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| x MacDraw | Vector based drawing application | Proprietary | Claris |
MacDraw was a vector based drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. MacDraw was useful for drawing...
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| x Semantic MediaWiki |
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Wiki | GNU General Public License | Markus Krötzsch |
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Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to the MediaWiki software (which also runs Wikipedia), which allows every user to make information more accessible to computer programs (including the ask query and the triple search available in SMW itself),... |
| Knowledge Management System | Denny Vrandečić | ||||
| Semantic Wiki | Wikimedia Foundation | ||||
| x Apple Remote Desktop | Proprietary | Apple Inc. |
Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is a Macintosh application produced by Apple Inc., first released on March 14, 2002, that replaced a similar product called Apple Network Assistant. Aimed at computer administrators responsible for large numbers of...
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| x StatCVS | Open source | GNU Lesser General Public License | Richard Cyganiak |
StatCVS is an open source program written in Java that generates graphical reports about CVS modules. It reveals, for example, which developer has made the most check-ins to the repository, and plots the development of the lines of code (LOC) of the...
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| x Microsoft Word |
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Word processor | Microsoft |
Microsoft Office Word is a non-free word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running...
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| x MySQL | Database management system | GNU General Public License | MySQL AB |
MySQL ( /maɪ ˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ "My S-Q-L", officially, but also incorrectly called /maɪ ˈsiːkwəl/ "My Sequel") is the world's most used relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of...
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| Database | Software license agreement | Sun Microsystems | |||
| Relational database management system | Oracle Corporation | ||||
| x Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet | Software license agreement | Microsoft |
Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for...
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| x Beautiful Soup | Web scraping | Leonard Richardson |
From the project site: "Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick
turnaround projects like screen-scraping." |
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| x onNYTurf Syndicated Map |
This is an embeddable widget using of the Google Maps API to display New York Subway and PATH information.
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| x Adobe Flash | Multimedia | Software license agreement | Adobe Systems |
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it has been...
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| Proprietary | Macromedia | ||||
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| x Google Maps API | Web application |
The Google Maps API allows developers to embed dynamic, draggable maps in their web applications. It's free for sites that are freely available to the public, and there's an enterprise version for private sites.
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| x PostgreSQL |
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Database management system | BSD Licenses | PostgreSQL Global Development Group |
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an...
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| Relational database management system | MIT License | ||||
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| x PostGIS |
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Geographic Information System | GNU General Public License |
PostGIS (/ˈpoʊstdʒɪs/ POST-jis) is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium ...
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| x Graphviz |
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Information visualization | Common Public License |
Graphviz (short for Graph Visualization Software) is a package of open-source tools initiated by AT&T; Labs Research for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools....
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| x Debian GNU/Linux |
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GNU General Public License |
Debian ( /ˈdɛbiən/) is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the...
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| x mod_python |
mod_python is an Apache HTTP Server module that integrates the Python programming language into the Apache server. It is intended to replace Common Gateway Interface (CGI) as a method of executing Python scripts on a web server. The promised...
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| x Mobile MUSE Deployment Platform |
The Mobile MUSE MCS Deployment Platform provides a set of services that
mobile content and application developers can use in developing and prototyping their services. |
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| x OpenCVS | Concurrent Versions System | BSD Licenses | OpenBSD |
OpenCVS is a BSD-licensed, from-scratch re-implementation of the popular Concurrent Versioning System, developed as a part of the OpenBSD project. It aims to be fully compatible with the existing GNU CVS implementation, but be more correct...
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| Revision control | Niall O'Higgins | ||||
| x Microsoft Bob | Proprietary software | Microsoft |
Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product, released in March 1995, although widely publicised prior to that date under the codename "Utopia", which provided a new, non-technical interface to desktop computing operations. It was one of Microsoft...
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| x Helix project | Digital Media Framework | RealNetworks Community Source License |
Helix DNA is a project to produce software that can play audio and video media in various formats, aid in producing such media, and serve them over a network. It is intended as a largely free and open source digital media framework that runs on...
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| Media player | GNU General Public License | ||||
| x Django web framework |
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Web application framework | BSD Licenses | Adrian Holovaty |
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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| Object-relational Mapper | Simon Willison | ||||
| Jacob Kaplan-Moss | |||||
| x Ingres | Database management system | GNU General Public License |
Ingres Database ( /ɪŋˈɡrɛs/ ing-GRESS) is a commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system intended to support large commercial and government applications. Ingres Database is fully open source with a growing global...
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| x Oracle database | Relational database management system | Oracle Corporation |
The Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.
Larry Ellison and his friends, former co-workers Bob Miner and Ed...
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| x C shell |
The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh, on most machines) is a Unix shell that was created by Bill Joy while a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s. It has been distributed widely, beginning with the 2BSD...
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| x XPilot |
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XPilot is a multiplayer video game. It is open source and runs on many platforms. Although its 2D graphics have improved over time, they still resemble the style of Thrust. Gameplay includes Capture the Flag, base defense, racing and deathmatches....
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| x Maple | Computer algebra system | Proprietary software |
Maple is a commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Since 1988, it has been developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc...
