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

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

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

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

Feed delta updates strip away feed entries that the subscriber has already download and only transmits the update delta consisting of new entries.

Learn about the HTTP Vary response header and its important role in HTTP content negotiation and caching. Vary is an important but little-known part of HTTP.

Windows 10 Home edition has a built-in remote desktop access (RDP) server. Unlock it with this free utility program. However, enabling it is a big security risk.

Learn how to enable the new Brotli compression module alongside Gzip compression in the Apache HTTPD server.

Ensure reliable and long-term content distribution over BitTorrent with a dedicated seedbox. All you need is a small server or a cloud VPS.

Take control over your WordPress site’s HTTP Cache-Control response header directives with my easy-to-use WordPress plugin.

Get the details on how GNMOE Web (formerly Epiphany) uses favicons and other website assets when installing websites as web apps on the Linux desktop.

A survey shows how many websites discriminate against and block all search engines and spiders except GoogleBot in their /robots.txt files.