Open source software is arguably the most flexible form of programming available. Open source means that the software is used for free by anyone and the source code – the actual lines of code that make up the software – is accessible by anyone for free. This means that it can be modified by anyone who knows how to code, according to Open Source Initiative. Systems like the Linux operating system or the WordPress web development platform are open source, so thousands of developers and programmers have worked with the code to develop and create plugins, add-ons, and other additional features not originally part of the software. In some cases, you’ll have to pay a licensing fee or a first time use payment in order to use open source software, but in many other cases, it’s completely free, allowing you and your business to save money by using it.

Open source software can be used in a number of different applications, but it isn’t capable of dealing with all situations. If you run a business with an online store aspect, you’ll have a wide choice of what sort of eCommerce software you would like to use to run the store. You can pay a licensing fee and use an eCommerce software system like that offered by Shopify or you can search for free plugins (granted that you’re using WordPress or another open source platform that has eCommerce plugins).

Additions and Add-ons Galore

The best feature of open source software is all the additional plugins you can add on for free. The older the base software is, the more choices you will have to pick from. Because of the nature of open source, programmers and developers from around the world will have the opportunity to examine the source code of the software and fiddle with it however they please. Thanks to this aspect of the software, thousands upon thousands of people have had the chance to modify the code according to their own, different ideas. This has led to advances and modifications that the original developers might never have even contemplated. The myriad angles and viewpoints that other programmers view the code with has allowed growth and development in open source projects unlike anything that can be accomplished through a single entity, be it corporation or group of developers.

Using open source technology doesn’t necessarily mean you need to use Linux for your OS or WordPress for your operating system. According to CNet, an open source alternative to Microsoft Office Suite has now claimed to have over 80 million users worldwide. LibreOffice is a suite of applications akin to Microsoft Office with a word processor, PowerPoint-style application, spreadsheet program, and more. But instead of buying the latest version of MS Office for hundreds of dollars, you can get LibreOffice for free. Thanks to open source platforms and programs, it’s possible for you to save yourself and your business money through using alternatives like LibreOffice instead of paying lots of money for the more well-known branded software suites.

Multiple Systems for Multiple Jobs

Chances are that you won’t be able to find an open source alternative for all the systems you use in your business; you will certainly be able to find some, more depending on what base systems you run, but for others you will have to stick to either proprietary software of licensed software. Which software and programs works best where is something you will need to look into and do some research on. There are a lot of open source applications available and even more add-ons to them, so it will require some work on your part to sift through the programs you don’t want or need to find the useful ones. As long as you’re willing to spend the time doing the research, you will definitely be able to save your business some money, as in the case of using LibreOffice instead of MS Office.

An incredibly important tool you should definitely have is a barcode printer and scanner. If you run a purely online eCommerce site then the necessity of a barcode printer isn’t nearly as drastic as it is if you run a physical store. There are barcode and label printing applications available for open source system like Linux. According to LWN, barcode applications like KBarcode are available for free and offer features like optional database support, built-in label definitions, rich text and graphical editors, and more. But a system like that requires you to be running Linux or KDE3 as your business OS and that isn’t always the case. Conversely, you can purchase a mobile barcode printer like the ones offered by Shopify that sync together with a smartphone app. The choice is not cut-and-dried; you can't just list whether one system is better than another system. All the systems available have their strengths and weaknesses and so it’s up to you to figure out which is the best and most efficient for your business.
FF Multi Converter is a simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, using and combining other programs. It uses ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and PythonMagick library for image file conversions.
The goal of FF Multi Converter is to gather all multimedia types in one application and provide conversions for them easily through a user-friendly interface. Extra options will be gradually added.
Install LibreOffice 4.3.3 in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/13/and other related Ubuntu derivatives

LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
Tonido allows you to create secure home cloud server or allow remote access to your data. Once installed on a computer, Tonido software makes that computer's files available remotely via the internet through the web browser or through native mobile apps. It is easy to get started, just install the Tonido Desktop software and create a link to each computer you need access to. This is useful to get access to user's files, music and videos from anywhere as well as providing the capability to share files and folders with other people.
Tonido takes the approach of storing all user information including login credentials locally, providing login into Tonido software in the absence of internet connectivity. Since this software provides access to user's own storage without using public cloud services, it is considered as 'personal cloud'.
RAVE-X theme suite brings you a unique and beautiful GTK 3 (And 2) desktop theme in your choice to 16 Awesome Refined Colors. Personalize your desktop the way you want. Rave-X Colors Gtk themes are derived from Mint-X Colors theme suite, this suite offers better colors and support for Unity desktop, also works on Mint, and with dark panel support on Xfce & Mate desktops. These themes can work on following desktops: Cinnamon, Unity, Xfce, MATE, XFCE, LXDE, and Gnome Shell. Gnome Fallback works but looks ugly so we do not recommend it. That might be fixed later if anyone reported to creator.
This pack offers 16 awesome colors, also Included 7 Different Colors of "Special Edition" Window Boarders Called RAVEfinity-X, These are Built for Cinnamon, MATE and XFCE only.
You can use Unity Tweak ToolGnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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Rexloader is advanced download manager, it is cross-platform (Available for Linux Distributions and Windows) released under license GPL-3.0 and written using Qt & C++ programming languages. This download manager operates over http(s) with configurable multithreaded downloading, logging and hash calculating (md5, sha1). It also can operate under proxies, which seems promising. The project team is also planning to implement support for ftp and p2p (torrent, dc++ etc).
There is no browser integration for this downloader at this moment, hopefully developers may add this feature in future since it is in active development. Additional thing with this downloader is floating graph, which shows graph for download and displays download speed numerically. You can almost control this downloader with its indicator and activate/deactivate different available plugins.
rexloader
Darkenza icon set is basically based on gnome icon theme designed with new custom folders. It is a mixture of Faenza icons. It looks great on light type or even you can use this icon set on dark themes. It is compatible with Gnome, Unity, Cinnamon, Mate, and Gnome Classic desktop. Since there is no update from creator side, so don't expect any bug fixes release or any missing icon release with this icon theme. Also checkout icons collection. You can use Unity Tweak ToolGnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
Cenozoic is clean & light GTK theme designed for Ubuntu. It is based on Adwaita-OSX and seem more flat & compact, it includes light and dark version, so you can choose between them. This theme uses gtk2-engines-pixbuf to render this theme.
Cenodark-red theme is derived from Cenozoic theme, it is dark theme with variation of red color and seems purely awesome. This theme uses gtk2-engines-murrine package to render theme. In screenshots I used Ardis and Ravefinity-X icons. You can use Unity Tweak ToolGnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
Cenozoic
This book presents the fundamental concepts of Office 365 for consumers. You’ll get an overview of Office 365 and learn to understand the program on a higher level.

