Open Source Pixels

Why leave a sinking ship? Is Nokia wobbling over its commitment to Windows? Or just stringing along the Symbian and Qt faithful? The cell-phone giant has published a lengthy open letter pleading with coders to keep building apps for phones running Symbian and Qt – at least in the short term.

Pacific timesheet significantly streamlines and reduces the cost of employee time and attendance tracking. Biometric time clocks and smart cards authenticate clock ins and clock outs. Dashboards allow real time attendance monitoring. It can track and report on employee attendance performance, and electronically integrate hours data with third party systems for payroll and accounting.

Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.

Release Tags: construction accounting software, crew timesheet

Tags: Time and Attendance, Timesheet, Time sheet, time tracking

Licenses: Free trial

jOOQ effectively combines complex SQL, type safety, source code generation, active records, stored procedures, advanced data types, and Java in a fluent, intuitive DSL.

Changes: This release consists mainly of code generation bugfixes and minor API improvements and enhancements. The most important improvement is ticket #90, by which lazy fetching and iteration over data is now supported. jOOQ lets you keep a reference to a Cursor that has an open JDBC ResultSet, to fetch data from on-the-fly. A few major code generation bugs were reported where the generated code may cause ambiguity due to an inconsistent API. This means that you will have to re-generate your schema after upgrading to version 1.5.6. Some of your code may not compile anymore after this upgrade.

Tags: SQL, DSL, UDT, code generation, stored procedures

Licenses: Apache 2.0

Remote Launcher is an easy-to-use tool that enables you to launch applications remotely on your PC via your Android device. It consists of an Android application (proprietary) and a small server program (GPLv2) for your PC. You can configure Remote Launcher to start any application on your PC with a single click on your Android device. For example, it can start your mediacenter, shutdown or restart the computer, or run a custom script. It has been tested on Ubuntu and Windows 7.

Changes: Improved error reporting and log handling.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Android, remote control

Licenses: Proprietary, GPLv2

phlyMail is a groupware, webmailer, and PIM. It offers unlimited nested groups, unlimited POP3/IMAP profiles, quotas, an integrated address book, a calendar with multiple reminders and event repetitions, a file manager, SMS support (which lets you send SMS, get reminded of events via SMS, and get email notification via SMS), a bookmark manager, themes, and multilingual support. It uses either sendmail or SMTP to send email, and can handle MIME and SSL connections. Support for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) is included. Through its modular design, it’s easy to add completely new features as modules, which can be plugged into the system.

Changes: This build fixes the issues found since the last release, namely a few SQL bugs and a bug in the WebDAV server.

Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Beta, Lite, MessageCenter

Tags: Communications, Email, Post-Office, POP3, Information Management, Email Clients (MUA), IMAP, groupware, Webmail, pim

Licenses: MPL

coords is a planetarium program. It’s still under
construction, but it does a good job of showing
the sky with stars and planets at the correct
positions.

Changes: Minor bugfixes.

Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Astronomy

Licenses: GPL

Rex is a tool to ease the execution of commands on multiple remote servers. You can define small tasks, chain tasks to batches, link them with servers or server groups, and execute them easily in your terminal.

Changes: 2 small fixes, one typo and one fix for the command line "-e" argument. A manpage has been added for rex.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Linux, Network, management, remote execution

Licenses: Perl, Artistic

Trojan scan is a simple shell script that allows
for simple but relatively effective checking for
trojans, rootkits and other malware that may be
using your server and network for unwanted (and
possibly illegal) purposes.

It works by listing all processes that use the
Internet with the lsof command (using -Pni flags).
This list is then transformed into signatures in
the form of process_name:port_number:user. These
signatures then are matched against the allowed
process defined in the configuration. If any
signatures of running processes are found that do
not match the allowed signatures, an email report
is sent including ps, ls, and optional lsof output.

Changes: This release renames all references as Trojan Scan. It adds a check for lsof output format on config generation.
It improves generation of configuration by using detected program paths. It adds a warning message on failure to find the required command.

Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Minor feature enhancements

Tags: Monitoring, Networking, Systems Administration, Utilities

Licenses: Apache 2.0

Magmi is a mass importer for the Magento e-commerce system. It is most useful when you need to import a big product catalog into Magento, even one with several millions of articles. Moreover, it has many capabilities concerning input data manipulation and an open and flexible plugin model for adding new capabilities.

Changes: This version is a "robustification" release. Many improvements have been made to avoid errors before they happen by enhancing environment detection. Many minor issues and UI bugs were also fixed. The Extra plugin package has also been updated. This becomes the recommended magmi release.

Tags: magento, e-commerce

Licenses: MIT

Window Switch is a tool that allows you to move applications between networked computers. The windows appear where you need them, as they were.
You no longer need to save and send documents to move them around; simply move the view of the application to the machine where you need it.

Changes: Although this is mostly a bugfix release, it offers a number of significant improvements. To name a few: the ability to open files on remote servers (without using SFTP), Xpra JPEG mode has been fixed on MS Windows, better detection for stale connections, the ability to easily restrict remote commands, documentation updates, man pages, a –help page for commands, tray icon animation, easier seamless integration into .desktop files, and the ability to retry failed connections. There are some bugfixes and cleanups. Packages are available for all major platforms, from OS X PowerPC to Fedora Rawhide.

Release Tags: Stable, recommended

Tags: Networking, virtual desktop, VNC, Xpra, NX, rdp

Licenses: GPL v3