Free meant to be software for linux

nugu is a biff-like utility which scans either an IMAP4 or POP3 mail server account and relays an abbreviated copy of the unread email to the users cell phone.
The user can constrain which messages get relayed by defining a query in a configuration file. nugu is meant to be run as a cron job.
Enhancements:
- Support for --notruncate and --abbreviate command line options was added.
- --notruncate refrains from truncating a message to the 160 character SMS limit.
- --abbreviate attempts to provide "text-readable" compression by simply ommitting vowels in words that are longer than 4 characters.

Marble is an early beta preview of the Marble Widget application which is targeted for KDE 4.
You need to install both packages: "marble" and "marble-data" to run Marble.
Marble is a generic geographical map widget that is meant to be used by KDE4 applications. It shows the earth as a sphere but doesnt make use of any hardware acceleration (No OpenGL). So although it might look similar to professional applications like Google Earth or Nasa World Wind its rather meant to be a small light weight multi purpose widget. To improve speed I decided to compile the Kubuntu packages with SSE support (-msse).
Main features:
- Marble uses a minimal free dataset that can be used offline. Currently the total amount of data that is meant to be shipped is about 5 MB.
- Marble doesnt use OpenGL or 3D hardware acceleration. It just uses Arthur as a painting backend. Extending it later on to support OpenGL as well shouldnt be hard however I dont consider that the primary focus. Depending on your hardware and the maps being displayed framerate is approximately 5-20 fps.
- Marble uses vector as well as bitmap data: Currently it uses the very old MWDB II data combined with ETOPO 2, which I will update to current SRTM soon.
- Marble displays the world map as a 3D sphere, because its more fun to use and less subject to distortion (So with regard to that its just like NASA WorldWind, Earth3D and Google Earth)
- Marble should start up almost instantly. Currently it "cold" starts fully within 2-5 seconds. On each subsequent start it takes about one second.
- Uses KML-Import to display places (Google Earths open format to store placemarks)
- Cities Down to 12000 inhabitants that you can click on using the mouse. Highest Mountains of each continent. Automatic Placemark label placement.
- Different Map Themes, Layers
- Dynamic Coordinate Grid
- Measure Tool
- Basic Wikipedia integration

GNOME Bluetooth control remoto (AKA GBTcr) It is meant to be a fast and functional remote control for GNOME Desktop working between a Sony Ericssons phone mobile (maybe others) and computer box using Bluetooth comunication protocol.
Main features:
- Realtime control by plugins for:
- Music player. (beep-media-player, xmms)
- Video player. (mplayer, totem, xine)
- Slideshow software. (ooimpress, magic point)
- Image Viewer. (gthumb, gqview)
- Mouse and Keyboard events.
- Nice and HIGgy GNOME gui GTK+ based.
- Notification Area Support (Tray Icon)

Gemello is a forms front end for PostgreSQL on GTK. Gemello project is written in Python and uses Python as the trigger language.

Abu combines design concepts of Oracle Forms and Microsoft Access. It is meant to be simple and lean yet powerful enough to support scalable applications.

Kurrently is a simple BASH script outputs the currently playing artist and track to ~/.playing_now in this format: Author Name - "Track Name".

Kurrently is meant to be easily modified to direct whatever output you want to whatever location you want.

Why?

Because there are several scripts that output track information to a web page, but none that simply dump it to a text file for easy parsing.

Why would I want that?

I dont know. Maybe you use a blogging client that can read plain text files, and you want it to show others what youre listening to automatically? Maybe youd like to track the order of songs youve been listening to? Maybe youd like to display the contents of this file in a web page you already have set up somewhere? Do with it as you see fit.

Can I make changes?

Certainly. Its the beauty of the GPL. In fact, I recommend it. This script is very simplistic in what it does and how it does it. If youd like to make it dance to a different tune, feel free!

Contact Conductance Estimator (CoCoE) is a program that estimates the conductance (or resistance) between two surfaces in contact.
It is meant to be used by designers and analysts of physical systems where heat transfer by means of contact is of importance.
CoCoE is written in Perl, and uses a self-contained SQLite database and Tk for the user interface.
Enhancements:
- Many new entries in the database.
- Many fixes to existing entries in the database (correlations are now much more accurate).
- The CoCoE window now has a status bar that displays help messages.
- CoCoE will now ask for contact pressure input method (Direct or via Load and Area) instead of the older way.
- It is now possible to input as many contact pressures as wanted, instead of having to start over every time you want to try a new value.

NNTP Client Lib is a Java implementation of RFC 997 for newsreaders, with support for authentication and logging.
NNTP Client Lib is meant to be used by newsreader implementations as some NNTP commands irrelevant for newsreaders are not implemented. Support for MIME or any other article encoding is not included.
If you want to quickly see nntpClientLib working, run NewsDemo . Note that this prints every message to System.err; you can edit NewsDemo.java and choose any other PrintStream.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- The POST and AUTHUSER commands havent been tested (yet).
TODO List:
- FIX NNTPConnectionImpl.disconnect() NullPointerException if host is unreachable.
- Add SSL support.
Enhancements:
- A new logging system and code cleanup.

Browser History Viewer allows you to examine the contents of web browser history files and export the data.

Currently it supports Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.

Browser History Viewer meant to be a forensics tool. It meant to be a forensics tool.

BHV is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).