Archive for January, 2008

CryptoHeaven

CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package.

It provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of encryption.

CryptoHeaven is easy to use and offers total end-to-end security with state of the art 256 bit encryption.

CryptoHeaven offers free and premium accounts. Use CryptoHeaven and communicate in total privacy. CryptoHeaven is by far the easiest to use secure communications service, all you have to do is just download a small client front-end.

CryptoHeaven is developed to accelerate wide spread use of highest-grade cryptography and distributed without restrictions upon its further dissemination.

CryptoHeaven is a user-friendly, no-compromise information-heaven crypto system, where no third parties, including server administrators and others, have access to plain text version of transmitted information. Information is stored in encrypted form on the server as generated by the client, and only the sender and the recipient possess the keys to gain access to the information. Having the entire log of all transmissions made and all of the data stored on the server does not give access to the plain text version of information.

CryptoHeaven uses only the finest in cryptography, including an AES symmetric Rijndael cipher with not a 128, but a 256 bit symmetric key, public-key cryptography with 2048-4096 bit asymmetric keys, and SHA-256 message digest function.

Here are some key features of “CryptoHeaven”:

· Secure Email, Anonymous Email
· Secure Online Storage, File Sharing and File Distribution
· Secure Instant Messaging and Chatting
· Secure and Private Discussion Forums
· 2048 to 4096 bit asymmetric and 256 bit symmetric key encryption
· no third party keyholder
· automatic key and contact management
· all services integrated and available from a single user interface
· no personal information - no names, no addresses, no credit card numbers required
· system free from any type of snooping and interference, including any and all types of governments and “authorities”.

Visit CryptoHeaven Development Team to download latest version.

Posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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Pentabarf

Pentabarf is a conference planning software written in Ruby ( using the Rails framework) and PL/pgSQL.

This project supports you in the submission collection, content planning, schedule creation, feedback collection and has various exports to put these data to use in other systems.

Requirements:

· Ruby 1.8.3 or newer
· Rails >= 1.2.0
· XMPP4R - XMPP/Jabber Library for Ruby
· ImageMagick
· RMagick - Ruby bindings for ImageMagick
· iconv ruby bindings
· PostgreSQL 8.1.x or 8.2.x
· libpq - C-API to PostgreSQL including header files (to compile the PostgreSQL ruby bindings)
· Ruby header files (to compile the ruby postgres bindings)
· ruby-postgres 0.7.1.2006.04.06 (available as gem)

Visit Pentabarf to download latest version.

Posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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Pidgin, previously known as Gaim

Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.

A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).

Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1’s system tray, as well as Windows’s own system tray. This allows you to work with Pidgin without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times.

Pidgin is under constant development, and releases are usually frequent. The latest news regarding Pidgin can be found on the news page.

What’s New in This Release:

· Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems connecting to MSN and random local display name changes
· Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
· Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
· Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client’s capabilities
· Don’t set the current tune title if it’s NULL (XMPP/Google Talk)
· Don’t allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour
· Don’t advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don’t support it
· Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris
· Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again
· Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC servers when temporary network outages are restored
· Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader
· Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files

Visit Pidgin Team to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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PlexIRC project for chatting using IRC and DCC based protocols

PlexIRC project comes with packed with features for chatting using IRC and DCC based protocols.

Here are some key features of “PlexIRC”:

· Support of most widely IRC commands for regular users and operators
· DCC based chatting and file transfer
· Supports chat via channels, private and DCC protocol
· Multiple chat windows
· Large collection of emoticons
· Java Web Start

Visit PlexObject Solutions, Inc. to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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BSFlite is a minimalistic, line-based AIM client for Unix

BSFlite is a minimalistic, line-based AIM client for Unix.

Instead of having a full screen console interface, BSFlite employs a command line interface that allows your fingers to do all of the work without needlessly sifting through windows.

BSFlite runs on UNIX (including Linux, all of the BSD’s, Solaris, etc.), Zeta (and possibly BeOS), Windows, DOS, Mac OS X, and Plan 9.

Well, minimalistic doesn’t necessarily mean sparse. Let’s call it, say, nimble. BSFlite supports most standard AIM features, with the notable exceptions of chat rooms and block lists.

For casual day-to-day chat, it’s perfect, if for nothing else than one important feature: once your fingers learn the commands, it doesn’t matter if your brain remembers them or not. You’ll be amazed at how efficiently you can juggle conversations with BSFlite. Seriously.

Here are some key features of “BSFlite”:

· Runs on just about any UNIX machine of any speed
· Uses very few resources, even compared to other console clients
· Very portable codebase with BSD-licensed AIM library for use in your own projects
· Windows port with tiny binary size - put it on a floppy or USB stick and load it up when you need AIM at an Internet cafe or public terminal
· Works great with screen, so you can leave your AIM session logged in when you’re not physically at your terminal
· Not affiliated with America Online in any way

Visit Claudio Leite to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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LinWinTalk is a GTK-based NetSend GUI for Linux

LinWinTalk is a GTK-based NetSend GUI for Linux used for sending and receiving net send from linux/windows machines. Uses Samba to send and receive messages. It can be minimized into the system tray and a popup window will appear as soon as a message is received.

Visit website to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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KouChat

KouChat is a simple serverless chat client for local area networks. KouChat project is written in Java, and is free software.

