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…
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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 COMPRESS BIG PDFS IN UBUNTU
When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…
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….