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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

iCloud is Apple’s cloud service, and it underpins almost everything on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac: backups, photos, files, passwords, and device syncing. It’s easy to …

Having logins to more than 500 websites and having to remember them all is no joke. It’s one of those areas where software is not just …