Gramps

Gramps

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 / No Comments

Gramps

is a genealogy program for Linux, Windows, Mac, and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. It supports the GEDCOM standard, allows fine grained privacy controls and can generate many different types of reports (descendant trees, graphs, connection diagrams, ....)

Focus on Your Research

Every person has their own story but they are also part of a collective family history. Gramps gives you the ability to record the many details of an individual’s life as well as the complex relationships between various people, places and events. All of your research is kept organized, searchable and as precise as you need it to be.

jEdit

jEdit

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jEdit

jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.









Features

•     Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, Unix, VMS and Windows.
•     Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture.
•     Hundreds of plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the plugin manager feature.
•     Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
•     Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
•     Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
•     Word wrap.
•     Highly configurable and customizable.

Pinguy OS

Pinguy OS

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 / No Comments

Pinguy OS

is a Linux distribution that is built on the Ubuntu framework. PinguyOS was created by Antoni Norman and Antoni is still the lead developer of the project today. The ethos of PinguyOS is very simple, to look good, work well and most importantly to be simple to use. PinguyOS is very much designed for people who are new to the Linux world, many people coming from both a Windows or a Mac background will find plenty of familiar features along with some new ones that aren’t available in either Windows or Mac.

RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader

RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader

Sunday, May 19, 2013 / No Comments

RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader

is a powerful application to organize, search and read your news feeds in a comfortable way. It runs cross platform on Windows, Linux and Mac and can also be installed into Eclipse. RSS Owl is translated into the popular languages of the world.

Some of the unique highlights are google reader synchronization, tabbed reading, powerful searches that can be saved, news filters with automated actions, embedded browser and newspaper layout, tray notifications, clean-up wizard and powerful user customization.

RSSOwl requires no installation, simply start it with a doubleclick and find a large list of sample feeds already provided. For your convinience, an installer is provided on Windows. On Linux, you can obtain RSSOwl from the online repository.

You can also easily import existing feeds from other readers into RSSOwl or synchronize with Google Reader always be in sync with your subscriptions.

Password Safe

Password Safe

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Password Safe

allows you to manage your old passwords and to easily and quickly generate, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords, using password policies that you control. Once stored, your user names and passwords are just a few clicks away.

Using Password Safe you can organize your passwords using your own customizable references—for example, by user ID, category, web site, or location. You can choose to store all your passwords in a single encrypted master password list (an encrypted password database), or use multiple databases to further organize your passwords (work and home, for example). And with its intuitive interface you will be up and running in minutes.

Microsoft Mathematics

Microsoft Mathematics

Saturday, May 18, 2013 / No Comments

Microsoft Mathematics


provides a set of mathematical tools that help students get school work done quickly and easily. With Microsoft Mathematics, students can learn to solve equations step-by-step while gaining a better understanding of fundamental concepts in pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, and calculus.

Microsoft Mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like a handheld calculator. Additional math tools help you evaluate triangles, convert from one system of units to another, and solve systems of equations.

NVDA

NVDA

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 / No Comments

NVDA

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 35 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation. NVDA is developed by ​NV Access, with contributions from the community.

Video: NVDA on ​ABC TV's New Inventors

CoolNovo

CoolNovo

Saturday, May 4, 2013 / No Comments

CoolNovo

is another web browser that's based on the same engine as the original Google Chrome and adds a bunch of handy new tools that make it even easier and more enjoyable to use.

The interface in CoolNovo is identical to Google Chrome, with the new features being mainly under the hood: close tabs by double clicking on them, browse the web with mouse gestures, open links by dragging and dropping them, open Internet Explorer tabs and have download managers embedded into the browser's context menu.

The new tools in CoolNovo certainly make web browsing more comfortable, but they also lack proper configuration options. Mouse gestures, for example, can't be tweaked at all.

CoolNovo is a web browser based on Google Chrome's engine with some handy extra features that make it even easier to use.