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  • How to: Migrate from Outlook.com to GMail / Fix connected accounts

    Microsoft / Outlook.com have silently removed connected accounts from outlook.com on July 1st, 2024. TL;DR: Connected accounts are gone and cannot be fixed :-( I only got aware of it as some people told me that my eMails were marked as “unverified sender” on their side. And indeed, eMails were suddenly sent via the outlook…

  • Your Company Blog needs RSS! Really

    In the last couple of weeks it happened repeatedly that I wanted to follow a company’s blog – just to see that they have a blog but no RSS feed! It’s surprising and a bit disheartening to see companies investing time in writing / maintaining a blog without providing an RSS feed – even though…

  • Mastodon is how the Web should be: OPEN

    TL;DR: just add “.rss” to a mastodon profile or tags or user-tags to get an RSS stream! My photography profile @hikingdude@mastodon.social for example can easily be followed by an RSS Reader by following https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude.rss. No account required! And that’s not even the end! 🤯

  • How to get rid of Cookie-AdTracking – easily

    TL;DR: Delete cookies when closing the browser, allow-list only the sites you want to stay logged in. It’s really that easy. I recently checked my browser settings and was “surprised” to find more than 3.000 cookies. Most of them from sites I didn’t recognize, many from obvious ad-tracking companies. These companies, with whom I have…

  • Making the Best of a Bad Presentation Experience

    Recently, I attended a conference and sat through a particularly bad presentation. I was tempted to leave, but my colleague insisted we stay until the end. So I somehow had to make the best out of it. This gave me the opportunity to analyze what made the presentation so ineffective and “bad” for me (maybe…

  • Good Conference Talks aren’t just Success Stories

    Recently, my colleagues and I attended the World of Data conference. (The conference is an event in the data and analytics industry, where latest trends, technologies etc are presented in workshops and talks/presentations. It’s pretty nice to be honest!)

  • Good bye posting on LinkedIn?

    “Why am I posting on LinkedIn?” That question recently just came to my mind. My inital idea was to change from LinkIn posting to posting on another, work/IT related Mastodon-account – just for the sake of getting off a commercial platform. But then I started asking myself the “whys” …

  • How to make ActivityPub plugin publish WordPress posts

    If your federation of wordpress posts simply doesn’t want to work – it might be that your wordpress URL points to some capial letters.

  • How to filter / hide / ignore News in an RSS feed

    How to filter news items from your RSS feed without paying for an additional service

  • How to fix: Jabra Elite 75T volume too low / decreasing

    Recently I faced the issue with my Jabra Elite 75T InEars that the volume started to continually decrease until I had to max out the volume on the phone. Yet with a very easy solution: CLEANING!