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| abc2 midi | |
 Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.08.24 (1 years ago) abc2 midi website | Description: Converts abc notation (music notation you can created in a text editor) to midi or karaoke midi files. Lets you compose your own music. |
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| Tags: music, | |
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| abcm2ps | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.08.28 (1 years ago) abcm2ps website | Description: Converts abc notation (music notation you can created in a text editor) to postscript sheet music. |
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| Tags: music, | |
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| aMSN | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.06.20 (1 years ago) aMSN website | Description: A cross platform MSN clone. |
| Comment: Only supports MSN instant messaging service, but is very full featured. Includes webcam and file transfer support. | |
| Tags: instant messaging, | |
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| Audacity | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.21 (2 years ago) Audacity website | Description: Cross platform sound recorder and editor. Good interface for novices and pros alike. |
| Comment: Unfortunately requires a separate plug-in download to export to mp3, due to licensing issues. However it is very easy to install and works well after you've done that. | |
| Tags: audio editor, media, mp3, music, | |
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| Azureus | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.18 (2 years ago) Azureus website | Description: A popular BitTorrent client written in Java. Tons of plugins available. With plugins you can remotely control it via a web browser, or telnet, schedule your bandwith usage, or play sudoku. |
| Comment: Can seem to use a lot of memory and cpu, but it is doing some fairly demanding work. | |
| Tags: file sharing, p2p, | |
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| Bika LIMS | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.02.07 (1 years ago) Bika LIMS website | Description: A combined LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), workflow and web content management system built in cutting edge technologies |
| Comment: Open Source Website: http://bika.sourceforge.net Bika LIMS Software Page: http://www.bikalabs.com/softwarecenter/bika Download latest version of Bika LIMS from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145464 | |
| Tags: CMS, lab, LIMS, | |
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| BitPim | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.29 (2 years ago) BitPim website | Description: Allows you to download and upload ring tones, pictures / wallpapers, text messages, and call history from a variety of CDMA based phones. Frequent updates to support new phones and features. |
| Comment: Greatly enhanced the usefulness of my cell phone. Is a bit of a CPU hog (especially starting up), but doesn't need to keep running all the time so it's not really a problem. | |
| Tags: phone, | |
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| Blender | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.04.18 (262 days ago) Blender website | Description: Blender is a 3D content creator. Supports modeling, animation, rendering, a physics system, and game creation. |
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| Tags: 3d, | |
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| BRL-CAD | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.01.09 (362 days ago) BRL-CAD website | Description: CAD program. Developed by US military and now available as Open Source. Constructive Solid Geometry modeling system. |
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| Tags: CAD, | |
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| CinePaint | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.02.03 (337 days ago) CinePaint website | Description: Graphics editor like Gimp, but oriented more toward the film industry. Support for high fidelity image formats. |
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| Tags: graphics editor, | |
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| cURL | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.03.01 (1 years ago) cURL website | Description: A command line file downloader. Supports a wide variety of protocols. MIT/X derivate license. |
| Comment: Not designed to do recursive downloads like wget(but can be used that way), cURL is focused on single file downloads and supporting many file transfer methods. | |
| Tags: web, web grabber, | |
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| Data Crow | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.11.22 (1 years ago) Data Crow website | Description: A personal collection organizer. Data Crow helps you track your movies, software, games, music, books, and pictures. Includes a wizard that gets information from Amazon and IMDB to fill in details and cover pictures for your items. |
| Comment: The Data Crow database functionality is powered by the open source HSQL engine, which has been built in. | |
| Tags: database, media, | |
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| DosBox | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.30 (2 years ago) DosBox website | Description: Emulates a x86 PC, mainly for playing games on more modern operating systems. Also useful for running older DOS based business apps. |
| Comment: Not totally compatible with every game, there is a pretty good chance it will work for you. Great if you have some old games you'd like to play again. | |
| Tags: emulator, game, | |
