Rambox CE and Station: Productivity Applications - News 2021
Today, we will address the new arrivals current of 2 productivity apps, which we have already reviewed for years. And that today they have changed a lot, incorporating new features and services, for the benefit of its users. And they are: «Rambox CE» y "Station".
«Rambox CE» y "Station" consist of 2 open source applications, very similar to the already known application French, which is also cross-platform and offers a free limited plan, but is not open source. Therefore, it is closed, exclusive and commercial.
Rambox CE and Station: Previous Posts
As we mentioned at the beginning, almost 4 and 3 years ago we have explored «Rambox CE» y "Station" respectively. For this reason, we will immediately leave a small extract of each of these previous publications below, so that after, if desired, they can be explored in search of more information about each one:
What is Rambox CE?
"Rambox EC it is a platform quite similar to the popular one French, but with features that more than one will love. It is an open source, multiplatform tool, developed by Ramiro Saenz, which allows us to run more than 70 email and messaging services from a single application.
That is, Rambox offers the possibility of managing our WhatsApp chats, reading our mail, interacting on twitter, having conversations on Skype, Facebook, LinkedIn, among other services, from a single clean and friendly interface." Rambox: The All-in-One Messaging and Email Services
Note: Much more up-to-date information is available on your official website on GitHub.
What is Station?
"Station is a free and multiplatform application, which can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux with which we can use more than 500 applications, this is an application store in the style of Franz, Rambox or WebCatalog. In addition, it focuses and unifies all web applications in a clean and productive interface for the user and that they do not have the need to have the different web services separately.
It also offers an intelligent base with which the workflow can be organized along with the unified search function, which will be very useful for the user so that they can find anything quickly. Therefore, it is an application that easily helps to manage all web applications in one place." Station: a workstation in the style of Franz, Rambox or WebCatalog
Note: Much more up-to-date information is available on your official website on GitHub.
What do they bring back this year 2021?
News until August 2021
Rambox EC
Today, «Rambox CE» presents the following features and news under your current version 0.79 Of date 08/08/2021:
- Better and more comprehensive multilingual support.
- Synchronization of settings between multiple computers.
- Use of a master password.
- Block the app, if you are away for a period of time.
- Do not disturb mode.
- Reordering the applications in the tab bar.
- Use of notification badge on tabs.
- Minimize to tray function.
- Mute the audio to a specific service.
- Eyelash separation floating to the right.
- Deactivating a service instead of removing it.
- Automatic boot at system startup (boot).
- Custom code injection.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Proxy settings.
- Tab bar change from horizontal to vertical.
Station
Today, "Station" presents the following features and news under your current version 2.0.9 Of date 13/07/2021:
- Smart dock: To avoid ending up with more than 20 stacked tabs, all pages are automatically grouped by application.
- Recent documents: To quickly switch between the last used pages with a simple keyboard shortcut, in order to see all the documents you have been working on.
- Automatic sleep: For applications to load and download dynamically as they are used, which makes Station lighter on CPUs than most browsers.
- Do not bother: To mute the desired apps with a single click and make it easier to stay focused throughout the day.
- Muffler: To silence the notifications of some applications by groups, and thus keep others active.
- Multi-account: To allow adding as many accounts as you want, in the different profiles of Gmail, Google Drive or Slack they are perfectly integrated.
- Notification Center: To offer an overview of the different notifications that are received in all configured apps.
- App Store: Which now includes up to 600 web applications and more.
- Easy bookmarks: To keep any page easily accessible at all times.
- Custom apps- To make it easy to add public, team-specific, or private applications to the Station interface with just a few clicks.
Summary
In summary, «Rambox CE» y "Station" to this day, they are still 2 useful and efficient productivity apps, free and open source, for common home and office users. They have also continued to incorporate new features and services to its interface to maintain and guarantee a better and broader user experience on the Operating Systems where they are used.
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