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Windows password cracker. Has an interesting open-source business model: The cracker is GPL, and there are free (but limited) Rainbow tables. To get the full tables, you need to pay $99.

Open-source app which logs your laptop’s network location (and optionally a snapshot from the webcam) to a DHT distributed database at irregular intervals.

Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)

Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.

Improved version of the essential ssh client for Windows

Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I’m so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it’s only going to become more important.

Open-source-software social network, tracking both projects and people.

MovableType to be GPLed. I’ll take “Two Years Too Late” for $400, please, Alex.

This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!

I was pondering what license I apply to Twadget. I think I’ve found my man.

Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)

Truly excellent open-source Bust-a-Move clone hits 2.0. Features, oh yes, internet multiplayer mode. My productivity hits new lows. (No Windows or OSX port yet, but hopefully only a matter of time)

Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.

Google offer free Subversion hosting and bug tracking for open-source projects. Missing in comparison to Sourceforge: Web Hosting, Downloads, SVN web-browsing and adverts galore.

Attractive, and fairly lightweight, self-hostable webmail client. Works with any IMAP server.

Free and Free antivirus for WIndows, based on ClamAV. Imagine Norton Antivirus, but without all the masses of shite that slows down your PC. Doesn’t include “on-access” file scanning, but I’m happy with that.

Manoman is this handy. Boot up off the live CD and repartition your hard drive on the fly without losing data. It’s like PartitionMagic, but free, free and it doesn’t corrupt your data!

Very cool Java debugging tool, which records your application’s entire state over runtime, and allows you to replay and debug it at a later date.

Open-source version of the SingStar karaoke game.