Mohawke's software list updates. http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/index.php Best of the best free and open source software. Lyx http://www.lyx.org/Home LyX combines the power and flexibility of the TeX typesetting system with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content and structured documents. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well designed document layouts are built in. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:00:00 -0400 The Unarchiver http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html Unzip about anything and everything. I consider this the best open source replacement for Stuffit Expander. <br><br>Filed under Mac Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0400 SesamTV http://www.sesamtv.com/ SesamTV is an freeware application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0400 Mediaportal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0400 Pencil http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php Pencil is an animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0400 Pencil http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php Pencil is an animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0400 OpenWorkbench http://www.openworkbench.org/ Open Workbench is an open source Windows-based desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality and is free to distribute throughout the enterprise. Like MS Project. <br><br>Filed under Windows Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:00:00 -0400 Truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ Open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP , Mac OS X, and Linux. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g.., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc). <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac, Linux Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0400 My Lockbox http://www.fspro.net/folder-lock-box/ My Lockbox™ is a security software enabling you to password protect any folder on your computer. The protected folder (lockbox) is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net. <br><br>Filed under Games Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0400 PokerTH http://www.pokerth.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Texas Hold em' on-line play or play against the computer. Very well done application! Windows, Mac, and Linux versions available. <br><br>Filed under Games Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:45:00 -0400 Hotspot Shield http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/ Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:45:00 -0400 Those funny funguloids http://funguloids.sourceforge.net/ Never before has collecting mushrooms been this mildly entertaining. At least not in outer space. It's more of a lifestyle than a game, really. Now with graphics and sound, too! Seriously though, we like to think the game as a space-flying-mushroom-picking-simulator. Well no, "Those Funny Funguloids!" is actually a nice little piece of entertainment. You collect mushrooms, bring them back to your home base and profit! That's the basic idea in a nutshell. It has smooth, appealing 3d graphics and nice atmospheric sound effects. Go ahead and try it out - it has sounds too! Windows and Linux binaries available. <br><br>Filed under Games Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0400 Dreamchess http://www.dreamchess.org/ DreamChess is an open source chess game. Our primary target platforms are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. DreamChess features 3D OpenGL graphics and provides various chess board sets, ranging from classic wooden to flat figurines. A moderately strong chess engine is included: Dreamer. However, should this engine be too weak for you, then you can use any other XBoard-compatible chess engine, including the popular Crafty and GNU Chess. Other features include music, sound effects, on-screen move lists using SAN notation, undo functionality, and savegames in PGN format. <br><br>Filed under Games Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0400 Wormux http://www.wormux.org/wiki/en/index.php Have the mascots of your favorite free software titles battle it out in the Wormux arena using dynamite, grenades, baseball bats and other bazookas... Exterminate your opponent in a 2D environment with toon-style scenery. Windows, OS X, Linux binaries available. <br><br>Filed under Games Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0400 Nimuh http://www.nimuh.com/ Nimuh is an extraterrestrial boy with the mission to reach Andalusia and take all the monuments to his planet. You will incarnate Nimuh in the videogame and will know Andalusia in a slightly special way. Windows, OS X, Linux binaries available. <br><br>Filed under Games Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0400 Traverso http://traverso-daw.org/ Cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It's suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:30:00 -0400 StepMania http://www.stepmania.com/ StepMania is a rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and "dance pad" support, and an editor for creating your own steps. <br><br>Filed under games Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:00:00 -0400 Nimuh http://www.nimuh.com/index.php?lang=en Nimuh is an extraterrestrial boy with the mission to reach Andalusia and take all the monuments to his planet. Puzzle game similar to Sokoban, at least the only way I can think to describe it. Linux, Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X. <br><br>Filed under games Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:00:00 -0400 NetNewsWire http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/TopStyle/Default.aspx RSS Feed reader. Get your news and information instantly. Customize the way you read and organize feeds. <br><br>Filed under Mac Sun, 13 Jan 2008 9:30:00 -0400 FeedDemon http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx RSS Feed reader. Get your news and information instantly. Customize the way you read and organize feeds. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sun, 13 Jan 2008 9:30:00 -0400 ZScreen http://brandonz.net/index.htm ZScreen is an open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. It can also interface with image editing software. It is a C#.NET 2.0 program hosted on Sourceforge.net and built by BrandonZ (inf1ni). <br><br>Filed under Windows Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:30:00 -0400 Entice http://www.dprogramming.com/entice.php Entice Designer is a Form Designer for DFL and a rich code editor, and is on the path to becoming an IDE. <br><br>Filed under Windows Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:30:00 -0400 zipeg http://www.zipeg.com/ Zipeg allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop them. