Amarok

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux and Unix, MacOS X and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it!

Integrated Web Services

Much of where work has been invested in Amarok 2 is the Web services integration. Now Amarok can connect to various Web services and access the music directly, greatly expanding the potential number of songs at your fingertips. Thanks to the powerful API, adding additional services can be done with very little effort.

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      Last.fm

      Scrobble and listen to any last.fm radio stream with fully featured last.fm integration.
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      Magnatune

      Buy tracks from the integrated Magnatune store, and help support the music label that Is Not Evil.
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      The Echo Nest Recommendations
      Shoutcast

      Let The Echo Nest recommend songs similar to ones you are already playing.

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      Ampache

      Connect remotely to an Ampache music server and browse, search, playback media files.
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      MP3tunes

      Download and Upload to your MP3tunes Locker in Amarok. Never leave your music at home again!
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      Jamendo Service
    
      Enjoy Jamendo's rich database of independent artists.

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      OPML Podcast Directory

      Find, subscribe, and download audio and video podcasts from all over the ultimate podcast directory.
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      Librivox

      Listen to streaming audio books straight from the Librivox catalog.


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      Scripts

      Enhance your Amarok experience with community developed scripts.
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      Dynamic Playlists

      Create playlists that automatically update based on complex, but easy to use, constraints. e.g., tracks from around the year 1967
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      Context View

      Customize the supplemental information related to your music with the Plasma powered Context View.

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      PopUp Dropper

      Simplify drag and drop actions with the revolutionary PopUp Dropper menu system.
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      Multiple Language Translations

      Enjoy Amarok in your native language, with over 45 community contributed translations.
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      Cross Platform

      Thanks to Qt4 and KDE4 technologies you can run Amarok on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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      Collection Management

      Organizing your music collection has never been easier with Amarok's powerful tagging, renaming, and sorting abilities.
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      Database Importing

      Import your iTunes or old Amarok 1.4 database and keep your playcounts, statistics, and scores.
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      Scriptable Services

      Integrate other web services into Amarok with community developed services. Here are just a few: Seeqpod, and NPR.

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      Bookmarking

      Mark positions in tracks to come back and listen to later. Automatic bookmarking will ensure you can pick up where you left off in that podcast or audio book
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      File Tracking

      Move your music files around or rename them and don't fear! Amarok will keep track of the files. Your statistics and playlists are safe. As of Amarok 2.2 file tracking can use Musicbrainz identifiers.
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      Audio CDs

      Play your Audio CDs in Amarok, and use the Copy to Collection feature to easily rip them to your local collection.

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Tomboy

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Mac OSX, Windows and Unix based systems. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems?

 Time for Tomboy. We bet you'll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.

Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.

Features highlights

• Highlighting text
• Inline spelll checking
• Auto-linking web & email addresses
• Undo/redo
• Font styling & sizing
• Bulleted lists

Features

Keeping Track

The key to Tomboy's usefulness lies in the ability to relate notes and ideas together. Using a WikiWiki-like linking system, organizing ideas is as simple as typing a name. Branching an idea off is easy as pressing the Link button. And links between your ideas won't break, even when renaming and reorganizing them.

Accessing your notes

Accessing your notes is usually a quick mouse-flick away. Just click on the Tomboy Panel applet, which is always visible on your desktop. You can choose one of the notes you've recently viewed from the menu or Search for older notes. The Table of Contents lists all your notes in the order they were last modified.
No more moving your applications to find a website you dragged to the desktop. No more searching your filesystem to find where you think you maybe put last week's TODO list.

Friendly Editing

Tomboy supports many advanced editing features, but they won't bother you until you need them. Stream-lining the interface as much as possible to avoid distractions is a key goal of ours. Because software should never slow your momentum!
It is a top priority for Tomboy to be able to handle all the sorts of information you want to keep track of. We are currently developing support for linking-to and managing all the Desktop Objects you interact with, all from within a simple note interface. Try dragging an email to your note!

