Alice

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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.

Wings 3D

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Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. There is no support in Wings for animation. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Features:

Overview:

• Context sensitive interface
• Configurable interface and hotkeys
• Wide range of Selection and Mesh tools
• Exports to common 3d file formats like .obj
• UV mapper, Vertex Colors, Materials, and Lights

Intuitive Interface:

Wings has a simple interface. Right-click menus give you easy access to common commands. These menus are context sensitive, so depending on your selection, a different menu pops up.

Hovering over any menu item will display a brief description of the command in the Info Line at the bottom of the main window.

Variations to commands are listed in the Info Line. Many commands let you pick an extra vector or point that the command should operate upon. Command variations are initiated by selecting the command using the different mouse buttons. In the Info Line, the mouse buttons are abbreviated to L, M, and R.

Tools:

Wings 3D has a comprehensive set of mesh modeling and selection tools.

• Standard tools such as Move, Scale, Rotate, Extrude, Bevel, Bridge, Cut, and Weld.
• Advanced tools including: Sweep, Plane Cut, Circularise, Intersect, Bend, Shear, and Inset.
• Magnets and Magnet Masking
• Virtual Mirror for symmetrical modeling
• Tweak and Sculpt
• Edge Loop and Edge Ring selection and navigation tools
• Smooth Preview
• Much, MUCH more!

AutoUV:

Add textures to your model using the AutoUV facility. AutoUV helps you cut and unfold an image of your model’s surface, which you can then export for painting and texturing.

Interface Languages:

Wings is written in English but has been translated into various languages including:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Czech
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Swedish
• Turkish

HandBrake

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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Reasons you’ll love HandBrake are: convert video from nearly any format, it is free and open source and also multi-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux).

Features:

Built-in Device Presets:

• Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

Supported Input Sources:

• Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

• File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
• Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora)
• Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Even more features:

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preview

Miro Video Converter

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Miro Video Converter provides a beautiful, simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and iPad. Batch conversion, custom sizing, and more! 100% Free and open-source.

Some of the most popular conversions:

Convert to MP4 Video

• Convert AVI to MP4
• Convert H264 to MP4
• Convert MOV to MP4
• Convert WMV to MP4
• Convert XVID to MP4
• Convert Theora to MP4
• Convert MKV to MP4
• Convert FLV to MP4

Convert to Ogg Theora Video

• Convert AVI to Ogg Theora
• Convert H264 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MOV to Ogg Theora
• Convert WMV to Ogg Theora
• Convert XVID to Ogg Theora
• Convert MP4 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MKV to Ogg Theora
• Convert FLV to Ogg Theora

Convert to WebM

• Convert AVI to WebM
• Convert H264 to WebM
• Convert MOV to WebM
• Convert WMV to WebM
• Convert XVID to WebM
• Convert Theora to WebM
• Convert MKV to WebM
• Convert FLV to WebM

Miro Video Player

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Miro is a beautiful, open-source music and video player. It is a free and open source software for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Features:

• Resume from Where You Stopped: Miro will remember where you stopped watching a video and will start at that point when you play it again.
• Play Almost Anything: Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
• One After Another: Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.
• Seamless BitTorrent: Miro can download individual BitTorrent files and torrents that are in feeds. When a video torrent is downloaded it will be in your channel and library ready to watch, just like any other video download.
• Video RSS: Video RSS feeds are at the core of our vision for internet TV. They provide a simple system that any publisher can use to distribute their content. Viewers can bring feeds from anywhere together into one place. Miro is compatible with more feeds than any other video app.
• Play in Separate Window: Miro now lets you watch any video in a separate window, so you can browse and download while you watch. You can play videos in a separate window individually or set a preference to always play videos in a separate window.
• Simple Disk Management: Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.
• Pause / Resume: Easily pause and resume any individual download, all downloads in one channel, or all Miro downloads.
• Mac, Windows, Linux: Miro works beautifully on all three major operating systems. We make this effort because a new model for internet television has to be accessible to everyone.
• Open Source: Miro is free, open-source software (licensed under the GPL). Anyone is free to change the source code, contribute bug fixes and features, and make new versions.

mHotspot

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mHotspot is a completely free software which converts your windows 7 & 8 laptop into a virtual wifi router and creates a secure wifi hotspot. You can share single internet connection(LAN, Ethernet, Data-Card, 3G/4G, Wif) for multiple devices like laptops, smartphones, android phones, PDAs, Ipads etc. Play Multiplayer gaming using mHotspot. No router or external hardware is required apart from your existing one.