A Guide to Microsoft’s Cloud Productivity Suite” consists of 15 small chapters that provide a basic understanding of Office 365 and explain installation, the major features, benefits, plans and so on.

This eBook will shed light on some of the following topics:
  • Office 365 System requirements
  • How to install and configure Office 365
  • How Office 365 is different from Microsoft Office?
  • An overview of the features in Office 365
  • A quick look at the different plans
  • Consumer plans in detail
  • Office 365 free trial
  • How does Office 365 boost your productivity?
  • Is an Internet connection a requirement?
  • Mobile apps for Office 365
  • Office Online

This book is usually available for purchase at a price of $12.95. But we’re offering it for FREE until 8/5/2014. Don’t wait!
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Office 365 is another big thing that comes with default premium security features. Office 365 is a cloud-based suite that comes with a security guarantee of Microsoft, businesses and enterprises prefer using switching to it for the number of productive apps it furnishes. Apparently, you can consult an Office 365 cloud migration service provider to help you with the security requirements of the cloud.

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Now a days handheld devices offer assistant for your mobile device, which help users to do stuff easily and quickly, as you may know iOS has Siri (by Apple) and Android OS uses Google Now assistant (by Google) to facilitate its users. They are pretty much intelligent personal assistants and knowledge navigator which works as an application for their Operating systems.
Here comes another feature to Linux "Betty" as personal assistant, it uses natural language to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions. It is similar to Siri and Google Now but for now it is pretty much limited (it's still extremely useful and easy to use). It is a virtual assistant with a command-line-controlled natural language interface that uses sequential inference and contextual awareness to help perform personal tasks.
LMMS is a free sound studio/editor for Linux, it stands for Linux Multimedia Studio. It allows you to compose, edit, or mix audio with your computer. LMMS includes all the tools you need to create music from scratch (both melodies, synthesizing, mixing sounds, arranging samples and background beats), mix and arrange samples and prefabricated sounds and finally producing and exporting the results. You can have fun with your MIDI keyboard and much more – all in a user-friendly and modern interface. Furthermore LMMS comes with many ready-to-use instrument and effect plugins, presets and samples.
It also has support for plugins, you can install additional plugins. The program features a sleek dark interface that you will likely find overwhelming the first time you run the program. Lot of ready-made material available with LMMS and everything is thoroughly documented.
Install Flareget Download Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/16/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

FlareGet is a full featured, multi-threaded and multi-segment download manager and accelerator for Linux and Windows. It integrates with all the browsers to replace their default download manager and start the download by itself. It supports almost all the browsers – firefox, chrome, chromium, opera etc. In this version lot of improvements have been made in the browser integration and the core download engine. Many minor bugs have been fixed.
Install Format Junkie media converter in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives via PPA

It converts a variety of audio and video formats, and even can convert ISOs to other disc images (in this case the CSO disc image). In addition to audio, video, and disc image files, this converter even converts images and converts all the popular formats!
A Graphical User Interface user-friendly application with lots of options, which can convert your media files to all the popular formats! Unity integration has been bear in mind.
format junkie

format junkie

format junkie

Specifically, it has the following features: 
  • Audio: Conversion between the audio formats: mp3, mp2, wav, ogg, wma, flac, m4r, m4a and aac
  • Video: Conversion between the video formats: avi, ogv, vob, mp4, vob, flv, 3gp, mpg, mkv, wmv
  • Image: Conversion between the image formats: jpg, png, ico, bmp, svg, tif, pcx, pdf, tga, pnm
  • Iso|Cso: Create an iso with selected files, convert iso to cso and vice versa.
  • Advanced: Encode subtitles to an avi file.
It has official PPA but there are no packages for latest Ubuntu versions.

To install Format Junkie in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Format junkie
Systemback makes it easy to create backups of the system and the users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation.
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