light trial software / shareware for linux

Grabit project is a unique game that challenges your sight-hand coordination. Each of the nine blocks on the rotating shape corresponds to one key on your keyboard (numeric keypad on regular keyboards).

Filling the missing blocks of this rotating shape by simultaneously pressing the corresponding keys will add green lights to your meter until four are reached and a new shape has to be grabbed. Shapes not grabbed will decrease your meter and eventually, when four red lights are reached the game is over.

Try to beat your own score and compete against your friends to find out who has the fastest and most coordinated response to Grabit.

Spatializer StreamFX is an 3D surround plugin for both XMMS developed by Spatializer Labs and 4Front Technologies.

XMMS users can now experience the same Spatializer StreamFX enhancements available for WinAmp and provides a very compelling audio package for the growing Internet Appliance market.

StreamFX provides rich 3D audio, enhanced bass support and support for headphone/speaker audio adjustment, adding rich, immersive audio to the already powerful XMMS player.

Installation:

1. Read LICENSE file

2. Run xminstall.sh

3. Run XMMS

Click on the Effects/General Plugin tab folder, click on the Effects selector button and you should see the Spatializer StreamFX plugin as one of the options If you dont see StreamFX as one of the options then please check your XMMS installation and locate the correct directory where your XMMS plugins are stored. You may also need to upgrade to the latest version of XMMS. High-light the option and click on the Enable Plugin button on the Effects Plugin panel.

Click the Configure button and this will bring up the StreamFX control panel. You can now start playing your mp3, wav, mod file and start changing various values on the StreamFX control panel

Usage:

3D-Stereo

Space: controls the amount of 3D-stereo sound
Center: controls the amount of monaural (center) sound

V.i.B.E.

Bass: controls the amount of conventional bass-boost
Virt. Bass: controls the amount of virtual bass-boost
Color: controls the timbre of the virtual bass

Headphones (only used when listening over headphones)
Angle: adjusts the position of "virtual loudspeakers". Slider full left is both directly in front (mono); middle is about +/-45 degrees, full right is about +/-90 degrees.

The Big Faceless Graph Library is a Java class library for creating graphs and charts. It is backed by a full 3D engine, allowing you to create shaded 3D pie, bar, and line graphs as GIF, PDF, PNG, or other image formats.
Big Faceless Graph Library features include transparent backgrounds, extensible axes to graph dates, currencies, custom fonts, and spline curve fitting. It is small, fast, and easy to use.
Main features:
- XML and JSP Tag Library interface, for extremely easy integration with web projects
- Very comprehensive API and Tag documentation with dozens of examples
- Embed JavaScript in your tags to easily create powerful rollovers
- Full 3D engine with adjustable light source, produces the most realistic graphs on the market
- Output to PNG, SVG, Macromedia Flash, PDF or java.awt.Image for use in Applets
- Graph Dates, Currencies, Percentages, Numbers and Discrete data out of the box, easily extended for total control over the axes
- Mix Bars, Lines, Candles, Bubbles, all on the same graph
- Add text, lines or custom markers anywhere on the graph, including axes
- Use up to four axes on the one graph, including logarithmic axes
- Plot mathematical functions, data samples and spline curves fitted to data, all on the same graph
- Its fast - plot several 3D graphs a second to PDF
Enhancements:
- Display order of markers on a non-3D graph is now deterministic.
- Markers, images, and labels on bar series appear in the correct place if the order of the bars is changed between series or if the series is part of a stack barseries.
- A label tag can be made into a hyperlink, and now accepts attributes such as href and onmouseover.
- Its possible to cause the GraphServlet to reject requests based on HTTP headers, via the "headercheck.N" init-parameters.

X-Plane project is the worlds most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth AND MARS! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planets elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.
Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
While X-Plane is the worlds most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.
X-Planes accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh AND Windows platforms.
X-Planes flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems, as needed for a B-2 simulation.
How it Works:
1: Element Break-Down
Done only once during initialization, X-Plane breaks the wing(s), horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer(s), and propeller(s) (if equipped) down into a finite number of elements. The number of elements is decided by the user in Plane-Maker. Ten elements per side per wing or stabilizer is the maximum, and studies have shown that this provides roll rates and accelerations that are very close to the values that would be found with a much larger number of elements.
2: Velocity Determination
This is done twice per cycle. The aircraft linear and angular velocities, along with the longitudinal, lateral, and vertical arms of each element are considered to find the velocity vector of each element. Downwash, propwash, and induced angle of attack from lift-augmentation devices are all considered when finding the velocity vector of each element.
Propwash is found by looking at the area of each propeller disk, and the thrust of each propeller. Using local air density, X-Plane determines the propwash required for momentum to be conserved.
Downwash is found by looking at the aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, and the horizontal and vertical distance of the "washed surface" (normally the horizontal stabilizer) from the "washing surface" (normally the wing), and then going to an empirical look-up table to get the degrees of downwash generated per coefficient of lift.
3: Coefficient Determination
The airfoil data entered in Part-Maker is 2-dimensional, so X-Plane applies finite wing lift-slope reduction, finite-wing CLmax reduction, finite-wing induced drag, and finite-wing moment reduction appropriate to the aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, or propeller blade in question. Compressible flow effects are considered using Prandtl-Glauert, but transonic effects are not simulated other than an empirical mach-divergent drag increase. In supersonic flight, the airfoil is considered to be a diamond shape with the appropriate thickness ratio... pressures behind the shock waves are found on each of the plates in the diamond-shaped airfoil and summed to give the total pressures on the foil element.
4: Force Build-Up
Using the coefficients just determined in step 3, areas determined during step 1, and dynamic pressures (determined separately for each element based on aircraft speed, altitude, temperature, propwash and wing sweep), the forces are found and summed for the entire aircraft. Forces are then divided by the aircraft mass for linear accelerations, and moments of inertia for angular accelerations.
5: Get Back to Work
Go back to step 2 and do the whole thing over again at least 15 times per second. Arent computers great?
Version restrictions:
- If you do NOT have an X-Plane 8.00 DVD, these downloads act as a demo... they will stop the joystick after 6 minutes.

Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images.
Noise Ninja is a must-have tool for anyone shooting in low-light or fast-action situations -- including news, sports, wedding, and event coverage -- where high ISO photography is required and the resulting noise compromises the image.
Noise Ninja often yields a two-stop improvement in effective image quality, while preserving important image detail. In addition, it can produce cleaner, smoother enlargements from low-ISO images.
Main features:
- Best-of-breed technology Designed by a former professor of computer science, Noise Ninja is based on multiple patent-pending advances in a field of mathematics called "wavelet theory." This powerful, one-of-a-kind technology yields an unprecedented balance between noise suppression and detail preservation, achieving natural-looking results without artifacts. Competitive products often yield plastic or blurred results. Those based on conventional wavelets tend to introduce artifacts like halos, ringing, or color bleeding around high-contrast edges, or false edge artifacts in smooth areas.
- Reliable, easy results Noise Ninja excels at getting you "in the ballpark" with default settings, and it responds gracefully and predictably to adjustments. This consistency is unmatched by other tools, which often respond erratically to different images and adjustments.
- Unmatched productivity and flexibility Noise Ninja is more than just an algorithm with a user interface. It is a complete solution, designed so you can quickly and easily get the results you want. It includes a rich set of tools, including automatic and manual noise analysis, camera-specific profiles, an innovative "Noise Brush", and batch processing. Whether you want a one-button automated solution or full interactive control, you can easily adapt the tool to fit your particular workflow needs.
- Plug-in or standalone Noise Ninja runs on both Windows and Mac OS X. It is available as a standalone application, and as a plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and compatible hosts.
- Add Noise Ninja to your digital toolkit today. It will pay for itself the first time it rescues an image, whether for publication or for your scrapbook. To learn more, click on one of the Quick Links on the left.
Version restrictions:
- Saved files will be watermarked
Enhancements:
- Added quality annotation auto-fill support
- Added jpe as valid JPEG extension
- Added support for reading ISO information from EXIF Makernotes of recent Canon point-and-shoots
- Minor bug fixes

CacheGuard OS is a Linux based operating system dedicated to Web traffic control and optimization. It transforms an x86 based machine to a powerful, affordable Web gateway appliance.
It allows you to control all Web traffic that passes through a CacheGuard appliance. It proxies HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It supports HTTP transparent implementation, HTTP compression methods, caching technologies, and user-defined black and white lists.
It features a fireWall with NAT and PAT, bandwidth management (QoS), Web-based and SSH-based administration interfaces, and high availability through a VRRP implementation.
Optimize Web traffics by:
- Saving your Internet Bandwidth
- WAN/WIFI Optimisation
- Protecting your privacy against intrusions
- Managing Web Access QoS (Quality of Service)
- Bandwidth Shaping & Scheduling
- Guarding against undesirable URLS (content filtering)
- Controlling and Examining Web Access
- Accelerating Web Access
Main features:
- HTTP Transparent Implementation
- User Defined Balck Lists & White Lists
- Light-Weight Administration
- Scalability & Load Balancing
- Caching and HTTP Compression methods
- Web oriented Firewall with NAT & PAT
- Redundancy & High Availability
- Load Sharing
Enhancements:
- The network installation and its documentation are improved (Mainly: the TFTP IP Address is guessed and if the installation fails, the installation environment is properly reset to give the possibility to launch the installation again).

All users of Linux now have a new great game - Challenge Checkers! The game is a wonderful training for you logic force and strategy skills.
You play with your device or with your partner, getting more and more experience on several skill levels. Enjoy also great graphics and sound - endless pleasure for devoted chess player of any age. A real challenge for all checkers masters!
Main features:
- two players mode
- game autosave on exit
- demo mode with advanced AI engine
- various sound and animation effects
Game Rules
The game is played on a board with dark and light squares, arranged in an 8x8 grid. Each player sets his 12 pieces on his side of the board in three ranks on dark checks. Checkers is played on the dark squares only. The players move one piece at one turn. The pieces may be moved diagonally.
A piece can only be moved forward. If one of your pieces is next to the opponents
piece and the square beyond it is free, you are required to jump over the opponents
piece. The opponents piece is then removed from the board. It is possible to jump many times in a row with the same piece, capturing several of your opponents pieces.
The squares placed in the last row on the opposite side of the board are King squares. "If a piece reaches the far end of the board, then it becomes a king. " The king is allowed to move and jump diagonally backwards and forwards. Kings can be captured like any other pieces.
The game lasts until all of the opponents pieces are captured, or are blocked so that they cannot make a move. The player who loses all the checkers or has them blocked loses the game.
The game runs on major Linus flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others)