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• Alexey Pajitnov – A Russian computer engineer who co-authored the very famous Tetris in 1985.

• Michael Abrash - Prolific author of optimized graphic routines, expert on 8086 assembly, Game programming. He has created games like  Space Strike, PC Booter, Cosmic Crusader and up to a certain extent id Software’s Quake. He has authored famous books like Graphics Programming Black Book, Code Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Software That Pushes PCs to the Limit and many other technical write-ups.

• Scott Adams – He is the co-founder of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers. He has developed many of early games like Adevntureland, Pirate Adventure etc for CP/M and MS-DOS. He was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers,way back in 1978.

• Ed Boon – He is famous as the co-creator of the Mortal Kombat franchise

• David Braben - co-creator of Elite – Space Trading computer game.

• Danielle Bunten Berry - developer of several early groundbreaking games, such as M.U.L.E. and The Seven Cities of Gold 

• John Carmack – He is probably the greatest game programmer who introduced us to first person shoot ‘em up 3D games. He is the programmer of many groundbreaking 3D games such as Wolfenstein 3D, the Doom series and the Quake series.

• Will Crowther - was the originator of Colossal Cave Adventure – the first ever Computer Adventure Game (1976)

• Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British) - developer of the Ultima series among others
• Jordan Mechner - developer of several games with groundbreaking animation, such as Karateka and The Prince of Persia series

• Sid Meier - developer of numerous successful series, such as Civilization, Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, among others. Brian Reynolds also had been involved in Civilization games.

• Alan Miller - co-founder of the first independent console game publisher and programmer of several early Atari 2600 games 

• Robyn and Rand Miller - owners of Cyan Worlds, designers of Myst, Riven and other games

• Jeff Minter - founder of Llamasoft 

• Peter Molyneux - designer and programmer of Fable, Black & White, their sequels and Theme Park 

• Chris Sawyer - programmer and designer of Transport Tycoon series and Roller Coaster Tycoon 

• Ken Silverman - Creator of the Build Engine used first by Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and later by many other games. Ken created his first 3D engine around the same time Carmack created the Doom engine.

• Tim Sweeney - Creator of the Unreal Engine and ZZT

• Anne Westfall - Programmer of all versions of home computer era game Archon. Joe Freeman is her husband, who is also a game programmer.

• Don Woods - was co-author of Colossal Cave Adventure
• Will Wright - programmer turned designer of most Sim- games including SimCity (City Building Game), The Sims (Life simulation game) and Spore.

• Shigeru Miyamoto – Japanese Video Game designer and producer. He is famous for several games like Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Pikmin and F-Zero.

• Hironobu Sakaguchi – Designer of Final Fantasy

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1. Enomaly Elastic Computing

Enomaly’s Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) is the answer for carriers and hosting providers, and their customers, who want to benefit from the power, flexibility, and economies of cloud computing. Over 15,000 companies use ECP to operate cloud computing platforms, deliver infrastructure-on-demand services to their customers and users, enjoy dynamic provisioning and scaling for their computing workloads, and experience the benefits of cloud computing for the enterprise

2. Nebula

Nebula is a Cloud Computing pilot under development at NASA Ames Research Center. It integrates a set of open-source components into a seamless, self-service platform, providing high-capacity computing, storage and network connectivity using a virtualized, scalable approach to achieve cost and energy efficiencies. Nebula is currently being used for education and public outreach, for collaboration and public input, and also for mission support.

3. Nimbus

Nimbus is a set of open source tools that together provide an "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" (IaaS) cloud computing solution.Nimbus allows a client to lease remote resources by deploying virtual machines (VMs) on those resources and configuring them to represent an environment desired by the user.

4. OpenNebula

OpenNebula is an open-source toolkit to easily build any type of cloud: private, public and hybrid. OpenNebula has been designed to be integrated with any networking and storage solution and so to fit into any existing data center.

With OpenNebula you can transform your data center into a flexible and agile virtual infrastructure which dynamically adapts to the changing demands of the service workload.

5. Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is an open-source infrastructure for the implementation of cloud computing on computer clusters. Its name is an acronym for "Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems". Eucalyptus provides an  interface that is compatible with Amazon Web Services cloud computing interface. Eucalyptus is available as a source package, RPM, and a Rocks disk image.

6. Cloud computing with Red Hat

Cloud computing with Red Hat enterprise software is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services. It provides everything needed to develop and host applications: compute capacity, bandwidth, storage, and the leading open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

7. Cloudera

Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) packages the popular open-source software for easy installation and deployment. Users of CDH can take advantage of Cloudera Desktop for data import and export, cluster monitoring and administration, and job creation and collaboration. Together these products make it easy to install, configure, run and use a Hadoop cluster for critical business data management tasks

About WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe Edition:

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe builds in 160 video codecs and 50 audio codecs. And without any third-party codecs, it can easily support Multi-track HD video, such as BDAV, M2TS, MKV, AVCHD, HDTV and MPEG-TS video movies. It also supports converting all the HD and HD-Camcorder videos MOD MTS, to both portable and console players, such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Zune, PDA, Blackberry, Nokia, Android, Zen, etc,.

