📅 October 22, 2019

Ferdi: A Free, Open Source, Cross Platform, All-in-One Messaging App

Ferdi – All-in-one chat and messaging app

Most people are probably familiar with Franz, and open source messaging app that combines a lot of chat and messaging services into one app. Great app but on the free version you can only add 3 services to use at the same time. Want more services? You’ll have to pay a monthly subscription.

That’s where Ferdi comes in. Ferdi is a hard-fork of Franz that adds some awesome features and removes unwanted ones.

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📅 September 28, 2019

Barrier: A Free, Open-Source and Cross-Platform Alternative to Synergy

Eliminate the barrier between your machines.

You’ve probably heard of Synergy before. If you didn’t, Synergy is a piece of software that allows you to shares one mouse and one keyboard between multiple computers.

A great piece of software that costs $29 for the basic version and $39 for the pro version.

If you’d love to have the capabilities that Synergy provides but don’t want to fork over $29, you should check out Barrier which is free, open-source and cross-platform.

Synergy started as an open source project. So the guys over at Barrier forked that original Synergy project, updated it and kept it’s minimalistic design.

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