Looking for a new theme for your WordPress website or getting started with WordPress? There are thousands of themes out there and your website creation journey can get stalled right there as you search and search for the right theme, possibly making some bad choices along the way. I’ve been in the WordPress space for […]

If you ever had the misfortune of having a disk corrupted you know how bad it feels to lose your files. Here are some tips on recovering files on a Mac. First, a word of advice. Before using your cards on photographic equipment, always format them so you make sure that you’re starting from a […]

I don’t like using Apple’s applications and proprietary file storage types for photos. I like it old school where I can just drag photos from my devices to my external drive in a folder and organize them manually via folders. Storing photos on iCloud is a privacy concern that not many people care about, but […]

I’ve had a wish to learn electronics for a very long time, and this year I took the plunge and bought some kit to get started. Here’s the stuff I bought and some other resources I found useful. Hardware Keyes electronics kit SMP0051 NodeMCU ESP8266 Lua WiFi Internet Development Board (alternative to Arduino) Raspberry Pi3 Official […]

Gmail stores years of your life — receipts, contracts, medical records, conversations you’d hate to lose. Google can and does lock accounts, sometimes with no warning and no clear appeal process. Accidental deletions happen. And relying entirely on a cloud service you don’t control is just poor data hygiene. If you’re thinking about switching away […]

It’s important that before you start you understand the concept of volumes on Synology Diskstations, because that’s the first thing you will need to set up before you set up Time Machine backups. Volumes on the Synology Diskstation You can use the Synology RAID calculator to help determine how you want to set up volumes. That being […]

When you enable SSL on a Synology Diskstation, accessing it over the local network will throw up a selection of security warnings on browsers. There are 3 choices here for the LAN user: Ignore the warnings and click through Register an Internet FQDN to your local IP Create a self-signed SSL and root CA to […]

The Synology DiskStation is a great tool for backing up your files and acting as a central media storage device. Since it will host so much important data — family photos, documents, backups of all your devices — securing it properly is critical. Out of the box, a Synology NAS is reasonably secure, but there […]

Two-factor authentication or 2FA is a way of making your logins more secure, by not only requiring a username and password when signing in, but also a special extra code that can either be received as an SMS or else generated by an app or device. Most of you will already have used 2FA, perhaps […]

  A while back I wrote a guide to backing up one’s important digital assets. In that post, I mentioned that I decided to go for Synology instead of the Drobo, specifically the Synology DiskStation DS916+. Apart from the negative comments on the Drobo, I had also begun to understand the potential of NAS technology in […]

Losing files you can’t replace — years of photos, client work, journal entries — is a question of when, not if. A hard drive fails, a laptop gets stolen, ransomware hits. The difference between a bad day and a catastrophic one is whether you have a backup. This guide covers backup strategy, the best Mac […]