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Handy open source tool from Google to analyze DNS servers and see if it might be worth switching away from your ISP’s default.

Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable.

Key-value datastore. Fast like memcached, but persists to disk and can deal with pushing and popping with lists and sets. Just the thing to solve some of the problems I’ve been having with my RDBMS on a project I’m hacking on.

Handy lightweight process-launcher-and-watcher. Features like “restart this process if it swallows too much resident memory” are going to be handy.

Why am I only finding this now? A smart replacement for the “find . | xargs grep” recipe I use on a daily basis.

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.