by Jerry Agbon | Sep 5, 2017
SearX, is an open source, hackable metasearch engine which aggregate’s the results of other search engines, while also declining to store information about its users. SearX, created by Adam Tauber, is inspired by the seeks project. It provides basic privacy by mixing...
by Jerry Agbon | Nov 15, 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 the exposure of these projects in the business...
by Jerry Agbon | Aug 8, 2017
Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document...
by Jerry Agbon | Jul 24, 2018
Zulip is a free, open source group chat application that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip combines the immediacy of Slack with an email threading model. This characteristic set it apart from all...
by Jerry Agbon | Dec 20, 2016
Pencil2D is an Open Source 2D animation/drawing application that is used for the creation of traditional hand-drawn animation using both vector and bitmap graphics. Pencil2D is lightweight and easy to use, allowing you to focus on animating and not what button to hit...
by Jerry Agbon | Jun 13, 2017
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail, news and instant messaging client. Thunderbird lets you manage multiple POP and IMAP (as well as select OAuth 2) email accounts, and it also reads RSS feeds. It also features excellent mail-filter capabilities...
by Jerry Agbon | Apr 23, 2019
BitTube is a decentralized blockchain project that aims to replace YouTube with its ad-free, cryptocurrency-powered video platform. BitTube platform does away with centralized storage, and also remove the need for advertising to generate revenue. Instead, content...
by Jerry Agbon | Aug 14, 2018
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is a great free alternative to costly audio editors. You could use it to make your own recordings, remove noise, cut and combine audio clips, apply special effects and much more. It can...
by Jerry Agbon | Mar 6, 2017
Tutanota is a free and open source web-mail client that focuses on privacy. It currently has an Android and iOS app, and offers easy end-to-end encryption. Tutanota provides end-to-end encryption, so email stored on Tutanota’s servers is encrypted and cannot be...
by Jerry Agbon | Jul 31, 2018
K-9 Mail is a free open source email client for the Android operating system.
It supports both POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, as well as IMAP IDLE for real-time notifications, Exchange (with WebDAV) support, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP,...