Category: Other Downloads

Downloadable Items, usually freeware or Free and Open Source Software

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gobby – Collaborative programmers text editor with chat function

gobby is a cross-platform programmers text editor which supports real-time editing with another user. Gobby features syntax highlighting for most programming languages (c, perl, python, java, ruby, etc) and has IRC-like chat interface for communicating with your partners while coding.


Gobby functionality as a collaborative text-editor makes it possible to work on the same code with your partners remotely, combining coding efforts while working on the same application.

Additionally, gobby also has document synchronisation feature that allow both you and your partner keep documents updated in an efficient manners.

gobby was developed using GTK+ library and available in GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and *BSD operating system.

Gobby Project Website

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SQLyog – Open Source MySQL Manager GUI for Windows

I’ve been busy for the past week, but during my absent, I’ve the opportunity to test SQLyog, a powerful MySQL manangement tool from Webyog.

The application has the same functionalities as the popular web based phpMyAdmin, plus some other neat feature that usually found in enterprise level tool.

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The application lets you organise the database, create indexes, views, manage stored procedures and database triggers. SQLyog also can help you to manage backup and make copies of your database across different host.

SQLyog itself is suprisingly responsive compared to similar product produced by well-known database vendor. Being developed using C++ language and using MySQL C API, the client has direct access to MySQL, which makes it run faster.

Another worth noting feature is the Migration toolkit which allows you to migrate existing database from other DBMS (i.e DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL) via ODBC interface.

Download

SQLyog can be downloaded from its website : http://webyog.com/en/downloads.php

The source code can be obtained from Google Code project repository, via Subversion.

p/s : It would be nice to have this kinda of application on GNU/Linux platform, maybe some people would complain that it isn’t 1337, but I think people working with GNU/Linux? deserve conveniences.
[tags]sqlyog,database,mysql,php,linux,windows[/tags]

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OpenOffice Premium – openoffice 2.0.3 with extra toppings!

Some nice folks have released Openoffice Premium 2.0.3 , OpenOffice suite packaged with extra stuffs into a single binary. The English language binary download is 190MB and the binary is packed with :

  • Clip Art (currently more than 2,800 objects)
  • Templates (number varies by language)
  • Samples (number varies by language)
  • Documentation (if available)
  • Fonts (more than 90 fonts)

Which is handy for those who want to have extra templates and clip-arts for their project.

Depite its name, OpenOffice Premium is available freely (free as in beer and freedom), and the package can be downloaded from OpenOffice Premium Project Website

[tags]openoffice,open office,linux,office,desktop,opensource, open source, free software[/tags]

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Full length Website Screenshot with khtml2png

Today I read that two bloggers has been recommending Webshots , a freeware application to take full length website screenshot in Microsoft Windows and is unavailable to users of other operating system such as GNU/Linux, *BSD and Solaris.

khtml2png is a free software application which can also take full length website screenshot like Webshots does, except it works on unix like platform such as GNU/Linux and flavors of BSD.

The software depends on libkhtml (from kdelibs KDE project) to render website and ‘convert’ from ImageMagick to create the actual screenshot.

Originally the software can only output screenshot in lossless PNG format, but the latest version however is able to support as many output format as ImageMagick support including jpg, gif, png and bmp to suit your needs.

Please refer to khtml2png website for sample website screenshot produced by khtml2png.

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Google Earth on Ubuntu Dapper Video

For those who are interested in installing Google Earth on their Linux PC (especially Ubuntu Dapper Drake), you can refer to this video.

It might interest you that Google Earth is easy to install despite having to use console to install it.


  

  

  

Google Earth on Ubuntu

Google Earth can be downloaded at the Google earth homepage

The video can be also downloaded as Ogg Theora files. Windows user can use VLC Player to play the file.

google,google earth, ubuntu, linux, debian

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Beautify Ubuntu Dapper with custom icon pack!

Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS) has been released earlier this month. Some of the improvements introduced by Dapper Drake is the complete GUI installation screen and the inclusion of tango icon.

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But it is nice to know that you always have the option to ‘improve’ the Dapper Drake GUI a bit and spruce it up with custom icons.

Here’s a page that lists a collection of of improvements to make Dapper look even “better”, I’ve personally tried it for the gaim and Firefox, and it blend nicely into environment!

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Why don’t you try it now?

ubuntu, linux, gui, gnome, icons, tango, dapper