Features :

• Connect upto 10 devices to the hotspot
• You can set your own hotspot name without any restrictions
• Application size is 400KB only
• Share any type of Internet Connection(LAN, Ethernet,3G/4G,Wifi etc)
• Android phones, ipads, PDAs, tablet-pcs and other devices can access
• See the details of the connected device(Name, Ip Address, Mac Address)
• See the network usage(Upload and Download Speed, Transfer Rates)
• Secures your wireless hotspot with WPA2 PSK password security
• Set max. number of devices that can be connected
• Extends your Wifi range(Acts as a repeater)
• In-app internet selection
• Works with Windows 7,8

Juice

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Juice is technically a "Media Aggregator," a program that allows you to select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop. Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your computer, so you don't have to spend a lot of time manually selecting and waiting for downloads. You can play your selected audio files using iTunes or other "jukebox" software, or load them on to your iPod or other portable digital media player to play anytime you want.

Why should I squeeze Juice?

• Juice is free
• Juice supports more than 15 languages
• Juice supports multiple media players
• Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
• Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts
• Juice has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds
• Juice has auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management and much more
• Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only)
• Juice is fresh!

OpenShot Video Editor

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OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

Drag & Drop:

• Adding new files to your OpenShot video project is easy. Just drag and drop audio, video, or image files into your project from your Gnome desktop.

Video & Audio Effects:

• To add awesome video and audio effects to your clips, just switch to the effects tab, and drag the effect onto a clip. It's just that easy!

Project Settings:

• Choose your project settings, including the name, length, frames per second, height, width, aspect ratio, and other important settings for your video project.

Effect Settings:

• Each video and audio effect has settings that control its behavior. Using the clip properties window, you can easily change the settings of any effect.

Rotate Settings:

• Rotating a video or image clip is easy. Just drag and drop the rotate effect, and then adjust a few settings. You can animate your video spinning around in circles, or just statically rotate your video.

Features:

• Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg )
• Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
• Unlimited tracks / layers
• Clip re-sizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting
• Video transitions with real-time previews
• Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
• Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
• 3D Animated Titles
• SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
• Scrolling motion picture credits
• Solid color clips (including alpha compositing )
• Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
• Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
• Frame stepping (key-mappings: J, K, and L keys)
• Video encoding (based on FFmpeg )
• Key Frame animation
• Digital zooming of video clips
• Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
• Custom transition lumas and masks
• Audio mixing and editing
• Presets for key frame animations and layout
• Ken Burns effect (artistic panning over an image)
• Digital video effects , including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and over 20 other video effects
• OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working withhigh-definition video including HDV and AVCHD.

Pencil2D

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Pencil2D is a cross-platform animation/drawing application. Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Pencil is a cross-platform open-source 2D animation software. Its first aim is to make traditional animations (cel, cartoons, etc). It features bitmap and vector drawing tools, layers, cameras. Animations made with Pencil can be exported as QuickTime. Pencil is written in C++ and is Qt-based.

Cheese

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Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others.

Features :

Cheese!

• Cheese is a program for the GNOME Desktop which allows you to take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.Just start it up and shoot! Gather all of your friends around, have some fun! When you're done, share your photos and videos with 'em!

3... 2... 1... Cheese!

• The countdown widget will let you get into position, or wreck everything, before the photo is taken. The visual countdown will appear at the bottom of the image, and willgive you time to press the "Take photo" button, and get ready! So if you need to put on your eye makeup or fix your hair, do it fast! You only have 3 seconds!

