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,…
While basic in its current version, this sleak and easily deployable application could someday be a great alternative for Evernote aficionados In a Nutshell Evernote, with its millions of customers, is probably the most popular among the web-based note-taking tools. It boasts integration with a myriad of services and has become indispensable for a lot…
In a Nutshell YOURLS is a reliable, rather easy to set up, self-hosted short-URL service. It provides statistics, is open-source and free. Installation: [rating=4] Price: [rating=5] Get it here: yourls.org What it does If you’ve been around the likes of Twitter much, you’ll be familiar with so-called URL shorteners. Character constraints on Twitter have led…
UPDATE: This post is quite old and somewhat outdated. The Owncloud project was forked into Nextcloud, which I wrote about here. In a Nutshell Owncloud is a very easy to install, free and self-hosted cloud-storage service. It’s extendable and rather feature-complete. Due to its open-source nature, non-paying customers can only rely on the community for…
