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 | 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 | Dec 4, 2018
OsmAnd is an open source map and navigation application that utilizes the free, worldwide and high-quality OpenStreetMap data. OsmAnd stands for OSM Automated Navigation Directions. OsmAnd has all the necessities you’d want from a map app: public transport, cycling...
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...
by Jerry Agbon | Jan 30, 2018
Apache OpenOffice is a free open source office suite that offers applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. OpenOffice is not web-based, and so it doesn’t offer any cloud options like LibreOffice. However, it remains a...
by Jerry Agbon | Jul 17, 2018
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do listing application. According to the developers, Joplin was specifically designed as a replacement for Evernote (which is a proprietary note-taking app). Therefore, Joplin is capable of importing complete Evernote...
by Jerry Agbon | Feb 16, 2017
Introduction 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 in...
by Jerry Agbon | May 8, 2018
Komodo Edit is an open source, free text editor for dynamic programming languages. Komodo Edit is a great editor if you’re looking for something powerful, yet simple. It features syntax highlighting for many Web-related scripting and markup languages. Komodo...