Don/fosscal: Free Open Source Calendar For Mac

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The Linux and Free/Open Source world is cram-full of robust, capable alternatives that won't drain your bank account. This tasty assortment ranges from free with community support, to full commercially-supported products. Let's take a look at five open source Microsoft Exchange killers.

Windows 10 is here and it is considered a massive improvement over Windows 8. While there are many baked-in features in Windows 10 that should concern privacy-minded users, like the fact that the operating system's privacy controls 'don't appear to be sufficient to ', if you do want to use Windows 10, here are the best free and open source applications. Why would I suggest open source apps over those 'freemium' proprietary apps available for Windows? Simple: being open source you can trust them because you can audit the code.

And unlike many proprietary free apps, there is no adware or malware bundled with them to exploit or monetize a user. While VLC is capable of playing music, it's not optimized for that job. If you are looking for an open source music app, Clementine is the one you want. And it is cross platform so you can run it on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It has a neat interface and can do much more than playing music. One of the reasons I like Clementine is that it supports network playback. Since I have multiple systems that run different operating systems, it's physically not possible for me to plug-unplug my few terabytes or hard drives from one system to another, or to keep duplicate copies of the same files.

So I run a central file server and share files from one location to all these device using Samba share. Clementine allows me to connect to Samba server and play tracks directly from the networked drive. Clementine has many more features that far exceed those found on Windows 10's built-in media player.

Both Clementine and VLC are capable of playing various media formats, but you may still need to convert media files to make them playable on mobile devices. For this you need a media converter. There are many media converters for Windows, but they are either paid or bloated with adware or other software that can pose a risk to your Windows system, so using an open source tool is the best solution.

Handbrake is by far the best media converter that also supports batch-processing (if you have more than one file to convert). Thunderbird, hands down, is the best email client across operating systems. It is developed by Mozilla Corporation, which also develops Firefox. Users can add more functionality to Thunderbird with the use of add-ons: You can get calendar integration, chat support and much more. One of the greatest advantages of Thunderbird is 'portability': If, for example, you are dual booting between Linux and Windows you can create a profile and store your mail in a shared location and Thunderbird will remain synced between the two operating systems.

Firefox, like Thunderbird, is developed by the Mozilla Corporation and was the most popular web browser before Google Chrome came along. You can add more functionality to Firefox using add-ins or plugins. And there is a built-in feature of Firefox that can sync your passwords, bookmarks and other stuff securely. While Firefox is fully open source, Google Chrome is not: It is based on the fully open source Chromium browser. Both Chrome and Chromium are available for Windows users. Chrome may be a better choice if you frequent some Flash-based sites because Google is working on their own 'secure' plugin for Adobe Flash. Instead of installing the notoriously on your system, it would be safer to use Chrome.

Don/fosscal: Free Open Source Calendar For Mac Free

Just like Firefox, you can add more functionality to Chrome through Web Apps. Download, for Windows. Adobe Photoshop is the best image editing software around, but not everyone needs or can afford it. There is a free and open source app called GIMP that does a great job of image editing.

While I do have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and use Photoshop and Lightroom for professional work, I heavily use GIMP on my Linux systems and I am pretty happy with it. The UI of GIMP is quite similar to that of Photoshop, which makes it easy to switch between the two apps.

Don/fosscal: Free Open Source Calendar For Mac 2016

You can expand the features of GIMP by using plugins, scripts and extensions. Try it out and you may realize that it's what you had been looking for.

Journal, as it says - nomen est omen - is a small app which allows you to write your diary on your Computer. Just select the Day you want in the Calendar-View, then click on the little Entry-Icon which will appear in the lower left corner oft the day to open the Editor. There you can enter the Subject, Participants and of course the diary. Journal also has a great Search-Engine based on Apple's new Search-Technology which uses an Indexing-Progress to create an index of the data you want to search trough. This allows you to search your Entries very fas.