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Enyo JavaScript Application Framework (originally for WebOS) opened up

Enyo is an open source object-oriented JavaScript framework emphasizing encapsulation and modularity. Enyo contains everything you need to create a fast, scalable mobile or web application: Built from the ground-up for mobile first – Enyo powers webOS, and was designed from the beginning to be fast and work great on mobile devices Now available for [...]

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CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software.

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UK to give schoolkids programming lessons instead of Excel

An excellent plan to make the future generations more than just users of software, but makers of software is being launched in the UK, where schoolkids will make 2D animations, program smartphone apps, etc. Sounds like they’ll have a lot more fun than they do now as well as learning something very very useful. Kids [...]

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Microsoft to kill IE 6+7 using auto updates

Chrome and Firefox do it, and it’s about time Microsoft did it! Well done on killing that old shit. It’ll be updated seamlessley for everyone with automatic updates on. Microsoft to force IE auto updates – ZDNet Asia News.

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OpenedFilesView – View opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues)

OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more… Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files. via OpenedFilesView – View [...]

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Page Speed – optimise web loading times

Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools via Page Speed Home.

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Varnish Cache makes websites fly!

Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art web application accelerator. You install it on your web server and it makes your website fly. via Varnish Community | Varnish makes websites fly!.

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Bluestacks: Run Android Apps on your Windows PC

Bluestacks :: App Player for Windows :: Run apps fast on your PC or tablet.

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Free offline browser | Fresh Websuction

Fresh WebSuction is designed for downloading Web pages or web contents (reference material, software files, online books, e-zines, news articles) for viewing offline via Free offline browser | Fresh Websuction.

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mycheckpoint

    Lightweight, SQL oriented monitoring for MySQL mycheckpoint is an open source monitoring utility for MySQL, with strong emphasis on user accessibility to monitored data. It is SQL oriented: charts, reports and advances metrics are generated on the fly with views. mycheckpoint highlights: Can act as web server (see sample), providing with live HTML [...]

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Google Apache mod_pagespeed

mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server. via mod_pagespeed [...]

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vReveal Video Enhancement Software – Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution Videos for free

vReveal 3 for Windows is the best solution to manage and fix the videos from your cell phone, HD camcorder, digital camera, or any other video device. It sharpens, it brightens, it twists and twirls and tweaks and steadies your video to crystalline perfection. vReveal Video Enhancement Software – Fix Dark, Shaky, Noisy, Blurry, Low-Resolution [...]

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Google Swiffy – convert flash to HTML5

Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads). Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation [...]

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Recovering Exchange using eseutil

This tries  to repair exchange databases instead of restoring from backups. Help! My Exchange server just rebooted • The Register.

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Kinect for Windows SDK Download

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, and drivers. This SDK enables the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich experiences by using Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7. via Kinect for Windows SDK Download – Microsoft Research.

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How to Recover Windows and Software Keys from a Broken Computer

How to Recover Windows and Software Keys from a Broken Computer – How-To Geek.

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run-one and run-this-one for Ubuntu – cron helpers

The robotic precision of cron ensures that each subsequent job runs, on time, every time. But cron doesn’t check that the previous execution of that same job completed first — and that can cause big trouble. This often happens to me when I’m traveling and my backup cronjob fires while I’m on a slow up-link.  [...]

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NL .gov Open data for everyone

The Dutch government has decided that their data should be open and available for everyone, unless there’s a good reason for it not to be. So they’ve opened a website portal to that data. It’s a bit empty at the moment, but it should fill up with time. Overheid.nl | Open data.

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How to add bookmarks to Firefox Navigation Toolbar

How to add bookmarks to Firefox Navigation bar: 1. step: The bookmarks you want to have on the Navigation bar go into the Bookmarks bar. 2. step: Show both, Bookmarks and Navigation bar. 3. step: activate ‘Customize…’ to customize the Navigation bar. Drag ‘Bookmarks bar Item’ onto the Navigation bar. Close customize. 4. step: Hide [...]

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Predator – open source AI 3D object tracking with just a webcam

An awesome phd program by Zdenek Kalai, very worth watching. Zdenek Kalal | Homepage.

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Power Data Recovery for windows free with a bootdisk version

Unlike other data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an all in one data recovery software for home and business user. It can recover deleted data from Windows Recycle Bin, restore lost data even the partition is formatted or deleted, restore data from corrupted hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure. [...]

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MyBB Voted Best Forum Software of 2011

It’s open source and it’s free and it’s two years running! Vote for the Best Forum Software of 2011 | Forum Software Reviews.

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HipHop for PHP serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

When Facebook moved its servers to HipHop for PHP – the code transformer it built to convert PHP into optimized C++ – the company’s average CPU usage dropped by 50 per cent. And after six months of additional engineering, the tool was about 1.8 times faster. Now, after another six months, the company says, it [...]

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59 Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software

59 Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software — Datamation.com.

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