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A hierarchical Web-based task manager with polished multi-user support

February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Tasks Pro is a Web-based hierarchical task manager with polished multi-user functionality. Features include advanced user and task permissions, email notifications and reminders, RSS feeds and iCalendars for all users and groups, full localization support, and a rich, powerful interface that is a pleasure to use. This release includes some often requested features and fixes reported bugs. You can now track how long tasks take and if a task is billable or not. You can also attach files to tasks. Each task now has an RSS feed and an iCalendar so you can track and view specific projects.

 

This release also allows you to add unlimited URLs to a task or note instead of just three. This release fixes a few bugs and adds PHP iCalendar 1.1 and a German translation. Sorting the search results list works again, slashes are stripped properly when marking a task with sub-tasks complete, and a bug in the URL upgrade script was fixed. This release adds a number of bugfixes, including ones for better handling of special characters in the iCalendars, a bug in the timer that appeared if you had a server time offset, and a workaround for a change in MySQL 4.1. The “Today” button for Date Due now respects the time difference set in your preferences.

 

It’s now possible to post to a Drupal blog. There’s now a link to the documentation in the sidebar. The field type in the files table has changed to allow for bigger files to be stored properly. A bug in PHP 4.1.2 that was interfering with the logout page has been worked around. There are additional file size checks for file upload. A Javascript bug that occurred on the Edit screen when there were groups in the system but the user was not in any groups has been fixed. The ‘Add files’ button and ‘Remove file’ icon only show up when the user has the proper permissions.

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A GNOME Web browser

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Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant. This is the first unstable development release of Galeon based on GNOME 2 libraries and GTK2 Mozilla. It’s a development version and may not work as expected. It may crash and even damage other data. Testing and bug reporting is encouraged, and patches welcome. Back up the .galeon directory before first use. The Mozilla GTK2 port is still incomplete, and a patch needs to be applied. Galeon 1.3.0 has been a nearly complete rewrite. Many features have been retained, some have been dropped, some will be put back in the future, and a few have been added.

 

This release works with Mozilla 1.2.x and trunk. Compatability symbols have been added so that plugins compiled with gcc 2.x will work even if the program was compiled with gcc 3.x. Proxy preferences have been moved to the GNOME control center (control center version 2.1.2 or later is required). Right mouse button gestures are now actually usable, FTP browsing works again, and the “New” toolbar button has been restored. Tab detaching and dragging between windows has been added. Saving and restoring the GNOME session works again, as well as the ability to choose helper applications. Many more bugfixes are included.

 

This release works with Mozilla 1.3a, 1.3b and trunk. Context menus for Back/Up/Forward buttons as well as bookmarks menu items are back, as well as a native cookie dialog. There are bookmark editor improvements, a nice disclosure widget from gnome-media, context menu fixes, better handling of non-western on-disk filename encoding, updated default bookmarks, and a redesigned MyPortal. Configure now reads the Mozilla version from the pkgconfig files. There are many bugfixes, API streamlining, and sanity improvements.

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A Web-based video motion capture and analysis suite

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ZoneMinder is a set of applications which support capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to a Linux system. It features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder is built around the definition of a set of individual ‘zones’ of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera.

 

This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface. This is a beta release featuring improved performance of video capture and analysis as well as more reactive Web scripts, new features including easier event management with configurable filtering, automatic FTP uploading of selected events, X10 functionality to allow interfacing to Home Automation or burglar alarm systems, and much more.

 

Process management has been improved with automatic daemon monitoring and watchdogging. Configuration and installation has a substantially improved more logical file structure. All known bugs are fixed. This release has the following enhancements as well as a number of bugfixes. You can now create alarm filters to email you a long or short format message. Both message types are fully configurable in terms of when they are sent and what they contain. Much improved configuration and more stable and reliable functioning in general and video configuration specifically.

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Linux distribution supporting all major connectivity protocols

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Thinstation is a mini-Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured, diskless thin clients supporting all major connectivity protocols like Ica, Windows terminal services, X, telnet, ssh, etc. It can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The configuration is centralized to simplify terminal management.

 

A recompile to include i386 support, changes to some symbolic links, and a fix for a problem with a license appearing regardless. This release adds samba-server and samba-client packages, a patch to allow the X server to be started with an XDMCP indirect query, the ability to get thinstation-HOSTNAME.conf as a config file, used in conjunction with thinstation.hosts to simplify custom hosts configuration, the ability to select which nsp-package to build directly inside build.conf, and an lpr package which can be used with samba for printing locally. UPX is now used to compact all executables, to reduce the overall footprint.

 

Refined Samba support, new “group” configuration files for better handling of large groups of thinclients, a new sv keymap package, and other minor changes. This version updates to XFree 4.3 and ICA 7.0, increases the max size of the NBI image that can be created to 16 Mb, reworks the USB packages, so there is a usb-hid, usb-printer, usb-storage, and usb-base, adds a kernel that now supports usb-storage devices, updates to busybox 0.61 beta, reworks the modules, which are now using modules.dep and depmod, and moves out the sound modules into a separate config.

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A secure, Web-based control panel for Web hosting clients

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The Account Services Manager allows Web hosting companies to easily automate the time consuming tasks of managing mail, FTP accounts, and more by giving the power to individual clients via a Web-based interface. Changes were made to the mail admin module and a new custom error documents module was added. A new custom Web server to make the software more portable, a brand new subdomains module which avoids the use of SQL altogether and instead parses httpd.conf, and lots of bugfixes.