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| x Mathematica | Mathematics | Proprietary | Wolfram Research |
Mathematica is a general computing environment, organizing many algorithmic, visualization, and user interface capabilities within a document-like user interface paradigm. It was originally conceived by Stephen Wolfram, developed by a team of...
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| Computer algebra system | Stephen Wolfram | ||||
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| x IBM DB2 |
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Relational database management system | IBM |
IBM DB2 is a relational model database server developed by IBM. There are three DB2 products that are very similar, but not identical: DB2 for LUW (Linux, Unix, and Windows), DB2 for z/OS (mainframe), and DB2 for iSeries (formerly OS/400). The DB2...
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| x Pidgin |
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Instant messaging | GNU General Public License | Sean Egan |
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is an open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple. Libpurple has support for many commonly used instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to log into various services from...
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| x MSN Messenger | Instant messaging | Freeware | Microsoft |
MSN Messenger, now called Windows Live Messenger, is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista),...
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| x AOL Instant Messenger | Instant messaging | Proprietary software | AOL |
AOL Instant Messenger (abbreviated AIM) is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by...
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| x Expensive Typewriter | Text editor | L. Peter Deutsch |
Expensive Typewriter was a text editing program that ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer that had been recently delivered at MIT. Since it could drive an IBM Selectric typewriter (a letter-quality printer), it may be considered the first word processing...
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| x Appointments Online |
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Web application | Commercial License | Informatica Internet Services Ltd |
Appointments Online will make it easy for your
patients to manage their clinical appointments at your
practice themselves. We will provide this software as a
service on our own managed internet servers. Appointments
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| x Bersirc | Internet Relay Chat | GNU Lesser General Public License | Jamie Frater |
Bersirc is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Linux and Mac OS X versions are "in development". It uses the Claro toolkit, which aims to provide an interface to native windowing systems and widgets...
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| x SCUMM | Game engine | Proprietary | Aric Wilmunder |
Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM) is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion.
It falls somewhere between a game engine and...
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| x GrimE | Proprietary | Bret Mogilefsky |
GrimE (Grim Engine) is an adventure game engine, created by Bret Mogilefsky at LucasArts using the free software scripting language Lua. It was first used for Grim Fandango. Partly based on the Sith engine, GrimE was the successor to SCUMM,...
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| x Ruby on Rails |
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Web application framework | MIT License | David Heinemeier Hansson |
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails, is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails is not to be confused with Ruby, which is a general-purpose programming language, on which Ruby on Rails...
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| x Mozilla Firefox |
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Web browser | Mozilla Public License | Mozilla Foundation |
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current...
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| Aggregator | GNU Lesser General Public License | ||||
| x Internet Explorer |
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Web browser | Proprietary | Microsoft |
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995....
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| x Opera |
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Web browser | Freeware | Opera Software |
Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts,...
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| x Safari |
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Web browser | Proprietary | Apple Inc. |
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with...
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| x Mosaic |
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Web browser | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all...
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| x Lynx | Web browser | GNU General Public License |
Lynx is a very configurable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals.
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas, and was initially...
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| x Amaya |
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Web browser | W3C Software Notice and License | World Wide Web Consortium |
Amaya (formerly Amaya World) is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web...
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| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique | ||||
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| x Galeon |
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Web browser | GNU General Public License |
Galeon was a Gecko-based web browser created by Marco Pesenti Gritti with a goal to deliver consistent browsing experience to GNOME desktop environment. It gained some popularity in early 2000s due to its speed, flexibility in configuration and...
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| x K-Meleon |
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Web browser | GNU General Public License |
K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface (API) to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's...
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| x Camino |
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Web browser | Mozilla Public License |
Camino (from the Spanish word camino meaning "path") is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system. In place of an XUL-based user interface used by...
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| Aggregator | GNU General Public License | ||||
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| x Flock |
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Web browser | Mozilla Public License |
Flock is The Social Web Browser. It’s the browser, evolved for people.
It is free to download and use. Flock simplifies and extends the use of
social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience
possible across information...
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| Aggregator | GNU General Public License | ||||
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| x Epiphany |
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Web browser | GNU General Public License |
Web (originally Epiphany) is a free web browser for the GNOME desktop environment. The browser was forked from Galeon after developers' disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity. Since then Epiphany has been developed as part of the GNOME...
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| x Konqueror |
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Web browser | GNU General Public License |
Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment. Konqueror is...
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| x Maxthon |
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Web browser | Software license agreement |
Maxthon, originally known as MyIE2, is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows, and is also available on Android as Maxthon Mobile. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.
Maxthon won CNET WebWare...
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| x MediaWiki |
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Wiki software | GNU General Public License | Wikimedia Foundation |
MediaWiki is a free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others, it is used to run all of the Foundation’s projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also...
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| x DokuWiki |
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Wiki software | GNU General Public License |
DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the PHP programming language. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one...
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| x MoinMoin |
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Wiki software | GNU General Public License |
MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine. The MoinMoin code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at the user's option) any later version (except some 3rd party modules that are...
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