HOWTO manage and package Python projects

jPDF Tweak is a Java Swing application that can combine, split, rotate, reorder, watermark, encrypt, sign, and otherwise tweak PDF files. You can use it to make printable booklets from your PDFs, to add PDF bookmarks, effects (page transitions), to combine multiple PDF files, to watermark them, to rotate pages that do not fit, to attach files to your PDF, to encrypt and sign your PDFs, to change metadata (like author or keywords), and much more.

ØMQ is a small, fast, and free software library that gives you message-passing concurrency for applications in most common languages.

The Commentator uses revolutionary real-time language processing to actually grok your code and add the necessary comments on the fly. No more doco to slow you down. Just install The Commentator and watch as your coding elegance is eloquently decorated with insightful, nuanced commentary ...as you type. What's more, The Commentator's powerful Personality Controls allow you to tweak it's output so completely that it's as if The Commentator is speaking for you.

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Ramen is a free node based video compositor, It works in full HDR color precision. Ramen is being developed and tested on Linux (ubuntu 8.10) and Mac OSX.

CMYKTool is a new utility intended to build on the functionality of my old CMYK separation plugin for the GIMP.

Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process. Experimental in nature, Alchemy lets you brainstorm visually to explore an expanded range of ideas and possibilities in a serendipitous way.

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X.

A Ruby-based project management system with support for wiki, bug tracker and sync with version control

calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Fitts' Law: So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority.

The egrep program is used to scan files for character strings (e.g. words). Its basic function is to go through a text file line for line, and print all lines matching a search pattern or regular expression to `standard out(put)'.

webpad is a web-based text editor written entirely in PHP (HTML, CSS and JS), and operates in your browser without any need for cumbersome plugins or extra downloads.

This document recommends best practice for putting free software0 experience on your resumé. It is primarily aimed at college students or people who have not yet had a first job in software.