Software

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Software

Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!

When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark Noise is a tool willing to phase down the pace of everyday life by providing natural sounds on all Apple-based OSes, striving for calmness.

Linux

How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11

Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration.

Microsoft

Microsoft dumps custom domains in Microsoft 365 Single and Family

Despite the bond with GoDaddy as a registrar, one of the biggest pros for paying (home) customers was the use of a custom domain serving your private Microsoft account’s E-Mail-address.

Microsoft

Microsoft Office is dead, long live Microsoft 365

According to a company FAQ, Microsoft is going to execute the biggest rebranding in the office productivity-sector in more than 30 years.

Nextcloud

Nextcloud teams up with Webex App Hub

One of Nextcloud‘s biggest pros is surely the own ecosystem which enables you to extent your private cloud with lots of useful applications.

Veeam

How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi

When two vendors form a technological alliance, many others simply benefit from this. Screening this picture in technology, the combination of Veeam and Wasabi is a perfect match to securely backup Microsoft 365-related data.

Docker

Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS

Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flexibility can be added by yet another tool: Portainer.

Microsoft

Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client

Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to catch up.

macOS

UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization

In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have accomplished this task yet, but there are alternatives.

Security

Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship

While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with voices of reason. One elementary tool for this is Tor Browser.

Software

With Chrome OS Flex, Google wants to revive older devices for good

With the acquisition of Neverware and its Chromium-based CloudReady-OS, the path for this progress was already paved in 2020. Now, Chrome OS Flex takes a final approach to revitalize older hardware and simultaneously aims at the Enterprise.

Linux

Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec

There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alternative with a modern console.

Apple

Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac

Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after the initial provisioning of Microsoft Office on Apple’s latest chips.

Software

Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault

Even a day after the #SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if you also want to self-host your sensitive data.

Software

ONLYOFFICE 7.0 hits the virtual shelves with many improvements

When it comes to online collaboration paired with a great desktop editor on all famous operating systems, ONLYOFFICE is an eligible candidate for delivering the whole setup needed. Depending on your own preferences and expectation, there are always to alternatives to the top dog named Microsoft Office. The most famous

Smart Home

How to easily deploy Home Assistant on your Synology-NAS

There are many ways to deploy Home Assistant in your home environment but once you own a Synology-NAS supporting Docker, putting it there is accomplished in nearly no time!

Apple

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?

Fortunately, there is also an app not just for „everything“, but especially designed to meet this use case from a smart developer named Rafa.

Software

Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization

Especially if you pair the Apple Silicon-support with the seamless integration of Windows 11 on a Mac-system, you’ve got no other choice than to go with Parallels!

Digital Sovereignty

German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea

The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization strategy!

Nextcloud

How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker

The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While…

Nextcloud

Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government

Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow…

Linux

Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux

While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date.

Nextcloud

How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend

Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling…

Microsoft

Microsoft officially announces Office 2021 release day

The new perpetual version of Microsoft Office is launching together with Windows 11 on October 11th while the LTSC-edition has already hit…

Apple

Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop

The number of apps and features I’d already expected to be in macOS from the scratch steadily increases