Openverse review: a Creative Commons search engine
Openverse is a free Creative Commons search engine for reusable images and audio. Learn what it stores, how licences work, and how to start.
Openverse is a free Creative Commons search engine for reusable images and audio. Learn what it stores, how licences work, and how to start.
Pexels offers free stock photos and videos you can download without an account. See the licence limits, what the site collects, and who should use it.
Is an Aqara Zigbee doorbell private enough? The G410 can keep door video on an indoor card. See cloud limits, the price, and who it suits best.
Is OsmAnd the open-source offline navigation app for you? Learn about private routing, free map limits, paid plans and practical setup before a trip.
Krita is open-source painting built by artists: brushes with real engine quality, animation support, and a stabilization system for linework that professionals use daily. Free across every desktop, funded by a nonprofit foundation. It is a painting and sketching tool rather than a photo retoucher, and the brush library rewards tuning. For illustration without subscriptions, […]
The first stop for measuring your own security: check addresses and passwords against known breaches, subscribe to alerts, and let the results shape which tools you actually need. Free and run by a researcher with a decade of credibility. It only knows public breaches, so treat clean results as reassurance rather than proof. Security starts […]
GIMP is the free, open-source image editor that has carried the mantle since the nineties: layers, masks, retouching, scripting and batch processing, with no subscription and no account. Nearly every proprietary editor borrows from it. Single-window mode finally made it feel modern, but CMYK print work still needs plugins. The default answer for private image […]
Privacy Guides is the independent nonprofit reference the privacy community trusts: threat modeling guides, strict tool criteria and no affiliate links. If a tool appears there, it survived real scrutiny. Its strictness excludes usable-but-imperfect options, and the depth assumes you read. The map for anyone navigating this field.
Paperless-ngx is self-hosted document management for people drowning in paper: scan, and the system OCRs, tags, files and indexes everything so any document is findable in seconds. Open source, community governed, and the standard answer to shoeboxes of receipts. You run it on a server or a spare machine, and the initial tagging teaches it […]
AAWireless is a small Dutch-made dongle that adds wireless Android Auto to cars with only wired support, so your phone stops being cabled to the dashboard. Firmware updates are frequent and the community around it is engaged. It is Android-only, pairing takes a minute on first connection, and it costs more than a cable. Convenience […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
