GNOME Speech is a simple general API for producing text-to-speech output.
KMag is a small utility to magnify a part of the screen. KMag is
very useful for people with visual disabilities and for those working
in the fields of image analysis, web development etc.
KMouseTool clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly.
It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for
whom pressing buttons hurts.
KMouth is a program which enables persons that cannot speak to let
their computer speak, e.g. mutal people or people who have lost
their voice. It has a text input field and speaks the sentences
that you enter. It also has support for user defined phrasebooks.
Papi, the Python Accessibility Programming Interface, is a Python
wrapper around the GNOME ATK toolkit.
It allows a developer to make python objects and applications
easily accessibility aware without the need to install PyGTK and
the GNOME accessibility components. Instead it only depends on ATK
and - on the developers behalf - the ATK/AT-SPI bridge shipped with
AT-SPI.
AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your
.ZIP archives
.PNG snapshots
.MNG video clips
.GZ files
The main features are:
* Recompress ZIP, GZ, PNG and MNG files using the Deflate 7-Zip
implementation
* Recompress MNG files using Delta and Move optimization
amigadepacker depacks compressed Amiga formats. PowerPacker, XPK SQSH, MMCMP and
StoneCracker 4.04 (S404) formats are supported. Amigadepacker will automatically
determine the compressed format by content. Among other things, the tool is
useful for playing packed Amiga music formats with uade.
Bicom is a data compressor in the PPM family. It is freely available and
Open Source. Its most unique characteristic is that compression with
bicom is completely bijective -- any file is a possible bicom output that
can be decompressed, and then recompressed back to its original form. Of
course, any file is also a possible bicom input that can be compressed,
and then decompressed back to its original form. To support encryption
applications, bicom also includes a passphrase-protection option that
will automatically encrypt after compressing, or decrypt before
decompressing.
Use of bzip2, which is intended to replace bzip, is recommended.
The algorithms used in bzip2 are different and incompatible with
those used in bzip. To open .bz archives, you must use bzip, and
to open .bz2 archives you must use bzip2. Although bzip2 sometimes
yields slightly larger output, it is faster, more reliable, maintained,
much more widely used and is believed to be patent-free.
Julian Seward, the author of bzip, gives this warning:
This program may or may not infringe certain US patents
pertaining to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting
transformation itself. Opinions differ as to the precise
legal status of some of the algorithms used. Nevertheless,
you should be aware that commercial use of this program
could render you liable to unfriendly legal action.
Take file, compress each block with 1 of 256 algorithms (including no
compression) and use algorithm on a per block basis.