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| DuMP3 | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.08.05 (153 days ago) DuMP3 website | Description: Duplicate file finder. Created to find duplicate mp3s, DuMP3 can now find duplicates of any file type. It can find duplicate audio files and images that are in different formats, sizes, or quality. |
| Comment: A Java app, DuMP3 is a very powerful program. Still a little rough around the edges. | |
| Tags: duplicate file finder, file compare, | |
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| Eisenstern | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.24 (2 years ago) Eisenstern website | Description: A role-playing game based on the Cube 2 / Sauerbrauten engine. |
| Comment: Gotten a kick start from the Cube 2 engine, but still in early stages yet. | |
| Tags: game, | |
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| ELinks | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.02.12 (1 years ago) ELinks website | Description: A text only web browser. For those who want a faster, minimalist, or graphical environment free browsing experience. Supports SSL, tabbed browsing, tables and frames. |
| Comment: The site says it can run on Mac OSX and Windows but only provides binaries for Linux. | |
| Tags: web, web browser, | |
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| FrostWire | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.10.29 (1 years ago) FrostWire website | Description: Adware free implementation of LimeWire PRO. Contains other changes. |
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| Tags: p2p, | |
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| Gaim | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.19 (2 years ago) Gaim website | Description: Instant messaging client that does all the major networks at once. Supports ICQ, AOL (AIM), MSN, Yahoo, Google, and more. Can do file tranfers. |
| Comment: Use all your IM accounts at once, with one client. | |
| Tags: instant messaging, internet, | |
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| GIMP | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.12.10 (2 years ago) GIMP website | Description: A photo and graphics editing program. |
| Comment: GIMP, which stands for 'GNU Image Manipulation Program' may be perhaps one of the worst software names ever. There has been some criticism over the years about it's user interface. Even so, a very good program. The best open source bitmap editor out there. | |
| Tags: graphics editor, media, | |
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| GTDTiddlyWiki | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.31 (2 years ago) GTDTiddlyWiki website | Description: A PIM version of TiddlyWiki, a self contained wiki that can edit it's self. Can run completely in your browser off of a thumb drive. |
| Comment: A handy productivity app. | |
| Tags: pim, wiki, | |
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| HTTrack | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.02.22 (1 years ago) HTTrack website | Description: An automated web page / site downloader. Includes GUI and command line versions. |
| Comment: Useful for mirroring websites or offline browsing. | |
| Tags: web, web grabber, | |
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| Hyperlist | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.05.22 (228 days ago) Hyperlist website | Description: To do list program for managing hierarchical lists. The program is small, simple, cross-platform and keyboard friendly. |
| Comment: It's Open Source, but license is based on MIT license so code can be reused in closed source projects as well. | |
| Tags: outliner, pim, | |
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| ImageMagick | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.12.06 (2 years ago) ImageMagick website | Description: A command line program to edit images. ImageMagick supports more than 90 image formats. |
| Comment: Especially useful for scripting or batch processing of photo edits. | |
| Tags: media, | |
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| Jalmus | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.09.28 (2 years ago) Jalmus website | Description: Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, specially pianists, to improve their sight-reading with exercises on notes or rhythms. |
| Comment: Jalmus is a multilingual software supporting english, french, spanish and Deutsch. Jalmus is particulary adapted for beginners to learn music notes and rythms. | |
| Tags: educational, music, | |
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| JBidWatcher | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.20 (2 years ago) JBidWatcher website | Description: Java based Bid watch program. Keeps track of eBay auctions. Can auto snipe across a group of auctions, and stop when you win one. |
| Comment: Don't do online auctions without it (buying or selling). Useful enough to install for even just one auction. | |
| Tags: auctions, ebay, internet, | |
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| jGnash | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.10 (2 years ago) jGnash website | Description: A personal finance manager. Uses double entry bookkeeping, can export reports to PDF, supports multiple currencies, and can encrypt data files. |
| Comment: Not as full featured as some others out there, jGnash is adding new features. It very cross platform, running on any OS that can run Java. | |
| Tags: finance, | |
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| Juice Receiver | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.01.26 (1 years ago) Juice Receiver website | Description: Automatically downloads podcasts. Can read RSS feeds and download audio file enclosures or torrents. |
| Comment: Simplify keeping up with your favorite podcasts. | |
| Tags: podcast, | |