Supporting Multi-CPU and Hyper Threading, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe offers up to 5x - 15x real time video converting speed.

Main Features:

• Support Multi-track HD Video

• The first video converter that supports converting Multi-track HD video such as M2TS, MKV, BDAV, and HDTV. You can freely choose audio language track and video track.

• Convert HD and SD Video

• Built-in 160 video codecs and 50 audio codecs, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe can convert between all popular video formats such as AVI, MP4, MPEG1/2, OGG, WMV, FLV, MOV, etc. Without assistance of any third-party codecs you can easily adjust audio/video parameters such as image resolution and video quality.

• Support Blu-ray, M2TS, BDAV

• Support BDAV, TrueHD, M2TS, MPEG-TS A/V, a definitely useful feature when making a digital copy to backup your Blu-ray video.

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Avidmux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Cinellera

Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It’s a movie studio in a box.

Kino

Kino is an open source  video editor, that runs on Linux.  You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. For complete list of features, visit the web site Kino

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source program that that lets you creates, modifies, and edits video files. Its is an open source non-linear video editor for Linux, with very powerful compositing functions, and key frame animations for titles and scrolling credits as well as for video clips. OpenShot provides support for most video formats and codecs, and has particularly good support for HD video and AVCHD.

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With RationalPlan Multi Project you can have all your company projects and resources in one place. Not just that you can create dependencies between tasks from different projects but more important, you can share resources hence you will be able to track a resource’s overallocation state over multiple projects. The Project Portfolio view will help to get an overview of all your projects. Another key differentiator is that a "what if" scenarios capability is offered via multiple undo/redo levels that allows you to make changes and safely get back.

RationalPlan has three different products for various practical needs.

1. RationalPlan Multi Project - RationalPlan Multi Project allows you to manage multiple projects at once, projects that share common resources and/or with dependencies between their tasks.

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3.RationalPlan Project Viewer – For people involved but don’t need or shouldn’t change the schedule related data. The Project Viewer is freely distributed for everyone to see the content of a project in the most flexible manner and not just as printed reports.

The software operates on all popular platforms starting with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms.

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1. LiVES

LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor for Linux that mixes real-time video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It lets you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or frame rates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ’s and video editors to mix and switch clips from the keyboard, using dozens of real-time effects. It lets to trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. For more information, check the website LiVES.

2. OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source program that that lets you creates, modifies, and edits video files. Its is an open source non-linear video editor for Linux, with very powerful compositing functions, and key frame animations for titles and scrolling credits as well as for video clips. OpenShot provides support for most video formats and codecs, and has particularly good support for HD video and AVCHD. For more details, check the website openshotvideo

3. Kdenlive

Kdenlive is free and open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Kdenlive is intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. To take a look at various features provided by the software, take a look at the website kdenlive.

4. Kino

Kino is an open source  video editor, that runs on Linux.  You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. For complete list of features, visit the web site Kino

5. Avidemux

Avidemux is a free and open source video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Avidemux is a simple video editor suited for editing several (proprietary) video formats that runs on all major platforms like Linux, Windows and OSX. For the complete feature list check the Avidemux site.

6. Cinelerra

Cinelerra is an open source advanced video editor suited for editing several (proprietary) video formats, that runs on Linux. For the complete feature list check the Cinelerra site.

7. PiTiVi

PiTiVi is a free and open source video editor, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. It is a intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop. For complete feature list, check the PiTiVi website.

8. Open Movie Editor

Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. It runs on Linux. You can check the complete feature list from the Open Movie Editor site.

9. AviSynth

AviSynth is free open-source software. It is a powerful tool for video post-production. It provides ways of editing and processing videos on Windows.  For complete list of features, please check the site AviSynth.

10. Lumiera

Lumiera is a Free/Open Source Non-Linear Video Editing (NLE) application project for Linux developed by the CinelerraCV. It was born as a rewrite of the Cinelerra codebase called Cinelerra3 but it is now an independent project with its own name. Its underdevelopment and you an view the details from the site Lumiera.

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Amarok – Rediscover music

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux and Unix, MacOS X and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it!

Ardour – Digital Audio Workstation

Record Audio, Mix, Edit and Collaborate. One of the Ultimate Audio Editing software for Mac OS X and Linux.

Audacity - The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Banshee – Music Player

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts.  Sync your G1 phone, iPod, and other devices. We think you’ll love the new Banshee! Banshee is written in C# on the Mono platform using GNOME technologies (Gtk#, GStreamer, etc).

CDEx – Audio CD Extractor

CDEx is a very popular Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor with more than 38 million downloads.

Grip – CD Ripper/CD Player

Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built-in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 (and other audio format) encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers.Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified "computerized" version of your music collection.

