Free headlines software for linux

Gmail Skins provides skins and other extra features for Gmail.
Main features:
- Change the colour/skin of your inbox.
- Integrate your google homepage alongside your inbox. This allows you to view weather reports, rss feeds, news headlines, flickr recently added, google calendar module etc from your inbox.
- Easily insert images from your Picasa web album in to your emails
- Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails.
- Insert HTML tables and other complex HTML in to your emails.
- Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal.
- Fix the navigation in place so that you dont have to scroll to the top of the page to see it.
- Zebra stripes on mailbox - pretty!
- Change the attachment paperclip (on inbox) to an icon indicating the type of attachment.
- Hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer, your email address from the top right of inbox).
To access the settings panel you must change the language on your gmail account to EN-US - This is because of how tightly gmailskins integrates in to the Gmail interface. You can change your language back again afterwards and the settings will still be applied, although "your mileage may vary".
Some features will be added to your account, please do not mistake these for beta features rolled out by google like this guy: http://www.digg.com/links/Gmail_New_Features.

AgileRss is a desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, XML, and ATOM news feed.
It also allows you to keep up-to-date with all your favourite sources of information that support the RSS protocol. Internet syndication and aggregation software, that runs on any java enabled operating sistem.
AgileRss software application dedicated to the task of managing the subscriptions, monitoring and syndicated content of a user.
Reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." Its able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content.
It provides a consolidated view of the content in a single browser display or desktop application. Such applications are also referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers.
Main features:
- Get the latest headlines from around the web, delivered automatically to your desktop
- Subscribe to any RSS or Atom format in use
- Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0
- Browser bookmarklet for rss feed autodiscovery.
- Group subscribed feeds into custom categories.
- Imports and exports Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) channel directories
- Filter items.
- Feeds are updated in the background to keep the GUI responsive.
- Multilanguage suport
- Customized toolbars
- Proxy support is included for users who may be forced to connect to the Internet through a proxy server at work.
- Popup menu action for renaming selected feed or folder
- Drag And Drop for moving feeds or folders
- New predefined filters for articles: Today and Unread Today
- Autodiscovery option when adding a new feed

PerlPoint::Converters is a Perl module that contains a README and common functions for PerlPoint converters.

PerlPoint is a simple text format which allows easy typing of text with headlines, bullet lists, normal text paragraphs, indented paragraphs for code examples etc., from which slides for presentations can be generated by a script without the need of proprietary software.

Since there is a large variety of platforms which provide web browsers, HTML is a good choice for the output format. In principle, however, it is possible to generate each output format whose specification is known. At the moment there exist converters for HTML, LaTeX (alpha software) and SDF. The latter both may be used to generate printable output or to provide the basis for further processing.

In The News is a Firefox extension that highlights text, right-click to see the latest related news stories.

Mouse over any of the headlines to see a brief summary of the story. Click on any of the stories to have it open up in a new tab.

tNews provides a PHP4 template-based news script with a full Web-based administration system.

tNews is a set of PHP4 scripts designed to provide easy-to-use basic news headline support for websites. The system uses HTML-based templates to specify formatting of news pages, providing complete control of page appearance to the webmaster.

The systems backend is provided by a MySQL database, and support is included for generation of both news and old news pages. News HTML pages are only regenerated when changes are made to news headlines, so end users suffer no delays caused by database access or parsing of scripting code.

All administration and setup is done through a Web-based interface, so no editing of text files is required.

