Free to be attractive software for linux

Be::Attribute is a Perl module to get and set MIME file attributes.

SYNOPSIS

use Be::Attribute;
$node = Be::Attribute::GetBNode("/my/file/here");
@attrs = Be::Attribute::ListAttrs($node);
for $i (@attrs) {
print "$i - ", Be::Attribute::ReadAttr($node, $i), "n";
}
Be::Attribute::CloseNode($node);

Get (or set) MIME file attributes.

USAGE

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Anti-Diet Pill project is a tool you can add to your Web site that your dieting visitors will appreciate.
The Anti-Diet Pill displays a randomly generated, daily-oriented, practical health tip to your visitors whenever they visit.
The program is easy to install and visually appealing. The program is XML based, so adding more tips is easy.
Main features:
- The Anti-Diet Pill is easy to install, just unzip, upload and youre done!
- XML-based database of tips for easy expansion
- Visually attractive and appealing
- The Anti-Diet Pill is easy to adapt to the look and feel of your health-related web site

UltraText is a library that fills the almost empty niche of user interface frameworks for text-based terminal applications. While graphical user interfaces have proliferated dramatically, their terminal equivalents have been largely left behind, creating a shift to graphical interfaces in pretty much all applications currently under development.

This is rather unfortunate, as the graphical frameworks are considerably larger and slower. There is also the concern of being locked in to the continued use of X11, a large beast by itself, and whatever GUI framework has been chosen. Finally, most applications do not really need the advanced capabilities of graphical display and could just as easily be ran from the text console without launching X at all.

Back in the "good old days" of DOS, there were numerous text-based applications; word processors, spreadsheets, file managers, finance trackers, telnet clients, and even games. These applications demonstrated that usable and attractive interfaces are entirely possible to implement in text mode. In Linux, things have not gone quite so well. Due to a lack of a decent terminal output library (curses is not one of those), text mode applications look and act rather poorly under Linux. Some support only monochrome output, most accept only alphanumeric keys as input, and all keep a flashing cursor around even when nothing is focused.

In the UltraText library you will find the necessary tools for creating beautiful and usable text-mode application in the prevalent visual style of the last days of DOS. That style is typified by Borlands TurboVision toolkit, although only a few applications actually used that toolkit. It features a look similar to what we find in GUIs today; windows, menu bars, dialogs, interactive input fields and other UI elements.

From a programmers point of view, I have tried to create an interface similar to that of Microsoft Foundation Classes, with the document-view architecture and an event-driven environment that takes care of the low-level details of output rendering, focus management, event routing, and error reporting.

