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A wonderful little app disappeared from the Play Store recently: Sweet Home WiFi Picture Backup. This app perfectly (for me) synchronised my phone’s photos with my Synology NAS (via CIFS/SMB), creating the year/month/day filing I prefer, retaining photos on the phone for a specified period – in my case, one month. Frustratingly there seems to …
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Introduction As you may know from other articles here, I have a Synology DS214Play NAS, and I’m a big fan. It can do so much for so little money. Well, today I’m going to show you a new trick – it will work for most Synology models. There are a few different ways of remotely …
I’ve recently taken the plunge and invested in a Synology NAS – the powerful DS214Play. Some of my colleagues have been raving about Synology’s NASes for a while and I thought it was about time I saw what all the fuss was about. This how-to article is not the place for a detailed review so …
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I’ve been using HomePlug AV adapters at home for years. These excellent devices turn your ring mains into a LAN, incredibly routing network data over your electrical cabling. As long as all your sockets are on the same phase, you can put a network socket wherever you have an electrical socket. This is excellent news …
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[easyreview title=”Complexity rating” icon=”geek” cat1title=”Level of experience required, to follow this how-to.” cat1detail=”We’re pulling together a few sophisticated components here, but keep your eye on the ball and you’ll be okay.” cat1rating=”4″ overall=”false”] Laravel Tutorials Part 1: Installation Part 2: Orientation Part 3: Using External Libraries Part 4: Database Management Through Migrations Part 5: Using …
Here at Geek & Dummy we have reviewed varied products this year and if you’ve been following our blog, you’ll have noticed that Geek and I have differing tastes and requirements from our tech. Here are my top 5 products of the year, largely based around their impact on me. As you know, I’m a …
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last five years, you’ll have heard of cloud sync poster child Dropbox. Dropbox has many flaws, but its great strength is how simple it is to use (my most inept users can manage it). When you read elsewhere about the weaknesses of Dropbox, privacy seems to …
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UPDATE: if the process below seems like a bit too much hassle, we would currently recommend Tresorit. It is similar to DropBox, with the added advantage that your data is encrypted on Tresorit’s servers. In other words, unlike with DropBox, if their servers are compromised, any data recovered would still have to be decrypted before …
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