Beautiful Soup project is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful:

Beautiful Soup wont choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away.
Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You dont have to create a custom parser for each application.
Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You dont have to think about encodings, unless the document doesnt specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup cant autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.

Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading thats got bold text, then give me that text."

Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes with Beautiful Soup.

Wallpaper Slideshow is a software to make a slideshow in your wallpaper with images in your directory.

This application monitories a directory and put an image in wallpaper before X seconds.

You need mono and if you have ubuntu 6.10, only need to do: sudo aptitude install -y libmono2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil gtk-sharp2.

Earth allows you to find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time. The project consists of a daemon that indexes filesystems in real time and reports all the changes back to a central database.

This can then be queried through a simple, yet powerful, web interface. Think of it like Spotlight or Beagle but operating system independent with a central database for multiple machines.

Earth is initially focused on managing the explosion of data that occurs in digital visual effects work.

Whats New in This Release:

· Many small usability improvements, several significant performance improvements for the Web application, reduced database size, code improvements, and a much improved command line interface to the Earth daemon.

Wallpaper Control is a graphical wallpaper manager.

Wallpaper Control is a non-window manager-specific wallpaper manager for the X Window System.

It aims to be a full featured utility for managing and setting your images you use as wallpaper.

Features include a preview window, directory listing, and deletion of graphics from hard drive.

Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits on the GNOME panel.

The project gives you a random wallpaper from a chosen directory at logon, on a timer, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu.

UPDATE: I have had reports from users on Ubuntu that Wallpaper Tray is broken, something about the config dialog not appearing. It works fine on FC5. It also works on FC6. I suspect that the Ubuntu package needs rebuilding, hopefully this will happen for 0.5.3.

From here on in, I wont be touch packages, I will support the Autopackage project, which is designed to support the distribution of non core programs like mine.
he Applet lets you add directories, wallpapers are then randomly selected at login or at a given interval. You can also search your wallpaper collection, and delete wallpapers you dont like anymore.

Wallpaper Tray, as the name suggests, used to be live in the Notification Area. The Notification Area was never really meant for programs such as this, so the latest release uses the Gnome Panel. The last of 0.4.x series is still available however, for those that would rather stick with this way of working.

Form Saver enables you to saves form field data as autofill-bookmarklets.

Saves form field data as autofill-bookmarklets. Works with inputs, checkboxes, radio groups, textareas, and selects. As always, feel free to email me with suggestions or issues.

I designed this because when testing a form, I hated filling in every option each time.

Backgroundimage Saver is a Firefox extension that provides help for an annoying technique that can be found on more and more pages. That is to hide images behind a transparent gif to protect them against being saved.

Examplepages that use this can be found at:

print.google.com (just try to save any bookpage that is displayed after selecting a book)

www.imdb.com (same here with any larger images that are displayed)

Because since these pages place a transparent gif on top of the real graphic you cant just right-click an image and select "Save Image As..." because then you would just save the transparent gif (which is probably not what you want.

So this simple extension just adds a Save Background Image option to the right click context menu which does the trick.

Furthermore it is helpful if you want to be able to directly save the backgroundimage, since Firefox does not offer this option by default.

Invade Earth is an open-source implementation of the popular board game Risk 2210 AD.

Invade Earth includes a map editor, support for variant rules including Classic and Secret Mission modes, and a network play mode.

Here are some key features of "Invade Earth":

· Multiple rule sets and maps:
· Invade Earth A.D. 2210
· Amoeba Invasion Expansion
· Mars Expansion
· Pantheon Expansion (our version of Risk: Godstorm) (coming soon)
· Classic
· Secret Mission
· Custom rule values
· A versatile Map Editor
· Several built-in AIs (play against the computer)
· Network support (play against your friends)
· A centralized list of open internet games
· Save and load game states, even over a network
· Watch a replay of saved games

Amarok Full Screen provides a full screen front end for Amarok.

The look can be changed by custom THEMES.

Full Screen is an extension which provides a fulscreen button on the toolbar.

Adds Full Screen toolbar button and context menu command.

