Tag: OpenSource

📅 January 21, 2020

Stacer: an Open Source System Optimizer and Application Monitor for Linux

an open source system optimizer and application monitor for Linux.

Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor for Linux. It’s an all-in-one program that will allow you to enable/disable startup applications, provides a system cleaner similar to BleachBit, a system search, enable/disable system services that are running on boot and/or running right now, a process manager, package uninstaller and a heads up display of your resources.

Can you already perform/check everything that Stacer offers out of the box either from the command-line or the built-in graphical tools? Of course you can. Stacer is just a nice all-in-one solution.

Stacer is available for Debian, Fedora, Arch/Manjaro users can find it in AUR, as a PPA or you can build it from source. For more info check out the official project page on github.

📅 November 26, 2019

Calculator N+ : A Poweful Open Source Math Solver

a poweful free and open source computer algebra system app

If you’re a student, a teacher or work in the STEM field there’s an app you should really check out: Calculator N+. A powerful scientific calculator app for your Android device, that’s free, open source, has no ads and will cover all of your math needs.

The power of the application is through the use of the Symja library. The results are displayed by Latex. The calculator does not show the steps to solve the equations, system of equations, derivative etc,  only for the final result.

You can download Calculator N+ from Google Play or build it from source code.

📅 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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📅 September 9, 2019

Dozer: A Free and Open Source Alternative to Bartender App for Mac

Free and open source app that hides status bar icons to give your Mac a cleaner look

Almost every top/must have/best Mac apps list in existence for the past couple of years is recommending Bartender – a simple app that hides away menu bar icons until you need them and so both saves space and stops distractions.

So far so good. The only problem with the app is that it costs $15. I mean, when you pay a few thousand bucks for a non user upgradable, with no ports, that breaks easily and it’s super hard to repair laptop, yeah… 15 bucks for an app seems like a bargain.

But what if i told you that you can get the same functionality, for free, from an open source app? Enter Dozer….

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📅 September 8, 2019

HOW TO: Find Social Media Accounts by Username

an easy way to find usernames across social media networks

Over the time you’ve created quite a few profiles on different services and, chances are, you used the same username for all of them.  ( hopefully not the same password – never use the same password everywhere. Use a password manager like KeePass or Bitwarden ).

It’s definitely a good idea to audit your username(s) and delete those profiles if you’re not using them anymore. And to make your job easier, you can hunt down your username(s) across a vast list of services using Sherlock.

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📅 April 10, 2012

Drone Controller: An Open Source Controller For Phones And Tablets [video]

The Drone Controller is a sleek, open-source controller that will link up with your iOS, Android, or PC device via Bluetooth

New day, new kickstarter project. The Drone Controller is a sleek, open-source controller that will link up with your iOS, Android, or PC device via Bluetooth, and will offer dual analog joysticks, a digital G-pad, six face buttons, two shoulder buttons, a rechargeable battery, and an open source SDK for developers to take advantage of the advanced controls.

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📅 August 31, 2011

iEMU’s Goal is to Emulate iOS On Android, Windows and Linux

iEmu is an emulator based on the popular open-source emulator QEMU. The project’s primary goal is to implement support for the S5L8930 chipset, which is used in the iPhone 4 and the first-generation iPad.

New day, new kickstarter project. iEmu is an emulator based on the popular open-source emulator QEMU. The project’s primary goal is to implement support for the S5L8930 chipset, which is used in the iPhone 4 and the first-generation iPad. Since the specifications for this chipset and other supporting hardware used by Apple’s devices aren’t public, supporting these devices takes some heavy reverse engineering.

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📅 October 24, 2009

Icy: Now Open Source

Starting today, Icy is opensource and anybody can have access to the source code and improve it.

Yesterday we told you that RipDev team is abandoning the jailbreaking community, and starting yesterday they officially stopped on developing all their tools ; One of those tool being Icy.

Starting today anybody can have the source code of Icy and improve it, and all the valid chances will be issued as official updates. If you are interested in Icy, you can find the source code here.

[thx Marco]