Mixxx - Free Digital DJ Software

URL: Mixxx

Price: $0

Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux

Version: 1.7.2

• Free, open source DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

• MIDI controller support

• Superior mixing engine with recording, vinyl control, and more

• Created for DJs, by DJs

SMPlayer - Frontend for MPlayer

URL: SMPlayer
Version: 0.6.8
Price: $0
Platform: Windows (Installer and Portable), Linux

Official Features:

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...

Other additional interesting features:

• Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
• Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
• Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
• Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
• Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
• Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
• Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
• Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
• Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
• Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
• Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
• Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
• It's multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows and Linux.
• SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

IOTop - Shows the IO per task

A top like tool to watch your IO per task.

URL: IOTOP
Platform: Linux
Version: 0.3.1
Price: $0

Requires: Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20 with the TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING options enabled.

PhotoRec & TestDisk

PhotoRec and TestDisk (version 6.11) both are licensed under GPL. Both can run under various platform:

• DOS / Windows 9x,
• Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista),
• Linux,
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
• Sun Solaris
• MacOS

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
• Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
• Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

Shutter - Screen Capture for Linux

URL: Shuttle
Platform: Linux
Price: $0
Version: 0.70.2

Features:

• take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
• take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time
• save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way
  (using special wild-cards)
• Shutter is fully integrated into the Gnome Desktop (TrayIcon etc.)
• generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in %
• Shutter session collection
  • keep track of all screenshots during session
  • copy screeners to clipboard
  • print screenshots
  • delete screenshots
  • rename your file
• upload your files directly to Image-Hosters (e.g. http://ubuntu-pics.de), retrieve all the needed links and share them with others
• edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool

Dia - A Visio Clone

A Visio clone for Linux. Comprehensive features.

URL: Dia
Version: 0.97
Platform: Linux, Windows
Price: $0

Official Description:

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).

We feel Dia is in a state where it can be actively used. Many features are implemented and the code is quite solid and mature. Try downloading Dia and tell us what you think of it. If you find any bugs, please report them with Gnome Bugzilla. Check out the code too, you might even want to contribute...

Easy steps to upgrade Ubuntu from 8.10 to 9.04

1. Check your Ubuntu version


lsb_release -a



2. Apply all updates for your Ubuntu 8.10


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade



3. Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04


sudo do-release-upgrade



4. Check your Ubuntu version


lsb_release -a



5. Bingo.

Memcached - Distributed Memory Object Cache System

Memcached is a high performance, distributed memory object caching system. This caching system running primarily in Linux/Unix and there are various port in Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris.

Setting up the memcached in windows is easy, download the Win32 binary and put it somewhere. Fire the following commands:

memcached.exe -d install
/* Install the memcached as windows service */

memcached.exe -d start -m 512
/* Start the memcached instance with maximum memory 512M */

Configuring PHP using the Memcached:

1. Download php_memcache.dll in Google as pecl4win.php.net was down in 2008.
2. Copy the php_memcache.dll to \ext
3. Edit the php.ini to include the line
   
extension=php_memcache.dll


4. Restart Apache

Test the memcache is working through the following code.

<?php
$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->addServer("localhost",11211); /* Default Port */
$memcache->addServer("localhost", 22333); /* Comment this out if you are not starting multiple incidence */

print "Server's version: " . $memcache->getVersion() . "<br />\n";

$tmp_object = new stdClass;
$tmp_object->str_attr = "test";
$tmp_object->int_attr = 123;

$memcache->set("key",$tmp_object,false,10);
echo "Store data in the cache (data will expire in 10 seconds)<br />\n";

echo "Data from the cache:<br />\n";
var_dump($memcache->get("key"));
?>

Read the PHP Memcache Menu

There is another key-value pair cache called Redis. Will talk more in other posts.

xChm - Another Linux CHM Reader

xCHM is a cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib, with borrowed bits from Pabs' chmdeco project.

Originally written for UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), xCHM has been since ported to Mac OS X and Windows.

xCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book.

xCHM is a freeware under GPL.





More screenshots here.

KChmViewer

A CHM Viewer under Linux.

• Support CJK encoding, Espanol and Russian help files.
• Support tab browsing which can open links in new tab.
  

URL: KChmViewer
Platform: Linux
Price: $0

CentOS released version 5.3

CentOS is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the name & logo of RedHat removed from the source code. Free community edition without the option to have commercial support.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.3. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

Ubuntu Version Scheme

The Ubuntu version numbering scheme is based on the date we release a version of the distribution. The version number comes from the year and month of the release rather than reflecting the actual version of the software. Our first release (Warty Warthog) was in October 2004 so its version was 4.10. This version (Edgy Eft) was released in October 2006 so its version number is 6.10.

Floola - Free iPod Manager

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone and iPod touch). It's a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.

Platform: Linux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer!) and Windows (98 or newer, including Vista)
URL: Floola
Version: 5.0
Price: $0