Dreams ∙ Passion ∙ Digital World
Owners of Herman Miller Aeron chair would probably discover that the ergonomic chair lacks support for the upper neck and cranium. In your quest to tackle this, you are likely to have come across headrests from companies like Engineered Now and Atlas. After some comparisons, I settled for the Atlas’s suspension headrest and I got it for S$232 during Shopee 9.9 sales.
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Need a 10-inch Android tablet but don’t wish to break the piggy bank? Need a tablet so that your child can attend online classes? Perhaps the Amazon Fire HD (2021, 11th Generation) would be a good fit as Amazon recently refreshed the Fire HD 10 tablet back in May 2021. It runs Fire OS 7 (Android 9.0) and is decently spec-ed with octa-core 2.0GHz CPU, 3GB RAM and 32GB storage for the base model. At US$149.99, it is definitely a value-for-money tablet that is good enough for many. I got it at S$145 (after applying the shop and platform coupons) during the recent Lazada 9.9 sale.
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Bitwarden, LastPass) have become increasingly popular and necessary over the past few years as a means to foil hackers by having different complex password for every single one of your online accounts. Are you using a password manager? We will take a look at C2 Password features in this article and occasional comparison to my experience with Bitwarden.
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Every once in a while you will read news about data breaches and password leaks. Although strong passwords are great, majority of people use the same password everywhere. Once it is leaked in a breach, perpetuators would attempt logging in to other popular web services using the same credentials. This is where 2FA creates another barrier for them, rather than them gaining access right away with the credentials, they will be required to provide additional information from something you own (e.g. TOTP from Authenticator app) or something you are (e.g. fingerprint, facial recognition). Synology introduced these features in the latest DSM 7.0 release.
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If you have been using DS Cloud to synchronise folders between your Android mobile phone and Synology NAS (on DSM6), you will be disappointed that DS Cloud is not supported on DSM7. The DS Cloud’s two-way folder synchronisation feature enabled me to free up storage space on the mobile by shifting dated files out of the Synology NAS sync-ed folder to another folder. This shift would appear as though the files were deleted on the server-side, prompting DS Cloud (on the mobile device) to delete off the files. It is a niffy trick to manage storage space on the mobile device but it no longer works on DSM7. Fortunately, I managed to replicate this two-way sync using FolderSync Android app and Synology’s WebDAV Server package. Continue reading the guide if you want to know how.
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I have the habit of having additional copies of back ups (partial and not full) from the Synology NAS to an external USB storage device like the Seagate Expansion Desktop. However, I want the external USB storage to be visible (i.e. mounted) to the Synology NAS only when the Hyper Backup task is running and not visible (i.e. unmounted) at other times with the hope of mitigating ill effects of ransomware attacks. I managed to achieve it using Task Scheduler and careful planning of backup windows for Hyper Backup tasks. I have put together this guide to show you how it is done.
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The Synology DS1821+ is a 8-bay network attached storage that has something very different under its hood. That is, it uses the AMD Ryzen CPU and this is Synology’s second NAS with AMD CPU after the DS1621+ 6-bay NAS.
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Recently, I used the Migration Assistant to migrate data and system settings from the Synology DS1817+ to the DS1821+ NAS. Other than refreshing the NAS, a brand new set of 10TB hard drives replaced the existing 6TB. The migration was seamless and services remained available during the process.
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I got a Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) tablet that sounded a little soft during video conferencing. Hence, I needed a portable external speaker.
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