Add Cheesy Effects

• Sick and tired of looking at the same face over and over again? Want it to be something else? Cheese allows you to add many different effects to photos, even several at a time! There are heaps of effect combinations to choose from that will keep you smiling. Morph yourself into Hulkor a nice pink alien, or even pile up effects in order to obtain the most amazing results!

Bu-bu-bu-burst Mode!

• Cheese has got a new feature: burst mode! From now on you can watch foxes walking in your garden, people getting drunk over time at your party or have many photos to laugh at afterwards. Just set the amount of photos you want to be taken and the time delay and Cheese will take them.

Go to Hollywood

• Not only does Cheese allow you to take great photos, but it also allows you to take videos. Effects, sharing, and everything thatyou can do with photos you can do with videos as well. Instead of preparing for thatone moment, invite some friends, record your session and laugh about it afterwards.So, go ahead and present us your new Hollywood-movie! Or do you want to be a music star and record the video to your new song?

Grin widely

• We have optimized our User Interface especially for Netbook users in order to create an awesome experience on small displays too. You can try Cheese out sitting in a cafe with your friends, travelling in a train or just sitting in a hotel lobby. There are no excuses anymore, as most netbookscome with an integrated webcam.

Kiosk/Fullscreen mode

• Have you ever wanted to set up Cheese in the lobby of your office? Or to have it running at a party with a lot of people? This and much more is just a click away: enter the fullscreen mode and enjoy Cheese on the whole display! Attention: This can lead to Cheese-affection, which means that everybody will be standing in front of your webcam and not drinking your beer anymore.

1. Addicted to webcams?

• You have several webcams? You can't stop taking photos of yourself and your friends?The only reason you have USB-Ports is to attach Webcams?With Cheese, you now can switch between your installed webcams with just one click! Just open the shiny new preference dialog and choose your favored webcam. You can also set theresolution of your webcam there! But there is more! You can also configure webcam settings, such as the brightness, contrast and much more! Now get all your webcams out of your locker, attach them to your computer and play with them!

Share your Photos and Videos

• Finished taking photos and movies? Then go ahead and share your files with your friends and family! You can export them toF-Spot, put them on Flickr, mail them or use them as your account photo in GNOME. You can also save them to your disk to do anything you want with them... the possibilities are endless! With nautilus-sendto installed, you even have further possibilities to share your photos and movies! Cheese makes it super easy to share your photos and videos.

OpenFX

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OpenFX is an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite. It is completely compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

What can OpenFX do?

A powerful feature-set includes a full renderer and raytrace engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plugin API.

Plugin capabilities include :

• Image Post Processor Effects :

• Blur: Blurs the screen to simulate Motion Blur.
• Depth of Field: Simulates photographic depth of field.
• Filter: Changes the color of all pixels after the rendering is complete.
• Lens Flare: Simulates the effects of lights flaring in the lens of a camera.
• Fog: Simulates fog and haze.
• Glow: Adds a glow to any pixels with a key color.
• Halo: Adds a halo around lights.
• Hilite: Adds a hilite for lights.
• Lasers: Simulates the appearance of a laser beam.
• Starfield: Generates a scrolling starfield.
• Stars: Creates the effect of a starfield in an animation.
• SuperNova: Simulates the effect of a star going supernova.
• Trails: Leaves a trail behind for all models that move in a animation.
• Video: Offers 24 different video effects.
• Xvideo: Offers 26 additional different video effects.

• There are also two special image processors.

• Fireballs: This plugin XFX image processor adds the capability to generate fractal fireballs and explosions. This is an animated XFX image processor and its appearance changes over a range of frames. Therefore, although it can be added as a global effect, it is best used as an Image Effects (F/X) object (Actor).
• Atmospherics: Allows you to create atmospheric effects such as volumetric lighting, shadowing and fog using a number of configuration options.

