{"id":11170,"date":"2024-01-10T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:50:35","slug":"unknown-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/01\/10\/unknown-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I already knew many of the software listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/40 Must-Have Free Open Source Applications for 2024\">40 Must-Have Free Open Source Applications for 2024<\/a> but of course, one never stop learning, so I discovered some interesting pearls unknown to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/community.jaspersoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jaspersoft Studio<\/a><\/strong> is a report designer program that allows you to create simple and sophisticated reports as well with charts, tabs, tables (and everything you can expect to see in a world-class report) and export them to a wide variety of formats (with PDF perhaps being the most common).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bleachbit<\/a> not only will recover disk space by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/find-and-delete-duplicate-files-in-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\">deleting temporary or otherwise unnecessary files<\/a>\u00a0but will also improve Firefox\u2019s performance and securely destroy unnecessary files to prevent recovery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation, or <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ocsinventory-ng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OCS Inventory NG<\/a><\/strong> for short, is a lightweight web application that can help network and system administrators to keep track of <strong>1)<\/strong> all the devices connected to the network, and <strong>2)<\/strong> machine configuration and software installed in them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glpi-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GLPI<\/a><\/strong> is a multilingual, free IT asset management software that not only provides the tools to build up a database with an inventory of your network devices but also includes a job tracking system with mail notifications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you own a small or medium business you will undoubtedly need a Point Of Sale program. As such, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unicenta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">uniCenta oPOS<\/a><\/strong> may be a lifesaver for you. It uses a MySQL \/ MariaDB database for data storage, and thus a single database can be used with multiple active terminals at the same time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lanmsngr.sourceforge.net\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">LAN Messenger<\/a><\/strong> is a multilingual (a language pack is needed) and cross-platform (works in Linux, Windows, and Mac) IM program for communication over a LAN. It provides file transfers, message logging, and event notifications \u2013 all without the need to set up a server!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both available as Enterprise (paid) and Community editions, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logicaldoc.us\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">LogicalDOC<\/a> is an award-winning, web-based Document Management System (DMS). As such, it aims to provide a high-quality method for sharing business documents and records in a low-cost and secure way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scarpetta.eu\/pdfmixtool\/\" target=\"_blank\">PDF Mix Tool<\/a>, a simple and lightweight program that makes it possible to perform common PDF editing operations, such as file merging and page rotation. Well, actually <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pdfarranger\/pdfarranger\">PDF Arranger<\/a> offers most of the same functionalities with a better user interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Then one sour point: <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/strong> is a NOT Free Software. Just avoid it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I already knew many of the software listed in 40 Must-Have Free Open Source Applications for 2024 but of course, one never stop learning, so I discovered some interesting pearls unknown to me: Then one sour point: Visual Studio Code is a NOT Free Software. Just avoid it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/01\/10\/unknown-pearls\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-libero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/system-software-install.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-2Ua","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11917,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/09\/15\/alternatives-to-white\/","url_meta":{"origin":11170,"position":0},"title":"Alternatives to white","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2024-09-15","format":false,"excerpt":"Alternatives to white\u2026 Off white #FAF9F6 Alice blue #F0F8FF Pearl #FBFCF8 Egg shell #FFF9E3 Coconut #FFF1E6 Parchment #FBF5DF","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Web","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/web\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6492,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/01\/25\/acme-laboratories\/","url_meta":{"origin":11170,"position":1},"title":"ACME Laboratories","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2020-01-25","format":"link","excerpt":"Go to ACME Laboratories, looking for the stuffs that Wile E. 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