Probably the best, customizable, well designed ambient sound app, in your menubar. And it's completely free!

Spotify recently butchered the ability to play local MP3's. They removing the ability to sort local files by recently added, local file search, and the ability to add files to a playlist. So after giving iTunes another shot (unsuccessfully), I was on the hunt for a music player for mac which could monitor a folder for new MP3's and I could play by recently added. Tomahawk fit the bill, and it's open source to boot.

SQLite Database Browser (aka sqlitebrowser) is a open source sqlite browser tool like Sequal Pro but for sqlite on Mac/Windows.

Great website by Github to help developers understand the differences between the open source licenses and which one might be best for their project.

Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. To learn more visit http://www.leapmotion.com.

Discuss on gdgt: http://gdgt.com/discuss/will-motion-control-be-the-next-multi-touch-19f2/

Take a quick peek at what's new and improved in Ubuntu 11.10 - due for release later today.

"Project Hamster is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track."

FRAMED* enables you to display diverse forms of expression including interactive art, web applications, motion graphics & illustration. FRAMED* transforms all spaces - whether private or public. From your living room to a gallery, cafe or restaurant, FRAMED* brings style to all moments of life.

http://frm.fm http://twitter.com/FRAMED_official http://www.youtube.com/FRAMEDofficial

First heard this on Floss Weekly. Dynamic DNS, File-sharing, iTunes Streaming, VPN and over 260 one-click install apps (such as Wordpress, Drupal, Torrents, Jinzora, phpMyAdmin and more).

"Firefox. Internet Explorer. Chrome. Safari. Opera. They try to be all things to all people. And that’s great. Except… What if you’re looking for a browser that does just the things you want to do online? There are more than a dozen excellent alternative browsers out there if you’re looking for something distinctive."

"Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically)."

An Alternative to Window's Convertx2dvd -

"DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer."

"A simple mission: To create an simple open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux."

One of the simplest linux video editing apps I've come across. Render time seems to be far greater than kdenlive's.

"Windows/Linux: One of the most irritating things about reinstalling your operating system is installing all the non-OS applications you love. Allmyapps lets you select all your favorite apps and roll them into a bulk installer to make rebuilding easy."

Student project where they have developed a interface that judges muscle movements to calculate finger movements.

"Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image."

"Products in our Free Family are truly free (no popups, no registration, no adware) Includes web based PDF to Word, PDF to Excel and a PDF Creator"

"Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more."

"Range of audio applications are the benchmark in their respective fields, over 10 years of expertise perfecting CD Ripping & Audio Conversion."