How to sync Outlook calendar and contact with gmx.de, gmx.ch, gmx.at, gmx.com, gmx.us and web.de?

How to sync Outlook calendar and contact with gmx.de and web.de?

In this year of 2020, more and more jobs require people to work from home due to COVID-19 pandamic. Syncing calendar, contact and task remotely from home in order to cope with colleagues has become an issue for those who have not done this before.

Both gmx.de and web.de are popular cloud service providers in Germany. They are among the few providers that host paid or even free mail servers and keep customers’ data domestically in Germany. Ever since Snowden's incident, people start to doubt Google or Apple is able to provide data security against NSA. 

Gmx.de and web.de provide easy-to-use and decent mail, calendar, contact & task cloud service for their users. However, if you search for a solution to sync contact, calendar and task with Outlook, you will hardly find any answer even on their website search. The main reason is that Outlook does not support CalDAV and CardDAV protocol even until the recent Outlook 2016/2019.

Staffs from EVO Collaborator for Outlook is kind enough to make the synchonization possible. Yet, it is simple to configure and use. Five steps are all you need to sync your way.

1. Download and install EVO Collaborator for Outlook
2. Open Configure profile(s)
3. Click on Profile gmx.de or web.de.
4. Enter username & password in corresponding area.
5. Click Test, Apply and Quit.

GMX cloud services are available in several country code top-level domains, such as .US, .COM, .AT, .DE, and .CH. EVO Collaborator for Outlook can auto-detect e-mail address that you entered and fill in server host name for you. The following server list is for your reference:

1. Gmx.de account:
   a. carddav.gmx.net
   b. caldav.gmx.net
2. Gmx.at account:
   a. carddav.gmx.net
   b. caldav.gmx.net
3. Gmx.ch account:
   a. carddav.gmx.net
   b. caldav.gmx.ch
4. Gmx.com or gmx.us account
   a. caldav.gmx.com

Please note that GMX.COM and GMX.US accounts do not have CardDAV service available. However, whenever CardDAV becomes available, EVO staff will make it work in future upgrade.

2018.01.05

How to test fake SD card

Test SD cards

Sandisk SD Card

SDHC (MicroSD or so called TF) cards had been pretty cheap lately, no matter you are trying famous brands like Kingston or Transcend, they are cheap, however, there are a lot of fake cards out there, some of them are just using some brands that you never heard of, or some of them are faking famous brands like kingston.

Fake SD cards symptons and problems

FAKE SD cards (counterfeit SD cards) usually come with large capacity like 32GB or 128GB, and sometimes they are cheaper, however, the capacity is not real, once you place more files in it, older files disappear or just become empty or wipded out.

Once you get one of these fake SD cards, your nightmare never ends, you spend hours and hours to find out what's wrong and finally you got the idea, maybe this SD card is a fake.

How to identify Fake SD cards

It's not easy to identify fake SD cards because the newly written files are usually valid, only older files becomes bad, so it's not easy to proof that a TF card is fake manually.

Free fake SD card testing software

Today we are going to introduce a nice little utility to test the SD card, it is done by filling the SD card with random digits dummy files, and them verify what had been written, the SD card is only good when all files passed the test.

** before you start, make sure your SD card is empty, so all space can be tested.

1. download the software H2TESTW from https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539

2. installl and launch it

SD Card testing software

3. Click write and verify and wait.