After installing use View / Toolbars / Customize... to add the button to the toolbar.

Invade Earth Server is a server for the Invade Earth game, for network play.

Here are some key features of "Invade Earth":

· Multiple rule sets and maps:
· Invade Earth A.D. 2210
· Amoeba Invasion Expansion
· Mars Expansion
· Pantheon Expansion (our version of Risk: Godstorm) (coming soon)
· Classic
· Secret Mission
· Custom rule values
· A versatile Map Editor
· Several built-in AIs (play against the computer)
· Network support (play against your friends)
· A centralized list of open internet games
· Save and load game states, even over a network
· Watch a replay of saved games

Xtra Screen Hacks is a collection of graphics display modes that are meant to be run with a daemon such as XScreenSaver.

"Daisy" draws spinning flowers, and "Twinkle" draws a twinkling star field.

Compilation of Xtra Screen Hacks depends only on xlib.

Installation:

The configure script is not up and running yet, so the Makefiles and config.h are hacked versions of the ones xscreensavers configure script generated on the authors machine. If your system differs from the authors (i686 Debian GNU/Linux) then the build will probably not work for you, unless you hack the Makefiles and possibly config.h to modify the variables and defines.

If the Makefiles and config.h are ok, then simply run

$ make

to generate the binaries. They will be in the hacks directory.
If you have a copy of XScreensaver installed from the tarball, run

$ make install

If not, you will need to copy the files to their target directories by hand. Search for deluxe, deluxe.xml, and deluxe.1 (or deluxe.man, deluxe.6x.gz, etc) using locate, find, or whereis to figure out where they should go. The binaries and xml files must be in the correct directories
to work properly with xscreensaver-demo.

You will need to add entries to your .xscreensaver file by hand. Open $HOME/.xscreensaver in your favorite text editor and paste the following two lines into the "programs" section:

--snip----------------
- daisy -root n
- twinkle -root n
--snip----------------

Then run xscreensaver-demo to activate and configure the hacks.

If you dont have XScreensaver at all, just enjoy the hacks in an X window.

If make install worked for you, type

$ make uninstall

when you no longer want the new screen hacks.

reset-screen is a very simple Qt 4 program that displays a simple cross hatch pattern on your monitor.

Why is this useful? Well, it makes the auto-sync feature of the flat panel LCD monitors out there both faster and more accurate (well, for mine anyways).

I have to run this every other time I start KDE so I figure others may find it useful as well.

This isnt really useful for laptop users I think, but you may need it. Who knows? :)

This is a very simple program, which a very simple build system.

Show Screen Captures is an extension which enables displaying screen captures of external links on a web page.

Displays screen captures of external links on a web page. Screen shots provided by openthumbshots.org.

A screenshot, screen capture, or screen dump is an image taken by the computer to record the visible items on the monitor or another visual output device. Usually this is a digital image taken by the host operating system or software running on the computer device, but it can also be a capture made by a camera or a device intercepting the video output of the computer.

Screenshots, screen dumps, or screen captures can be used to demonstrate a program, a particular problem a user might be having or generally when computer output needs to be shown to others or archived.

Gnome Screen Ruler project is a customizable screen ruler for Gnome.

Gnome Screen Ruler is an on-screen ruler for measuring horizontal and vertical distances in any application. Rulers can be moved and resized using the keyboard.

Here are some key features of "Gnome Screen Ruler":

· Horizontal and vertical display
· Multiple units: pixels, inches, centimeters, picas, points, percentage
· Configurable colors and font
· Can be set always-on-top of your application windows
· Can be moved and resized with mouse or keyboard
· Measurement lines track mouse cursor to help measure anything on screen
· Its Free Software released under the GPL

Whats New in This Release:

· Rewrite in Ruby (from C).
· Middle-click now rotates around the mouse position, not the upper-left corner.
· Ruler now shows a left-click target for the popup menu while mouse is over the ruler.
· Unit selection (inches, picas, etc.) moved to popup menu (from preferences dialog).
· Keyboard keys 1-6 now change unit.
· Now uses Cairo for rendering (from GDK).