We need your help to keep Simple Invoice alive!

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Hi Guys,

To help kickstart active development of Simple Invoices (which hasn't had a major release in over 2 years) Justin Kelly (Founder) and Matt West (SI project admin) need to raise some cash to support continual development.

We are looking to raise money through monthly subscriptions from SimpleInvoices supporters.

We really want to keep Simple Invoices alive and make it even more awesome – we hope you do to. With your support we can make this happen!

Why are we looking for financial contributions?

  • Both Matt and Justin are passionate Simple Invoices developers but are crazy busy with work, families, and commercial web development. Your contributions would go to ensuring that we can work on Simple Invoices and still pay the bills every month.
  • To make SimpleInvoices even more awesome we need dedicated developers curating, developing, leading and supporting SimpleInvoices. Your contributions would allow us to dedicate more time to Simple Invoices to turn it into the fantastic product it has the potential to be.
  • We can provide the support, stewardship and development SimpleInvoices needs but require a little finance to make it a reality.
  • Simple Invoices has been downloaded well over 150,000 times, thousands of support requests on the forum and countless emails have been answered

Matt and Justin will each commit a minimum number of hours per month dedicated to SimpleInvoices. The more subscriptions we can raise, the more hours we can commit. If we can get a decent amount of support by 1st August 2012 we'll send out subscription info and make this happen!!

What do you get?

  • A commitment from Matt and Justin to active develop Simple Invoices
    • We'll push out monthly releases
    • Dedicated hours to answering all support requests on the fourm
    • Doing a monthly blog posts with all news and updates
  • $5 gets you name on our subscribers page and in the SimpleInvoices credits
  • $20 gets your name and link to your site on our subscribers pages and in the SimpleInvoices credits
  • $100 get your name / company logo and link on the front page of SimpleInvoices.org (15K uniques per month) and all of the above

Right now its do or die time for SimpleInvoices

Lend a hand and sign up at the support page to keep SimpleInvoice alive!

Cheers

Justin


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Inside Googles amazing Accessory Development Kit demo hardware video — Engadget

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Inside Googles amazing Accessory Development Kit demo hardware video — Engadget.

 The coolest thing at Google I/O this year isn’t a cheap tablet or a pair of overpriced glasses or even akiller keyboard. It is, believe it or not, an alarm clock. But not just any alarm clock — this is an alarm clock with potential. What you see above, and demonstrated in the video after the break, is the gadget that was handed out to attendees who went to learn about the Android Accessory Development Kit. It has an array of RGB LEDs on the front which it can use to display simple numerals and digits, but thanks to a bevy of sensors — and plenty of connectivity options — that’s just the beginning. USB? Check. NFC? Definitely. Accelerometer, colorimeter, magnetometer, barometer, hygrometer, thermometer? Yes, all that and more

Embrace big data now or fall behind the competition, analyst warns

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Embrace big data now or fall behind the competition, analyst warns.

BOSTON — Companies that fail to take advantage of the opportunities presented by“big data” management and analytics technologies can expect to fall behind the competition and possibly go out of business altogether, according to one IT industry analyst who spoke Tuesday at the Talend Connect conference.

The world is just getting started with big data technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce, and several obstacles – such as a dearth of skills and old-fashioned thinking about data — continue to stand in the way of their adoption, said Jeff Kelly, a principal research contributor at Wikibon.org and a contributing editor at SiliconANGLE.

VMware launches Project Serengeti to make Hadoop virtual-aware | ZDNet

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VMware launches Project Serengeti to make Hadoop virtual-aware | ZDNet.

VMware launches Project Serengeti to make Hadoop virtual-aware

By Paula Rooney | June 13, 2012, 5:25am PDT

VMware is on the open source move again, this time launching a new project called “Serengeti” aimed at enabling enterprises to quickly “deploy, manage and scale” Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments.

The project is available on GitHub as a “one-click” toolkit under an Apache 2.0 license. VMWare is also offering a version compiled as a binary in a virtual appliance that can run on vSphere.

VMware worked with Cloudera, Greenplum, HortonWorks and MapR to develop the code, which will help automate the deployment of Hadoop workloads on virtual infrastructure, VMware said.

In addition to its latest open source project, VMware said it will contribute extensions to Apache Hadoop that make components more virtualization aware, which will better support scalability and performance in virtual environments, the company said.

VMware also announced an update to another existing open source project known as Spring for Apache Hadoop.

The project, which debuted in February, makes it easier for developers to build distributed applications with Hadoop. The updates allow for integration with HBase databases, Cascading and Hadoop security. It is also available under an Apache 2.0 license.

Browse Like Bond: Use Any Computer Without Leaving a Trace with Tails

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Browse Like Bond: Use Any Computer Without Leaving a Trace with Tails

If James Bond logs on to a computer, he doesn’t want to leave a bunch of files, cookies, or his IP address out there for someone to find. It might seem extreme, but sometimes it’s a good idea to take the same precautions yourself.

In this post, we’ll walk through how to use a USB stick or DVD to anonymize, encrypt, and hide everything you do on a computer no matter where you are. When we say “browse without leaving a trace”, we truly mean it. Using the Linux-based, live-boot operating system Tails (The Amnesiac Incognito Live System), you can use any computer anywhere without anyone knowing you were ever on it. Tails is a portable operating system with all the security bells and whistles you’ll ever need already installed on it. You can install Tails on one of your many dust-gathering USB drives or a DVD. We’ll show you how to set up your own portable boot disc in the second section, but let’s start by taking a look at what you get with Tails.

via Browse Like Bond: Use Any Computer Without Leaving a Trace with Tails.

New Usability Project

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Since 2006 we’ve been improving GIMP’s user interface with help from Peter Sikking and his team at man + machine interface works. Some of the best improvements in GIMP’s UI over past several years are the direct result of our collaboration.

We are happy to announce that for the next 10 weeks Marinus Schraal is joining Peter Sikking to work on a concept of a new widget set for tools’ options in GIMP. The net outcome will be a functional spec for new UI elements that will be compact and easy to use.

By the way, recently Peter did another GIMP related interaction design course at the FH Vorarlberg, Austria. His students worked on possible new user interfaces for Liquid Rescale plug-in that implements content-aware scaling.

High Bit Depth Processing Available Now

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Today at Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 in Vienna we announced that the development version of GIMP is now capable of processing images in 16bit and 32bit modes, integer or float at your preference.

Transformation, painting and color adjustment tools will just work in higher bit depth precision modes. More than that, GIMP can load and save 16bit PNG images and save EXR and HDR files now. We also improved support for indexed images, so that you could finally paint over them with the Smudge tool or apply filters.

There is still a lot of work left to do, and this is a great chance for potential contributors to step up and begin improving the application. Low-hanging fruits include porting of file loaders and savers, filters and other small bits of GIMP that don’t require a lot of familiarity with the internal structure. Please contact us in the gimp-developer mailing list.

Decision on the final feature set in 2.10 is yet to be made, no time-based schedule is available either. However we fully intend to make development cycles much shorter.