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Events – adaptive calendar app for GNOME and Phosh

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Events (previously known as Karlender) is a mobile-friendly calendar app. It uses libadwaita and can access Calendars using CalDAV.

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Mastodon

6 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Mastodon Clients

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.

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Files

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Finder

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell for OS X. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Paint

June 21, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Desktop Environments

DDE Dock – dock of Deepin Desktop Environment

June 21, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

DDE Dock is the dock of Deepin Desktop Environment. The new Dock consists of the traditional Dock and Tray (system level and program level).

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Backup software

rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Mastodon

Gomphotherium – command line Mastodon client

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Gomphotherium is a command line Mastodon client.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.1

ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.1 released: Meet a full-featured PDF editor, Slide Master in presentations, better RTL support and other improvements

June 19, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

The developers of the open-source office suite ONLYOFFICE Docs released version 8.1.

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Desktop Environments

xpybar – highly extensible minimalistic dock panel

June 19, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

xpybar is a minimalistic dock panel. Its source code is designed so that all parts of it can be replaced by a configuration script.

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Desktop Environments

Crystal Dock – dock (desktop panel) for the Linux desktop

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.

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Music

7 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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File Managers

UPDATED: Samba Permissions and HiFile

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Tutorials

We’ve received many queries in our mailbox about HiFile and problems with PDFs.

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Backup software

luckyBackup – backup & sync tool

June 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It’s free and open source software.

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Remote Display

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Chrome Remote Desktop

June 15, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Google Chrome Remote Desktop is a remote desktop software tool that allows a user to remotely control another computer’s desktop.

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Data Science

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Charts

June 14, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

Google Charts lets users visualize data on their website. It offers a wide range of ready-to-use chart types.

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Feedback

8 Best Free and Open Source Survey Tools

June 14, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

The software featured here lets you build fully-customizable surveys, forms and quizzes.

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Big Data

14 Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data

June 14, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

This article recommends the best free and open source software key value stores for Big Data.

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Flying robot

Brisk – fast, multithreaded, cross-platform download manager

June 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Brisk is billed as a fast, multithreaded, cross-platform download manager with support for browser integration.

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Big Data

Garnet – remote cache-store

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Garnet is a high-performance cache-store offering strong performance, scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, and more.

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Backup software

syncBackup – backup and mirror your drives

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

syncBackup is software which lets you backup and mirror your drives. It’s a front-end for the hugely popular rsync utility.

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