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What a glorious day! Apple Music is finally in Croatia! All jokes aside, after a long long time, Apple has just announced that Apple services are expanding into more countries worldwide. Truth be told other competitive music services were already available, but the more the better, thats what I say.
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Yesterday Synology pushed out a new update covering a fair bit of new things and some fixes. NOTE: Please be aware NOT to update your NAS if you don’t have a valid backup and even in that case if that NAS is your main production device. Best to wait
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In 2016, Apple released several new devices as a part of their yearly refresh. iPhone 6S and 6S Plus were expected but what most people were wondering was the announced iPhone SE. Same shape and size as iPhone 5S but with speed and tech of an iPhone 6/6s, SE
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I have been a Plex user for over 11y now. I love it. No way around it, its just perfect for me and my needs. If you are unfamiliar with Plex (shame on you!) its a media streaming and organizing platform. Free with some premium features. What started as a
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UPDATE 28/09/2020 - Potential pricing model change coming with ForkLift 4 in 2021 - https://binarynights.com/blog/posts/forklift-new-business-model.html DISCLAIMER: In the interest of full disclosure, this app has been bought with my own funds, all of the opinions you are about to read are
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Today, Synology announced some changes regarding login procedure into their C2 cloud platform. If you are unfamiliar with the platform you can visit https://c2.synology.com/en-us and see what its all about. A few days ago I spoke about the upcoming Hybrid Share feature coming in DSM7.
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Well well, would you look at that! synoforum.com is one year old! Woohoo! For all of you who are unfamiliar with this site, Synoforum was created and started 1 year ago after it was obvious that community.synology.com is going to stay in its current form factor. Considering
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🔈UPDATE: 17/11/2025 - updated some solutions with comments, added PocketID and Tidarr to the list 🔈UPDATE: 12/07/2023 - added WireGuard to the list. How to turn Synology NAS into a WG VPN server 🔈UPDATE 15/01/2022 - added ShellNGN to the list after a few months of testing.
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This will be a quick tutorial on http to https redirect for all of you using Synology reverse proxy (usually in a combination with Docker containers) or in general any means to host any content on your NAS. Why is http to https needed? Well for one it will force
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Due to the COVID-19 situation, all Synology workshops were converted into webinars. Most of them stated on the 31st of March, World Backup Day. What a coincidence ha? I tuned in to one of them, South Central US regional, that was supposed to take place in Texas. The whole
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March 31st. World backup day. If you are unaware, this is the day to raise awareness regarding your data it's backup and your overall peace of mind knowing that all those digital bit and bytes are safe. Synology as a brand that works day and night to make
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Setting up a mesh wifi configuration with Synology router lineup. The question is can an old model still serve its purpose, or is it just an old dinosaur in a modern age? Synology only recently started to sell and develop network devices, specificity routers. To date, there are 3 models