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ArsDigita

The company produced a popular Open Source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the Internet bubble.

ArsDigita Community System

The two most current software toolkits based on this codebase are the OpenACS toolkit and the Red Hat CCM.

Atomistix ToolKit

Atomistix ToolKit (ATK) is a commercial software for atomic-scale modeling and simulation of nanosystems.

Bamzooki

Bamzooki (styled as BAMZOOKi) is a mixed reality television gameshow on the BBC which features a toolkit developed by Gameware Development.

Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit

Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit (MDT) is a collection of software utilities released by Electronic Arts that help creating mods for the computer games Battlefield 1942 (2002) and Battlefield Vietnam (2004).

Data and object Carousel

The standard format for a carousel is defined in the Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) toolkit in ISO/IEC 13818-6 and is part of the Digital Audio Video Council (DAVIC) DVB standard for digital video broadcasting.

Edge Development Option

EDO is a toolkit based on EDGE Whole Earth, a software program developed by a company named Autometric, now part of Boeing.

FreeNAS

The 8.0 reimplementation of FreeNAS moved the project from a m0n0BSD/m0n0wall/PHP-based architecture to one based on FreeBSD's NanoBSD embedded build system, the Python programming language, the Django CMS and the dōjō toolkit JavaScript toolkit.

Geometric algebra

Physicists and mathematicians alike readily adopted it as their geometrical toolkit of choice, particularly following the influential 1901 textbook Vector Analysis by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, following lectures of Gibbs.

GTK+

Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) – widget toolkit written for the Enlightenment window manager

Immersive virtual musical instrument

Early work was done by Jaron Lanier with his Chromatophoria band and separately by Niko Bolas who developed the Soundsculpt Toolkit, a software interface that allows the world of music to communicate with the graphical elements of virtual reality.

ISIS Mapping

The current devices in the ISIS Mapping toolkit include the Nokia N95 smartphone, the Nikon Coolpix P6000 digital camera, the Flip Video Mino HD camcorder, and the LaCie Rugged Hard Disk (for storage/archiving purposes).

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

The toolkit implements advanced features of information visualization like TreeMaps, an adapted visualization of trees based on the SpaceTree, a focus+context technique to plot Hyperbolic Trees, a radial layout of trees with advanced animations (RGraph) and other visualizations.

JDRF

The Pak is a sling-style bag containing educational materials and resources targeted at adults, including the Adult Type 1 Toolkit (described below), Mary Tyler Moore’s memoir “Growing Up Again” about her own diagnosis with T1D in adulthood, and a Bayer Contour Next USB Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Memory forensics

Microsoft crash dumps had always been analyzable by Microsoft WinDbg, and Windows hibernation files (hiberfil.sys) are nowadays convertible in Microsoft crash dumps using utilities like MoonSols Windows Memory Toolkit designed by Matthieu Suiche.

Movial

The company's products include Movial Communicator, a SIP/IMS (RCS and MMTel) application for device manufacturers and service providers and Movial IXS Internet Experience Suite, a white label toolkit and web runtime environment for Linux devices.

Muralplast

The company relaunched its website in October 2011, and includes NBS Plus, the National Building Specification toolkit, allowing architects and other specifiers planning construction or refurbishment projects to study the technical properties and test data available on the company’s products in order to confirm they meet required specifications.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.

Polyworld

It uses the Qt graphics toolkit and OpenGL to display a graphical environment in which a population of trapezoid agents search for food, mate, have offspring, and prey on each other.

Port 135

in computing — Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications

ResCarta Toolkit

Most recent versions of the ResCarta Toolkit also support the use of BroadCast WAV format with full text automatic audio transcription AAT based on CMU Sphinx for storage and access to oral histories and news casts.

Scedu Tender Readiness Toolkit

The Scedu Tender Readiness Toolkit differed from the likes of the DTI's 2003 report Public procurement: a toolkit for social enterprises, in that it offered a practical solution for social enterprises and voluntary and community organisations to assess their options, benchmark their current status, set development targets, and find contract opportunities.

Sprite Animation Toolkit

Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware games.

Symptom targeted intervention

STI was created in 2010 by licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) Melissa McCool to give clinicians a toolkit for helping depressed patients who cannot or will not seek outpatient psychotherapy.

The Coroner's Toolkit

The Coroner's Toolkit (or TCT) is a suite of computer security programs by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema.

Typesafe Inc.

It provides an Open source platform for building Reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language—with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Scala IDE for Eclipse.

UTF-16

UTF-16 is used by the Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the .NET environments; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit.


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