by Jerry Agbon | May 18, 2017
This monthly newsletter focuses on the various open source projects going on in the world, calling attention to a different open source project each month. Our objective at Alt Choice Tech Advisers is to increase exposure to these open source projects to the business...
by Jerry Agbon | Jan 23, 2018
Calligra Suite is a free open source office suite by KDE. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics and digital painting. Calligra is mainly created for the KDE desktop manager, but it will work in Gnome and...
by Jerry Agbon | May 15, 2018
Pinta is a free, open source drawing and photo-editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple, yet powerful, way to draw and manipulate images. Pinta uses easy drawing tools to draw freehand, or create lines, rectangles, ellipses...
by Jerry Agbon | Mar 28, 2017 | ACTa blog
12+1 Reasons Why Open Source is Better for Business Enterprises, cost savings, source code that could be inspected, modified and enhanced by you without the fear of legal violation.
by Jerry Agbon | Mar 20, 2018
RawTherapee is a free, open source RAW picture converter and digital photo processing software. RAW files enable a broad scale of possibilities for tweaking your images, as they have the full range of the captured information available from your camera. RawTherapee...
by Jerry Agbon | Jan 9, 2018
Brave Web Browser is a free open source web browser that is fast and secure. It comes with a built-in ad blocker, tracking and security protection, and an optimized data and battery experience. Brave is an adventurous attempt at a new web browser, one which focuses on...
by Jerry Agbon | Mar 14, 2017
MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It’s an Open Source painting application that is a nimble, distraction-free, and easy tool for digital painters. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom and many similar devices. The...
by Jerry Agbon | Oct 2, 2018
SoftEther VPN (“SoftEther” means “Software Ethernet”) is a free and open source alternative VPN platform. The SoftEther VPN protocol is also referred to as SSL-VPN. This is because it is based on HTTPS and therefore uses SSL/TLS encryption and TCP...
by Jerry Agbon | Dec 19, 2017
Cryptomator is a free, open source, client-side encryption for your cloud files. Cryptomator lets you make encrypted versions of folders and files suitable for storage in the cloud, so that services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, OneDrive and others are not...
by Jerry Agbon | Nov 21, 2017
Rock.Chat is an open source, free-to-deploy Slack alternative for team collaborations and communications. Rocket.Chat is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking to build and evolve their...