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application. Gourmet is intended for the GNOME desktop environment, but works on any platform that gtk supports, including windows.
Gourmet allows you to collect, search and organize your recipes, and to automatically generate shopping lists from your collection. Take a look at the screenshots for a sense of how this works.
Gourmet Recipe Manager is free software. If you want to contribute to the project and youre a python programmer, please take a look at the source code and start hacking! If you would like to use Gourmet in a language other than English, you can help translate gourmet using the rosetta web-based tool.
Simple Search
Screenshot of Search viewA simple index view allows you to look at all your recipes as a list and quickly search through them by ingredient, title, category, cuisine, rating, or instructions. Searching happens as you type to save you keystrokes, and multiple kinds of searches can easily be combined from this same view (so you can search for salads (category) with walnuts (ingredient) without having to open a separate dialog. You can easily sort recipes by clicking on the column youd like to sort by. Furthermore, for advanced users, you can search using regular expressions.
Recipe Editor
Screenshot of Search viewA recipe card view allows editing and entering individual recipes easily. It also instantly multiplies ingredient amounts if you need to multiply or divide a recipe, and even adjusts units to keep them as readable as possible (so that 2 tbs. x 4 displays as 1/2 cup). Gourmet aims to make entering ingredients as intuitive and painless as possible, while still allowing for powerful features. Major Features:
A keyed ingredient list which allows searches and shopping-list generation to understand synonyms (like aubergine and eggplant) and ignore ingredient descriptions (i.e. to treat "tomatoes, finely chopped" as "tomatoes" for the purpose of searching and generating shopping lists.
An intuitive spreadsheet-like editing interface
An alternative, fast form-like ingredient entering interface (which allows you to easily type ingredient lists without looking at the screen.
Drag-n-drop support for importing ingredient lists from your web browser or other application.
Support for pasting ingredient lists in from your clipboard.
Support for grouping ingredients within a recipe.
Support for calling another recipe as an ingredient.(Note: this allows you to use a recipe as a menu!)
Support for optional ingredients.
In addition to ingredients and instructions, you can enter information about categories, cuisines, and ratings that you can later use to search for recipes. In each case, Gourmet allows you a drop down menu of standard categories and categories youve used in the past, but also allows you to enter any custom categories you like.
You can also add images to your recipe for an attractive display. Thumbnails will be displayed in the recipe index. Currently, only HTML export supports images.
Import and Export
Gourmet includes simple and powerful import and export filters for a number of formats, including the two most common recipe formats on the web (mealmaster and mastercook).
Gourmet can import the following kinds of files:
Mealmaster Files
MasterCook text files
MasterCook XML files
Gourmet XML files
A number of popular recipe websites, such as epicurious and recipezaar
Gourmet also can import ingredient lists from a regular plain text list, which can be imported from a file, pasted from the clipboard or dragged onto the editing view.
Gourmet can export the following kinds of files:
Mealmaster files
Rich Text Format
Plain Text
Recipe Web Pages
Gourmet XML files
On GNU/Linux systems, gourmet can also export PDF or postscript files via its printing interface.
Gourmet aims to import and export as many common formats as possible. If you have a format youd like to import, please submit a feature request, or, if youre a programmer, go ahead and start writing the filter yourself!
Shopping List Manager
Screenshot of Shopping List ViewGourmet allows you to automatically generate shopping list from your recipes. You can easily multiply recipes when you add them to adjust for the number of people youre cooking for. If the units are convertable, different units used in different recipes will be added up correctly on your shoppings list (Gourmet even knows the density of some common foods to allow volume-to-weight conversions!). If Gourmet cant convert your units, the shopping list will simply display both units -- for example, the screenshot shows both tsp. and cloves of garlic, since these units cant be sensibly combined.
If you already have an item that appears on your shopping list, you can drag it into your "pantry" so it wont be included! Items added to your pantry will be remembered in the future (so you dont have to manually remove items like "water" from your shopping list every time a recipe calls for it). However, since the pantry list is shown next to the shopping list, you will always have a list at hand of all the ingredients called for by your recipes. (You can drag an item back from the pantry to the shopping list if youve run out.)
The shopping list is also automatically sorted into categories. Gourmet knows the basic categories of a number of foods (produce, meat, fish), and you can create whatever categories are convenient for your own shopping -- I use it for sorting out the basic sections and aisles of my local grocery store and those items that I get from specialty stores. You can set up shopping categories as you enter recipes, or you can move ingredients around within the shopping list view by drag and dropping or using a popup menu.
Main features:
- Simple searching and sorting
- Easy recipe editing
- Import and export from various formats
- A shopping list creator and organizer

AutoZen is a software brain machine for Linux. It generates sounds that are meant to cause the brain to temporarily shift to a different dominant frequency and cause the user to experience an altered state of consciousness. It is similar to the devices seen in the Sharper Image catalog and in magazine ads, but the price is a lot more attractive!

To our knowledge, the medical community has done very little research into these devices, and they may very well do nothing at all. The author has used AutoZen with good results, perhaps because he meditates regularly, employs wishful thinking, or is just strange. We give no warranty of any kind.

All the same, if you are under treatment for any psychiatric or neurological disorder, you might want to approach this with caution. We have never heard of any problems caused by any software or device of this nature other than some epileptics having problems with the ones that include flashing lights (but then, Pokemon causes the same problem).

Keywatch is a free, open source monitoring system that provides the adaptability of a modern monitoring system without being complex or hard to configure.
Keywatch runs on most platforms. The server runs Java OSGi and the client technology is AJAX, requiring only a standard web browser.
By offering Keywatch under the Apache 2 license, we hope to build a community that will contribute functionality for Keywatch to support common monitoring challenges and a lot of specific ones, making Keywatch an attractive alternative to expensive and less flexible systems.
Main features:
- Keywatch supports the full monitoring value chain.
- High flexibility - write plugins in Java and extend collection any step of the value chain.
- Distributed monitoring - Agent based collection system using XMLRPC
- Automate manual monitoring tasks - Agents able to run arbitary scripts to collect information
- Monitor HW, SW, services, SLA or other objects

GoWeather graphically displays current conditions and 5-day forecast for a location.
It displays an attractive representation the current weather conditions for a particular location, along with upcoming weather forecasts.
The source of the data are small, text-based reports in a standard format (METAR and Zone Forecast (ZFP)) made available from an unchanging, reliable source (the National Weather Service (NWS)).
GoWeather is FLTK-based, has a small form-factor, and the data files are very small and can be accessed offline.
This means GoWeather is suitable for Linux handhelds (like the Agenda VR3 PDA).
Enhancements:
- Initial upload to SourceForge CVS CHANGES.txt created
- Added some "uploading to Agenda" info. to "INSTALL.txt"
- Updated GoWeather URL in documents and files
- References to "Go Weather" changed to "GoWeather"
- "About" dialog window created