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data analysis

Makhber: An Open-source data visualization and analysis package

Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data for Windows, Linux and macOS

Open-source

10 Greatest Open-Source Email clients for macOS

An email client software is as its name implies; A way of retrieving your mail from your provider's servers and downloads it to your computer's hard drive; Once the client has retrieved your email, you can read it at your convenience and continue to access it

Open-source

17 Best Open-Source free 3D Printing Software of 2023 (Updated)

The Best 17 open-source 3D printing software for novice and professionals.

Applications

22 Best Open-source 2D/ 3D Design Applications for Kids and Teens

Computer drawing and design are some basic and easy skills that can be taught to children through many free programs and applications. Many of these programs are easy and can be used to teach children to draw and design. Drawing is an important skill for children because of its ability

Obsidian Turns your markdown files into interactive Knowledge base

Nowadays, developers, writers, bloggers and business specialists use Markdown as a standard format for their daily writing.   Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax focuses on usability, productivity and does not require a rich-text editor.  It was created first by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004. Many users have

Open-source

Best 10 Free, Open-source cashier and PoS (Point-of-Sale) software for 2024 (Updated)

Cashier software or point of sales software (POS), two different names for the same software which helps store owners keep tracks of their sales. POS systems are increasingly in use, particularly for any small business, owner-retail, or services which is used to track and process numerous purchases. Switching to a

Tutorials

Install Meteor on Apple M1

As I have been developing with Meteor for years, It was the first thing I usually install on my machine soon as I install the system which is usually Linux. On my new Apple M1, Meteor has a priority as well, but it needs a little trick. How to install

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Plaid: Your personal productive open-source JIRA worklog editor

Struggling to keep your personal productivity workflow with Jira? You don't have to worry about that with this wonderful open-source tool that allows you to edit your JIRA worklog. But first let us talk about Jira. Jira is a software package by Atlassian Corp. built for software development

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Inventory Manager: Free open-source warehouse manager

Inventory Manager is a simple free inventory and stock manager for small and medium-size companies. It features several stock management tools which include asset tracking, advanced search, barcode/QR code scanner support and invoice manager. It's built by the same developers who created Pharmacy Manager which we reviewed

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Taskline: manage your tasks with style

If you are a digital minimalist, you are most likely using or at least tried Taskwarrior; a command-line minimal yet features-rich to-do app. Taskline is a new stylish successor for Taskwarrior with less complicated learning curve. Taskline turns your terminal into a powerful task management tool without a hustle. Unlike

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Sleek: A simple To-do app that makes use of todo.txt file format

Todo.txt is a small yet a useful way to organize to-dos in one readable text file. It's popular among developers, software engineers, DevOps and nerdy Linux/ Unix users. Any text editor or IDE can be used to create, manage and update the todo.txt files. I use

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SpeedCrunch: A classy features-rich keyboard-driven calculator for scientists and enthusiasts

I have been never a fan of classical calculators user-interface, therefor I am always looking for and using command-line calculators. SpeedCrunch is a lightweight calculator program without the traditional calculator buttons, It provides a simple powerful interface which make a use of the keyboard, mathematical terms and shortcuts and display

data analysis

JASP: A Less Complicated Free Open-source SPSS Alternative for Advanced Statistics

Some time ago, We published an article listing all available open-source free  SPSS alternatives, today we will focus on one of that list's lead "JASP". 12 Free Open source Statistical Analysis software as SPSS alternativesSPSS is a proprietary statistical analysis software acquired by IBM in 2009.

LIMS

Manage Any Scientific Laboratory with this Amazing Fee Open-source LIMS Software: eLabFTW

LIMS or Laboratory Information Management Systems are designed to run labs, function as a collaborative platform for researchers as well as a laboratory notebook. LIMS boosts teams productivity, organize lab assets and resources, improve collaborative teamwork and keep organized records in digital forms that eases  researchers and technician work. Our

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Gaphor: Open-source UML and SysML Modeling Application For Windows, Linux and macOS

Developers and software engineers are often required to create diagrams in their line of work. As there are many commercial solutions some may feel compelled to buy like I did on macOS, there are few alternative professional solutions like Dia diagram editor. Our topic of the day is Gapher a

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Subsurface: An Open-source Multi-platform Diving Logbook for Divers

Divers often keep a rich logbook to track their diving activities.  Trainees also are required to have a logbook for their diving training. There are some commercial solutions to do that, but our topic of the day is an amazing professionally designed alternative solution and it's called Subsurface.

privacy

23 Extensions to Enhance your Security and Privacy on Google Chrome and Chromium-based Browser

According to a statistical report published by Statista in July 2020, Google Chrome accounted for 69% of the global desktop web-browser market share by  June 2020, with 11% increase from the last year. Google Chrome is mostly based on Chromium which is an open-source web-browser released and maintained by Google.

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15 Free Open-source Web Secure Web Browsers

Most popular web browsers does not care much about user privacy with minor exceptions for Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Privacy is not a luxury, it's a necessity especially nowadays when our private data, interests, usage behaviors are becoming a product for many companies and enterprises to use to

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20 Distraction-free Text Editors for Linux, Windows, macOS and The Cloud

While writing, it's essential to have a distraction-free environment. That will help the writer formulate his ideas into words. Most of the text processor software and document editor programs are full of tools, customization options which make them distracting the writer, and they already take large portion of

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Write with your colleagues using this amazing open-source collaborative writing tool: Etherpad

Etherpad is a free open-source web-based real-time collaborative document editor. It's a combination of a text editor with a real-time interactive editing option. Some may say, it's an open-source alternative for Google Docs, Zoho Docs, or Microsoft Office (Web). However, it's not. It adds

communication

Protect your Privacy and Freedom with Session: A Free Onion-powered Messenger

Privacy is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Unfortunately, It's hard to find privacy-focused applications that really consider its users. Our topic today is about one of this rare privacy-focused app: Session. So what's Session? Session: A Privacy-First Messenger The Session messenger is an

apps

Stylishly Take your notes, mindmaps, and tasks with this Lightweight App: TreeSheets.

Ever wanted that note-taking application that gives you more freedom to write, visualize and organize your thoughts and ideas? TreeSheets may be the application you have been waiting for. What's TreeSheets? TreeSheets is a lightweight note-taking application with spreadsheets features, mind mapping, outline options, and note-taking with text

security

Create your own VPN with this Open-source Project Hypersocket VPN Solution

Hypersocket VPN is an open-source VPN solution with advanced permission control and multi-use scenarios. It offers a seamless setup and configuration for the system admins. It provides secure access to the network through a HTTPS port. System admins can use it behind a firewall or a firewalled WLAN as BYOD

macos

Top 7 Free and Open-source Markdown Editors for macOS

What's Markdown? Markdown is a plain-text formatting syntax aiming to make writing easier. It was written originally by John Gruber for non-programmers as it's very easy-to-use and master in a few mins. Nowadays, Markdown is used all over the internet, and you most likely encountered it