• Animation Physical Effects :

• Build Effect: Builds a model towards the camera over a range of frames.
• Buildto Effect: Builds a model face by face from thin air and builds it towards the camera.
• Dissolve Effect: Makes a model become transparent gradually, until it disappears.
• Explode Effect: As you might expect, makes a model explode! You can set the center of the detonation, decide whether the pieces should fall under gravity or not, whether they should tumble, and more.
• Fall Effect: Makes a model fall down under the force of gravity. Thebouncing behavior and elasticity are fully adjustable.
• Flap Effect: A simultaneous combination of the Wave and Modulate effects.
• Modulate Effect: Passes a wave through the specified axis of the model and moves the vertices radially outward.
• Shake Effect: Makes the model shake from its bottom to its top.
• Spring Effect: Makes an actor with a costume compress inward upon itself and then fling off at high speed.
• Squash Effect: Compresses or expands an actor's costume in a specified direction. Unlike a simple scaling motion, the Squash effect causes the model to bulge outward, like a rubber ball.
• Twist Effect: Twists or untwists an actor's costume around the specified axis.
• Unbuild Effect: Takes the model apart face-by-face until nothing remains.
• Warp Effect: Makes a model warp out of view or into view.
• Wave Effect: Makes a model undulate under the force of a wave.

Adobe SWF Investigator

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Adobe® SWF Investigator is the only comprehensive, cross-platform, GUI-based set of tools, which enables quality engineers, developers and security researchers to quickly analyze SWF files to improve the quality and security of their applications. With SWF Investigator, we can perform both static and dynamic analysis of SWF applications with just one toolset. SWF Investigator lets you quickly inspect every aspect of a SWF file from viewing the individual bits all the way through to dynamically interacting with a running SWF.

Features : 

• From a static perspective, we can disassemble ActionScript 2 (AS2) and ActionScript 3 (AS3) SWFs, view SWF tags and make binary changes to SWF files. SWF Investigator also lets you view associated information, including local shared objects (LSOs) and per site settings.
• From a dynamic perspective, we can call functions within the SWF, load the SWF in various contexts, communicate via local connections and send messages to Action Message Format (AMF) endpoints in order to test more effectively.
• SWF Investigator contains an extensible fuzzer for SWF applications and AMF services, so you can search for common Web application attacks. This toolset also provides a variety of utilities including encoders and decoders for SWF data, as well as a basic compiler for testing small pieces of Action-Script code.

Additional Benefits :

• SWF Investigator is the only application of its kind that's built on Adobe AIR – a versatile runtime that supports ActionScript, the language used tocreate SWF applications.  This allows for native interaction between the SWF Investigator and the SWF application. Using ActionScript also makes the source code of the tool more intuitive for SWF developers.
• SWF Investigator has the ability toauto-update, so you don't need toworry about whether or not you have the most current version.
• Since it's an open source AIR application, SWF Investigator can be modified to fit your environment, and it is cross-platform.

Rhythmbox

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Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple'siTunes. It isfree software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework, or the Xine framework.

Rhythmbox has a number of features, including :

• Easy to use music browser
• Searching and sorting
• Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
• Internet Radio support
• Playlists

Plugins :

Rhythmbox plugins are external pieces of code that can be loaded to provide extra functionality that is not found in the normal "vanilla" Rhythmbox. Plugins can do basically everything that Rhythmbox itself could do, and in fact some "core" features like Audio CD support and Internet Radio are actually plugins (although not displayed to users as such).

Flex SDK

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Flex is a highly productive,open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and devices. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns suitable for developers from many backgrounds.Flex applications run in the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR™. We can use the Flex SDK to create a wide range of highly interactive, expressive applications.

Audacity

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. We can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Features :

Recording :

• Device Toolbar manages multiple input and output devices.
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording. Clipping can be displayed in the waveform or in a label track.
• Record from microphone, line input, USB/Firewire devices and others.
• Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing "Windows WASAPI" host in Device Toolbar then a "loopback" input.
• Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording features.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Record at very low latencies on supported devices on Linux by using Audacity with JACK.
• Record at sample rates up to 192,000 Hz (subject to appropriate hardware and host selection). Up to 384,000 Hz is supported for appropriate high-resolution devices on Mac OS X and Linux.
• Record at 24-bit depth on Windows (using Windows WASAPI host), Mac OS X or Linux (using ALSA or JACK host).
• Record multiple channels at once (subject to appropriate hardware).
• Import and Export
• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Fast "On-Demand" import of WAV or AIFF files (letting you start work with the files almost immediately) if read directly from source.
• Import and export all formats supported by libsndfile such as GSM 6.10, 32-bit and 64-bit float WAV and U/A-Law.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) using libmad.
• Import raw (headerless) audio files using the "Import Raw" command.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to audio CD.
• Export MP3 files with the optional LAME encoder library.
• Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC) and WMA with the optional FFmpeg library (this also supports import of audio from video files).

