Open Source Utils

TurboCASH  is an open source accounting package that is free for everyone to download and distribute under the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL). It is one of the world’s first fully-featured open source accounts packages for small business.

TurboCASH is much more than a simple ‘home finances’ or small business bookkeeping system (compare us to Quickbooks and Sage and see why). Small business accounting software providers typically release a low-end product for £100 that excludes such basic features as stock control. TurboCASH includes most functions a business will ever need: debtors, creditors, general ledger, full stock control, VAT accounting, invoicing, bank reconciliation, trial balance, balance sheet and income statements, full reporting and analysis, as well as mutli-company and multi-user capabilities.

TurboCASH accounting software is flexible. It can be configured for any country and any small business. We currently have chart of accounts available for free download for the UK and USA. We have embraced the General Public License, and strive to provide powerful small business accounting software to our growing userbase of 60,000 users.

http://www.osutils.com

NetBeans IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy.

New features include a robust IDE for PHP, JavaScript debugging for Firefox and IE, and support for Groovy and Grails. NetBeans IDE 6.5 also delivers a number of enhancements for Java, Ruby on Rails, and C/C++ development. Java highlights include: built-in support for Hibernate, Eclipse project import, and compile on save.

Combining excellent out of the box experience, compelling features, and a great plugin ecosystem, NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a must-download for all developers.

http://www.netbeans.org

Hedgewars, it’s a Blast! This is the funniest and most addictive game you’ll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!

http://www.hedgewars.org

FlightGear is a free open-source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997.

The project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development, culminating in the latest major release of 1.0.0 in December 2007, with specific builds for a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows (Win 32), Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris, although hardware requirements, especially OpenGL hardware graphics acceleration constrict systems capable of running Version 1.0.

FlightGear code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it is free software.

http://www.flightgear.org

HSQLDB (Hyperthreaded Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It is based on Thomas Mueller’s discontinued Hypersonic SQL Project.

HSQLDB is available under a BSD license.

It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL-99, and SQL:2003 standards. It offers a fast, small (less than 100k in one version, around 600k in the standard version) database engine which offers both in-memory and disk-based tables. Embedded and server modes are available.

http://hsqldb.org/

HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface and a “working-horse” for web-developers using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive Windows® interface

http://www.heidisql.com/

SQLTools is a light weighted and robust tool for ORACLE database development. It includes a text editor, an sql console and a couple of sql utilities. You can use it for dial-up connection and it will work as fast as SQLPlus. It is small and not required an installation so SQLTools will help you anywhere because it is small enough for floppy and available for downloading on the Web. SQLTools is free and probably going to be a public source project.

SQLTools is:

• Powerful editor (actually it’ll be more powerful in the next release), which supports drag & drop, syntax highlighting, code template expansion, etc. It is possible to find a database object under cursor and get its description. Context sensitive help provides information about the current sql statement.
• SQL console, which is embedded in the editor. It supports DML & DDL statements and provides additional information about database statistics and timing.
• Object Browser is designed for getting any object DDL definition. One of useful features is support group operations, for example, you can select and disable a set of constraints in one operation.
• Extract Schema utility, which loads all objects definition and stores on local disk.

http://www.sqltools.net/

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT a clone !).

With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on…

http://gambas.sourceforge.net

Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called ‘Acrobat’ files, from the name of Adobe’s PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities.

Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler.

Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1, TrueType, or standard X fonts.

Xpdf should work on pretty much any system which runs X11 and has Unix-like (POSIX) libraries. You’ll need ANSI C++ and C compilers to compile it. If you compile it for a system not listed on the xpdf web page, please let me know. If you can’t get it to compile on your system, I’ll try to help.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf

Blender is a free 3D graphics application. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender is available for several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD with unofficial ports for BeOS, SkyOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Pocket PC. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Lightwave and Maya. These features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting.

http://www.blender.org