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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…

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 c…

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'…

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...

This April, I had the immense pleasure of visiting the Cherry Blossom Park (Kersenbloesempark) in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, when the trees were all in full bloom. The weather was amazing, as was the atmosphere: loads of people enjoying the serenit…

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 fou...

Nearly four years ago was when I introduced the last big redesign of my website. Although I changed the background a few months after, the design has stayed more or less the same throughout the years, until I went on a big trip in 2012. Surprisingly...

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 (…