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:30:00 -0400 Tomato Torrent http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/ BitTorrent promotes the accessibility of data on the Internet by allowing anyone to share information with a large audience. For more information, take a look at the pretty images over at BitTorrent.com. <br><br>Filed under Mac Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:30:00 -0400 Homebank http://homebank.free.fr/ HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0400 WOS X http://www.chsoftware.net/en/products/wosx/wosx.htm WOS stands for the three letter abbreviation Webserver On Stick and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista). <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0400 GNUMail http://www.collaboration-world.com/cgi-bin/project/description.cgi?pid=2 GNUMail is a fully featured mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X. It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.. GNUMail is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available. <br><br>Filed under Mac Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:30:00 -0400 Virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Intel Macs only unfortunately. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:00:00 -0400 Freyja http://icculus.org/freyja/index.html Freyja 3d is a modeler and animator focusing on low polygon game content with wide range of model import/export plugins. Freyja has some unique features such as Lua macros, tools for reverse engineering, and use of GLSL shaders while editing.. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:30:00 -0400 Supertux http://supertux.lethargik.org/ SuperTux is a classic 2D jump and run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games. <br><br>Filed under Games Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:30:00 -0400 Picnik http://www.picnik.com/ Online photo editor. <br><br>Filed under Web-sites Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:00:00 -0400 Ulteo http://www.ulteo.com/ Open Office served in the web browser. <br><br>Filed under Web-sites Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:00:00 -0400 Yamipod http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:00:00 -0400 IronPython Studio http://www.codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio IronPython Studio is a free full IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Python programming language. It is based on the existing IronPython example that is included in the VS SDK. IronPython Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime (royalty free) and can be installed without requiring any version of Visual Studio. <br><br>Filed under Windows Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:00:00 -0400 IronPython IDE http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython IronPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers, while maintaining full compatibility with the Python language. <br><br>Filed under Windows Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:00:00 -0400 Floola http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/ Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). Floola supports all common used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists! It's also able to convert audio or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos just entering the page url! <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:00:00 -0400 Ekiga http://ekiga.org/index.php?rub=1 Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting. <br><br>Filed under Windows Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0400 Stop Mojo http://www.mondobeyondo.com/projects/stopmojo/ StopMojo is cross-platform stop-motion animation suite designed to aid in the creation of stop-motion animations. Currently it includes a capture program supporting capture of image files from various video capture devices, overlay of previous frames (onion skinning), and export to AVI and QUICKTIME video formats. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Mac Tue, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0400 Ephpod http://www.ephpod.com/ Copy iPod music to your PC. <br><br>Filed under Windows Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:00:00 -0400 Videoa iPhone Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPhone/ Convert video to iPod/iPhone format. Cues to iTunes for easy syncing. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Macintosh Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0400 Joost http://www.joost.com/ What's Joost? It's video – more than 15,000 shows, with more added daily. It's online – all you need is a broadband internet connection. And it's free. Between this and VeohTV I hardly turn on the television anymore. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Macintosh Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:00:00 -0400 VeohTV http://www.veoh.com/downloadFlow.html VeohTV is a free specialized video browser that turns online video into Internet Television. Watch video from thousands of web sites, in one easy-to-use full screen application. Watch streaming video from major television networks such as Fox and CBS, to independently-produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace. Highly recommended. <br><br>Filed under Windows, Macintosh Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:00:00 -0400 DVD Flick http://www.dvdflick.net/ DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice. <br><br>Filed under Windows Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:00 -0400 DVD Styler http://www.dvdstyler.de/ DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. <br><br>Filed under Windows Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/home Create a picture, book, or movie. You can store your creations in the online gallery or save to your computer. You can also share you creations on the site. <br><br>Filed under Websites Sat, 25 Sep 2007 21:00:00 -0400 IPhoney http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/ Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free. <br><br>Filed under Macintosh Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:00:00 -0400 Macstumbler http://www.macstumbler.com/ MacStumbler is a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points. It is mainly designed to be a tool to help find access points while traveling, or to diagnose wireless network problems. Additionally, MacStumbler can be used for "wardriving", which involves co-ordinating with a GPS unit while traveling around to help produce a map of all access points in a given area. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0400 Netstumbler http://www.netstumbler.com/ Network Stumbler is a neat little program that allows you to see all the available Wi-Fi access points and networks that are in range of you and your active Wi-Fi computer. Network Stumbler is for desktop and laptop machines, and Mini Stumbler is the equivalent for the Wi-Fi enabled PDA. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0400 Free2Design http://www.free2design.org/ 2D CAD application. <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0400 K-Lite Codec Pack http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm Just about every codex you will ever need in Windows XP (Vista?). Also provides DVD (encrypted) playback in Windows Media Player. Highly recommended! <br><br>Filed under Windows Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:30:00 -0400