Sound Quality :

• Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit (floating point) samples (the latter preserves samples in excess of full scale).
• Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
• Tracks with different sample rates or formats are converted automatically in real time.

Editing :

• Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete.
• Unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
• Edit and mix large numbers of tracks.
• Multiple clips are allowed per track.
• Label tracks with selectable Sync-Lock Tracks feature for keeping tracks and labels synchronized.
• Draw Tool to alter individual sample points.
• Envelope Tool to fade the volume up or down smoothly.
• Automatic Crash Recovery in the event of abnormal program termination.

Accessibility :

• Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard.
• Large range of keyboard shortcuts.
• Excellent support for JAWS, NVDA and other screen readers on Windows, and for VoiceOver on Mac.

Effects :

• Change the pitch without altering the tempo (or vice-versa).
• Remove static, hiss, hum or other constant background noises.
• Alter frequencies with Equalization, Bass and Treble, High/Low Pass and Notch Filter effects.
• Adjust volume with Compressor, Amplify, Normalize, Fade In/Fade Out and Adjustable Fade effects.
• Remove Vocals from suitable stereo tracks.
• Create voice-overs for podcasts or DJ sets using Auto Duck effect.
• Other built-in effects include:
  • Echo
  • Paul-stretch(extreme stretch)
  • Phaser
  • Reverb
  • Reverse
  • Truncate Silence
  • Wahwah
• Run "Chains" of effects on a project or multiple files in Batch Processing mode.

Plug-ins :

• Support for LADSPA, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plug-ins.
• Effects written in the Nyquist programming language can be easily modified in a text editor - or you can even write your own plug-in.

Analysis :

• Spectrogram view modes for visualizing frequencies.
• "Plot Spectrum" command for detailed frequency analysis.
• "Sample Data Export" for exporting a file containing amplitude values for each sample in the selection.
• Contrast Analysis for analyzing average rms volume differences between foreground speech and background music.
• Support for adding VAMP analysis plug-ins.

Banshee Media Player

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Play your music and videos. Keep up with your podcasts and Internet radio. Discover new music and podcasts. Keep your portable device loaded with good stuff.
Simple enough to enjoy. Powerful enough to thrill. Open source through and through.

Features:

Your Library:

• Music: Playlists, Search, Sort, Cover art BPM detection, Automatic file organization,Library folder watcher.
• Videos: Enjoy your video collection within Banshee as well.
• Podcasts: Subscribe to podcasts and stream or download episodes.
• Audiobooks: Organize audiobooks, lectures, etc.

Organize:

• Search: Search your library or a playlist to find what you want fast.
• Playlists: Put your tracks into playlists, optionally with custom ordering.
• Smart Playlists: Create playlists that automatically include any matching tracks.
• Play Queue: Queue tracks in an ad-hoc playlist, or let the Auto DJ take over.
• Shuffle Modes: Shuffle (or Auto DJ) by artist, album, rating, or even songs' acoustic similarity.

Hardware:

• MP3 Players and Phones: Sync your music and videos to your Android, iPod, iPhone, or other device - or import its media. Files are transcoded as needed. Choose to sync your entire library, or just one playlist.
• CDs: Listen to and rip Audio CDs.

Utilities:

• Bookmarks: Set a bookmark on any song, video, or podcast so you can return to it later.
• Metadata Fixup: Fix broken and missing metadata using bulk operations.
• Mini-mode: Control Banshee through a small window with only playback controls and track information.
• Context Pane: View the Wikipedia entry for the playing artist, similar artists and albums, or YouTube videos by the artist.

