Store your data from all your accounts and devices in a single cohesive timeline on your own computer.

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of vendor lock-in, simpler license management and support from active communities.

In the following slides, as part of the CRN 2024 Year In Review project, we take a look at some of the most popular open-source software products that have caught our attention this year.

Formulosity is a self-hosted app for building and deploying the surveys using code instead of traditional survey builders.

Scooter is an interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app.

Search with either a fixed string or a regular expression, enter a replacement, and interactively toggle which instances you want to replace. You can also specify a regex pattern for the file paths you want to search.

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings. It's designed to find semantically similar matches to the query, going beyond simple string matching. Supports multiple languages. The experience is designed to be similar to grep.

SSHamble is a research tool for SSH implementations that includes:

• Interesting attacks against authentication
• Post-session authentication attacks
• Pre-authentication state transitions
• Authentication timing analysis
• Post-session enumeration

A command line journal inspired by https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl I wanted to have a minimal journaling system that would store my files encrypted, and be easy to setup across multiple devices without needing too many dependencies.

Firefiles is an open-source alternative to Dropbox that lets you manage files across multiple cloud storage providers through a single interface.

The entrance repository of Markdown presentation ecosystem.

A video editor with motion smoothing.

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet, it provides features like PDF and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.

A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.