Category: Other Downloads

Downloadable Items, usually freeware or Free and Open Source Software

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AJAX Web applications with Yahoo UI Library !

Yahoo Developer Network has released the Yahoo! User Interface Library. It is a toolkit library written in Javascript for building web applications by utilising DOM scripting, XHTML and AJAX (XMLHttpRequest).

The library is designed to simplify web development and to enhance web experience for the web applications users. Among things that included in the library are :

  • Animations
  • Connection Manager
  • DOM
  • Drag and Drop
  • Event
  • Calendar
  • Slider
  • Treeview

The Yahoo! UI Library is released under the BSD License. Please refer to http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/ for more information.

yahoo, ajax, webdev, yahoo.com,dom, javascript

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BackTrack – Penetration Testing (pentest) Live CD!

A quick check in DistroWatch today revealed that remote-exploit has made available its first public Beta release of BackTrack 3.0. The Live CD is a must for those who are interested in running security check up and/or penetration test (pentest).

The SLAX-based LiveCD combines the best of two GNU/Linux distributions Whax and Auditor that specialised in the same field. Combining the best features from both distributions, and paying special attention to small details, this is probably the best version of either distributions to ever come out.

The Live CD comes with the usual tools for security testing like vulnerability scanners, port scanners, network sniffers, wardriving tools, bluetooth snarfer as well as popular exploit archives (SecurityFocus, milw0rm).

Users who are interested with this distro can check out their official website at : http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/BackTrack

linux, security, distro, livecd, backtrack, slax, slackware

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Nokia releases Python for S60 source code (pys60)

Nokia has recently released the source code for its Python for S60 at Sourceforge.net. The source code is covered under Apache version 2 and Python open source license. This move will hopefully enable developers to learn and understand more about Nokia python implementations thus easing up module/extensions development.

Python for S60 SIS file and its source code and be downloaded from : Pys60 project page at Sourceforge.net

pys60, python, nokia, s60, symbian

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Windows users – UWIN an alternative to CYGWIN

unix, cygwin, windows, posix, computers

UWIN (Unix for Windows) is a collection of softwares created by AT&T Laboratories can be seen as an alternative to Cygwin. UWIN provides a unix-like environment for windows, complete with unix-emulation api and Korn shell.

UWIN is generally useful for developers who wants to compile certain unix applications in windows. Much like Cygwin, UWIN contains a DLL file POSIX.DLL that provides substantial unix API functionality instead of windows built-in posix layer. UWIN package also include files and unix development tools such as C compiler (but not gcc, obviously!).

The unix-environment also comes with Korn shell (AT&T ksh) and various other standard unix utilities which brings you the right unix-like environment in your Windows system.

You can download UWIN from AT&T AST/UWIN open source downloads.. UWIN is licensed under Common Public License 1.0.

p/s: this may be a great environment for those who wants to try out Unix environment without GNU stuff (even without gcc!).

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Malaysia Cities and Places Geo Location file

geolocation, malaysia, maps,map
I’ve able to obtain Malaysian cities and places geo location file while working with one of my projects. The file is tab-separated and contains city names and it’s geo location given in Geographic Coordinate System (longitude, latitude).

I publish this in my website in hope that it would be useful for others out there. I find the list is very useful and quite comprehensive, save for a few “fancy” places in Kuala Lumpur which i couldn’t find.

Download the file here : bandar_geolocation.txt.gz

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sphpblog – php blog scripts with text storage

blog, blogging, sphpblog, php, open source, free software, gnu/gpl

One of my friends is using sphpblog as his blogging platform which makes me curious to try it out myself.

Simple PHP Blog script is a simple blog application which only uses text files as its data storage. This in turn makes it one of the simplest php blog script to install, you just need to unpack it and you’re done (well you need to change some write permission).

sphpblog packs the most features for its size. It has (among others) :

  • Comments
  • Trackbacks
  • Post Category
  • Syndication feed (RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, ATOM 0.3
  • Search feature
  • Article Rating
  • Article views counter
  • Contact Me page
  • Build in blog stats
  • Archives Calendar
  • and many more…!

sphpblog certainly has more than I could expect from a blogging platform, it’s simple requirements of using PHP version > 4.3.x (it supports PHP5 too) and a couple of write permissions makes it easy to install.

Finally, sphpblog is available for download here, under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2.0