Open Source Pixels

A security issue has been identified in the tool used by the Fedora Project
to create cloud images. “Images generated by this tool, including
Fedora Project “official” AMIs (Amazon Machine Images), AMIs whose heritage
can be traced to official Fedora AMIs, as well as some images using the AMI
format in non-Amazon clouds, are affected, as described below.” The
flaw has been assigned CVE-2013-2069.

Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died on May 18. “The Debian Project honours Ray’s great work and his strong dedication to
Debian and Free Software. His technical knowledge and his ability to
share that knowledge with others will be missed. His contributions will
not be forgotten, and the high standards of his work will continue to
serve as an inspiration to others.“

Linpus Lite is one of those distributions that I’ve always hoped will be done right, considering that it is published by a commercial entity. However, with every release, it manages to fail in taking care of the little things that matter. Almost every desktop distribution suffers from the same problem. They get the big picture, but then it comes to delivering sane and sensible defaults and implementing features that a modern OS should have, they miss the mark.

downcount is a very simple timer that displays a countdown (or up). It can display with no window decoration for a cleaner look.

Release Notes: This initial release has the ability to count down or up from a given starting time.

Tags: timer, PyGTK, countdown, stopwatch

Licenses: GPLv2

Aspose.Pdf.Kit is a Java component for manipulating PDF documents. It supports filling of XFA fields, the creation o PDF document links, font styles, modifying AcroForm, extracting and adding Images and text, retrieving and modifying meta information, encrypting or decrypting PDF files, adding watermarks or logos, appending pages, and converting a PDF file to a single TIFF or XML file.

Release Notes: Conversion of PDF to TIFF format was improved with greater fidelity. The ability to control the appearance of empty signature PDF form fields was added. The PdfFileMend and PdfFiledEditor classes were also improved.

Release Tags: PDF to TIFF conversion, Convert Pdf to Image, signature on PDF form fields, importing XML data to Pdf template, Control Signature Appearance on PDF

Tags: PDF

Licenses: Proprietary

Vendetta Online is a multi-platform 3D space-combat MMO for Windows, Mac, Linux/32 and Linux/64. The game permits players to interact in a vast online galaxy; fighting, trading, and mining their way to success. A "twitch" type real-time combat model makes true player skill the deciding factor instead of character advancement. Massive capital-ship battles shake the foundations of the major nations at war, while others struggle to push back the encroachment of the AI "Hives". A no-strings free trial is available.

Release Notes: Conquerable Station defense-turret armor was reduced from 450k to 90k, making conquest an easier prospect. Game controller support for Android (including Ouya) was improved. A 'virtual mouse' that is controlled by the left stick with 'A' being the 'left mouse button' was implemented. Any other button will cancel the virtual mouse. Game controllers can now be connected to an Android device while the game is running, and the controller will be automatically detected when any of the analog controls on the controller are moved. Native support for game controller HID devices was added, but this requires an APK update.

Tags: Games/Entertainment, First Person Shooters, Arcade, Role-Playing, Internet, Linux, Mac OS X, MMO

Licenses: Non-free, Trialware

Fanurio is a time tracking and billing application
designed to help freelancers manage their work and
be paid for it. You can organize your work per
client using projects, mark invoices as paid and
track the overdue ones, mark your work as billable
(flat rate, hourly rate) or non-billable, create
partial invoices at any time during the project,
create invoices for single or multiple projects,
customize invoice templates using your own
layouts, import clients from other applications by
means of a CSV file, export data to a CSV or Excel
file, and create backup copies of your data.

Release Notes: Failures to start with Java 5 and if global hotkeys were enabled were fixed. An issue where time entry descriptions were not available when displaying them grouped by date in the invoice template was fixed. The template editor now correctly saves templates containing Freemarker code. The dialog used to create and edit new Timesheet Import configurations is now scrollable so it can fit on any screen. Issues with Java 7 on Mac OS X were fixed along with Windows 8 problems. On Linux, xdg-open is now used instead of gnome-open to open files, folders, and URLs.

Release Tags: Bug fixes

Tags: Office/Business, Financial, Accounting

Rise of the Ravager offers classic arcade action reminiscent of a fast action Missile Command while players blast descending waves of coloured enemies that can only be annihilated by a matching colour bullet (in a similar fashion to Guitar Hero or Ikaruga). Seek the favour of the Old Ones to prevent an ancient god’s avatar from rising, signalling the End of Times.

LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL3 is a set of additional demosaic and noise reduction algorithms for LibRaw. These algorithms include AMaZE demosaic and color aberrations correction by Emil Martinec.

Release Notes: Incorrect data maximum calculations for Panasonic files were fixed. A possible buffer overrun in exposure correction code is now checked.

Release Tags: Release

Tags: Image Processing, Digital Camera, digital photo

Licenses: GPLv3

LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 is a set of additional demosaic and noise reduction algorithms for LibRaw. These algorithms include AFD, LMMSE by Manuel Llorens, VCD, modified VCD, AHD+VCD, and two advanced median filters by Paul Lee.

Release Notes: Incorrect data maximum calculations for Panasonic files were fixed. A possible buffer overrun in exposure correction code is now checked.

Release Tags: Release

Tags: Image Processing, Digital Camera, digital photo

Licenses: GPLv2