freshmeat.net announcements (Mac OS X)

Step Into Chinese 0.6 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:43:28 GMT

Step Into Chinese is a flexible language-mining and flashcard system to assist English speakers seeking to understand the Chinese language. It was designed to address the lack of a one-to-one correspondence between Chinese characters and corresponding Pinyin morphemes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
Updated to work with current wx versions. The exit procedure, which behaved badly under some window managers and operating systems, has been cleaned up.

Simple Groupware 0.414 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:40:49 GMT

Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web applications.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Real URLs were implemented in the CMS module, as well as static caching for attachments. Compatibility for Apache 2.2.8 was added in the default WebDAV configuration. The sgsML parser was expanded with sorting for static values. Italian and French translations were updated, and the new version of PmWiki was included. Fixes were applied to numeric default values in PostgreSQL, localized date formatting, and exceptional view permissions.

plus4emu 1.2.7 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:38:14 GMT

plus4emu is a portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer. It supports Windows and POSIX platforms (32 bit Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and Mac OS X have been tested). It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, but the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for using the mouse to change the cursor position in the emulated machine, and copying text to and pasting from the clipboard. A new command line option for typing text of any length at startup. A machine configuration option to control the SID output volume. Minor sound emulation improvements. Various improvements have been made to the 'compress' and 'p4fliconv' utilities. In OpenGL video mode, the vertical interlace effect is now also displayed at quality 1 and 2, and quality 2 uses 32-bit textures. Minor optimizations and bugfixes.

Subsonic 3.5.beta1 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:22:18 GMT

Subsonic is a Web-based music streamer, jukebox, and Podcast receiver. It provides access to your entire music collection wherever you are. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your music while away from home.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
A new Subsonic Mobile Player for streaming to mobile phones has been added. Personal images (avatars) are now supported, as well as a read-only mode. This release also contains many important bugfixes.

Mathomatic 14.0.7 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:13:57 GMT

Mathomatic is a fast and easy-to-use console mode Computer Algebra System (CAS) that can manipulate symbolic equations and expressions, perform standard, complex number, and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some calculus and displays expressions in color when using a terminal emulator.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
This version contains bug fixes. Presentation of expressions with coefficients is improved, and the readline history is now remembered between sessions.

Floola 3.1 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:06:12 GMT

Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. It supports all commonly used iPod features including photos, artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It automatically converts any incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding YouTube and MySpace videos with a single click.

License: Freeware

Changes:
An issue with main listbox columns was fixed. A podcast downloading issue when losing focus was fixed. The filetype is also written to the database. FFmpeg parameter issues were fixed. Photo database handling was improved. Issues with copying photos when fullres is not available were fixed. last.fm tracks played in Floola had the wrong timestamp. A Korean translation was added. The synch folder had the wrong file count.

Redland RDF Library Language Bindings 1.0.8.1 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:14:38 GMT

redland-bindings provides high-level language bindings for the Redland RDF C libraries, allowing full access to the C APIs along with enhancements for individual languages. It currently provides bindings in C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
The language bindings were updated to use the Redland 1.0.8 API. The configuration now prefers pkg-config, which helps Mac OS X linking problems. Minor fixes were made to the Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings.

Redland RDF Libraries 1.0.8 (Development branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:13:34 GMT

Redland is a set of C libraries providing a high-level API for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), allowing it to be stored, parsed, serialized, queried, and manipulated. It has an object-based, modular design and comes with detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs are provided in C#, C, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Tcl. Redland supports all RDF vocabularies such as FOAF, RSS 1.0, Dublin Core, DOAP, and OWL, the query languages RDQL and SPARQL, and all RDF syntaxes including Turtle, RDF/XML, RSS, Atom, and GRDDL.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
Redland was updated to use the new Rasqal 0.9.16 API (incompatible with earlier versions) and was updated to use Raptor 1.4.18. A new "trees" indexed in-memory storage was added. Improvements were made to low-memory and other failures of resource allocation. Some minor API additions and changes were made to the concepts, parser, and serializer classes.

Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.16 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:12:39 GMT

Rasqal is a C library for querying RDF, supporting the RDQL and SPARQL languages. It provides APIs for creating a query and parsing query syntax. It features pluggable triple-store source and matching interfaces, an engine for executing the queries and an API for manipulating results as bindings. It uses the Raptor RDF parser to return triples from RDF content and can alternatively work with the Redland RDF library's persistent triple stores. It is portable across many POSIX systems.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
A major API/ABI change was made, so Rasqal 0.9.16 is incompatible with earlier releases. A new rasqal_world object was added and used for all constructor functions. All deprecated functions and macros were removed. Query result sets can now be read and written from sparql XML results format. Error syntax error reporting was improved.

ICSILog 0.6 beta (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:59:53 GMT

ICSILog is a C-language implementation of a fast single-precision approximation of the natural logarithm with adjustable accuracy. The core idea is to use a quantized version of the mantissa of the input floating point number as a pointer into a lookup table. The amount of quantization of the mantissa determines the table size and therefore the accuracy. Current processors are able to store relatively large lookup tables in cache memory. Therefore an acceptable accuracy can be reached without too many main memory accesses.

Condor 7.0.3 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:54:43 GMT

Condor schedules and runs remote CPU intensive applications using the idle cycles of distributively owned workstations. It monitors a pool of machines to find idle machines that are then used to complete submitted jobs, and also provides checkpointing and remote system mechanisms that allow for job migration and transparent remote execution.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
Condor no longer requires its EXECUTE directory to be world-writable, as long as it is not on a root-squashed NFS mount and is owned by the user given in the CONDOR_IDS setting (or by Condor's real UID, if not started as root). A bug where condor_schedd would become unresponsive during a shutdown was fixed. Numerous other bugs were fixed.

Piggy Market Squeak 0.3.0 (Default branch)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:51:22 GMT

Piggy Market Squeak is an easy-to-use alert system for trends in stocks and shares. It has a user-friendly graphical user interface and email alerts. It can highlight and sort buy and sell signals from marketplaces or portfolios. It is versatile and integrates new trend indicators.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A new feature to provide an alert on a given threshold is directly available from a right click in the portfolio. A large number of bugs were fixed, especially in the graph feature.