File extension Details of BNY, WPS, AOT, AKS

ShrinkIt

Company / developer:
  Andy Nicholas

ShrinkIt is a utility program for archiving files and disks. "Archiving", in this usage, refers to the process of placing files or disks "within" another file -- the archive file. Archiving is usually done to prepare the files/disks for transmission via modem, or for storage purposes. Thus, an archive file, whether created with ShrinkIt or another archiving utility, will be a file which serves as an envelope, containing one or more other files, or complete disks. There are a number of reasons for archiving files before transmitting them with a modem. The principal reason is that an archive provides a means of sending the "attributes" of a file -- its filetype and other information -- along with the file itself. An archive also allows several related files (or an entire disk) to be packed together into a single file. True archiving utilities will also have the capability of compressing the files they contain to minimize the transmission time and disk space the archive requires.

ShrinkIt uses a highly efficient compression algorithm known as dynamic LZW, and creates archive files with a format called NuFX. For technical documentation of the format of NuFX archives, refer to the File Type Note for filetype $E0, auxtype $8002. (File Type Notes are available from Apple Programmers and Developers Association.) ShrinkIt and ShrinkIt-GS are currently the standard archiving utilities for Apple II telecommunications. ShrinkIt can unpack files which have been archived with ShrinkIt, as well as those which have been packed with certain other file-packing utilities, such as BLU and ACU.

RockBox

Company / developer:
  The Rockbox Crew

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for MP3 players. It runs on a number of different models. The .WPS extension decribes the What's Playing Screen in Rockbox.

What is Rockbox?

Why should I use it? Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of MP3 players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device's stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customizable. Rockbox is written by users, for users.

Rockbox has been in development since 2001, and receives new features, tweaks and fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your MP3 player. A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use, yet remain very customizable and configurable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently. We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality - Rockbox, for most models, includes a wider range of sound settings than that device's original firmware. A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can, and improvements are constantly being made. All models have access to a large number of plugins, including many games, applications, and graphical "demos".

You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes (e.g. a large font for in your car, different sound settings for at home). You can even customize your "While Playing Screen" to display only and exactly what you want to see when you're playing music. In addition, Rockbox features a very wide range of languages, and all supported models also have the ability to talk to you - menus can be voiced and filenames spelled out or spoken.

Novell ZENworks Suite

Company / developer:
  Novell, Inc.

Get a quick return on your investment. Novell ZENworks helps customers eliminate administrator effort and reduce IT costs while delivering the IT resources that users need, when they need them—all based on identity. It provides an integrated set of cross-platform tools that automate management across the lifecycle of desktops, laptops, server, and handheld devices.

Aksharamala

Company / developer:
  Srinivas Annam

Aksharamala

Aksharamala is a open-source windows application that allows easy input of Indian language text. It currently supports Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarathi, Gurumukhi, Bengali, Assamese and Urdu.
Aksharamala works as a conduit between the keyboard and the target application and does not have an UI of its own.
It is very flexible in that you can change the target language, the input scheme from the tray app with the use of a hotkey.

Features:

• On-the-fly transliteration into the target language using Unicode.
• Enable / disable using a Hotkey (by default set to Ctrl + Alt + T).
• Support for adding additional languages or input schemes without constantly updating the software.
• Support for multiple keyboard layouts (DOE, INSCRIPT etc.)
• Support for "revers-literation" schemes - This allows easy conversion of existing content created using ASCII based fonts (such as Shusha) to Unicode.
• Multi-lingual support.