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Mobile note taking with your private cloud: announcing Joplin/Nextcloud integration

Open source Evernote competitor Joplin introduced Nextcloud integration, making it easy for users to keep their notes to themselves. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share server designed to keep you in control over your data. And notes! Joplin and Nextcloud are...

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Nextcloud Talk 1.1.0 with Push-to-talk, improved call actions, F-droid support

Today Nextcloud releases Nextcloud Talk for Android 1.1. This update brings a number of interface and feature improvements to the Android app, including Push-to-talk, F-Droid support and improved call actions. Nextcloud Talk is a self-hosted, enterprise-ready audio/video and text chat solution giving users the highest...

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Nextcloud 13.0.1, 12.0.6 and 11.0.8 available with improved password protection

We have made available minor updates to Nextcloud 11, 12 and 13. As usual, these bring stability and reliability improvements and we urge all users to upgrade at their earliest convenience! Customers can rely on the stand-by upgrade support from Nextcloud GmbH if needed. If...

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The ever expanding Markdown app

Some of you might be familiar with the Nextcloud Markdown Editor. It has been improving steadily over the last months, encompassing a wide variety of capabilities beyond simple Markdown. Markdown? Wikipedia explains Markdown like this: Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting...

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One of the organizations behind reporting on the Panama Papers uses Nextcloud

OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) is one of the many organizations that were involved with the release of the Panama Papers. Considering the nature of work OCCRP does, they rely heavily on vendor neutral, enterprise grade open source technologies. We talked to Michał...

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Irony: Dropbox saved 75 million by moving away from cloud hosting

Dropbox, in its S1-statement last Friday, showed it reduced its operating costs by nearly 75 million over the next two years by moving storage away from Amazon onto its own infrastructure. Cost savings are only one part of why moving away from cloud storage can...

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Nextcloud will check passwords against database of HaveIBeenPwned

Users tend to use the same passwords in multiple locations, which poses a significant risk in case passwords are stolen. Last Thursday, Security researcher Troy Hunt, known from his site HaveIBeenPwned, expanded his existing dataset of 306 million leaked passwords with another 200 million, bringing...

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Valentine’s day: we love Free Software!

It is that time of the year again, a day to profess love. And we’d like to join in. As community, we’re collaborating and producing privacy protecting software under a set of licenses which lets us work together in a transparent, open and efficient way!...

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Android app 3.0 with end-to-end encryption, Oreo, login wall detection and more

The Nextcloud Android app v3 delivers Android 8 Oreo support, End-to-end Encryption, much better handling of local and remote files, many fixes for the auto-upload and much more in over 180 pull requests reviewed and merged over the last months. It is now available on...

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