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    Image tagging for Synology Moments with the exif tool

    On January 31, 2021 By Marcel

    Over the years I have been using the Synology Moments app with all it’s AI …

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    Running a Pi-hole securely on Azure

    On December 2, 2020 By Marcel

    A global Dark Mode for your browser

    On June 26, 2020 By Marcel
    Minox 35mm camera

    Mass converting and image processing of scanned 35mm slides

    On March 22, 2020 By Marcel

    Digitizing my 35mm slides, finally

    On March 21, 2020 By Marcel

    Image tagging for Synology Moments with the exif tool

    On January 31, 2021 By Marcel In Customization, Photo, Synology

    Over the years I have been using the Synology Moments app with all it’s AI goodness, but actually finding some of my photos remained difficult. Sometimes I remembered that a photo was taken with a …

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    Running a Pi-hole securely on Azure

    On December 2, 2020 By Marcel In Azure, Customization, Raspberry Pi

    Pi-hole is a popular DNS resolver, advertised as a black hole for Internet advertisements. I use it as a DNS filter for parental control as well as an ad and tracking domain filter. As a …

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    A global Dark Mode for your browser

    On June 26, 2020 By Marcel In Customization

    The other day, I wondered how to enable dark mode on any of those bright shiny websites. Before long, I found darkmode-js. Here’s how to use it with Tampermonkey.

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    Minox 35mm camera

    Mass converting and image processing of scanned 35mm slides

    On March 22, 2020 By Marcel In Photo

    I have scanned all my slides into TIFF images. Now, I want to improve the color curves a bit and convert them into shareable JPEG files. Marking the files As a first measure, I wanted …

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    Digitizing my 35mm slides, finally

    On March 21, 2020 By Marcel In Photo

    Finally, I took the time for digitizing all those slides I had packed up in boxes and magazines some time ago. It’s more than 3200 slides and I wanted to avoid the costs of a …

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    Using the exiftool on a Synology NAS

    On February 28, 2020 By Marcel In Customization, Photo, Programming, Synology

    How to use the exiftool on a Synology NAS

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    Managing WhatsApp photos using the exiftool

    On February 22, 2020 By Marcel In Linux, Mobile Phone, Photo

    I tried to leverage the exiftool to help me manage my photo library, especially my received WhatsApp image files. These image files are quite heavily, lossy, compressed when sent and stripped of nearly all useful …

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    A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, publishing to an MQTT topic

    On February 3, 2020 By Marcel In Programming, Raspberry Pi, Sensor

    This is mainly an iteration of a previous post A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress (see there for details on the sensor) but this time publishing to an MQTT topic. Setting up the …

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    Running Spotify on a Kid’s phone, without the age restriction

    On January 30, 2020 By Marcel In Android, Customization, Mobile Phone

    How to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.

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    Remote access to a Microsoft Windows 10 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) with TeamViewer

    On January 11, 2020 By Marcel In Azure, Linux

    Since I have set up my first Azure Windows VM, I wondered how to best access it. There are many options, with their own limitations: RDP (requires an internet-facing open port) Bastion (requires quite involved …

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