WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little striped fish has helped scientists begin to solve one of the biggest mysteries in biology -- which genes are responsible for differences in human skin, eye and hair color.

OXFORD, MS (MARKET WIRE) Modern Technology Corp (OTC BB: MOTG), a diversified technology development and acquisition company, announced today it has entered into an agreement with four institutional investors, who shall provide MOTG with $700,000 in financing through the sale

Pre Make Kit (PMK) aims to be a BSD alternative to GNU autoconf, GNU libtool, and pkg-config. It uses data files instead of scripts to limit the spreading of trojans in software packages. It's designed to be easy to use

Brim is a Web based information manager which manages bookmarks, agenda/calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, passwords, collections, and more. Brim is based on an MVC framework that uses items with a potential hierarchical relation as its base. It supports multiple themes,

HelpSetMaker allows creation and maintenance of help documents. It is especially tailored to the needs of the JavaHelp online help system for Java programs. Help texts are written in a very simple descriptive language, and the resulting documents are immediately

GnuDialer is a predictive dialer for contact centers. GnuDialer currently supports inbound, outbound, open/closer, and auto campaigns. It has a multi-process object oriented design and uses the Asterisk PBX. Gnudialer is separate from any agent interface or CRM, but does

naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and

BarracudaDrive is a secure, multi-user, Web-based file manager which eliminates the need for FTP access. BarracudaDrive allows the user to upload, download, and manage files securely on a home computer from anywhere in the world. BarracudaDrive also bypasses firewalls and

DirIndexFaker is a PHP script designed to produce fake Apache directory listings for the purpose of slowing down and overloading with false positives the Web spiders used by the RIAA, MPAA, etc. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This

Stream-2-Stream (abbreviated "s2s" or "S2S") allows anyone with a normal broadband connection to set up their own Internet television or radio station. Stations have no user limit, and can be set up without paying a fortune for bandwidth. Stream-2-Stream saves

JavaSVN is a pure Java Subversion (SVN) client library. This means that users of the library (i.e. Java applications) do not have to include svn native binaries or javahl bindings to work with subversion repositories. It is not only a

GPlot provides a convenient front-end for gnuplot. It accepts a large set of options to generate a single plot of one or more sets of data (overlaid as necessary). This adds no new functionality to gnuplot, but rather makes it

The Noble Ape Simulation creates a random environment and simulates the ape inhabitants' cognitive processes. It features the Ocelot landscape rendering engine. License: OSI Approved Changes: Optimizations to the weather simulation and increased modularization of ApeScript.

EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, and Monkey's Audio files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: You can force the saving

Java VideoLan Client Binding lets you use the VideoLan multimedia player in any Java software. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Code cleanups and some bugfixes. Initial Mediacontrol integration.

SPIP is an open-source, free publication system on the Internet, mainly targeted at individuals, informal groups, and non-profit organizations. It allows contributive writing and managing of Web sites having a magazine-like structure (i.e., articles and short stories contained in nested

The ATA over Ethernet Tools are intended for use in conjunction with an ATA over Ethernet (AoE) driver for a Linux 2.6 kernel. They perform simple tasks like listing available devices, triggering device discovery, and restricting the network interfaces on

JDraw is a pixel-oriented image editor designed especially for small to medium-sized pictures used to decorate Web pages. It is entirely written in Java, easy to use, and saves (animated) GIFs, JPEGs, ICOs, and PNGs. License: GNU General Public License

OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students password-protected access to them. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Due to an incompatibility