Send is super cool. Not only is it one of the quickest, most simple and intuitive interfaces for sending large files that I’ve ever seen, but it also apparently integrates with ‘filelink’ in Thunderbird which I’ve always been tempted to try. Now that I see it’s a one-click install in YH, I wanted to go for it on my own.…
Category: Technology
Installing CryptPad in Yunohost
Cryptpad is an amazing opensource software suite. You can share real-time spreadsheets, text documents and other stuff. Sometimes you want to do a quick brainstorming, or other times you just want to build a simple database in a familiar ‘excel’ like format. This does all of that, plus, it’s encrypted and completely anonymous. This would be an amazing quick tool…
How to Set Up a BIMI Logo with Inkscape
BIMI is some kind of logo plus security add on feature to email. In short, it uses a very specific kind of logo format for your company to a) show up visually in someone’s inbox when you send them an email (if they have that functionality) and b) increase email security / authenticity. So it seems good. I was surprised…
How to get DKIM setup for email using Digital Ocean
EDIT DEC 14, 2022: It seems I might have missed an important piece of understanding about DKIM. I am currently working on this. If you see this message, my new understanding is this: DKIM is handled on the email server Therefore, if you are not running an email server and using a 3rd party ESP, then the DKIM private key…
How to Fix an App Stuck Between Screens in Ubuntu
I had a weird situation today. I have two monitor displays: a laptop monitor on my desk and a big monitor above that. They are joined logically in that way in the display settings of ubuntu. Suddenly my Telegram app got ‘stuck’ between the two. The top toolbar that you grab with your mouse was unable to be accessed because…
How to do DMARC, SPF and BIMI settings (and other stuff) in Digital Ocean DNS settings
SECOND EDIT: DEC 12, 2022 FIRST EDIT DATE: Sept 1, 2022 I had a hard time with this one for some reason. My email provider (Webnames) has an email setup page which showed the SPF records without quotations. Even their tech support told me not to use quotations in the txt file entries in my server! I guess they hadn’t…
HOW TO VIEW AND CHANGE PRESTASHOP MYSQL TABLES IN UBUNTU SERVER
Learn a bit of MySQL while we manually force Prestashop to point to a new domain…
HOW TO VIEW AND CHANGE PRESTASHOP MYSQL TABLES IN UBUNTU SERVER
When your prestashop keeps pointing to the old domain….
How to Reformat or Repurpose an Encrypted Hard Drive
Repurpose an encrypted drive so it’s useful again…
How to make HP Laserjet 1000 work on Ubuntu 20.04
my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…