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| KeePass Password Safe | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2005.11.10 (3 years ago) KeePass Password Safe website | Description: A password manager. Allows users to keep track of passwords in an encrypted file. Protect access to the ecnrypted file by password or key-file. Requires no install, easily fits on a thumb drive. |
| Comment: If you have more than a few passwords, I highly recommend this password tracking program. There are many others but this is my favorite. | |
| Tags: password store, security, | |
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| less | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.01.08 (363 days ago) less website | Description: Less is like more, but can do much more. It's a file paging utility that lets you examine what's in a file very quickly. Use alone or in conjunction with other utilities or commands. Command line tool. |
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| Tags: utility, | |
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| Mahogany | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.17 (2 years ago) Mahogany website | Description: A cross platform email client. Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP. Very configurable, supports built-in Python scripting. |
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| Tags: email, internet, | |
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| Mess Emulator | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.08.31 (1 years ago) Mess Emulator website | Description: Emulates a variety of legacy systems from Atari to Tandy Coco and TRS-80 computers. |
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| Tags: emulator, game, | |
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| MilkyTracker | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.07.29 (160 days ago) MilkyTracker website | Description: Creates music in Mod, XM and related file formats. Not only can it play mod files and their variants, it can also help you create your own. |
| Comment: This program has been around for a while, but it only recently became Open Source. | |
| Tags: audio, audio editor, music, portable, | |
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| Miro | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.03 (2 years ago) Miro website | Description: An open source video player, library, search, and web hub. |
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| Tags: internet, media, media player, video, | |
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| Nethack | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.21 (2 years ago) Nethack website | Description: A non-graphical dungeon based role-playing game. |
| Comment: Considered a classic by many, simply learning all there is to do in Nethack could take a long, long time. Don't be put off by it's appearance. If you just can't take it, there are graphical versions based off of the same engine. | |
| Tags: game, | |
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| OpenDocument Viewer | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.01.02 (2 years ago) OpenDocument Viewer website | Description: Viewer for OpenDocument text (.odt), spreadsheet (.ods) and presentation (.odp) files. It has native installers for each platform and is suitable for general users who don't have another program that reads these file formats. |
| Comment: OpenDocument Viewer is in it's early stages still. The current versions lack support of tables for instance. The next major version hopes to have near full support of all document features. | |
| Tags: OpenDocument, | |
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| OpenEdit CMS Framework | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.07.31 (158 days ago) OpenEdit CMS Framework website | Description: Built with Java, OpenEdit CMS Framework allows you to create fast, flexible and lightweight web sites. |
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| Tags: content management, | |
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| OpenOffice.org | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2005.03.22 (3 years ago) OpenOffice.org website | Description: A office productivity suite. Features a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs. Can read and write MS Office files. |
| Comment: A great program, I try to use it for all my personal documents. It's ability to export documents to PDF, and presentations to SWF is a very nice feature. OpenOffice.org can sometimes open corrupted MS Office files that crash MS Office. The only major lack has been a MS Access like replacement however the 2.0 release of OpenOffice.org includes one. | |
| Tags: database, media, office, presentation, spreadsheet, word processor, | |
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| pdftk | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.05.28 (1 years ago) pdftk website | Description: A command line tool for preforming many operations on PDF files. Supports merging, splitting, rotating, decrypting, encrypting, filling out forms, and adding watermarks. |
| Comment: Especially useful for scripting or batch operations. | |
| Tags: payroll, PDF, | |
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| PhotoRec | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.01.06 (2 years ago) PhotoRec website | Description: Recovers deleted files by recognizing the file format. Supports recovery of more than 80 formats. |
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| Tags: forensics, undelete, utility, | |
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| Report Magic | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2003.11.19 (5 years ago) Report Magic website | Description: Makes the plain reports generated by the Analog web log analyzer more beautiful and easy to read. |
