Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment using Amazon's EC2.

It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI's for load balancers (pound, nginx, or Amazon's load balancing service), app servers (apache, rails, others), databases (mysql master-slave, others), and a generic AMI to build on top of.

winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine.

MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written originally by Werner Schweer now developed and maintained by the MusE development team. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux, it is published under the GNU General Public License.

OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic sidescroller games. SMC uses the platform independent library SDL and the OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer for the best possible graphics quality.

For students learning Japanese (such as myself), the key attraction of the Zaurus (particularly the SL-C3200 model) is that it has Japanese handwriting recognition (through the stylus and touchscreen), and built-in Japanese dictionaries (広辞苑 is widely regarded as the authoritative 国語 dictionary, and Genius is a decent Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary). The additional language aids such as e-book reader, English-Japanese text translation (offering comparable quality to Altavista or Google web translation services) and English lessons are also useful to students learning Japanese (even though they are intended for students learning English). Additional software such as the Japanese atlas and rail/plane timetables are useful for those intending to visit Japan. And all this in a tiny little package that can be taken anywhere (it easily fits into a medium size handbag).

GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments that offer an alternative to traditional application-servers. The company's eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) is a high-end application server, designed to meet the most demanding business requirements in a cost-effective manner. It is the only product that provides a complete middleware solution on a single, scalable platform. XAP is trusted by Fortune 100 companies, which leverage it as a strategic solution that enhances efficiency and agility across the IT organization.

The final release of the xmoov FLV player has lots of new and exciting features like a multi-language interface, caption support, even more styling options, a customizable context menu (right mouse click), and improved CPU usage just to name a few. We are not releasing any information on the licensing model until the new website is online but will be releasing two versions, a less featured BASIC version and a full featured PRO version.

Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization are new techniques in the network security field that provide a mechanism to have all ports of a server closed and open them to clients that issue specific sequences of connection attempts or specially crafted packets that contain the appropriate authentication credentials. Aldaba is a command-line tool for Linux systems that implements a PK and SPA client and server that provides secure stealthy authentication and remote firewall rules manipulation using TCP/IP covert channels.