Free probably need software for linux

Crystality Plugin consists of XMMS plugin and stdin/stdout plugin. It was written for realtime remastering of sound from mp3 files.
You will need a reasonably good stereo and a good ear to notice quality
improvement, otherwise this is not for you.

This plugin tries to patch mp3 format flaws, not a poor audio hardware! Yes, you should be able to hear well enough (sorry) - for some of my friends plugin is a cool thing, while the others does not hear nothing but echo and stereo expander (well, you will hear every effect if you set it to the maximum, but it will not sound nice).

Crystality was written for 16bit 44.1kHz stereo sound and may give strange results
with other sound formats.

Damian Hodgkiss sent me a quick port for Winamp 2.x. I have not tried it yet, but you can get it (cr-quick-winamp-port.zip).

This plugin does mainly four things (and some minor tricks):

1. Adds some sounds in very high frequency range. Most of the mp3s in The Net are flawed with a 16(15?) kHz cutoff. Even these ones compressed at high bitrates. This spectrum hole is audible and very unpleasant. This plugin helps a bit. Old mp3s made from the vinyl or the magnetic tape may also sound better with these "steroids". For old mp3s youll probably need to set filter to 0.1.

2. Adds some even harmonic distortions (actually nonlinearity), that sounds nice. Valve amps introduce even harmonic distortions (although differnt way) Look at audiophile pages for more info (well, mp3 format is not an audiophile stuff at all, but... welcome to the real world...).

3. Adds simple, but nice 3D echo (concert hall or church like). Most of echo plugins sounds too hard and aggresively for me. This one does not.

4. Extends stereo.

USING:

There are currently two versions of plugin - XMMS plugin and stdin/stdout. Stdin/out plugin is completly independent of XMMS plugin. It even stores its configuration in a separate file (~/.crystalityrc). Stdin/out plugin is alpha code, so some features are missed. You cannot reopen configuration dialog after closing without restarting plugin, there are no "save config", "load config" buttons. Configuration is loaded automatically on startup and saved on exit, either on normal finish or ^C. You can disable GUI with -g option (useful in scripts).

Because this plugin adds some sounds at high frequencies, you will probably need to decrease treble level on your amplifier. Plugin does not perform normalization, so you should slightly decrease signal level in XMMS equalizer (NOT volume slider on the main panel). Setting sliders to the maximum is generally a bad idea (well, except the filter, where that setting is useful).

PERFORMANCE:

It eats about 15% of CPU on my AMD K6-2/400 and optimization is still possible, this is not highly optimized code.

INSTALLATION:

Distribution contains binary version of XMMS plugin library and stdin/stdout plugin executable (Linux i586, glibc 2.1.3). You may copy plugin library file (libcrystality.so) into XMMSs Effect directory and executable (crystality-stdio) to /usr/local/bin or any location you prefer. For default locations simply type:

make install

and thats it.
You may also build crystality from the source.

make buildinstall

typed as root in the source directory should be all you have to do.

This plugin was my first small step in gtk programming, so dont expect any wonders, GUI is actually a quick hack to hardcoded settings. I am not a GUI programmer.

SVNFeed project is a Python script that creates RSS feeds of Subversion repository logs.

Beware that SVNFeed is still in alpha stage, and that it probably contains bugs.

Cool Blue is a desktop widget for SuperKaramba for system monitoring.

It has cool blue translucent background (which I made with help of Karbon14, Krita and the mighty Gimp) and displays everything I need (and probably what you need too).

It can interact with XMMS. Well, its a matter of personal taste, but I still like XMMS more than AmaroK...

Anyway, if you want, it should be easy changing it to use amaroK. Maybe even Ill do this if I have free time and appropriate mood.

