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Tag: crossplatform

6 reasons why OnlyOffice is a great Microsoft Office alternative

2024-12-132024-12-14 Danie
The image shows a laptop displaying a document on ONLYOFFICE, a web-based office suite. The laptop is positioned on a surface with a vibrant, cartoonish background partially visible. The foreground is dominated by the laptop screen showcasing the ONLYOFFICE interface, featuring a sample document with charts and text. The background reveals a portion of a colorful wall featuring cartoon-like graphics, suggesting a casual or home office setting. There are additional details that might only be noticeable upon closer inspection, such as the small icon displayed on the taskbar, possibly indicating network connectivity status or other software applications running in the background. The document itself shows a sample chart, with data points that might indicate sales figures over a given period. The level of detail and the precision applied to the graph suggest the user values precise visual communication.

OnlyOffice is a suite that is available as a paid enterprise version for broad deployments, but also works completely for free on desktop and mobile operating systems. It is fully cross-platform, including Linux. While it’s […]

Blogalternativeto, crossplatform, officesuite, technology

LocalSend – Video about Open Source Cross-Platform App that Securely Transfers Files and Text on Local Network

2023-03-202023-03-20 Danie
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I did a post about this app a few days ago, but decided to follow it up with this video after a few questions came in. LocalSend can securely send files, text, media, and Android […]

Blogcrossplatform, filetransfer, localsend, opensource, technology

The Verge’s list of the best free (or low-cost) tools for video editors (mostly cross-platform)

2023-02-242023-02-24 Danie
Computer monitor with keyboard and mouse, showing non-linear video editing tool on screen

Some of these are really well-known favourites for many people already, but there were also some I’m looking into a bit further that look really useful, and which I was not aware of. It is […]

Blogcrossplatform, technology, video, videoediting

Logseq: A Free and Open-Source App to Create Notes, Manage Tasks, Build Knowledge Graph, and More

2022-01-312022-01-31 Danie
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Logseq is a versatile knowledge platform with the support for Markdown and Org-mode. You can create tasks, manage notes, and do a lot more things with them. It also has the ability to install various […]

Blogcrossplatform, notes, opensource, tasks, technology

FLOSS alternatives to Visual Basic – Notable that many non-Windows specific apps run across Windows, Linux and macOS

2022-01-292022-01-29 Danie
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Visual Basic is a fully proprietary software programming platform, that means, the language, the IDE, the resulting programs, and the OS where it can run, are all proprietary. This makes programs created with VB proprietary, […]

Blogalternativeto, crossplatform, opensource, programming, technology
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