Free co.uk software for linux

Amazon.co.uk Button provides a button which allows you to access Amazon services.

This extension creates a button which allows you to access

-all amazon.co.uk-stores
-your wishlist
-your account
-amazon.co.uk loginpage
-Shopping Basket

straight from the amazon.co.uk button.

ScoreWatch provides a Cricket Score watcher that displays the score in the status bar.
A Cricket Score watcher that displays the score in the status bar panel based on RSS feeds from popular cricket sites.
Main features:
- Score refreshes automatically in regular intervals.
- Pops up alerts on the fall of a wicket.
- Allows selection of RSS feed source.
- Allows configuration of alerts and refresh interval.
Sources supported:
- cricinfo.com
- ecb.co.uk

Create a short URLs is a Firefox extension that allows you to create a short URL from any website.

Are you annoyed with really long URLs like: http://www.succor.co.uk/index.cfm/2006/4/7/wapurlcouk-beta-launch

Then this tag is for you. Just right click on the page and click wapURL and you will be presented with a short URL. This is great if you need to send text messages or emails.

When you use the short URL the key passed is looked up against our database and the user in then redirected to your requested URL.

Geo::Coder::Google is a Perl module for Google Maps Geocoding API.

SYNOPSIS

use Geo::Coder::Google;

my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key);
my $location = $geocoder->geocode( location => Hollywood and Highland, Los Angeles, CA );

Geo::Coder::Google provides a geocoding functionality using Google Maps API.

METHODS

new

$geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key);
$geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key, host => maps.google.co.jp);

Creates a new geocoding object. You should pass a valid Google Maps API Key as apikey parameter.

When youd like to query Japanese address, you might want to set host parameter, which should point to maps.google.co.jp. I think this also applies to other countries like UK (maps.google.co.uk), but so far I only tested with .com and .co.jp.

geocode

$location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);
@location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);

Queries $location to Google Maps geocoding API and returns hash refernece returned back from API server. When you cann the method in an array context, it returns all the candidates got back, while it returns the 1st one in a scalar context.
When youd like to pass non-ascii string as a location, you should pass it as either UTF-8 bytes or Unicode flagged string.

Returned data structure is as follows:

{
AddressDetails => {
Country => {
AdministrativeArea => {
SubAdministrativeArea => {
SubAdministrativeAreaName => San Francisco,
Locality => {
PostalCode => {
PostalCodeNumber => 94107
},
LocalityName => San Francisco,
Thoroughfare => {
ThoroughfareName => 548 4th St
}
}
},
AdministrativeAreaName => CA
},
CountryNameCode => US
}
},
address => 548 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA,
Point => {
coordinates => [
-122.397323,
37.778993,
0
]
}
}

pyFretCalc is a handy little fret spacing calculator for luthiers (Guitar makers). Simply enter the scale length you want and how many frets, then click on calculate.
To install it, first you have to have the following software installed.
Python http://www.python.org
QT 3 http://www.trolltech.com
PyQt http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk
For Linux and other *nixs just untar pyFretCalc-0.0.2.tar.gz to any directory (like $HOME/bin) and run main.py. Future releases will use some sort of packaging.
Windows/OSx users: Follow the same instructions and let me know how it works.
Enhancements:
- Changed to QT3 for the gui

HTTP::Async is a Perl module that can process multiple HTTP requests in parallel without blocking.

SYNOPSIS

Create an object and add some requests to it:
use HTTP::Async;
my $async = HTTP::Async->new;

# create some requests and add them to the queue.
$async->add( HTTP::Request->new( GET => http://www.perl.org/ ) );
$async->add( HTTP::Request->new( GET => http://www.ecclestoad.co.uk/ ) );
and then EITHER process the responses as they come back:
while ( my $response = $async->wait_for_next_response ) {
# Do some processing with $response
}
OR do something else if there is no response ready:
while ( $async->not_empty ) {
if ( my $response = $async->next_response ) {
# deal with $response
} else {
# do something else
{
}
OR just use the async object to fetch stuff in the background and deal with the responses at the end.
# Do some long code...
for ( 1 .. 100 ) {
some_function();
$async->poke; # lets it check for incoming data.
}

while ( my $response = $async->wait_for_next_response ) {
# Do some processing with $response
}

Although using the conventional LWP::UserAgent is fast and easy it does have some drawbacks - the code execution blocks until the request has been completed and it is only possible to process one request at a time. HTTP::Async attempts to address these limitations.

It gives you a Async object that you can add requests to, and then get the requests off as they finish. The actual sending and receiving of the requests is abstracted. As soon as you add a request it is transmitted, if there are too many requests in progress at the moment they are queued. There is no concept of starting or stopping - it runs continuously.

Whilst it is waiting to receive data it returns control to the code that called it meaning that you can carry out processing whilst fetching data from the network. All without forking or threading - it is actually done using select lists.

SCM is a Firefox extension that performs Site Continuity Management validations on websites to help prevent Pharming attacks.

Pharming attacks are an advanced form of Phishing where an adversary poisons the data held in the user’s DNS server. SCM is believed to be the first add-on to protect users from this advanced attack.

SCM was developed at Cambridge University by Simon A. Spacey and is currently in a POC development release. For technical information about SCM you can read the release paper at:

http://www.priv8.co.uk/addons/SCM

SCM is free for noncommercial use and licensed under the PRIV8 OPEN SOFTWARE LICENSE.