Apple locks users out of their Apple IDs without explanation
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
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Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
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Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about their favo...
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Am heutigen 31. März ist World Backup Day. Wie es sich gehört und mittlerweile moderne Tradition ist, benötigen wir einen speziellen Tag, um auf ei...
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
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Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
With AI already being more than just „the next big thing“, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility. Consider...
There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about their favo...
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Am heutigen 31. März ist World Backup Day. Wie es sich gehört und mittlerweile moderne Tradition ist, benötigen wir einen speziellen Tag, um auf ei...
With AI already being more than just „the next big thing“, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility. Consider...
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
Am heutigen 31. März ist World Backup Day. Wie es sich gehört und mittlerweile moderne Tradition ist, benötigen wir einen speziellen Tag, um auf ei...
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about their favo...
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about their favo...
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Am heutigen 31. März ist World Backup Day. Wie es sich gehört und mittlerweile moderne Tradition ist, benötigen wir einen speziellen Tag, um auf ei...
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
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My default apps starting 2024
There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about their favo...