Communications

Texting / Messaging / SMS (Short Message Service)

Signal Private Messenger

SMS Support on Signal

Migrating SMS/MMS from Signal

Telegram

Bridgefy

  • Encrypted text messaging using Bluetooth.
  • Share and install now, for times when Wi-Fi and cellular services are down.

Web Browsers

Brave Browser

  • Better privacy. Faster webpages. Easier navigation, Block ads. Save data.

Mozilla Firefox

  • Web Browser. Open Source.

Mozilla Firefox Plugin Check

Web Browser Add-ons & Plugins

uBlock Origin

Disconnect

NoScript

  • NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-Cross-site scripting (XSS) protection available in a browser.
  • As NoScript requires user interaction to train it, you may want to do the following:
    1. Install uBlock Origin
    2. Install NoScript
    3. Go into Add-ons Manager > Extensions
    4. Disable NoScript, but, choose “No, just stop blocking scripts” when you see the Security Downgrade Warning.

Dark Reader

  • Enable Dark Mode on Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Wikipedia, Twitter and many other websites.

OneTab

  • Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list.
  • When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
  • Available for Firefox and Google Chrome

Tree Style Tab

  • This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. New tabs opened from links (or etc.) are automatically attached to the current tab. If you often use many many tabs, it will help your web browsing because you can understand relations of tabs.

Video DownloadHelper

  • DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
  • re: Conversion: Disable the automatic conversion in DownloadHelper, since it will add a watermark/logo to the resulting video. Use FormatFactory to convert the downloaded .flv to .avi or .mp3.

E-mail / eMail

Mozilla Thunderbird

  • E-mail client. Open Source.
  • You can use Thunderbird to download your Web-based e-mail to access and backup locally.

Gmail by Google

  • Free Web-based e-mail.
  • Supports POP3 (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) so you can use Thunderbird to access your Gmail account. Using Thunderbird allows you to store your e-mail locally which allows you to backup your e-mail.
  • To backup your Gmail by downloading all the mail to your your local hard drive
    • Go to: Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab > POP Download section:
      1. Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)
      2. When messages are accessed with POP “keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox”
    • This setting will leave everything on-line in Gmail but you’ll have a local duplicate of everything in Thunderbird that you can then backup.
  • If you can’t afford to loose the contents of your Gmail account, then make sure to download and backup on a regular basis.

SSH (Secure SHell) & Terminal Clients

PuTTY is a free SSH and Telnet client

  • mRemoteNG (Multi-Remote Next Generation Connection Manager) is an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager for Windows PuTTY.
    • Save connections for multiple sessions, which can then be organized into folders.
  • SuperPuTTY is a windows based application which manages putty ssh terminals. Additionally it has a simple scripting language for basic tasks. It additionally supports RDP sessions.
    • Multiple PuTTY ssh sessions in tabs.
    • Save connection for multiple sessions, which can then be organized into folders.
  • PuTTY Manager – Tabbed PuTTY, Sessions can be organized into Folders.
  • PuTTY Connection Manager (Tabbed PuTTY)
  • MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY) is a small *FREE* utility enabling you to wrap unlimited number of PuTTY applications in one tabbed GUI interface.

MobaXterm

  • Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools.
  • You can choose to create SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, RDP, VNC, XDMCP, FTP, SFTP or Serial sessions.
  • A graphical SFTP browser allows you to drag and drop files directly from/to the remote server using a secure SFTP connection.

Remote Access / Remote Desktop (RDP)

Remote Desktop Connection Manager – Sysinternals

  • RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections.
  • It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated check-in systems and data centers. 

RD Tabs

  • The original multi-tabbed Remote Desktop client

Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions

  • Quickly launch 50+ remote connection protocols like RDP, VNC, SSH, and ARD

NoMachine

  • Connect to any computer remotely.
  • Reach your computer on the other side of the world in just a few clicks. Wherever your desktop is, you can access it from any other device and share it with who you want.
  • NoMachine is your own personal server, private and secure.
  • Getting started with NoMachine

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