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Step-by-Step macOS setup for Thunderbird

Written by Lída Hrnčířová on 2020-03-26

As you're watching/reading our how-to-guides, you may get stuck because you just simply cannot find the correct option, setting, button, tab... Unfortunately, Enigmail will set up itself automatically without asking you first - sometimes you're lucky and it's set up correctly, sometimes it's like you're using a totally different software. In today's we will share with you our step-by-step guide to setting up Enigmail.

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Step-by-step macOS installation for Thunderbird

Written by Lída Hrnčířová on 2020-03-19

We've already shared an instructional video for installing all the necessary software on macOS for Thunderbird with you. Now it's time to show you our brand new step-by-step instructional series in text form supported by plenty of screenshots that will guide you through the processes. In this first article we will focus on installing GPG Tools and Enigmail.

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Online Teaching with REPL

Written by Dominik Joe Pantůček on 2020-03-12

As the pandemic of panic is taking over the world, the universities are forced to deliver the content to students via remote-access tools. Online teaching has been slowly gaining momentum anyway - but the focus is still mostly on emulating the in-class interaction between teachers and students. Read on to see there are other options.

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Racket, MS SQL, ODBC and FreeTDS

Written by Dominik Joe Pantůček on 2020-03-05

As I have written before, Racket is used for implementing most of our tooling and helper applications both for the Cryptoucan™ development and for other back-end tasks as well. You can rightfully guess that most of the bookkeeping programs need to access various databases and although accessing databases is super-convenient in Racket, with some databases on weird platforms, strange problems may arise. Read on to see one of the more interesting and also to see how to resolve such issues.

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Racket: Faster Pixel Access

Written by Dominik Joe Pantůček on 2020-02-27

As you might recall, Racket provides no way of working with bitmap data both ways: writing and reading. There are only methods that can help you directly access bitmap  ARGB data and those are not designed for any high performance tasks. Read on to learn some new tricks to access the bitmap data faster...

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