The automattic.com team have brought out a great theme called “Prologue”.

A Twitter like theme with many features, the Prologue theme is great, it has also been released as Open Source, view a demo here.

There is no zip download available on wordpress.com, so we have made a Zip download available here.

Enjoy

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from tremulous.net

Summary

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more…

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Feature List

• Flexible particle system - 99% of the in-game visual effects are configured using particle scripts.
• 16 buildable structures with in-game functions.
• Play as several alien classes with unique abilities.
• Customize your setup as a human and buy new weapons, armour and items.
• Scale the walls and ceilings as an alien waiting for an unsuspecting human.
• Realistic physics and motion - no bunny hopping or quick back peddling.
• Flexible map system - animated mapobjects, triggering, light flares, etc.
• Large weapons system - don’t like the weapon you have? Sell it and buy a different one, dozens of options.

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That’s right, there is an Open Source alternative to using Nero and all those other commercial CD/DVD burning solutions, it’s InfraRecorder!

InfraRecorder is a free open source CD/DVD burning solution for windows.

Some features include;

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

Visit the homepage here.

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“I was sitting with a dilemma this weekend, i wanted to watch a dvd on my computer but i had no software to play it with. WinDVD could not be found, but it is not free or open source, that’s why i went for a search for an Open Source Alternative - VLC Media Player was the choice, and it worked like a dream, easy to use and open source - my cup of tea — Enjoy folks”

VLC media player - originally named VideoLAN Client - is a flexible media player available for virtually any operating system including portal/handheld computers.

VLC plays all of the common media formats both video and audio - and plays you DVDs and todays popular DivX and MPEG4 movies. Most streaming media is support as well including Windows Media (wmv) and QuickTime. Advanced features include playing media directly off ISO files and skinable GUI. VLC is also available as a firefox plugin and as an ActiveX component - making it simple to view any embedded video format through your web-browser.

Download Link:

videolan.org

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Nmap, what is that?

Nmap is a Free Security Scanner for network exploration and security audits.

Nmap is useful for tasks such as  network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules and monitoring host or service uptime.

From nmap.org “

Nmap is …

• Flexible: Supports dozens of advanced techniques for mapping out networks filled with IP filters, firewalls, routers, and other obstacles. This includes many port scanning mechanisms (both TCP & UDP), OS detection, version detection, ping sweeps, and more. See the documentation page.
• Powerful: Nmap has been used to scan huge networks of literally hundreds of thousands of machines.
• Portable: Most operating systems are supported, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS X, HP-UX, NetBSD, Sun OS, Amiga, and more.
• Easy: While Nmap offers a rich set of advanced features for power users, you can start out as simply as “nmap -v -A targethost“. Both traditional command line and graphical (GUI) versions are available to suit your preference. Binaries are available for those who do not wish to compile Nmap from source.
• Free: The primary goals of the Nmap Project is to help make the Internet a little more secure and to provide administrators/auditors/hackers with an advanced tool for exploring their networks. Nmap is available for free download, and also comes with full source code that you may modify and redistribute under the terms of the license.
• Well Documented: Significant effort has been put into comprehensive and up-to-date man pages, whitepapers, and tutorials. Find them in multiple languages here.
• Supported: While Nmap comes with no warranty, it is well supported by a vibrant community of developers and users. Most of this interaction occurs on the Nmap mailing lists. Most bug reports and questions should be sent to the nmap-dev list, but only after you read the guidelines. We recommend that all users subscribe to the low-traffic nmap-hackers announcement list.
• Acclaimed: Nmap has won numerous awards, including “Information Security Product of the Year” by Linux Journal, Info World and Codetalker Digest. It has been featured in hundreds of magazine articles, several movies, dozens of books, and one comic book series. Visit the press page for further details.
• Popular: Thousands of people download Nmap every day, and it is included with many operating systems (Redhat Linux, Debian Linux, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc). It is among the top ten (out of 30,000) programs at the Freshmeat.Net repository. This is important because it lends Nmap its vibrant development and user support communities.”

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