A post about LibreRead, a simple, light-weight and easy to install e-book reader.
Cloudron: A self-hosting platform
This is my review of Cloudron in written form, but if you’d rather hear about it, I recorded a podcast episode featuring Cloudron and one of its founders Johannes Zellner. I’ve written about quite a few great applications on here, and most of the time, the installation process was the most tasking part of setting…
Polr – a fast and modern URL shortener
If you’ve been around the web for a while, you’re probably familiar with tools that allow you to shorten URLs. They are mainly used on platforms like Twitter, where character limits and readability force you to keep everything short, including your links. And while Twitter by now shortens links internally, for a long time you…
FileRun – Probably the slickest file-management software out there
It feels like only yesterday that I wrote about Nextcloud (it was actually a few weeks ago), and today I’m already writing about yet another self-hosted file storage solutions. It’s called FileRun, and its lead developer Vlad Roman dropped me a note a few days ago to take a look at it. It’s been around…
Nextcloud
A while ago I wrote about Owncloud, which started out as a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, but which by now has grown to be a whole suite of apps. In the meantime, things happened. Not necessarily the kinds of things that most consumers might be interested in, but in the end it resulted in the original Owncloud…
FreshRSS – reigniting the RSS love
It’s been a while since I wrote about a self-hosted RSS reader. Why? Mainly because it’s fallen out of use even with many of the more seasoned consumers out there. The reasons are manifold, not least because nowadays many publishers have opted to not push full articles but rather teasing them, forcing you to click…
GNU Social – Revisiting StatusNET
A few years ago I wrote about StatusNET, a self-hosted Twitter clone. Since then, a few things have changed. Twitter will probably be sold to whoever finally decides to risk it and StatusNET is now GNU Social. That makes it a time as good as any to have another look at what’s changed and whether…
Turtl, a very private Evernote alternative
Evernote is probably the most popular note-taking tool. For good reason: it’s been around for ages, works on almost all platforms (Linux being the one glaring exception) and it’s probably the most fully featured service you can find in that niche. But, and that’s why you’re here, it’s hosted software. There are quite a few…
Wallabag – Read stuff later
Sometimes the number of interesting texts to read can be overwhelming. To counter this problem, a whole little niche cropped up a few years back, the “read it later” niche. Most famous products to emerge from that niche are services like Instapaper, the eponimously named Read it later, which was later renamed to Pocket. For everyone who doesn’t want…
Lychee image management (and sharing)
Lychee is yet another contender in the niche of self-hosted photo management and sharing applications. Thanks to Victor, who alerted me to its existence, here’s a short review of what it does, how it works and whether it’s worth it to install (spoiler-alert: it is). In a Nutshell Lychee is a photo hosting and sharing application,…