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Goodbye OSX – part #8: Apple’s declining software quality

Seems like we’re not alone 😉 … Besides our own experiences, the feedback from our customers, more and more people around the world are increasingly talking about the continuously declining software quality: “Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few […]

Goodbye OSX – part #3: migrating from 1password to Keepass / KeepassX

UPDATE 03/Jan/2016: 1Password 4.x for Windows is working nicely in WINE. The mac serial works for windows, too. – Perfect! Unfortunately, Agilebits (the creator of 1Password) are not offering a linux version of their password storage tool: 1password a couple of years ago, we have switched from KeePassX (OSX) to 1Password because of the better […]

Thunderbird / Icedove / Enigmail: Permanent PGP Emails entschlüsseln (und somit durchsuchbar machen)

Problem 1: Mails die PGP verschlüsselt via POP3 empfangen wurden, sind lokal nicht durchsuchbar. – Das ist suboptimal. Lösungsansatz: permanent lokal entschlüsseln. Mir persönlich reicht das, da ich mit PGP nur den Mailtransfer absichern möchte. Da ich nicht alle meine Emails auf meinem Server liegen haben möchte, nutze ich POP3 statt IMAP. Lokal auf meinem […]

Goodbye OSX – part #1 … Why are we leaving?

After having some great years with OSX since 2007 and iOS soon after that, it becomes time to say good bye. Why? – We’re experiencing more and more problems. In 2014, we got really mad about Apple’s ridiculous AppStore policies, claiming that our e-learning app was useless (as opposed to Flappybird!), just because it loaded […]

Improving SPAM Rating (adding SPF records)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/SPF and http://www.conhost.net/faq_artikel-18.htm http://www.labnol.org/internet/authenticate-google-apps-email-with-spf/13877/ Example syntax for the SPF record: b-nm.at v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:78.46.156.164 ip6:2a01:4f8:190:6423::2 ~all Hinweis -all vs. ~all: https://support.google.com/a/answer/178723?hl=en Tool for checking the SFP entries / syntax: http://kitterman.com/spf/validate.html Google check tool: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/

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