Here are some key features of “KouChat”:

· Main chat
· Private chat
· Selectable text color for your user
· See when someone writes
· Away mode
· Topic
· File transfer
· System tray integration
· Sound notification when minimized to tray
· Logging
· No configuration needed
· Console mode

Requirements:

· Java Runtime Environment (JRE) - tested with JRE6 on Ubuntu 7.10

What’s New in This Release:

· Use GTK+ look and feel in Gnome
· UI tweaks
· Bug fixes

Visit Christian Ihle to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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Slashster is an Open Source PHP / Mysql Friend of a Friend implementation

Slashster is an Open Source PHP / Mysql Friend of a Friend implementation. Many sites such as Orkut, Friendster, Tribes, and others are community based sites that rely on a “Network of Friends” in order to interface with others within this network.

Requirements:

· Linux / Unix server
· Apache Server (Development is done on 2.x)
· PHP 4.3.0 or higher
· MySQL 4.0 or higher
· GD library 2 or higher (built into php)
· Optional: OpenSSL extension built into php (For Encrypted Messages)

INSTALLATION

1) Untar the source and change directory into it:

$ tar xzf slashster-xx.xx.tar.gz
$ cd slashster

2) Go into the setup directory.

$ cd setup

3) Run the file configure to set up permissions on the files

$ ./configure

4) Import the database. You will need to set up mysql permissions manually for this sort of thing.

$ mysql -u -p < slashster.sql

Logically, where is your database login, is your database password, and is your database name.

5) Edit your configuration for Slashster

cd ../html
vi siteinfo.php

6) Start the services

cd ../cron
./isscheduler

Visit Mark El-Wakil to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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aMSN

aMSN : Alvaro’s Messenger, or Another MSN messenger clone

This project is a modified and multilanguage version of Compu’s Messenger (CCMSN).It’s a Tcl/Tk script as was CCMSN and Tcl/Tk must be installed to run it. This means it is multiplatform and can run on any OS having Tcl/Tk installed (Linux, Windows, Macintosh).

aMSN is a clone of the original MSN Messenger, having the same look and feel.

Here are some key features of “Alvaro’s Messenger”:

· Sound for Events
· Look and Feel similar to original MSN Messenger
· Multilanguage (Around 40 languages currently supported)
· Running multiple instances of AMSN at once for multiple logins
· File Transfers
· Group Support
· Normal and Animated Emoticons with sounds
· Chat History
· On Event Alarms
· Conferencing Support
· Full Proxy Support
· Docking for Gnome1 and FreeDesktop (Gnome2/KDE3)
· Font configuration
· Profiles for separate configuration per login
· AutoAway Messages
· Manual Allow/Block/Contact/Reverse lists manipulation
· Remote Control
· Ability to detect contacts who removed you from their list
· No censorship on nicknames
· Support for Buddy Icons and MSN6 File Transfers (through server)
· Very extensive preferences allows high level of customisation

Visit Amsn Development Team to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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Night Light IRC

Night Light IRC Proxy or ircproxy in short, is a multi-user IRC (Internet Relay Chat) proxy written in C for UNIX compatible systems.

If you do not know what IRC is, then IRC proxy probably isn’t for you. A IRC proxy is a program which works like a client and server, you connect to it with your IRC client and it connects you to the chosen server.

This way you are protected behind the machine running the IRC proxy, connecting through a proxy will hide your machine’s IP-address from other users on IRC.

More simply explained, the IRC proxy will forward data sent by the IRC server to one or more IRC clients connected to the ircproxy, and forward data sent by the IRC clients to the IRC server.

The IRC proxy can also keep your connection to IRC alive even when you disconnect from the IRC proxy.

This IRC proxy is very flexible, it allows to configure multiple ports for listening, access by hostname or IP-address, multiple users and multiple connections and a optional ident server.
This is all done through the following configuration files:

· A listen configuration file (listen.conf) where you specify what hosts and ports users can connect to.
· A access configuration file (access.conf), where you specify which IP-addresses or hostnames users can connect to the ircproxy from.
· A optional user configuration file (user.conf) (with optional encrypted passwords), where you specify usernames/password allowed that IRC clients must send to get access.
· A connection configuration file (conn.conf) where the actual IRC connections to IRC servers is specified, each connection is owned by a specific user defined in user.conf.

The ircproxy can compile and run successfully on most UNIX systems. It has been successfully compiled and installed on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, OSF1, HP-UX, AIX and Windows (Cygwin).

What exactly can ircproxy do?

Share your internet connection.

If you dont have direct access to the internet but another machine (router or server) on the network has internet access. You can share the internet connection using a this ircproxy for IRC access. Even your already using NAT, SOCKS or a forwarding proxy, ircproxy is probably preffered because it will allow you to have ident on IRC, and different ident can be replied for different users.

Get your own hostname from a shell ISP or hide your host behind a server.

If your internet service provider does not allow you to have a static IP with your own hostname, or you simply want to hide your real host. You can buy shell access from a ISP and eventually buy your own IP-address from the ISP to use with ircproxy.

Keep your IRC connection alive even when you disconnect with your IRC client.

If you have a dial up connection but want your client connected to IRC 24/7, you can install ircproxy on a server. This ircproxy will keep the IRC connection alive after you disconnect from the ircproxy with your IRC client.

Restrict data sent to the IRC server to prevent flooding the IRC server.

Solve problems getting disconnected with “Excess Flood”, possible cause for this is that someone is flooding you with CTCP’s or similar. This ircproxy will restrict you from sending data faster to the IRC server then the IRC server will allow. It will simply queue the data you send and keep it until the IRC server is ready to take more data without disconnecting you. However the queue is also restricted, there is a max sendQ, if it is reached your IRC client will be disconnected but the connection to the IRC server still stay alive.

One connection to IRC from more then one machine at the same time.

With ircproxy you can be connected to IRC from two or more machines at the same time without more then one connection to the IRC server. This ircproxy will allow you to resume a IRC server connection from more then one machine at the same time.

Visit Jonas Kvinge to download latest version.

Posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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