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FBreader E-book Reader

FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms.

Main features:

* Supported e-book formats are
o ePub, an international e-publishing standard.
o fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto.
o plucker, one of the most popular Palm e-book format.
o Non-DRM'd version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format.
o More formats.
* Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.)
* Automatic library building.
* Automatic language and character encoding detection is supported.
* Automatically generated contents table.
* Embedded images support.
* Footnotes/hyperlinks support.
* Position indicator.
* Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs.
* List of last opened books.
* Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are included in the current version.
* Text search.
* Full-screen mode.
* Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Vattery+IBAM

Adaptive Laptop Battery Monitor for the Systray - now with additional applets!
Vattery also will warn you when your battery is getting low so you know you need to save your data.
Also several other small tray aps.

Snap2

simple yet fast and powerful rsync-based backup program with GUI interface

If you would like to keep 'snapshots' of your files (all of them or some of them) as they were hours ago, days ago, weeks ago, etc., this program will do that, automatically "spacing out" the backups over time.

You will be able to access past versions of your files and recover them with any file manager. Or, if you specify a remote server for the backup storage, you can recover the files via ftp, scp, or rsync.

Thanks to the use of hard links, snap2 can backup up several gigabytes of files to a one-gig USB drive, without compression. Only new and modified files are actually transfered, and thanks to rsync magic, only changed portions of files are transmitted.

For those cases where you only need a single backup, snap2 can also do a simple 'mirror' backup.

snap2 has an easy GUI. It has an automatic backup scheduler (via cron). It's feature-rich yet simple and flexible.

DOS platform emulation stuff
DOSBox 0.73 - DOSEmu 1.4.0 - SDL-1.2.13

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44989

I don't usually say things like this, but, get a life. People will find things on their own, and if they can't they will come to the forums and make a thread, why don't you answer some of those? Even if you were trying to help, don't make thread after thread, just make one and edit it.

Good Quality Text To Speech synthesiser dotpet

At last - a good quality, open-source Text to Speak synthesiser: a special compile of flite with the new HTS voices. The HTS voice is trained using Hidden Markov Model.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49390

KeePassX

QT4-based password manager

KeePassX saves different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments

CPU FREQUENCY SCALING 1.3-2

CPU FREQUENCY SCALING 1.3-2 - Ondemand (dynamic) - GUI
Run your cpu cooler

Small GTK Timekeeping Utilities

Here are a few timekeeping utilties I've come across in my travels.

LightSword Alarm Clock and Countdown Timer - customizable messages, sounds, and scripting.
GworldClock Timezone Utility - for figuring out what time it is in other timezones.
Gstpw Stopwatch
Simple GTK Time Tracker - if the business menu seems a little anemic, this is a nice addition.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54073

AtomPup SFS

AtomPup is a suite of console applications, targeted at people with limited hardware and console-lovers. It requires extremely minimal system resources (32 MBs of RAM and basically any processor). Atom includes many many fixes that make everything work well, it's more than a pile of compiled applications.

Inxi offers a wide range of built-in options, as well as a good number of extra features which require having the script recommends installed on the system. Check recommends to see what's needed for each extra feature. Check sources for latest inxi version number.

Inxi has been developed so that it should work reasonably well on most GNU/Linux distributions. The script comes pre-installed in Mint Linux and AntiX, as well as soon Arch Linux, and hopefully soon more distributions as maintainers / users discover it and find it's a nice tool.

Inxi works on KDE 4 and the qt4 version of Konversation using qdbus, as well as on most other Irc clients we have found to test it on, including Quassel, which includes inxi with its script built-ins last I checked, though often an older version.

The site=

http://code.google.com/p/inxi/

How to install in Puppy=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53986

Gsmartcontrol smart monitor

HARD DRIVE MONITOR

If you ever wondered about your hard drive health, this tool will give you a wealth of information about your hard drive.
Would be good to have in your toolbox, or if your buying a used PC.

SFS_Installer


This is a drag and drop SFS installer that will install an SFS on the fly and also create an entry in Puppy Package Manager for removal just like it was a PET file.
The post says it is for full installs of Puppy. But I have used it with great success with a frugal install also.
This is Trio's creation. And he gets all credit for it.

Esperanto
Course of Esperanto (an international language).
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44217
GRAMPS
Genealogy System
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 270#291270
Gnokii
Tool suite for the mobile phones
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 958#251958
LifeLines
Genealogy software
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35288
Google translate desktop
Google translator
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 479#411479
GtkFileSplitter
File splitter
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 590#411590
FOX
GUI development toolkit
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57068
OmegaT
Translation tool
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 010#439010

Pmenu

Menu Editor for removing menu items
There is also the option to place them back into the menu.

Xvkbd: Virtual keyboard

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xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System which provides facility to enter characters onto other clients (softwares) by clicking on a keyboard displayed on the screen. This may be used for systems without a hardware keyboard such as kiosk terminals or handheld devices. This program also has facility to send characters specified as the command line option to another client.

xplns

Astronomy Simulation

Xplns reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System. It calculates the position of many celestial objects (stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, planets, comets, etc.) very accurately. You can enjoy the past and future sky on the desk top as if you have traveled all around the world. In solar system projection mode, you can examine motion of solar objects.

Eee Control for the Eeepc 900

GUI app for overclock, underclock, fan control of EeePc's. Works on several models.

Virtual Magnifier Glass

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Virtual Magnifying Glass is a free, open source, cross-platform screen magnification tool. It is simple, customizable, and easy-to-use.