 

This version includes a fix for the Web server so it doesn’t lock up after receiving lots of output, and the command prompt now displays output correctly. Modules are organized into categories, the main index page shows a list of modules sorted by category, admin tools were converted to Perl, the entire system now runs with Perl’s warning mode enabled, and restrictions were added to the Web server to prevent DoS attacks. The Account Services Manager is no longer dependent on inetd/xinetd/tcpserver and uses a master daemon process to control all aspects of the account management system.

 

Several bugs have been fixed, and two new themes were added along with a new Directory Index module and module icons. A theme selector has been added, modules.conf has been deprecated, and module configuration has been moved to the modules directory. A new Web stats module was added, and all of the major bugs were fixed. An administration panel has been added, as well as a new integrated help system. The installer has been revised, and several bugs were fixed. Complete Perl 5.8 support, integrated SSL support, a cron job editor, and other new features.

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Graph drawing utilities with web and graphical interfaces

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Graphviz is a set of graph drawing tools and libraries. It supports hierarchical and mass-spring drawings; although the tools are scalable, their emphasis is on making very good drawings of reasonably-sized graphs. Package components include batch layout filters and interactive editors for X11, Java, and a TCL/tk extension. The batch filters can be configured as a web visualization service (using GIF and click-maps). A generic ActiveX client-server component is a recent addition to this package.

 

Typical applications include display of finite state machines, software diagrams, database schemas, and communication networks. This package contains the layout commands dot, neato, and twopi, the interactive tools lefty, dotty, lneato, tcldot, and gpr, and the graph stream processors gpr, ccomps, colorize, gc, nop, prune, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. The Java graph display client is named Grappa and is available as a separate package. This release adds circo layout, printing, live zooming, and error checking during rendering. It fixes large zooms causing some graphs to disappear, initial blank lines causing the graph to render very small, the scale stepper not working, the help menu reading “NewApplication”, and the activity window not updating color.

 

The graph display has been sped up. The activity window display has been improved. A problem in which bitmaps sometimes were exported as text files, a slowdown in non-Quicktime formats for v14, and a problem in which relative shapefiles did not resolve through the GUI were fixed. The viewport debug messages and non-functioning pages menu were removed. Integration with external editors was improved. The download size was reduced. This release tracks the main build of 12 August.

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MySQL/browser-based frontend for managing Apache Web servers

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MysqlApache is a MySQL/browser based frontend for managing large numbers of Apache Web servers (each of more than a 1000 virtual and IP-based Web sites). It is part of the OpenISP project and works with mysqlBind. This release allows configuration of name-based and IP-based sites. This is the first functional release, with an improved installer and some documentation.

 

The root crontab job queue processing is working, as is Webalizer, Frontpage, and MySQL enabling for sites. UserDir is supported for automated ISP “~user” style homepages. Many new commented templates were added for Apache 1.3 and 2. docs/tutorial.html was greatly expanded. Internal release 1.32 was tested and packaged for this major release. Schema changes for new hits, byte traffic, and HD storage data collection. Includes a new traffic.c for this purpose. This release also includes a 1.41 bugfix site-only release. The tUsage table schema and traffic.c usage and traffic gathering system have been completely changed.

 

A sequential database-driven Webalize (or analog) command line function has been added. Email and FTP traffic data collection per-site and per-site-user(s) have been added. Possible site MySQL database HD usage has been added to the automated usage collection system. The site ownership system has been changed to conform with the optional mysqlISP WAN ISP management system. New files have been added to the basic new Web site template tar. Deleted site and site users id have been fixed to match the original. Command line read-only archiving of usage data has been added. tUsageMonth has been added to manage large data-set warehousing of monthly usage stats.

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A PHP Web counter on steroids

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BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids, which displays individual logs as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats, except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date, referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist.

 

Countries are now detected. BBclone may now be installed anywhere on your Web site. Relative and absolute paths are now supported in bbclone.conf. All GIF images have been converted into PNG images. Detection of OSes and browsers is completely rewritten and many browsers/OSes have been added to the detection list (AIX, BSD, IRIX, Windows 2000 & XP). Web robots (like Googlebot, Inktomi, etc.) are supported (icon is the HAL’s eye), several bugs are fixed, and the installation is more portable.

 

Counting reloadings even after the rebuildings of the stats page, counting browsers, countries, and OS once at the first visit, storing counted stats in a PHP file that any user can use in his own PHP pages, displaying the last connections with a green background color, use of a config file in PHP, viewing the configuration file through showconf.php, respect for the W3C conventions in all pages, fixes for various bugs in the installation script, a reloading icon in the top-left corner of bbclone.html, and visualization of any “other” country/OS via other.php.

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A unique email client that works through a Web browser

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Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages. There are bugfixes in IMAP folder selection, SMTP importing, and SSL. Lucene compound indices have been enhanced. A system status bar and a system preference pane have been added.

 

This release fixes an annoying (but harmless) warning about file descriptor synchronization, the URL paths for the assistants under the configuration page, the “cwd” command in the built-in FTP server, and a decoding issue with attachments. It enhances the port number semantic of ZOE’s services; a port numbered 0 will disable a service altogether. This applies to SMTP, POP, FTP, QOTD, RPC, and HTTP. It enhances Zeroconf’s DNS Service Discovery in a dynamic TCP/IP environment. It features gratuitous smileys support.

 

This release fixes an issue with picons images display. It also provides a more extensive handling of “rogue emails” (mail bombs). A new extensions mechanism for third parties was introduced. This release fixes a display glitch on some platforms. It also provides a workaround to properly display a message source on some platforms. This release fixes the built-in POP server to properly “byte-stuff” multi-line responses. Support for Zeroconf’s DNS Service Discovery (a.k.a. Rendezvous) was also updated.

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