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Windows 10 supports CalDAV/CardDAV but limits provider-support

Windows 10 supports syncing email, contacts, and calendars with all major providers. However, Microsoft chooses to close it down to a handful of providers.

A dialog in Windows 10 prompting to choose an account service provider among Outlook.com, Exchange, Google, Yahoo! Mail, and iCloud.

How to add CalDAV and CardDAV accounts and sync with Windows 10

Set up syncing with your CalDAV and CardDAV accounts with the built-in Windows 10 Calendar and Contacts apps.

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Windows 10’s “Interesting Calendars” feature is powered by webcal/iCal

New Windows Calendar feature is just standard webcal subscriptions but interestingly you can’t add your own webcals.

An iCal calendar and the Windows Calendar logo.

How to add an iCal/webcal calendar to the Calendar app in Windows 10

Learn how to work-around Windows 10 limitations to add iCal and webcal calendars to the Windows Calendar app through Outlook.com.

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Take control over AdSense Matched content recommendations

How to exclude pages from and control what pages appear in AdSense Matched content units.

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Keep worthless ads off your website with AdSense Ad Balance

Google AdSense gives publishers new control over what to do with low-value ads without meaningfully impacting revenue.

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Requirements for eligibility for AdSense Matched content

Google Recommended Content can recommend visitors more things to read on your website.

A laptop screen showing an info message about the page being unavailable on the web; but suggests looking for it in the Internet Archive.

Navigate around dead links with the Wayback Machine browser extension

Experimental browser extension from Mozilla and the Internet Archive helps you find archived copies of dead links as you browse with Firefox.

Worn paper ledgers.

Feed your log files to the systemd journal

How to forward logs to systemd journald from legacy programs that insist on writing to their own log files.

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Why I Love Free Software

My contribution to the FSFE’s 2017

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EdgeDeflector gets Windows 10 to respect your default browser setting

EdgeDeflector stops Windows 10 from forces-opening links in Microsoft Edge, and makes Windows respect the system-wide default web browser setting instead.

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Reduce the bandwidth requirements for keeping Fedora up to date

Tips on how to tweak Fedora to reduce the bandwidth it needs to keep the system stay up-to-date.

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