NEsGUI is a peer-to-peer file sharing application written by Neill Miller in GTK+ which utilizes the NEshare library.NEsGUI is a Napster like application. Its one of the simplest and least creative applications utilizing the NEshare peer-to-peer file sharing library.
I started writing NEshare for many reasons. One reason is because I enjoy file sharing with others and I found that there were no true Free Software implementations or designs from the ground up. Thats one of the most important reasons to me personally, but I understand its probably not the reason youre reading this page. Second, I realized that most file sharing implementations that Ive played with simply DO NOT WORK well. The one implementation that worked *extremely* well for all of the time I participated in using it was Napster. As for the GnutellaNet (and the like), I tend to have problems with the decentralized nature. This is vague, I know. Specifically, they require an extraordinary amount of bandwidth as compared to a centralized counterpart such as Napster. They tend to generate a lot of garbage since they are responsible for tying themselves to a number of other nodes, which are likewise tying themselves to you. The *only* benefit that Ive realized with decentralized networks such as the GnutellaNet is the anonyminity involved. At best, you can see what IP address is downloading or uploading while the upload or download is occuring on your system. Beyond that, there is no record or trace of the transaction and does not involve user names which can be stored or screened, passwords which can be broken or stolen, or any form of user messaging or chat which is prone to SPAM or porn advertisments -- like the sad state of (the oldest widespread and possibly least recognized peer-to-peer system) IRC.
Another reason for writing NEshare is to help you realize that you should not be dependent on a corporation to dictate what you can and cant do with file sharing (a la Napster, FastTrack clients, or any other corporate owned network which you may have become attached to). For example, Napster allowed the sharing of digital music files. Where do you go if you are more interested in sharing original digital pieces of art amongst your friends? What about copies of an ever evolving digital document? Thus, I wanted to provide NEshare to you in case Napster or FastTrack or whatever you use suddenly becomes unavailable, or never suited your needs in the first place. Being Free Software, youre free to modify it and improve it under the terms of the GPL. And if you cant write code, call in a favor from a friend!
NEshare takes the best architectural ideas of centralized networks and mixes them with the best ideas of decentralized networks. It allows anonyminity since there is no messaging system, no username, no password and no record of you once youve left the network. It also works in a reliable manner (minus bugs!) because of the centralized nature. The basic method of transaction is similar to the familiar Napster and FastTrack clients. A user connects to an NEshare server and uploads a file list. The user can search and get results back from the server. Once the results are retrieved by the user, the user connects directly to another user for exchanging files. Thats the basic gist of the centralized approach, however the NEshare architecture is flexible and can work in a decentralized manner with relatively little modification if the benefits become more apparent.
One of the biggest advantages of a purely decentralized network (aside from the anonyminity aspect) is the fact that there is no central server which all users must rely on. In the world today, we see the prevention and the hindering of new technologies because big businesses fear to compete. This is wrong. Decentralized networks address this by not allowing a single entity to have complete control over a system. Thus, although threats can be made, they cannot be enforced against all users of a decentralized network. Contrast this with some centralized models - where a corporation takes control of an entire system. They are only pitting themselves against the giants and unfortunately they probably cannot win since (in recent U.S. history at least), Corporations (with cash) suppress our rights (Constitutional, fair rights, whatever) and dont ever look back. Look at the recent headlines regarding the RIAA and Hollywoods general reaction to Napster and other file sharing services. Everyone pounced on Napster and Napster did not survive. Sure, the company may still have a vision for itself, but everything that you and I enjoyed about the service is gone. The vision weve created for it is gone. I havent used Napster since late 2000.
Im not advocating using this software for actions which are questionably legal. Im providing this software for educational reasons because I believe that there is a lot to learn about networking applications and weve only seen the tip of the iceberg. This software has many legitimate uses such as online collaboration on any number of projects, sharing original works or documents, browsing which new Free Software packages are available amongst your peers, learning how a multi-threaded server works, learning how to use sockets, seeing an example of how a network protocol can be written from scratch, congesting your local network for bandwidth experiments and measurements, etc. The uses are endless. And the uses are legitimate. This software may help other to find something new. This software may *be* something new to others. Whatever the case, its all about vision.
By designing a Free Software implementation of a peer-to-peer protocol, Im offering it to you to suit your vision. I dont want to see one central server out there that everyone connects to for whatever use. I want to see the decentralization of the centralized model. I want to see something like what happened to the webserver to happen to NEshare. Each person that is interested in this kind of project should run and manage their own server for their own intranet. Choices are good. Although NEshare is centralized right now (like a webserver) -- wouldnt it be a horrible thing if all information on the web was hosted on the same server? This is what Napster tried to acomplish. They took the centralized server a little too far to prevent people like you and me from having our own visions and creative uses for the technology. NEshare should work differently. For example, if you look at streaming radio servers -- these are central servers all over the place which have several central resources (i.e. webpages) which tell you about which ones are available and their current status. This feature is planned for NEshare, although the first release of the server will have to be tracked manually if youd like to advertise your server to others.
Id like to add that I do believe that decentralized networks inherently have some cool ideas behind them, so I did not exclude the possibility of NEshare working in a fully decentralized manner. The first version that Im working on will be only centralized, but decentralization is an option since it should not prove to be too difficult given the architecture. However, since in my experience the fully decentralized network tends to have more issues than benefits, I would like to keep NEshare centralized. Again, a decentralization of the centralized model would be ideal.
The other major design goal of NEshare is to make it a toolkit. What I mean by this is that currently, there is a client library which can readily be dropped into an application of any kind. This means that for developers who are working on applications, if peer-to-peer file sharing would be useful, it can be easily used under the terms of the GPL inside of their own applications. This also makes for a more lightweight graphical user interface, since the bulk of the work is inside the client library. In order for all of NEshare to work in a purely decentralized manner, the work of the server must be integrated into the client library and a few new messages will need to be developed so that it can act as a servent. The architecture is rather flexible, and this will remain a design goal moving forward.
Needless to say this takes a lot of work. Im a single hacker at best and Ive been working on this project in free time since the summer of 2001. I can only do so much, and Im limited by my imagination and programming skills. Thats why I need your help. So far, my work consists of designing the networking protocol capable of accomplishing file sharing in a peer to peer manner, implementing this protocol in code, testing the code, improving the code, etc. I cant do this by myself (although unfortunately so far I have been and will continue to if no one volunteers). I would appreciate help in the areas of testing, documentation, and of course good old fashioned hacking. If this project sounds interesting to you, feel free to contact me.
Enhancements:
- Code now honors the std namespace so that its gcc-3.x compatible
- Fixed some event handling that caused erroneous message boxes to appear
- Better unexpected peer disconnection handling
- Added proper ChangeLog entries

