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plex
Today Plex announced that its including new movies and TV shows on top of the existing ad-supported collection with the introduction of Crackle support (US only). Even though  some movies in the free ad-supported section of Plex have been around for a while, today Plex proudly announced Crackle
rune
🚀UPDATE 12/06/2021 - More details on running 1G Internet speed using FiberNET as an ISP via Synology RT2600AC router here. 📢UPDATE 11/06/2021 - Welcome to the Gigabit club! Woohoo, fiber active thanks to FiberNET ISP. 📢UPDATE 19/04/2021 - I am officially in the "green". Expecting
nas
UPDATE: 20/08/2020 - Today Synology announced their new DS1520+. As I said about a month ago the new model would arrive but there was not info on the exact specs. Well there they are now DS1520+: https://global.download.synology.com/download/Document/Hardware/DataSheet/DiskStation/20-year/DS1520+
starwars
Even before Disney got the rights to any SW content, Lucas was focused on making tv show content regarding Star Wars universe. In 2003 micro series was developed for Cartoon Network focusing on Episode 2/3 period, Clone Wars. This eventually got rebooted in a seven season (current and last)
apple
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.
dsm
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
apple
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
review
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
review
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
dsm
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.
synology
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
docker
🔈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.