DailyTasks project is a program for reminding you of daily tasks.
I, basically, created DailyTasks to fulfill a need of my own. I am much too disorganized to use "standard" task managemenet programs: every time I tried, I seemed to spend more time setting up and updating tasks than I actually spent doing the tasks themselves... On the other hand, a simple way of reminding me of them would be useful.
Also, most tasks seem to be of the repeating kind. That is, its something you have to do every day. What I needed, then, was a way to remind me -- or simply to show me -- that, today, I still had this, that and that to do.
I looked around for some already existing software to do exactly this... and found only one: frequent-task-reminder. Its based on the concept of "work units"; that is, after you set up a task, it increases by one remaining work unit each day. It was mostly what I wanted, but, after trying it out, I quickly found that there were a couple of features I wanted it to have, and it didnt. The main one was this: there should be an option to stop increasing the work units above 1. Some tasks simply dont accumulate. Oh, and I wanted a web interface, too.
The web interface, I even ended up writing myself. :) But frequent-task-reminder is written in Python, a language I have about zero experience with. While this would be a good excuse to learn it, :), I decided, instead, to start from scratch, and write DailyTasks, in PHP.
Main features:
- Web interface included as an alternative to command line mode
- Tasks file is a simple, easy to edit text file, instead of XML
- 3 task modes: normal (increases one work unit per day), max 1 (doesnt increase beyond 1 remaining work unit), and standby (doesnt increase at all)
- Ability to manually set the remaining work units for a task
- Doesnt keep track of dates; requires a special invocation (usually by cron) to increase work units
- Written in PHP instead of Python.
Installation
Command line
First, you need PHP. I only tested DailyTasks on PHP 5.x, but the 4.x versions should work as well.
If you compiled PHP by hand, you probably have everything you need already. If youre using a precompiled package, note that many distributions separate PHP in two packages: the "web" version and the "command line" version. You need the latter (and any dependencies it may have). On Ubuntu, for instance, its called php5-cli.
After you have PHP, simply put the dailytasks file somewhere in your path. Edit it and, if needed, change the first line to point to where you have php installed (it may be in /usr/bin/php, /usr/local/bin/php, or, in rare cases, something else).
Web interface
Requirements: a web server (probably Apache) with PHP support.
You need to install the command line version first, of course (see above). Warning: if youre using a chrooted Apache, you need to put dailytasks somewhere inside the chroot.
Finally, just put all the DailyTasks *.php and *.css files on an accessible web directory. Add some kind of authentication, possibly using a .htaccess file, if needed.
Usage
Command line
Simply run dailytasks without any parameters, and youll get this help:
Available options:
-x : increase each tasks work units by one. Typically used by cron.
-a task : add a new task called task. Use quotes if the name has more
than one word.
-l : list all tasks
-c : list all tasks with 1 or more pending work units.
-w tasknumber : work -- reduce tasks pending units by 1.
-r tasknumber : set remaining work units for that task to zero.
-m tasknumber mode: set the tasks type to the listed mode.
available modes are:
0: stand-by -- work units dont increase automatically.
1: max 1 -- work units increase up to 1 (i.e. no accumulation).
2: normal -- work units increase by 1 each day, with no limit.
-s tasknumber units: set remaining work units to the supplied value.
-d tasknumber: delete the task completely. Task numbers change after this operation.
You should probably add:
0 0 * * * path/to/dailytasks -x
to your crontab.
Web interface
The web interface is (hopefully) self-explanatory, as long as you are aware of the command line options (see above). I may attempt to make any future versions more user friendly.

Katakana Table is a katakana table karamba theme. Useful for learning katakana. When one clicks on a character a passive popup will come up with the romaji and hiragana for that katakana.

If you middle click a character it will copy it to the clipboard. This theme uses unicode so your local probably needs to be utf8.

I havent tested that, im just speculating. works well with my hirgana table (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=33568) which is due for a major reworking.

Tag Guesser script implements a tag guesser, such as the one found in JuK, for amaroK. Tag Guesser can guess what mp3s tags are based on user supplied formats of the filenames.

This script is not needed for amarok >= 1.4 because the feature is now builtin.

This is the first release, so please send any bug reports or patches to me.

This script probably will work on other versions of software. If you have a patch to make it work on another version, please send it to me.

phpLanParty project is a Lan Party registration application.
phpLanParty is an application to administer Lan Parties.If you host gaming sites, parties, tournaments, or the like, you may be interested in using this utility.
Main features:
- Its fast, easy, and easily modified to suit your needs.
- Being written in PHP, is multi-platform. Although its only been used and tested on Linux, it should work well on other Unix-like platforms, and probably the Win32 platform, provided the required packages (below) are installed.