Microsoft Planner is a planning application for creating Kanban boards. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Author: Steve Emms
Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool
AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games
Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility
Apple Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Saving Money with Linux: Gaming
Gaming is often synonymous with guzzling electricity. We explore ways to minimise your energy footprint while still having great fun.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2022 Updates
October 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Double, double toil and trouble – NVIDIA drivers
This is a personal post mostly representing anecdotal information sharing my personal experience with the ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card tested exclusively under Ubuntu 22.10.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Excellent Utilities: Imagine – image optimization
Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface.
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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules
kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PDF Document Writer
Corel PDF Document Writer lets users convert documents, emails, images and other file types into a PDF for viewing and sharing. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Linux Candy: No More Secrets – data decryption effects
No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Terminal
Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility
GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Stocks
Apple Stocks is software which lets you view stock quotes, interactive historical data charts and current breaking business news. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Best Free and Open Source Software – September 2022 Updates
September 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager
CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Photo Booth
Photo Booth is a software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Saving Money with Linux: Computer Off, No Power Usage?
We often see statements such as “If something doesn’t need to be on, switch it off at the wall or unplug it”. How relevant is that statement for a computer?
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