Some random software - placella.com

CD2MP3 is a simple interface to ICEDAX and LAME. It makes ripping audio CDs to your PC or MP3 player really simple and straightforward. It is also very efficient. Some other utilities used to convert audio CDs to MP3 will first copy the contents of the CD to the hard drive. And then read the data from the hard drive (data that was already in the PC earlier) and convert it to MP3. In the case of CD2MP3 the data is read from the CD through a FIFO buffer and converted to MP3 on the fly. This reduces the conversion time and reduces the usage of the hard drive by about 90%.
Most of this program is a script for a linux BASH shell, but the prompt for the CD information, actually, is a program itself and is written in C/GTK+.

My girlfriend once said: "What is the deal with linux? Does it have to be so complicated? I just want to put that CD into my mp3 player..."
To which I replied: "With linux it can be as easy or as complicated as one wants it to be. Althought making a task simple may sometimes be quite complicated..."
The day after I wrote this program :)

Requirements:	A Linux or Unix OS, A working C compiler, Icedax, GTK+ 2.0, zenity, pkg-config, etc.
Downloads:
Screenshot:	(46kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/cd2mp3/screenshot.png
Demo video:	(3.0MB)	http://www.placella.com/software/cd2mp3/cd2mp3_demo.avi
Source code:	(16kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/cd2mp3/cd2mp3_0.01-src.tar.gz

Crypt-gtk is a simple, cross-platform, program to encrypt/decrypt files with a password.
This program is written entirely in C and uses GTK+ libraries for the GUI.
GPL licenced, see source code for details.

At the moment Crypt-gtk only supports bitwise XOR encryption. XOR is a simple, yet strong encryption algorythm. However it is susceptible to patterns, therefore it is recommended to encrypt compressed files only.

Downloads:
Screenshot	(17kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/crypt/screenshot.png
Source code	(16kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/crypt/crypt-gtk_0.01-src.tar.gz
Windows executables	(3.5MB)	http://www.placella.com/software/crypt/crypt-gtk_0.01-win32.zip
Ubuntu 8.04 linux package	(26kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/crypt/crypt-gtk_0.01-ubuntu804.deb
Ubuntu 9.04 linux package	(27kB)	http://www.placella.com/software/crypt/crypt-gtk_0.01-ubuntu904.deb