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| Tags: logs, | |
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| Sauerbraten | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.24 (2 years ago) Sauerbraten website | Description: 1st person shooter Sauerbraten, otherwise known as Cube 2, is the next evolution of the Cube engine. Bringing forward the unique in-game editing of the previous version and adding new features. |
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| Tags: 1st person shooter, game, | |
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| Searchmonkey | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.06.06 (213 days ago) Searchmonkey website | Description: General search program. It can search for file names in directories or specific words in files. Includes regular expression search. Friendly GUI access to search features. |
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| Tags: desktop, search, | |
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| Streamripper | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.06.25 (194 days ago) Streamripper website | Description: Records streaming MP3s, including from Shoutcast streams. |
| Comment: Can't copy RealPlayer, Windows MediaPlayer, or MusicMatch streams. | |
| Tags: audio editor, | |
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| Sylpheed | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2008.05.21 (229 days ago) Sylpheed website | Description: E-mail client. Has three pane viewing, customizable features like editing messages with your favorite editor and handles Usenet news as well as e-mails. Loads e-mails from in other formats from other news clients like Thunderbird easily. Can also output e-mails in other mailbox formats. |
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| Tags: email, | |
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| Synergy | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.08.16 (1 years ago) Synergy website | Description: Share your mouse and keyboard across multiple computers. Use 2 computers and monitors as if they were a single computer. |
| Comment: Development stalled for a while, but the lead developer has stated a desire to keep going recently. | |
| Tags: utility, | |
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| Task Coach | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2005.11.10 (3 years ago) Task Coach website | Description: Keep track of tasks, todo lists, and time spent on tasks. |
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| Tags: pim, | |
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| TestDisk | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.05.03 (1 years ago) TestDisk website | Description: Primarily designed to recover lost partitions, TestDisk works on a wide variety of file systems. |
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| Tags: forensics, | |
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| TiddlyWiki | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.10.31 (2 years ago) TiddlyWiki website | Description: A self contained wiki that requires no server side logic. It edits itself. Can be stored locally on your computer or thumb drive. BSD license. |
| Comment: A very interesting tool. Cool just to play with. | |
| Tags: wiki, | |
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| Timidity | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.08.29 (1 years ago) Timidity website | Description: Plays midi and midi Karaoke files. Uses soundfonts which improves instrument quality even if you have a low end sound card. (See the Freepats project for Open Source soundfonts to use with Timidity and other applications.) Converts midi files to wav files. |
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| Tags: media, | |
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| Tux Typing | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.09.22 (2 years ago) Tux Typing website | Description: A typing tutor designed for kids. Tux Typing tries to appeal to kids by being a game as well as a typing tutor. Tux Typing is available in a large number of languages for many different operating systems. |
| Comment: The feel is a little young, it is designed for children, but Tux Typing can still teach adults as well. | |
| Tags: educational, typing tutor, | |
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| VideoLAN - VLC Media Player | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2006.11.17 (2 years ago) VideoLAN - VLC Media Player website | Description: Video and multimedia player that supports a large number of media types, including DVD, MP3, OGG, WMV, and can even play movies in ISO files.Quick and easy to use. Portable apps version available as well. |
| Comment: Should be your first choice for video player. The interface is refreshingly plain, but can leave you to wonder where the rest of it is.. | |
| Tags: dvd, dvd player, media, media player, mp3, music, video, | |
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| vpnc | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.03.05 (1 years ago) vpnc website | Description: A VPN client for CISCO and Juniper/Netscreen. Works with Windows using Cygwin. |
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| Tags: vpn, | |
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| Wireshark | |
| Updates feed License: Open Source Added: 2007.01.30 (1 years ago) Wireshark website | Description: Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is full-featured, cross-platform, and supports hundreds of protocols. It is the standard analyzer in most parts of the industry. |
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| Tags: security, | |
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