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| Sphinx - Full-Text SQL Search Engine |
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| posted in [ Search ] by JJan on Thu, Mar 26 @ 11:39 PM |
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Sphinx, short for Sql PHrase INdeX, is a free software standalone full-text SQL search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions for other applications. |
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| xkcd Web Comic Added to FreeSoftwareShop |
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| posted in [ Humor ] by JJan on Tue, Mar 24 @ 03:09 AM |
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Thanks to the creative and generous minds of xkcd.com we've been able to spice up the walls of text around here a bit. Our visitors can enjoy a laugh from xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. We'll occasionally add one of their recent comics to our home page. Click on the images to visit the xkcd.com website. |
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| Piwik - Open Source Web Analytics |
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| posted in [ Tools ] by JJan on Sat, Mar 21 @ 08:42 PM |
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Piwik is a free software web analytics program. It's not a web service, but a tool which can be downloaded and installed locally. Piwik provides detailed reports on website usage, visitors, search engines and keywords / keyphrases used, languages supported by visitors, popularity of pages and much much more. |
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| The FreeSoftwareShop Privacy Statement |
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Our user base has grown over the years, which led to a collection of personal data. Functionality for the participants of FreeSoftwareShop is often cookie based. We rely on third parties for advertisement and web statistics. These companies gather information from internet users to improve their products and suit them for their user's needs. Their policies and strategies change over time. These are just a few reasons why you deserve a look into our privacy policy. |
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| Chromium - Google Chrome on Linux |
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Chromium, the project behind the development of the open source Chrome browser by Google, released a new beta 2.0 yesterday for Windows. The Linux version is still pre alpha. |
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| OpenX - Open Source Advertising Community |
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OpenX is an open source advertising community dedicated to helping publishers make more money. This free ad serving software allows you to choose banners, campaigns and terms that suit your needs. A sophisticated tracking system gathers statistics to optimise campaigns, all from one interface. The flexibility and reporting of OpenX lets you take control of your advertising. |
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| Azureus - Free Software Bittorrent Client |
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| posted in [ Tools ] by JJan on Sun, Mar 15 @ 05:46 AM |
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Azureus is a free software BitTorrent filesharing client for POSIX (Linux, BSD, etc.), OS X and (32 bit) Windows. Azureus is written in Java and is very flexible, with many plugins to suit your liking. Recently, a new GUI was added to Azureus: Vuze, developed by a second seperate project. |
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| Symbian To Become Open Source |
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Symbian, a popular operating system for mobile phones and PDA's, is moving towards releasing their software under an open source license. Symbian was recently purchased by Nokia, on June 24 2008 the Symbian Foundation was founded to steer this software into the open source world. |
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| Conficker Worm Removal Tool |
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| posted in [ Tools ] by JJan on Sat, Mar 14 @ 02:46 PM |
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The Conficker (or Downadup) worm infected over 10 million Windows machines in the last few months. It exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The Romanian security vendor Bit Defender released a Downadup removal tool which will delete all versions and variations of Conficker/Downadup and is not detected by the virus (yet). |
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| Fennec - Firefox Browser for Phones |
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Fennec is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox. This fox aims at supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices, although support for other platforms will probably be added as well in the future. Fennec is a new project at Mozilla.org, the software is still in alpha stage. |
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