Free files and settings transfer software for linux

Magic Settings Wizard is designed to quickly and easily restore or backup your favorite applications settings.
Magic Settings Wizard can backup/restore through an FTP location used as a storage medium.
Main features:
- backup or restore applications settings : select which ones from a list.
- personal home dir is automatically detected by default, but another directory can be specified.
- communicates with a FTP server specified by the user.
- FTP settings may be saved in a config file.
- a FTP directory may be created from the interface if needed.
- add your own applications settings definitions if yours dont exist in the database (edit settings_definitions.py).

jSettings package is meant to provide a Java library for dealing with program settings. (I use "settings" as just another synonym for preferences, properties, etc but I chose the word settings because of the already existing Preferences and Properties frameworks in Java). It wants to be a powerful tool for the developers of Java programs that want to manipulate structures of settings.
The code (as well as this page) is at an early development and testing stage. On top of that, I am only doing it as a means to teach myself Java (Im an economist by training and by profession) , so even at later stages you can expect the quality of the code to be quite low.
If you feel like any part of the design, code, Javadoc, examples etc is silly please dont hesitate to let me know about it. Also, I would also be happy to include requested features as long as I can understand the need for them and I also know how to do it. So please write to me if you have anything to say about this project!
Main features:
- Handles INI and FSTAB type of files and settings. There is no XML support yet, but I plan to do it if it seems to be requested.
- INI settings are specified by a setting = value pair.
- FSTAB settings are defined by an array of settings, each in a predefined field. I call them like this because the structure is similar to the fstab file in UNIX environments. Logical structure is quite similar to that of XML files.
- Settings can be logically structured into sections.
- There are two degrees of hierarchy available, called hierarchical and non-hierarchical. For example, in a hierarchical organization, the settings in a file called settings.ini, containing the following lines:
[section1]
setting1=value1
[[section1-2]] //Notice the double brackets
setting1-2=value1-2
would be refered to as
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1:section1-2:setting1-2
In a non-hierarchical structure they would be
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1-2:setting1-2 (section1-2 is not a child of section1 anymore).
- Loads settings from external files, either from individual files in ASCII format or from archives containing several settings files.
- Includes support for default values for settings, both for ini and fstab settings.
- The advantage is that the actual ini and fstab files will only contain the deviations from the defaults.
- Includes support for system-wide and user-specific settings, for multi-user environments.
- A program would first load the defaults, then the system-wide settings and then the user-specific ones. Also when modifying the settings, there is a choice between doing it at user and at system level.
- Support for adding/modifying/deleting settings.
- Default support for validating the settings.
- Each ini-type setting and each fstab-type field have a validation rule in the form of a regular expression. When loading the value for that setting/field, it is being checked against the rule and only accepted if it confirms to the rule. Of course, if the user wants it she can have .* as the rule for each setting.
- Support for flushing the changes made to the settings to the external files.
- Extensive logging/debug messages.

gnome-settings-visualeffects allows the control of the xcompmgr composite manager, it provides the user with control of the shadow radius,opacity,offsets and colour, and the speed of fades and where they are applied.
Main features:
- Splitting shadow configuration into active and inactive windows
- Adding a path locator and version checker for xcompmgr/transset
- Incorporating window translucency (decided on a minimum of 25%)
- Window translucency can be added to active/inactive windows by single windows or window types i.e. File Chooser, applications or application children, and Im hoping that I can make this persistent.
- Increase compatibility with gdesklets
- Propose to luminocity developers a configuration standard for these types of settings, therefore improving the future of the project.
- Incorporate code from xcompmgr/transset to reduce reliance on what are intended to be demos rather than real life tools.
- Notification area tool/Panel applet for accessing effects quickly.

GNOME Transfer Manager allows the user to retrieve multiple files from the web.

These files can be retrieved in multiple parts and each part retrieved on a separate session that the user is connected to the Internet. This is most useful to users with dialup connections. The program performs these tasks using wget as its back-end.

The program supports CORBA. This makes it easy for other programs to use GTransferManager to handle the transfer of files from the Internet.

The program also has an applet which communicates with program using CORBA. The applet can launch the program, request for a new download or accept drops of URLs from netscape, gFTP, gmc and give these URLs to GTM.

Sol Manager is a tool to manage your source files and configuration settings. SolMgr organizes project information in compiler- and platform-independent descriptions and allows conversion to native build scripts, such as makefiles or MS Visual Studio solutions.

GUI is provided to visually control project configurations, and to perform everyday project management tasks such as files addition/removal, dependency management etc.

Notice: SolMgr is under heavy development currently, so it lacks many features and functionality.

Mailing List project is a Web-based, full-featured mailing list and newsletter system. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves.
Email confirmation is used for new subscriptions. The list of subscribers to a list can be imported and exported.
Installation:
- copy all files to your web host
- use phpmyadmin or your mysql interface to run site.sql against your database.
- open site.xml and edit the database section with your database details.
- go to index.php and login with username of admin with a password of test.
Setup the site.xml file with your database settings as follows.
< database type="mysql" >
< server >database server address< /server >
< login >database login< /login >
< password >database password< /password >
< default >mysql database name< /default >
< /database >
Add this to your ".htaccess" file to prevent viewing of the xml config file.
< Files ~ ".xml" >
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
< /Files >
Enhancements:
- A problem with the SQL setup file which caused the setup to fail on some systems was fixed.

Transfer to Media Device is a script that creates a new Playlist Right Click Menu item for transferring selected playlist items to your iPod via the Media Device Browser.
This script now also supports generic copy to operation for USB mass storage devices. Currently the script will prompt for a destination directory on first copy, in the future this setting will be saved in a configuration file.
This script works with amaroK 1.3beta3 and above.
Usage:
Run from the amaroK script manager. A new menu item will appear in the Playlist right mouse button menu.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> iPod for transfering to an iPod.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> USB Device for transfering to a USB device.
Enhancements:
- Add support for Creative Nomad Jukebox devices using the kionjb kioslave. Thanks to Ralf T for the patch.