Welcome to Open Alternatives – A place to discover the latest free alternatives to the costly softwares such as – Online meeting, Web Content Managements, blogging, Screen capture tools, graphics tools, project management tools, e-commerce software and more …. Have a question? join the community: Forums : Open and Free alternatives to commercial software
I just bought a logitech wireless keyboard and while looking for KVM switches found out a sad fact : Wireless keyboards/mouses dont always work well with the KVM switches! I was disappointed since I had also bought two monitors for my two laptops and wanted to share the keyboard between those. I was rescued by [...]
WordPress 2.7.1 is released. It is NOT a security release but a maintenance release so you can take your time to update it. WordPress 2.7 has “auto-update” feature which can be used to update automatically (we just did and it worked painlessly). Just make sure to backup your database before updating. The full release article [...]
What are the free / open source mind mapping softwares available A mind map is a great tool to brainstorm, visualize and classify ideas or concepts. There are two kinds of mind-mapping software available – online and desktop application. I researched through the various online mind-mapping software but found them to be lacking and NOT [...]
Drupal has new security updates for the versions 6.x and 5.x. If you are a Drupal users, please upgrade. Here is the full press release. WordPress 2.7 “Coltrain” is now available and expected to have better interface, and is supposed to be faster as well. Here is the complete news.
The new version fixes a XSS security flaw and a few bugs. The full announcement can be read here: WordPress: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ WordPress MU: http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/11/25/wordpress-mu-265/
WordPress 2.6.3 was released recently with some security fixes. Full announcement can be found here: WordPress 2.6.3
Some critical security vulnerabilities were found in the previous versions and Drupal versions 6 and 5 have been upgraded. Please see here for complete update. If you are a drupal user, its best to keep receiving security alerts, you can subscribe to security alerts here: Druapl Security Announcements page.
Google announced its own free and open source version : Chrome! . Chrome is written from ground up and from the looks of it packs a lot of punch in terms of security, anonymous surfing and SPEED. Some of the coolest features include – Taking a tab and dragging it into its own window – [...]
Mikogo is a free software for online meetings. The philosophy being you can have online meetings by sharing your desktop. I tried it and so far have had pretty bad results with it. With 2-3 meetings I have had with mikogo, although the speed was pretty good, the frequency of disconnection was very high. It [...]
I dont have money to buy photoshop, is there a free alternative? The answer is GIMP. Gimp is an open source image editing, creation software widely used in linux platforms and is also available in windows. The strength of gimp comes not only from its basic features which are very much in league with adobe [...]
Free online meeting / web conferencing / collaboration With online meeting becoming more and more pipular, there are two major trends of online meeting software available . These are: – Collaboration with Desktop Sharing – Collaboration at a online meeting place Online Meeting place
Drupal has released new versions of its 6.x and 5.x series both fixing critical security releases. Please upgrade. Here is the official announcement.
So I dont have Microsoft Outlook. Is there a free alternative ? Thunderbird : Solution from Mozilla labs, it is one of my favorites. Can be configured for pop3 and imap. Quick to setup and I really like the simplicity of the whole interface. Unlike outlook, it doesnt have integrated calendar, but calendar application can [...]
So what are the free and open source blogging options? My favorite is obviously wordpress (this site being created on that). But competition is the mother of progress, so here is a list of free and open blogging solutions available (reviews later). Although content management systems also provide blogging capabilities, I am listing only those [...]
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How to display drupal blocks inside a node (story) I have been using Drupal for a long time now and havent really been able to achieve this. But it seems it is as simple as finding out the block number (here its 26) and then just insert the below code. Make sure input format is [...]
Just found out that DimDim 4.0 is now live with cool and awaited features such as: – Recording – Multiple Presenters For more news, read the official release of dimdim 4.0 Please note that DimDim 4.0 is available as the enterprize version for now, dimdim open source is still on 3.x.
My favorite 10 wordpress plugins for a started website I love top 10 lists. I am a fan of wordpress, so here are the top 10 wordpress plugins I suggest as must for any starter website: – Who sees ads : Money making plugins first! Who sees ads is a very robust plugin which allows [...]
Free Online meeting , web conferencing and collaboration by screen sharing Here is a list of free or open source screen sharing alternatives. Screen sharing is a good way for online collaboration, meeting, webconferencing as well as remote support. You can basically share your desktop with anyone on the web. These free resources allow for [...]
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Mozilla Labs has unveiled quick previews of its latest browser concept : Aurora . It has also called for participation in the concept so that the idea can grow. read this article for full preview: Aurora : Call for participation
My dad’s trying to install this software in UK, while I am in US. How can I help him for free? Can I access his desktop and install the software for him? Yuuguu is a free screen sharing software. The free version allows you to share your screen with upto 30 people at the same [...]
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How can I create a quick tutorial for my team mates by capturing what I do on my desktop ? Are there any free tools to achieve this? Really speaking the well developed and free screen capture tools (for windows) are very limited. This seems to be one of the areas where open source resolution [...]
Ever wondered how to browse the net faster? What is the best browser? A lot of the windows users get stuck with Internet Explorer. Firefox is the most popular “other” option. Apple users use Safari and are quite happy with it, but I believe that for an average internet user or blogger the other following [...]
A lot of times these terminologies are confused – Multi-platform, cross-platform and platform independent. Here is a quick reference for you: Multi-platform or cross-platform software : software is available on more than one platforms (operating systems). This could mean two things -
Cuil Search Engine Cuil search was launched today and claims to be “the worlds biggest search engine”. The search engine aims to index pages based on relevance and content. On the web Cuil is being hailed as “next google” although the first few searches (that we did) reveal vast differences between the two, but not [...]
The features I give very high priority in a web conferencing tool are: – VOIP: International attendees cant pay bills for long distance calls. Integrated VOIP to rescue! – Zero Install: Most of my attendees are non IT people. Installation just makes it that much more difficult for them. – Whiteboards: I like to use [...]
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On July 9, 2008, Drupal released versions 5.9 and 6.3 fixing some of the security vulnerabilities found in the code. Apart from the security vulnerabilities it also fixes some of the bugs that were reported. Here is a question – what be the version of next release in 5.x series? 5.9 is out ..and 6.0 [...]
DimDim Vs Wiziq : Web conferencing, Online meeting, Virtual classroom …. As a presenter, I have used both the web conferencing tools on the offer – Wiziq and DimDim. I found that both the tools have quite amazing features apart from being free… well for most part! Here is a small comparison based on my [...]
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