Other Media:

• Internet Radio: Listen to and organize Internet Radio stations.
• DAAP: Browse and listen to music shared over your local network.
• AmazonMp3 Store: Browse, search, and purchase music from the Amazon MP3 store.
• Miro Guide: Browse and subscribe to thousands of audio and video podcasts.
• Internet Archive: Browse and search the Internet Archive's vast media collection.
• Last.fm Scrobbling: Last.fm scrobbling and context pane recommendations.
• Last.fm Streaming: Last.fm streaming radio for paid subscribers.
• eMusic: Download and import music purchased from eMusic.
• Migrate to Banshee: Importers for Amarok, Rhythmbox and iTunes.

For Developers:

• MPRIS 2.0 D-Bus interface: Control Banshee using the MPRIS D-Bus interface.

Avidemux

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Avidemux is a free open-source program designed for multi-purpose video editing and processing, which can be used on almost all known operating systems and computer platforms.Avidemux is a simple tool for simple video processing tasks. It does not offer tools like a timeline, multi-track editing, you cannot freely move or splice audio and video clips from various sources. However, Avidemux allows you to do elementary things in a very straightforward way.

When you open a video file using the Open button (Ctrl+O) on the main toolbar, there are 3 basic things you can do with it in Avidemux: 

• Cutting:
  Why: For example, cutting out ads from a TV recording, or saving only a small part of a video you are interested in. How: Select a portion of the video with the mark A and mark B buttons, and either delete, copy, paste or save that part. If you do not reencode the video (that is, if the encoder is set to Copy), make sure all segments start with keyframes, or the resulting video will be broken at cut points. See the Cutting chapter for more details.
• Encoding:
  Why: You may want to convert the video to a different video format that your hardware or software players understands, or you just want to compress the video to a smaller size, for archiving or publishing it on the Internet. How: Encoding in Avidemux means selecting an encoder that does the video compression. That is, the drop-down menu on the left cannot be set to Copy. See the Main window chapter for more details.
• Filtering:
  Why: Basic filters applied to the picture like deinterlacing or resizing come in handy for various format conversions. Other filters may be used for adding subtitles to the picture, color correction etc. How: Filters require reencoding. So you have to select an encoder first, then you can add filters using the Filters button.

Brackets

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Brackets is an open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.

Features:

• Live HTML Development:
  As you code, HTML changes are instantly pushed to browser without having to save or reload the page.
• JS Debugging with Theseus:
  Theseus makes inspecting variables and control flow easy, even in asynchronous code.
• Linux-New & Improved:
  Over the last few sprints they've made progress on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) support for Brackets.
• Effective Development:
  Imagine the ability to fluently edit external styles and code without even leaving your document!
• Design In The Browser:
  Brackets doesn't get in the way of your creative process. It blends visual tools into the editor while pushing HTML and CSS to the browser as you code.
• An Elevated Experience:
  Brackets isn't just pretty, it's also powerful. You'll enjoy writing code in Brackets. It will stay out of your way and provide just the right amount of help when you ask for it.
• Made with ♥ and JavaScript:
  Brackets is an open-source project, with an active and growing developer community. It's made by other web developers like you!
• It's Evolving:
  Brackets is a sandbox for trying out new ideas for web tooling. New features and extensions are released every 2.5 weeks. It's like getting presents all year long.

Apache Cordova

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Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).

And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.

Apps using Cordova are still packaged as apps using the platform SDKs, and can be made available for installation from each device's app store.

Cordova provides a set of uniform JavaScript libraries that can be invoked, with device-specific native backing code for those JavaScript libraries. Cordova is available for the following platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada, and Symbian.

