Why is my Synology NAS beeping? Coming home to hearing your NAS making an unfamiliar sound is a bit frightening. It’s never a good sign when an electronic device is beeping. It’s important to understand the situation when it ever arises. So why is your Synology NAS beeping? Synology NAS devices have built-in error signals … Read more
The theory goes that it would likely take 100 man-years to build a mature operating system. Synology is a company that started in 2000 and released its first main software in 2006. So how did they move so fast? The answer is, they didn’t build a brand new OS from scratch. The real question is … Read more
Personal data is super important and sometimes, the hardest part is figuring out where to store it all. If you’re like me and have a ton of videos, photos, files, and more, you’re likely wondering if there’s a convenient place to put your data without compromising security. Synology is a company that builds hardware and … Read more
Is Synology software free of charge? Synology offers their Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) with the purchase of their NAS devices. Synology’s NAS products offer a great deal of flexibility and functionality, but the price tag for the hardware can be prohibitively high for some consumers. Purchasing a Synology device comes with a lot of apps … Read more
What is the Synology Surveillance Station? The Synology Surveillance Station is a powerful yet, a free application available from within the official Synology website. It allows users to monitor their network traffic, view lives camera feeds, record video clips, and even remotely control devices such as routers or switches using SSH commands. It basically turns … Read more
There’s been a lot of questions lately about privacy and whether you should start using network-attached storage (NAS) systems for your home or business. Synology built into their NAS a rather clever method to avoid the confusion of messing with a multitude of configurations to share and secure your data. Synology calls it QuickConnect. But … Read more
Does it ever feel like your laptop is trying to cook you alive? You might be wondering why laptops get so hot? Like all electronic devices, laptops utilize electricity to perform tasks namely on the CPU and GPU. Some of this electricity is inefficiently lost in the process and incidentally converted to heat and can … Read more
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re using Google Maps on your smartphone and somethings wrong where it thinks you are or where your destination is? All too often this is an occurrence. So how do you fix Google Maps when its location services is wrong? Google Maps runs on using GPS, Wifi, … Read more
Time and time again, you’ve clicked the submit button and you wait only to find out days or weeks later that you’ve been denied by Google Adsense once again. What is it this time? Checking your email, it says, “Site Behavior: Navigation.” So, what does this mean and how do we fix it? Site Behavior: … Read more
It can be extremely frustrating when applying for Google Adsense. What’s worst is that you’ve been waiting for weeks, and finally, you get an email telling you that your request has been denied because of “Low content value.” Before we move on, I wanted to say that I was rejected almost 5 times over the … Read more
