Software Library: Palm and Palmpilot
Palm was a line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld computers," responsible for ushering in the smartphone era.

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system.

The MS-DOS 4.00 code is available on Microsoft's MS-DOS GitHub page along with versions 1.25 and 2.0, which Microsoft open-sourced in cooperation with the Computer History Museum back in 2014. All open-source versions of DOS have been released under the MIT License. //

The publicly released version of MS-DOS 4.00 is known less for its new features than for its high memory usage; the 4.00 release could consume as much as 92KB of RAM, way up from the roughly 56KB used by MS-DOS 3.31, and the 4.01 release reduced this to about 86KB. The later MS-DOS 5.0 and 6.0 releases maxed out at 72 or 73KB, and even IBM's PC DOS 2000 only wanted around 64KB.

These RAM numbers would be rounding errors on any modern computer, but in the days when RAM was pricey, systems maxed out at 640KB, and virtual memory wasn't a thing, such a huge jump in system requirements was a big deal. //

Microsoft has open-sourced some other legacy code over the years, including those older MS-DOS versions, Word for Windows 1.1a, 1983-era GW-BASIC, and the original Windows File Manager. While most of these have been released in their original forms without any updates or changes, the Windows File Manager is actually actively maintained. It was initially just changed enough to run natively on modern 64-bit and Arm PCs running Windows 10 and 11, but it's been updated with new fixes and features as recently as March 2024.

git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

git-annex is designed for git users who love the command line. For everyone else, the git-annex assistant turns git-annex into an easy to use folder synchroniser.

Created by teachers, Gibbon is the school platform which
solves real problems encountered by educators every day.

Being free, open source and flexible Gibbon can morph
to meet the needs of a huge range of schools.

Elevate Your Presentations with FreeShow
A dynamic, user-friendly, and open-source presenter built for all of your presentations. //

Every year churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the software needed to operate effectively and efficiently. We believe that within the Church the talent exists to create all the software that churches need and provide it free of charge.

MediaShout is church presentation software for displaying song lyrics, scripture, sermon points, and all forms of visual media to the screens for worship gatherings and events.

MediaShout increases engagement for those attending worship gatherings, and behind the scenes, it is loved by church staff and volunteers for its easy, time-saving features. With this powerful software, you’ll be able to quickly insert lyrics from a library, automatically build scripture slides from 70 included Bibles, and easily display any kind of graphic and video files.

MediaShout is described as 'Provides more than 50,000 ministries worldwide with the presentation tools they need in a streamlined, intuitive workspace. From basic worship presentations to intricate multimedia experiences, communicate Life’s Most Important Message to any size audience' and is an app in the office & productivity category.

So, there’s your quick background on open source software and why using these is not only great for your needs, but also for your budget!

Experience the power of open source in your church with worship presentation software designed to fit how you want to run your service. Fast, flexible and easy to use, you will have your service up and running in a few minutes. These features and a whole lot more at a price that can't be beat.

FreeShow is a free and open-source presentation program that makes it easy to show text on a big screen. It supports stage display, remote control, media, and many other advanced features. It is open-sourced meaning anyone can contribute.

Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.

Others such a RegFind and Pping were popular tools. More information on these tools later...

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pping - parallel ping

Our famous port ping tool written in .NET Core

I want the exact same behavior ping gives me on the console and I wished I just could add a port number to it and it will work.

DaDaBIK is a no-code / low-code development platform that can be used to quickly develop any type of data-driven application without coding.

Instead of writing your application using a programming language (such as PHP, Python or Java) you can build the application using a "point and click" approach, even if you don't have any coding skill (that's why no-code): starting from a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Microsoft SQL Server) or from an Excel file you can generate a basic Web data-entry application in minutes and then customize it with very little effort.

Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer.

Mountain Duck lets you mount server and cloud storage as a disk in Finder on macOS and the File Explorer on Windows. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume.

Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

EaseUS RecExperts offers tons of cool functions to make your recording easy

A Simple & Smart Screen Recorder for Perfect Captures

Take a look at the best screen recorders available for Linux. Learn its key features, pros, and cons.

Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost.

In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.

We survey existing approaches to data storage and sharing, ranging from email attachments to web apps to Firebase-backed mobile apps, and we examine the trade-offs of each. We look at Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): data structures that are multi-user from the ground up while also being fundamentally local and private. CRDTs have the potential to be a foundational technology for realizing local-first software.