Stitching HDR panoramas using Adobe Lightroom
While travelling through the Netherlands, I often find myself without my Canon DSLR at hand. Instead, I take photos using my iPhone. Regrettably, of course, it comes with a limited lens with a fixed focal length. To counter this, people often use the built-in …
HDR photo merging using Adobe Lightroom
When taking photos, we often have to deal with difficult lighting situations, such as a bright sky and a relatively unlit landscape. In practice, unless a filter is used, most cameras can only take a proper photo of the sky, or of the landscape. We can make us…
Reducing Adobe Lightroom catalog size by automatically purging big history states
Recently, when backing up my pictures folder, I noticed my Lightroom catalog had notably increased in size, even though I couldn't remember adding that many pictures. I decided to investigate. I remembered reading a few years ago, on Jeffrey Friedl's blog, th…
Office 2016 Mac on a diet — decreasing Office's disk use
My university has partnered with Microsoft to offer its students a free version of Microsoft Office 2016 for the duration of their stay. Great, as I was still using the old Office 2011 to read and write the occasional document. To my dismay, however, I found …
Migrating mail between IMAP servers using mbsync
My university recently announced a switch from Zimbra to Microsoft Exchange server. The thought didn't sit well with me, so I decided to migrate the mails to my own mail server instead. A generalised account of what I used to achieve this, can be found below. …
Set up your own CalDAV server on Debian to synchronise calendars and contacts between OS X and iOS
We've been using standardised protocols like IMAP to keep our mailboxes in sync between many devices for well over a decade. Our calendars and contacts haven't been as lucky; though there have been proprietary protocols to keep our data centralised (such as Mi…