1 Operating System. It uses the "Operator-Stream Paradigm" described in "Unix Review", March, 1991, page 24, entitled "A 4GL Language". There are a number of "operators" that each perform a […]

Open Source Terminal Server »

x2go is an open source terminal server project offering a comprehensive "server based computing" solution. Combining the advantages of existing systems it features ease of use, performance and scalability. x2go provides you with access to your desktop as an individual as well as a corporate user - from within your own network and via the […]

Open Source Video Transcoder »

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Supported Sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted–protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
Most any multimedia file it […]

Open Source 3D Creation Software »

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source eBook Library Management »

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

Library Management
calibre manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in […]

Free Webcam Software »

Yawcam is a shortening for Yet Another WebCAM software, and that’s exactly what it is.
More precise Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use but to include all the usual features.

Windows Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 Library »

#ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language).
The creator of #ziplib put it this way: "I’ve ported the zip […]

Library for Windows API Hooking »

EasyHook supports extending (hooking) unmanaged code (APIs) with pure managed ones, from within a fully managed environment like C# using Windows 2000 SP4 and later, including Windows XP x64, Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64. Also 32- and 64-bit kernel mode hooking is supported as well as an unmanaged user-mode API which allows […]

Open Source Windows Spying Tool »

oSpy is a tool which aids in reverse-engineering software running on the Windows platform. With the amount of proprietary systems that exist today (synchronization protocols, instant messaging, etc.), the amount of work required to keep up when developing interoperable solutions will quickly become a big burden when limited to traditional techniques.
However, when the sniffing […]

MessagingToolkit MMS is released »

Now you can send and receive both SMS and MMS starting release 1.1.

MMS can be sent using the built-in MMS slide feature, or you can build the MMS message yourself. You can also save the MMS file to be sent out later.
The software is available at http://twit88.com/platform/projects/show/messagingtoolkit

Open Source Library System: Koha »

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.
Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, […]

Model and Solve Comple Problems with Solver Foundation »

Microsoft Solver Foundation is an extensible framework that helps you model and solve complex problems by:

Modeling and solving scenarios by using constraints, goals, and data.
Programming in the Optimization Modeling Language (OML), in C# imperatively, in F# functionally, or in any .NET Framework language.
Integrating third-party solvers, such as Gurobi, Mosek™, FICO™ Xpress, LINDO, […]

Open Source BPEL Solution »

Orchestra is a complete solution to handle long-running, service oriented processes. It provides out of the box orchestration functionalities to handle complex business processes. It is based on the OASIS standard BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). Orchestra’s objectives:

Improvement and control of processes
Services interaction
Productivity and agility of the company

Orchestra is fully Open […]

Java Safe Concurrency Tools »

The goal of the jconch project is to produce a reliable, safe set of implementations for common tasks in mulithreaded Java applications. The goal is to be similar in spirit to the way that Spring scraps the boilerplate for common user tasks in database work.
Current functionalities

Logical Equivalence Locking — Both synchronized and ReadWriteLock-based based on […]

Javascript Mobile Framework »

PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.
If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.
As simple as HTML, CSS and […]

Windows: Generate WMI Code »

The WMI Code Creator tool allows you to generate VBScript, C#, and VB .NET code that uses WMI to complete a management task such as querying for management data, executing a method from a WMI class, or receiving event notifications using WMI.
The WMI Code Creator tool generates code that uses WMI to obtain management information […]

Java Configuration Management Framework »

SmartFrog is a powerful and flexible Java-based software framework for configuring, deploying and managing distributed software systems.
SmartFrog helps you to encapsulate and manage systems so they are easy to configure and reconfigure, and so that that they can be automatically installed, started and shut down. It provides orchestration capabilities so that subsystems can be started […]

Windows Process Memory Analysis Utility »

VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process’s committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory […]

Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET »

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.
Once ELMAH has been dropped into a running web application and configured […]

What is the Testability of Your Code »

Testability-explorer is a tool which analyzes Java bytecode and computes how difficult it will be to write unit tests for the code. It attempts to help you quantitatively determine how hard your code is to test, and where to focus to make it more testable.
Testability Explorer can be used:

As a learning tool which […]