Hydrogen – Advanced Drum Machine For GNU/Linux

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Jokosher – Multi-Track Audio Studio

Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.

LMMS – Linux Multimedia Studio

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

MuseScore - Free music composition & notation software

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licensed under GNU GPL.

MusikCube – Fast, Lightweight Music management

musikCube is an mp3 player for the modern generation. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere. For the
technical user, musikCube is based on an embedded SQL database engine known as sqlite. For the non technical user, that means its fast. Really fast. "Dynamic playlists" allow fully automatic, randomized playback of songs based on your observed listening habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable, user sortable playlists.

MusE – Audio Sequencer

MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written originally by Werner Schweer now developed and maintained by the MusE development team. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux, it is published under the GNU General Public License.

Rosegarden – Audio Sequencer

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

Songbird – Manage Your Music

Click, Download and Start listening to your music in an organized way. Very simple, useful Audio Player. It is an alternative to Apple’s iTunes.

SoundKonverter – KDE Sound Application

soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters. The key features are:
- Audio conversion
- Replay Gain calculation
- CD ripping

StreamRipper – Internet Radio Recorder

StreamRipper is an Open Source (GPL) application that lets you record streaming mp3 to your hard drive. There is an alternative Open Source Stream Recording software – StreamHijacker.

WinLAME – Audio Encoder (Windows)

winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface.

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Breakage – Intelligent Drum Machine

Breakage is an intelligent drum machine designed to make it easy and fun to play complex, live breakbeat performances. A step-sequencer pattern editor and previewer, database, sample browser, neural network, pattern morphs, statistics and probabilistic pattern generator give you the tools to work with breaks on a higher level than ever before.

Bristol – Synthesiser Emulation On Linux

BpmDJ – DJ Tools For Linux

BpmDJ is a tool to do DJ on Linux, plays MP3s and Ogg’s.

DJPlay – DJ App for Linux

DJPlay aims to be a high class live DJing application for Linux.

Exaile – Play It, Enjoy It

Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.

FluidSynth – Real-Time Software Synthesizer

FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

Helix Player – Media Player For Linux

The Helix Player is an open source media player for Linux, Solaris, and Symbian based on the Helix DNA Client media engine. More operating system versions are currently in development.

Jack – Audio Connection kit

JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.

JAMin – Professional Audio Mastering

JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA for digital signal processing (DSP). JAMin is licensed under the GPL.

LilyPond – Music Notation For Everyone

LilyPond prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss. Don’t waste time on tuning spacing, moving around symbols, or shaping slurs. Impress friends and colleagues with sharp sheet music!

LinuxSampler – Audio Sampler

LinuxSampler is a free, streaming capable open source pure software audio sampler with professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows/Mac software samplers and to introduce new features not yet available by any other sampler in the world.

Mixxx – Beatmix, better

Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.

MPD – Server Side Application For Playing Music

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. MPD has lots of clients such as Sonata, LnkMusic, MPCool, Ario etc. Check out Clients section here.

RhythmBox – Inspired By iTunes

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

Sonic Visualiser – Audio Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

TerminatorX – Real-Time Audio Synthesizer

TerminatorX is a real-time audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.ogg, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, real-time effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plug-in effects), a sequencer and MIDI interface - all accessible through an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software is designed to run under Linux, FreeBSD and the like.

Dia - Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

GimpShop - GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

Hugin – It is an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

KoverArtist - KoverArtist is a program for the fast creation of covers for cd/dvd cases and boxes. The main idea behind it is to be able to create decent looking covers with some mouseclicks. There is no Open Source App for Windows, however there is a freeware called UnderCoverXP.

gLabels - gLabels is a program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you’ll find at most office supply stores. gLabels is free software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

KTooN – It is a free 2D Animation Toolkit  like Macromedia Flash kit.

Krita - Krita is a KDE program for sketching and painting, offering an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Fields of painting that Krita explicitly supports are concept art, creation of comics and textures for rendering. Modelled on existing real-world painting materials and workflows, Krita supports creative working by getting out of the way and with snappy response.

MyPaint – Open Source Painting - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

OpenOffice Draw – DRAW lets you quickly sketch a complex plan, DRAW gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, DRAW is powerful tool for creating technical or general posters, etc.

Panorama Tools - As the name suggest, it is a set of Software, to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images:

• PTStitcher: High quality, simple to use, all format stitching software.
• Panorama Tools: Photoshop plug-in for panorama creation, editing and remapping.
• PTViewer: High quality spherical viewer, Standalone and java versions for many platforms.

Pixelize - Pixelize works by splitting up the image you want rendered (or duplicated) into a grid of small rectangular areas. Each area is analyzed, and replaced with an image chosen from a large database of images. Pixelize tries to pick images that best match each area.

Scribus - Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Skencil - Skencil is a Free Software interactive vector drawing application.

Synfig - Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based open-source 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.

Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD and (in development) OS-X.