Plugins

Tomboy isn't limited to certain set of features - extend it as you wish. Find more about plugins.

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Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos.

Organize
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had.

Edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more.

Create
Turn photos into collages, slideshows and more.

Share
Upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world.

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Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Features

The straightforward user interface is designed for convenience and speed with simple operations. Features include WYSIWYG cutting, appending, filters and re-encoding into various formats. Some of the filters were ported from MPlayer and Avisynth. Avidemux can also mux and demux audio streams into and out of video files, either through re-encoding or using a direct copy mode.

An integral and important part of the design of the program is its project system, which uses the SpiderMonkey ECMAScript scripting engine. Whole projects with all options, configurations, selections, and preferences can be saved into a project file. Like VirtualDub's vcf scripting capabilities, Avidemux has advanced scripting available for it both in its GUI and command line modes. It also supports a non-project system just like VirtualDub, where you can simply create all your configurations and save the video directly without making a project file. A project queue system is also available.

Avidemux has built-in subtitle processing, both for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to soft subtitle formats (VobSub sub, ass and srt) and various hard subtitle VobSub capabilities. While it is primarily a GUI program, Avidemux can also be run from and through the command line (which can also be used for batch processing and debugging).

Multithreading

Multithreading has been implemented in the following areas of Avidemux (some partially through libavcodec):

    * Encoding
          o H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (using x264)
          o MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
          o MPEG-4 (SP/ASP, using libavcodec MPEG-4 or Xvid)
                + Xvid requires the latest version from the CVS
    * Decoding
          o MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
          o MPEG-4 (SP/ASP, using libavcodec)

Supported input formats

File formats:

    * AVI, OpenDML
    * ASF
    * Flash Video
    * Images (BMP, JPEG, PNG)
    * Matroska
    * MPEG PS, TS
    * NuppelVideo
    * OGM
    * QuickTime, MP4, 3GPP

Video formats:

    * Cinepak (only in latest development version)
    * DV
    * FFV1
    * H.263
    * H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
    * HuffYUV
    * MPEG-1, MPEG-2
    * MPEG-4 Simple Profile/Advanced Simple Profile (Supported codec FourCCs: DIVX, DX50, XVID, FMP4, M4S2)
    * MJPEG
    * MSMPEG-4 v. 2 (FourCC DIV3)
    * Raw RGB
    * SVQ3
    * VP3
    * VP6F (through libavcodec)
    * WMV 2

Audio formats:

    * AAC
    * AC3
    * AMR narrow band
    * MP3, MP2
    * Vorbis
    * WAV PCM
    * WAV LPCM
    * WMA

Supported output formats

File formats:

    * AVI (single or dual audio tracks)
    * Flash Video
    * Images (BMP, JPEG)
    * Matroska
    * MP4
    * MPEG (VCD/SVCD/DVD compatible & separate)
    * OGM

Video formats:

    * FFV1
    * H.263
    * H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (using x264)
    * HuffYUV
    * MPEG-1, MPEG-2
    * MPEG-4 (SP/ASP, using FFmpeg MPEG-4 or Xvid)
    * MJPEG
    * Snow

Audio formats:

    * AAC
    * AC3
    * MP3, MP2
    * Ogg Vorbis
    * WAV PCM
    * WAV LPCM

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool.
In addition to offering freeform drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image workflow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format. At present GIMP is entirely suitable for amateur or professional work with images intended for viewing on monitors and printing on inkjet printers; GIMP does not yet offer the CMYK separation and color management functionality which is essential for prepress work.

The product vision for GIMP is to become a high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. One point in GIMP's product vision would see GIMP used for the development of cutting-edge image-processing algorithms.

Features and Capabilities

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.

• Painting
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
• System
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
• Advanced Manipulation
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.
• Extensible
  • A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
  • Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
  • Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
  • Over 100 plug-ins already available
• Animation
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• File Handling
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
• Much, much more!

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