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Installing your own email and calendar server

Instead of giving all your data to other companies like Google or Apple, you can keep it to yourself and create your own email, address and calendar server from which you can control all your data and export it whichever way you want. If you want an integrated solution for emails, addresses and calendar, you…

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open-source firmware for canon camera

  • Posted on 17th February 2012,
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Free open-source software always fascinates me. You have a product that was designed and produced by an industrial manufacturer and then you have a bunch of free-minded people that just decide to take this peace of plastic — or metal — and turn it into something different; supercharging/pimping it. In an earlier post I’ve written…

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scifi-books panorama

  • Posted on 11th December 2011,
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I’ve made a panorama view of my sci-fi book collection. See if you can spot why is not just a simple photo of my bookcase: Click for high-res version. Achieving this was rather more difficult than expected. I used my Canon EOS 450D on a tripod and moved it parallel to the bookcase. This is…

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