XMind, combined with online sharing service, provides a revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With this major upgrade, we bring Web 2.0 concepts on community sharing into a popular desktop application. New Gantt view allows project managers to easily track project tasks and schedules. You'll find many more useful and time-saving functions in XMind product family.
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use.
Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).
As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.
No Thick Manuals is a wiki that offers a growing collection of quality hands-on articles and tips to the best open source applications for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. No Thick Manuals was born on February 6, 2005. All No Thick Manuals articles and tips are released under the GNU Free Documentation License. No Thick Manuals supports open source software (see a list of projects that have received donations).
InfoWorld's annual BOSSIES recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done. The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage. Credit goes to Mario Apicella, James R. Borck, Victor R. Garza, Rick Grehan, Mike Heck, Martin Heller, and the rest of the InfoWorld Test Center for these selections. The breadth and quality of free software offerings is in fact overwhelming, and many of our choices were difficult. Please let us know what we missed.
Inject4Spring - a small Open Source library that extends base functionality of Spring framework by providing inversion of control (IoC) capabilities for Spring configuration metadata by allowing using "opposite" direction of specifying references between beans in Spring context.
Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities. Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organised with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.
ere are listed some of the existing companion tools for Java™ development. We put the focus on the quality of the content. Boring marketing fluff is filtered out.
Although quite comprehensive, this list will never be exhaustive. You can submit new tools by using our submission form.
This site is in constant progress. New tools are added frequently. Use the RSS feeds to learn what's new or updated.
Search plug-ins for Firefox and Mozilla are available.
Dokeos is an Open Source elearning and course management web application translated in 34 languages and helping more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration activities.
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
Also very powerful: Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing organizations to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.
Free Software Magazine is the free online magazine about free software. It is free to subscribe, free to download and free to read online. Please, feel free to read all of our issues, book reviews, newsletters, and blog entries. We now have hundreds of ar