ImageMagick - Powerful Programmatic Image Processing
ImageMagick is a free and open source software package for modifying and creating images. Unlike graphics packages such as The GIMP that provide tools for manual creation and manipulation of images, ImageMagick is meant to be used by programs to generate and adjust images automatically. Interfaces are available for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl/TK. It can also be used from the command line.
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WINK - Free Software For Creating Tutorials and Presentations
Photo Organizer digiKam 2.0.0 Released
The free and open source image management software digiKam has been updated to version 2.0.0. Highlights of this release include image versioning, reverse geocoding (finding addresses from GPS coordinates), support for XMP sidecar files (for storing metadata), and face detection and recognition software, with still somewhat limited capabilities.
Virus Scanner ClamAV Updated
ClamAV detects viruses, malware, and Trojans utilizing parallel processing. It provides utilities for on demand scanning, and includes a variety of file format detection methods. It includes file unpacking and archive access support. Read More...
Amarok 2.4.2 Beta 1
The latest release of the popular music player Amarok for the Linux desktop KDE brings an updated dynamic playlist, drag and drop functionality in Local Music or from the Playlist, configuration of Podcast episode names, and automatic scrolling in the Lyrics applet.
VirtualBox 4.1
Oracle has released version 4.1 of the virtual machine software package VirtualBox. As the name indicates, VirtualBox provides desktop virtualization, and is designed for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 processor systems. In runs on all major operating systems and supports numerous guest operating systems.
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Mikogo - Free Web-Conferencing Software
The developers of the desktop sharing software Mikogo have released a beta version of their client software for Linux. This means Mikogo conferencing sessions can now be set up between users running Microsoft Windows operating systems and Linux operating systems.
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OpenJDK Consolidates Support
Europe's largest software company, SAP, has joined the OpenJDK project. By signing the Oracle Contributor Agreement SAP can now participate in the development process of the Java reference implementation. Java 7 is the version currently under development, and OpenJDK 7 will be the reference implementation for it.
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