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dtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs that know how to redraw themselves.

Dvorak7min is an ncurses based dvorak typing tutor for those of you trying to get fluent in this keyboard layout. It features well chosen lessons, color for easy visual feedback, and a real time characters per second display. It's called 7min because it originally was a personal hack written in 7 min.

DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements like a progress information database.

What is BottleRocket? BottleRocket is a command-line interface for Unix systems to use the FireCracker kit. It is easy to use, has all of the major (non-gui) functionality of the Windows interface, is easy to call from scripts and the backend code is made to be easily linked into other programs. What is the X10 FireCracker kit? The X10 Firecracker kit is a simple wireless home automation system, consisting of a lamp module, an appliance module/radio receiver, a hand held wireless transmitter and a wireless transmitter that plugs into a standard RS-232 serial port. Using either the handheld transmitter or the serial port transmitter, a user can turn on or off any of up to 256 appliances, and brighten/dim any of those that happen to be lamps and plugged into the special lamp modules. Each appliance to be controlled must be plugged into its own module, and each module is set (by turning dials on the front) to a unique address by which it is identified.

This is a program designed initially to speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives, but may be used as a general pipe buffering utility. Note: You must have SYSVSHM support in FreeBSD kernel. The program splits itself into two processes. The first process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer. The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout. Doing it this way means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and doesn't have to wait for input. Similarly for the input side. It is this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd.

Bar is a simple tool to copy a stream of data and print a display for the user on stderr showing (a) the ammount of data passed, (b) the throughput of the data transfer, and (c) the transfer time, or, if the total size of the data stream is known, the estimated time remaining, what percentage of the data transfer has been completed, and a progress bar.

This is a simplified 3D world with alpha-blended objects that look kind of like fireworks or sparks. It also has a number of effects built in, such as fading, blurring, fire ("heat"), and zooming. It serves no purpose except to look pretty. The source-code is also well-documented, so someone might find it useful in learning SDL routines.

This port installs additional fonts for the figlet(6) program. Most of these are better suited for demonstrating the level of boredom somebody reached rather than regular use.

FreeGuide is a TV guide program. It uses parser programs to extract TV information from web pages and stores them for viewing without the need to connect to the Internet. The viewer allows the user to view television listings and create customised TV guides by selecting programmes and by building up a favourites list. It works with listings for many countries.

detachtty is a Unix utility that lets you run interactive programs non-interactively, and connect to them over the network when you do need to interact with them. It's intended for use with long-running server processes running in Common Lisp implementations.