Enyo JavaScript Application Framework.

CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software.

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 should be making software, not just using it – Gove • The Register.

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.

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 opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues).

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.

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!.

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

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.

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 reports. It does not have to: it is not a web-based solution.
• Records MySQL status & variables.
• Records OS (Linux) metrics, such as load average, swap activity, etc.
• Allows for custom queries, the results of which are aggregated along with all other measurements.
• Supports alert conditions, with email notifications on on raised or resolved alerts.
• On the fly HTML reports generation (see sample). HTML is issued by a query, resulting with complete HTML, JavaScript based charts and data.
• On the fly chart generation; charts utilize the Google Chart API.
• Generation of human readable reports.
• Parameters change detection.
• SQL access to data via simple SELECT statements

mycheckpoint | openark forge.

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 Overview.

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 Videos | www.vreveal.com.

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 as a SWF 5 file might give better results.

via Google Swiffy.

This tries  to repair exchange databases instead of restoring from backups.

Help! My Exchange server just rebooted • The Register.

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.

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

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.  It’s bad news when an hourly rsync takes longer than an hour to run, and my system heads down a nasty spiral, soon seeing 2 or 3 or 10 rsync‘s all running simultaneously.  Dang.

For this reason, I found myself putting almost all of my cronjobs in a wrapper script, managing and respecting a pid file lock according to the typical UNIX sysvinit daemon method.  Unfortunately, this led to extensively duplicated lock handling code spread across my multiple workstations and servers.

From the Canyon Edge – ustin Kirkland: Introducing: run-one and run-this-one.

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.

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 Bookmarks bar.

like-what? is offline

via [all variants] How can I add bookmarks to Firefox Navigation Toolbar OR Tab bar – Page 2 – Ubuntu Forums.

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

Zdenek Kalal | Homepage.

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. It support IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB hard disk, memory card, USB flash drive, CD/DVD, Blue-Ray Disk, iPod. MiniTool Power Data Recovery contains five data recovery modules – Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery, CD & DVD Recovery. Each data recovery module focuses on different data loss scenario. The best of all, it is absolutely free for home user.

via Free File Recovery Software – Power Data Recovery is an all-in-one free data recovery software that could help you to recover your lost data from hard disk, CD, DVD disk, memory stick, memory card, and flash drive..

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.

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 has improved performance another 1.7 times. But this is more than just self-congratulation. The project is open source, and it has been open since Facebook first switched its servers to HipHop in February 2010.

via Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware • The Register.

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