January 5, 2011 · General · (No comments)

Bombono DVD is easy to use program for making DVD video discs. This program allows you to get video on optical discs without knowing many technical details. It provides the full authoring sequence: making chapters while browsing videos, custom menu creation, authoring, and optionally burning on DVD. Also, it features the interesting feature of re-authoring, which allows one to get video back from DVDs.
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January 4, 2011 · General · 16 comments

LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.
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January 4, 2011 · General · (No comments)

G'MIC stands for GREYC's Magic Image Converter. This project aims to :

* Define a minimal but powerful script language (G'MIC) dedicated to the design of image processing pipelines.
* Provide an interpreter of this language (in C++), distributed as an open-source module/library embeddable in third-party applications.
* Propose two binary tools embedding this interpreter :
o The command-line executable gmic to use the G'MIC framework from a shell.
o The interactive plug-in gmic_gimp to bring G'MIC capabilities to the image retouching software GIMP.

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January 3, 2011 · Backup · 2 comments

Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux (Gnome & KDE4) inspired by the "flyback project" and "TimeVault". The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. All you have to do is configure: where to save snapshot, what directories to backup, and when a backup should be done (manually, every hour, every day, every week, or every month). It acts as a "user mode" backup system. This means that you can backup and restore only folders to which you have write access.
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December 31, 2010 · General · 7 comments

Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators. It provides dialogs to create or modify MySQL databases, tables, and associated indexes. The results of an executed query are displayed in a resultset where the record data can be edited by the user, if the SQL statemant allows for it. The SQL editor and resultset view are grouped in tabs. Results can be exported to CSV files. Multiple simultaneous opened MySQL connections are possible. Emma is the successor of yamysqlfront.
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