Open Source Alternatives to Zoom

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world of remote working to new heights, and with it came the rise of video conferencing apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meets, and more. Apple even opened FaceTime to non-iOS users for the first time since its inception. But when we use these apps, we tend to …

KeePassX – The Best Password Manager for Ubuntu/Linux

KeePassX is a cross-platform password manager application. It has very high security standards. Since, it stores data locally in encrypted format, it’s probably a better alternative to any online password manager. If you want to share it across multiple devices/platforms just sync the database file using some apps like Dropbox. Make sure you’re synchronizing the encrypted …

Email Checker – Free online tool for verifying an email address

Do you often send email to new people and sometimes you’re not sure whether that mailbox actually exists or not ? Then you should use some email verification tool, it will help you avoid wasting time on dealing with invalid email addresses. Check out : https://email-checker.net It started out as a fun side project just like my …

Taskwarrior – Terminal based TODO Application

Taskwarrior is a command line app for managing your todo list. It’s lightweight, simple and fast. If you spend lot of time on terminal (as a developer or system administrator) then constantly switching to a web app or another GUI based todo app may not be very productive thing to do. In that case, you may …

uGet – The Best Download Manager for Ubuntu/Linux

uGet is a free and open source software for managing file downloads (over HTTP/S, FTP etc). It’s the most popular download manager program for GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, ArchLinux, Gentoo etc. It’s also available for Windows. uGet is lightweight but still a very powerful download manager. Features Downloads queue Resumable downloads (not always, …