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Tutorial: How to Install Easy!Appointments on Ubuntu 14.04

Easy!Appointments is a FREE and open source online appointment booking and management system. It allows clients of businesses such as hair stylists, spas, and tutors to view and book appointments from available time slots. Easy!Appointments can manage customers, services and staff and can be implemented on a pre-existing website. Learn how to install Easy!Appointments on […]

Tutorial: How to Install Pydio Online File Management on Ubuntu 14.04

Pydio is an open source self-hosted alternative to online cloud service providers. This software provides additional privacy by storing files on local computers and removes the small storage limitations that online service provides offer. Pydio boasts features such as monitoring the number of times files are downloaded and can share files to internal or external […]

Tutorial: How to Install LibrePlan Project Management on Ubuntu 14.04

LibrePlan is an opensource project management web application that provides small to medium sized businesses (or even families) tools to manage projects from planning to closure. It provides times, gantt charts, reports, resource management and much more. Learn how to install LibrePlan on an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop server.

Google Tips: How to Install the NEW Google Drive Plugin for Microsoft Office

Early this week, Google released a new plugin that will change how users use Google Drive with Microsoft Office. This plugin was released quietly without any fanfare, but allows users to access and edit their Microsoft Office files stored in Google Drive from within Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. Read on to […]

Tutorial: How to Install OnlyOffice on Ubuntu 14.04

OnlyOffice is self-hosted or online document management, project management, customer relations management, and email management system. It includes online editors for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and provides online collaboration tools similar to Google Drive. OnlyOffice provides both an open source and enterprise version which can be hosted on an internal network or provided […]

Tutorial: How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 14.04

Moodle is an open source online learning management system. It is flexible and offers many teaching and training tools through its large plugin directory and compatibility with other web applications such as Google Apps and SCORM. Learn how to setup Moodle 2.9 on an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop. Prerequisites The following tutorial assumes that a computer […]

TechPop: How to Install Invoice Ninja on Ubuntu 14.04

Invoice Ninja is a free and open source invoicing software. Their site provides Invoice Ninja as SaaS  (Software as a Service), but if you or your company is more security and privacy minded, it can be hosted on a private server. One major benefit of Invoice Ninja is it’s compatibility with over thirty payment gateways. […]

Tutorial: How to Install Beansbooks on Ubuntu 14.04

BeansBooks is an Open Code cloud accounting web application that is flexible and scales easily. It simplifies accounting while providing insightful reports. Ideal for small to medium sized businesses, read on to find out how to install BeansBooks on an Ubuntu 14.04 computer.

Creating a Home Server Part 4: Installing ownCloud 8 on Ubuntu 14.04

Now that we have the hardware, operating system, and web address, the next step is adding web applications to the server. ownCloud is a personal cloud storage solution similar to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive. However, instead of having files stored on servers somewhere in the world, they are stored on the server at […]

TechPop: An overview of Redmine Project Management Software

Project Management Software can be expensive and difficult to maintain. However, the Open Source Project, Redmine, provides a fully functional project management environment for small and medium sized businesses. Read on to find out more about the Free Web Application.