Free standalone application software for linux

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless.
Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database.
In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.
Main features:
- Set up a blog in minutes via an intuitive wizard
- Maintain multiple blogs
- Effortlessly manage thousands of entries
- Dynamically update blog content
- Write entries offline (Dialup users)
- Publish your blog with a single click
- Read news with an integrated feed reader
- Make posts from your favorite feeds
- Create a unique layout with customizable templates
- Import entries from RSS/Atom feeds
- Set up flexible archiving options
- Organize your entries by category or date
- Save entries as drafts
- Define your own custom template tags
- Syndicate your blog via an RSS or Atom feed
- Ping services like weblogs.com, BlogRolling, and Blo.gs
- And much more...

Mozilla Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Calendar component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozillas XUL user interface language. At the moment the Sunbird name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.

Our intended user is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.

In addition, by focusing solely on standalone Calendar, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the Calendar application by removing components and chrome we dont need.

Sunbird is licensed under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license, allowing use of the files under the terms of any one of the Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 (MPL), the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL), or the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later (LGPL)

NRPG Ratiomaster is a small standalone application which fakes upload and download stats of a torrent to almost all bittorrent trackers.

This means that it does NOT rely on your bittorrent client (uTorrent, Azureus, etc.) and it will NOT download/upload the files on a torrent - it only can fake download/upload.

The application has hardcoded emulations for the most commonly used BitTorrent clients: uTorrent, BitComet, Azureus, ABC, BitLord, BTuga, BitTornado, Burst, BitTyrant, BitSpirit.

reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers in a real-time video stream. reacTIVision project was mainly designed for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces.

Its tracking core is using Ross Bencinas fidtrack library which is basically a newer high-performance implementation of Enrico Costanzas original d-touch concept. This framework was developed by Martin Kaltenbrunner et.al. at the Music Technology Group, IUA, UPF in Barcelona, Spain as part of the reacTable* project, a novel electro-acoustic musical instrument with a tangible user interface.

reacTIVision is a standalone application, which sends OpenSound Control messages via a UDP network socket to any connected client application. It implements the TUIO protocol, which was specially designed for transmitting the state of tangible objects on a table surface. This framework includes a set of free example client projects for various programming languages, which serve as a base for the easy development of tangible-user interface applications.

The reacTIVision application compiles and runs under the follwing operating systems: Win32, MacOS X and Linux. Under Win32 it suports any camera with a proper WDM driver, such as USB, USB2, FireWire and DV cameras. Equally under MacOS X any such camera supported by QuickTime will work in reacTIVision. Under Linux, FireWire cameras are best supported, as well as a few Video4Linux USB cameras.

NEW: Support the reacTIVision project and buy T-Shirts, posters and other merchandise featuring the reacTIVision fiducial symbols in our web-shop! All designs on these products can be recognized and tracked by the actual reacTIVision software.

Application Handling

Before starting the reacTIVision application make sure you have a supported camera connected to your system. The application can and will not work at all without a camera. Under Win32 and MacOS X the application will ask to select and configure the camera upon startup. Under Linux the camera will be selected automatically. Once configured the application will show a video window with the current camera image in black&white.

Pressing T will show the binary tresholded image, pressing the N key will turn the display off, which reduces its CPU usage significantly!

Pressing the S key will return to the original source image. For convenience and debugging porposes hitting the R key saves a raw image frame, while hitting the B key will save an image in the BMP format.

The P pauses the image analysis completely, hitting ESC will quit the application. The F key toggles the diplay of FPS info in the titlebar. In order to produce some more verbose debugging output, hitting the V key will print the currently recognized symbols to the console.

Command Line Options

The reacTIVision application per default sends the TUIO messages to port 3333 on localhost (127.0.0.1)

In order to change these parameters you can invoke the application with the -h [ip-address] and -p [port-no] options.

reacTIVision needs a so called "tree file" in order to function properly. The default "all.trees" is included and loaded automatically. If you want to use you own tree file you can invoke the application with the -t [tree-file] option.

Optionally if you dont want to analyze the complete image - for example in a square or round table setup - the application can mask a part of the video image with a black region, which speeds up the segmentation algorithm. In order to apply this mask You can invoke the application with the -m [square,circle] option.

Applying the -h or -help option will print a usage message to the console.

Calibration and Distortion

Some tables, such as the reacTable are using a convex mirror in order to increase the area visible to the camera at a minimal distance. This mirror as well as a fish-eye lens unfortunately distort the image. reactIVision includes a correction algorithm, which corrects this distortion with the help of a so called "grid file". These grid files can be generated during a prior calibration process.

To calibrate reacTIVision invoke the application with the option: reacTIVision -c 9 -g [grid_file]

In order to use the this calibration invoke the application with: reacTIVision -g [grid_file]

jTans project is a Java Tangram puzzle game.
jTans is a Java version of Tangram, an ancient Chinese puzzle. The object is to put 7 geometric shapes together to form a given outline. All of the pieces must be used and are laid next to one another. It can be run as a Java 2 applet, a standalone application, or a Web Start application.
Main features:
- Java2 application wich may be used as an applet, a standalone application or a Java Web Start application. (there is also a C/GTK version for Linux and Unix called gTans)
- 290 figures.
- Hint and solution.
- Most of the game colors and textures are configurable.
- Internationnalized (actually english, spanish an partially french)
- Resizeable window.
- The size of the pieces (relative to the game area) may be changed.
- The solved figures are remembered.

SandSurfer is a time keeping web based application.
Main features:
- Employee time sheet entry
- Auto Clock In and Auto Clock Out
- Gross wage calculations for each employee in given time period
- Export of data to file
- Tracking of wages paid.
- Jobs and Tasks tracking
- Client list linked to Jobs
- Basic billing
- Activity viewing by search criteria
The SandSurfer project will constitute a complete rewrite of our current implementation of the software and a migration to object oriented style programming.
The current implementation is a standalone application. However, the rewrite of SandSurfer will be as a portal application for the PCX Portal.
Enhancements:
- Invoices.pm: fixed invoice total bug.
- fixed invoice search bug and streamlined invoice process
- Fixed version display bug.

bcr steps is a step sequencer and arpeggiator made for the Behringer BCR2000 controller. This project can also be used on its own, or with almost any other MIDI controller.

If you like, you can try out the applet version, though it wont give you the full MIDI capabilities of the standalone application.

Kemistry is a collection of chemical applications for the K Desktop Environment (release 3.x).

Originally the applications were distributed in a single source package, but currently every application is distributed in a standalone package. The available applications are

* KMolCalc - molecular weight and elemental composition calculator
* KemBabel - a file conversion program based on Open Babel