Happy FLOSS for Easter - Tom vs. the AIs

Happy Easter! If you’re just picking up now, my Lent goal was to write something about a different Free, Libre, Open Source (FLOSS) application every...

   Apr 8, 2023     7 min read
Mastodon

Mastodon is a reformulation of Twitter so that it can be controlled by the community, not a single corporation. Instead of a single site you...

   Apr 7, 2023     0 min read
Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a very fun painting program for kids. All the basics of a painting program: changing brushes, colors, etc. but also fun stamps...

   Apr 6, 2023     0 min read
Signal

Signal is the first messaging app to get encryption right, and still the most popular one around. There are lots of other apps for messaging...

   Apr 5, 2023     0 min read
Notepad++

Notepad++ is the master of editing “plain text” files. These are files, unlike Word documents, that just are a collection characters in a file. Microsoft’s...

   Apr 4, 2023     0 min read
TOR

TOR (The Onion Router) is a relatively old network that runs on top of the internet. It was built to give people who live in...

   Apr 3, 2023     0 min read
GCompris

GCompris is the best set of educational software for kids around. Most educational apps are littered with ads or in-app purchases. Because this is open...

   Apr 2, 2023     0 min read
wX

wX provides a great interface to the radar maps provided by the National Weather Service. There are a ton of other weather apps out there,...

   Mar 31, 2023     0 min read
Veracrypt

Veracrypt is an encryption tool that exists in a channel completely separate from your OS vendor. It can be used to encrypt full hard drives...

   Mar 30, 2023     0 min read
7-Zip

There’s lots of good tools for working with archive files, but 7-zip is the best. It can handle almost any archive type: .zip, .7z, .zipx,...

   Mar 29, 2023     0 min read