Ophcrack

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Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

Features:

•  Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, ...
• Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
• Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista/7.
• Brute-force module for simple passwords.
• Audit mode and CSV export.
• Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords.
• LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
• Dumps and loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition.
• Free and open source software (GPL).

openElement

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openElement® is a powerful and intuitive web authoring program for creative professionals. Whatever your web project may be, openElement provides you with all the tools you need to build a solid and standards-compliant website. The software supports all the latest technology, such as HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, responsive design, etc. Work from a professionally designed template or from scratch. openElement was developed by web professionals for web professionals as a visual tool to maximize productivity by streamlining tasks and optimizing workflow. Compatible with XP, Vista, Windows7 and Windows8, openElement allows users to work visually and efficiently, without sacrificing quality.

InstallForge

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InstallForge combines high performance with usability and is therefore our first choice when it comes to creating fast and stable installation packages. A pretty and easy-to-use tool giving software developers the possibility to provide powerful setups.

Features :

• Easy to use : The wizard-driven interface allows you to create your installation packages without scripting knowledge. All you need to do is to fill out the forms and attach the documents that you want the end-user to read.
• Customizable user interface : InstallForge allows you to change setup graphics, display a splash-screen, add/remove dialogs and much more.
• Multi-language support : InstallForge also allows you to create multi-language installation packages which enable end-users to choose a language they want to be used during the installation.
• ZIP support : InstallForge uses the ZIP format for storing setup files. One significant feature is that every InstallForge setup can be opened/extracted with any data compression application supporting the ZIP format.
• Visual Update Express support : InstallForge also supports Visual Update Express - a highly flexible update software which you may use in your own projects for free.

NSIS-Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

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NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. With NSIS we can create installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup our software. NSIS is script-based and allows us to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: we can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Features :

• NSIS can create Windows installers that are capable of installing, uninstalling, setting system settings, extracting files, etc. Because NSIS is based on script files, you can create both simple and advanced installers.
• Small overhead size : NSIS is created to be small, fast and efficient. While other installers often add hundreds of kilobytes or several megabytes to your installer data, a full-featured NSIS installer has an overhead of only 34 KB.
• Compatible with all major Windows versions : You can create a single installer that is compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Sever 2008 and Windows 7.
• Unique compression methods : You can choose between three different integrated compression methods (ZLib, BZip2, LZMA). The new LZMA compression gives better results than any other common compression method. You don't have to use large self-extracting archive modules or other applications. The compression support is included in the 34 KB overhead.
• Script based : Unlike other systems that can only generate installers based on a list of files and registry keys, NSIS has a powerful scripting language. This script language is designed for installers and has commands that help you to perform many installation tasks. You can easily add custom logic and handle different upgrades, version checks and more. For standard installers or as a starting point for more complex ones, you can use one of the available script generation tools.
• Multiple languages in one installer : One installer can support multiple interface languages. More than 40 translations are already included, but you can also create your own language files. RTL (right-to-left) languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are fully supported.
• Many features and checks for the target system : The script language provides commands you can use on the target system, from simple features like folder creation and registry editing to text/binary file modification, modification of environment variables and system reboots. Using provided plug-ins, you can even use Windows API.
• Custom dialogs and interfaces : You can create custom wizard pages to get user input or integrate configuration options. NSIS includes a classic and modern wizard interface, but it is even possible to create your own custom interface.
• Plug-in system : NSIS can be extended with plug-ins that can communicate with the installer. They can be written in C, C++, Delphi or another language and can be used to perform installation tasks or extend the installer interface. You can use the plug-in with a single line of script code. Plug-ins can also be compressed like other installation data and will only be included when you are using the provided features.
• Support for web installation, file patching : The NSIS distribution includes a set of plug-ins that allow you to download files from the internet, make internet connections, patch existing files and more.
• Project integration, different releases and automatic builds : The NSIS compiler features a powerful preprocessor. This allows you to easily integrate multiple projects into a single installer or automatically generate installer builds. You can also generate different releases such as lite and full versions.
• Easy and human readable file formats : The NSIS script format and the format used for interface dialogs are easy, documented and humanly readable, so you can edit your files with your favorite editor. This also makes automatic script generation possible.
• Portable Compiler : The NSIS compiler can be compiled for POSIX platforms like Linux and *BSD. Generated installer will still run on Windows only, but this way they can be generated without Windows or WINE.