February 12, 2014 · General · (No comments)

Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

Supported HDR formats:

OpenEXR (extension: exr);
Radiance RGBE (extension: hdr);
Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (extension: tiff);
Raw image formats (extension: various);
PFS native format (extension: pfs).
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February 7, 2014 · General · (No comments)

smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system.

Because large portions of physical memory are typically shared among multiple applications, the standard measure of memory usage known as resident set size (RSS) will significantly overestimate memory usage. PSS instead measures each application's "fair share" of each shared area to give a realistic measure.
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February 5, 2014 · General · (No comments)

i-nex -- System information tool like hardinfo, sysinfo.I-Nex is an application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z.
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January 29, 2014 · General · (No comments)

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
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January 20, 2014 · General · (No comments)

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features. Thus, Plank is the underlying technology for Docky (starting in version 3.0.0) and aims to provide all the core features while Docky extends it to add fancier things like Docklets, painters, settings dialogs, etc.
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