HotSheet is a program that retrieves news headlines from multiple websites, displays them, and allows you to interact with them (e.g. to get the story that goes with a particular headline).
HotSheet software works by pulling files from websites that have their news headlines stored in a XML format known as RSS. There are many hundreds of websites that syndicate their headlines in just this fashion.
By picking up the RSS file from a URL on the website and reading it HotSheet is able to present the headlines to you and allow you to get more information on each news item.
Main features:
- Pulls headlines from hundreds of sites with syndicated content in RSS format. This includes mainstream sites like c|net, Salon, Slashdot, Moreover, Wired News, etc.
- Attractive display of headlines (and optional channel logos).
- Proxy support (including authentication) is included for business users who may be forced to connect to the Internet through a proxy server at work.
- Free, very very free. Free to just run and free to download the code and use it to build new applications if that is the kind of thing you like to do.
- Tested on Windows and Linux, user reports that it works on Mac OS X, AIX, and Solaris.
- Double clicking an item automatically launches a browser to view the link associated with a given news item.
- Scripting support allows users already familiar with Python, Tcl, JavaScript, etc. to write scripts which can automate the handling of news items. For example, increase the score of items that come from your favorite channels or delete all items that have a certain keyword in the title.
- Easiest installation you are ever likely to see. Install Java Web Start on your favorite platform and then click a single link in the browser. HotSheet will download, install, and run. Later runs will automatically check for new versions on the server and update you to the latest version.
- You can exit out of HotSheet and news items will be stored for later viewing and additional information like viewed status is automatically retained.
- Internal RSS library can be separated out and used to build different applications with interfaces very different from the one HotSheet offers.
- The license on the source code is an extremely liberal BSD license that allows you to build commercial applications using parts of HotSheet without significant restrictions.

Google::Adwords::CreativeService is a Perl module to interact with the Google Adwords CreativeService API calls.

SYNOPSIS

use Google::Adwords::CreativeService;
use Google::Adwords::Image;
use Google::Adwords::Creative;

use File::Slurp;

# create the CreativeService object
my $creative_service = Google::Adwords::CreativeService->new();

# need to login to the Adwords service
$creative_service->email($email_address)
->password($password)
->developerToken($developer_token)
->applicationToken($app_token);

# if you have a MCC
$creative_service->clientEmail($client_email);

my $adgroupid = 123456789;

# get all the creatives for an adgroup
my @getallcreatives = $creative_service->getAllCreatives($adgroupid);
for ( @getallcreatives ) {
print "Creative name : " . $_->name . " , Id : " . $_->id . "n";
}

# get a specific creative from an AdGroup
my $creativeid = 987654321;

my $getcreative = $creative_service->getCreative($adgroupid, $creativeid);
print "Get creative: " . $getcreative->name . ", Id : " . $getcreative->id . "n";

# activate a creative
my $ret = $creative_service->activateCreative($adgroupid, $creativeid);

# activate a list of creative
my @activate_list = (
{
adGroupId => 1234,
creativeId => 12,
},
{
adGroupId => 5789,
creativeId => 209,
},
);
my $ret = $creative_service->activateCreativeList(@activate_list);

# delete a creative
my $ret = $creative_service->deleteCreative($adgroupid, $creativeid);

# add a creative
my $creative_text = Google::Adwords::Creative->new
->adGroupId($adgroupid)
->destinationUrl(http://www.example.com)
->displayUrl(http://www.example.com)
->headline(API : creative)
->description1(desc1 added via API)
->description2(desc2 added via API);

my $addcreative = $creative_service->addCreative($creative_text);
print "Added Creative ID: " . $addcreative->id . "n";

# add a image creative
my $data_blurb = read_file(image.gif);

my $image = Google::Adwords::Image->new
->name(Image #1)
->data($data_blurb)
->type(image);

my $creative_image = Google::Adwords::Creative->new
->adGroupId($adgroupid)
->destinationUrl(http://www.example.com)
->displayUrl(http://www.example.com)
->image( $image );

my $addcreative = $creative_service->addCreative($creative_image);
print "Added Creative ID: " . $addcreative->id . "n";
print "Image Height: " . $addcreative->image->height . "n";

This module provides an interface to the Google Adwords CreativeService API calls. Please read Google::Adwords::Creative on how to setup and receive information about your creatives.