A brave new world

After several weeks of usage, I can’t say much bad about the Chromium-based brave browser.Built-in ad-blocker, private browsing using Tor, Chrome-like feeling, cross OS availability.MacOS, Windows, Android, IOS!One feature I like very much is the blockchain-style sync function. Google Chrome sync feeling without Google – features I have been looking for years now. You simply…

Curated list of Windows 10 software packages

Some of you are wondering how to use Windows successfully while knowing about the advantages of a Linux workstation. To clarify a bit I created a plain, curated list. You are welcome to comment and recommend useful (free or open source) tools. First I’d like to have an apt-like application installer. This is where chocolatey…

AllDup – Compare and find duplicate files

Working on several machines and having different progress on your working directories can be very hard. Speaking of code, there is GIT and no excuse not to use a version control system. But then, there is this binary jungle. The temporary download directory (you have on all the machines), the image collection of the last holiday from…

Sync files – Seafile, Owncloud, Syncthing, Pydio

It’s hard to trust your files to any cloud provider on the Internet. Thus host your files on your own fitting to your needs! Seafile Good documentation for setup and migration. Available for Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. There is a GUI and a console client. Heavy improvements have been made within the last version steps. The…

BleachBit – Open Source System Cleaner

During the DevOps work at the company I like flushing the browser history, clean recently accessed directories and some temporary files. Having to work with Windows 7 in a company domain (Windows 7 – company policy), the temporary directories and installer cache is filling up quickly. A good system cleaner Unfortunately there is no easy accessible Windows Tool…