Bluetooth Obex Server

The KDE Bluetooth Framework is a set of tools built on top of Linux' Bluetooth stack BlueZ. It provides easy access to the most common Bluetooth profiles and makes data exchange with Bluetooth devices like phones and PDAs as straightforward as possible.

Features:
* kbluetooth -- a tray applet to handle incoming inquiries
* kbtobexclient -- to send files via bluetooth
* kbluemon -- a bluetooth monitor
* kinputwizard -- a wizard to configure Input Devices
* kbluelock -- a bluetooth screen locker

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X-CD-Roast a burner for Linux

X-CD-Roast is a full X based CD-Writer-program and is the successor of cdwtools-0.93. It is a frontend for CD related programs like cdwrite and mkisofs

Feature list of 0.98alpha:

* Easy setup and intuitive X11 user interface
* GUI based on GTK+ instead of TCL/TK (100% new C-code)
* Copies most data/mixed-mode/audio-CDs (data also on-the-fly)
* Master data-CDs and rearrange audio-CDs (data also on-the-fly)
* Create your own audio-CDs (full Disk-at-Once support)
* Multisession/Bootable CD creation.
* Supports most SCSI/ATAPI/Parallel-CD-Writers available
* Supports different international languages
* CDDB-Lookups and CD-Text
* Online help
* Administration mode for usage in computer pools.
* Fully themeable via GTK-Themes
* Runs on most common Unix-Operation-Systems (Primary platforms: Linux and Solaris)

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Alleyoop Memory Checker

Alleyoop is a GNOME front-end to the Valgrind memory checker, including features like intelligently suppressing errors and launching editors at the error position in the source code.

Valgrind helps you to find memory-management problems in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted.

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PalmOS Devices

A Linux solutions for GNOME applet for management of your Palm PDA

gnome-pilot is a GNOME applet with a daemon that monitors for connections from a PalmOS-based device. It features a conduit system, although it contains only basic conduits.
gnome-pilot-conduits is recommended for a full set of conduits.

pilot-link is used to make the connection to the device, and as such, this package should work with serial devices, USB devices given proper kernel support, and with XCopilot. See the package documentation or pilot-link's documentation for more information on configuring various types of interfaces.

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Classrooom control for Linux

Get your solutions for Classroom management tool

Assists teachers in the management of a classroom with computers in the students desktops. It also gives to the student tools to share files and work in groups and send messages to the teacher or the other collegues.

This package has to be installed in the teacher pc and the students workstations. When using LTSP this package must not be installed inside the clients chroot.
Check the documentation for detailed instructions to set it up.

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BASIC-256

Here is a solutions to educational BASIC programming environment for children

BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

Homepage: http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/

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Anki

Flashcard learning program with special support for Japanese

Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times.

While Anki can be used for studying anything, it also ships with special features designed to make studying Japanese and English easier: integrated dictionary lookups, missing kanji reports, and more.

Besides text, it supports sounds, images and rendering TeX snippets in the cards. Sample card decks are included for a subset of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test vocabulary and for some Russian vocabulary.

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