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XML::RSS::Parser is a lightweight liberal parser of RSS feeds. This parser is "liberal" in that it does not demand compliance of a specific RSS version and will attempt to gracefully handle tags it does not expect or understand. The parser's only requirements is that the file is well-formed XML and remotely resembles RSS. Roughly speaking, well formed XML with a channel element as a direct sibling or the root tag and item elements etc. There are a number of advantages to using this module then just using a standard parser-tree combination. There are a number of different RSS formats in use today. In very subtle ways these formats are not entirely compatible from one to another. XML::RSS::Parser makes a couple assumptions to "normalize" the parse tree into a more consistent form. For instance, it forces channel and item into a parent-child relationship.

xxdiff is a computer program that allows a user (usually a software developer of some sort) to easily visualize the differences between files. The manner and goal for which this process is applied over multiple files is highly dependent on the application, and most of the time is driven by custom user scripts. For example, a configuration management engineer in a company might provide some kind of merge policing environment, that allows software developers to review changes in files for the purpose of accepting or rejecting a submitted changeset to a codebase. Another example is that of a developer wishing to review the changes he made to a checkout of files from a source-code management system such as CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, Perforce, etc.

Repetitive Strain Injury is an illness which can occur as a result of working with a mouse and keyboard. This utility can be used to remind you to take a break now and then. It will show you a random picture from a collection you can configure yourself for a configurable duration at a configurable interval. You can use these breaks to do some stretch exercises for example, or as a reminder to walk away from the computer for a while. RSIBreak will sit in your system tray and when it is time for a break it will show you the picture full screen. All timings can be set by clicking with the right mouse button on the icon in the system tray.

The RPM Package Manager is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, and the like. There is also a related API ("Application Program Interface"), permitting advanced developers to bypass 'shelling out' to a command line, and to manage such transactions from within a native coding language.

The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph (formerly known as the Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine), or ARSS, is a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound. ARSS is now superseded by Photosounder, which makes use of most of the techniques offered by ARSS in a simple to use and powerful graphical user interface and built in editor.

Many audio synthesis and recording packages are in use or in development. These work in many different ways. LADSPA provides a standard way for `plugin' audio processors to be used with a wide range of these packages. For instance, this allows a developer to make a reverb program and bundle it into a LADSPA `plugin library.' Ordinary users can then use this reverb within any LADSPA-friendly audio application.

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.

Jellyfish is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence. JELLYFISH can count k-mers quickly by using an efficient encoding of a hash table and by exploiting the "compare-and-swap" CPU instruction to increase parallelism.

This is the Hanzi Converter, which converts between GB and BIG-5 codes. The program converts a GB file to a BIG-5 file, or a BIG-5 file to a GB file. GB (GuoBiao) refers to the standard implementation of "GB2312-80" of Mainland China, in which the two bytes representing a GB code have their most significant bit set to 1. BIG-5 refers to the Big Five standard published in 1984 by Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry.

While preparing for a release 4.2 of the sdr-j software package, we created two new programs a DAB receiver a broad spectrum version of the FM receiver It is quite obvious that one can use a DAB stick to receive DAB programs. However, the DAB software presented here is a real SDR in that it uses the 8 bit I/Q samples of the DAB stick.