Project Mercury

Genie Timeline Free — Continuous Backup Without the Fuss Some backup tools make you think about “jobs,” “sets,” or “profiles.” Genie Timeline Free skips the jargon — it just watches your files and quietly backs them up in real time. If a document changes, it gets saved to your backup drive almost immediately, without you having to remember to run anything.

It’s aimed at individual users who want protection for personal files without learning complicated backup strategies. The interface is simpl

Personal Backup — Flexible File Backup Without the Bloat Some backup tools feel like overkill when all you want is a safe copy of your files. Personal Backup keeps things straightforward — it’s a Windows utility designed to back up selected folders to almost anywhere: local disks, network shares, FTP servers, or external drives.

It’s not pretending to be a full enterprise backup system, but it’s far from basic. You can run one-off backups or schedule them for quiet hours, use compression and en

Zapier for Teams — Automation That Plays Well With the Whole Company Most people know Zapier as the “connect two apps without code” tool. Zapier for Teams takes that same concept but adds the structure and oversight you need when multiple people in an organization are automating things at the same time. It’s still no-code, still works with thousands of apps, but now you get shared workspaces, usage controls, and a way to see what’s running across the company. How It Works in Real Use

Rundeck CE — Putting Everyday Operations in Order In many IT teams, jobs still run from half-forgotten scripts, cron entries someone set up years ago, or quick fixes shared over chat. Rundeck Community Edition takes that chaos and wraps it in a single place where tasks are easy to find, run, and track. It doesn’t matter if the job is a five-line Bash script, a PowerShell command for a Windows box, or a chain of steps across different machines — once it’s in Rundeck, it’s there with logs, permiss

n8n — Open-Source Automation With Room to Grow If you’ve seen Zapier or Integromat, you know the appeal of dragging boxes, linking them with arrows, and watching data flow between apps. n8n does the same thing — but without locking you into a proprietary cloud or charging you per run. It’s open source, self-hostable, and flexible enough to handle everything from a simple “send me a Slack message when a new row is added in Google Sheets” to multi-branch workflows calling APIs, parsing data, and t

Jenkins — The CI/CD Workhorse You Can Bend to Your Will Plenty of tools promise “continuous integration in minutes,” but a lot of them tie you to their cloud, their limits, and their way of working. Jenkins doesn’t. It’s open-source, it’s been around for ages, and it runs anywhere you can get Java running — from a dusty lab server under someone’s desk to a cluster humming in a data center.

Once it’s up, Jenkins will happily build, test, and deploy pretty much anything you throw at it. Java apps