Create a Time Machine backup location for you Mac OS X systems using a Raspberry Pi and an USB harddisk. Works like a charm! Setup your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and connect the USB Harddisk. Login to your RPi and execute the following command: $ sudo fdisk -l Your disk will be one of the /dev/sd* […]
Rsync backup Mac OS X to Synology
I use Apple’s Time Machine to make a regular backup of my Macbook. This seems to work okay, but so now and then it needs to redo the complete backup to remain reliable…. That sounds a little unreliable to me. Because most of my data is on my Synology NAS or in the Cloud like […]
Camerasync for iPad / iPhone
As an addition to my article about photo workflow on the iPad, I can recommend the camerasync app to automatically copy your photos (JPG and/or RAW) from your iPad to the following external storage providers: Dropbox MobileMe iDisk FTP servers Amazon S3 Flickr Box.net The app is very straight forward. It searches for new photos in […]
No excuse for not having a backup
This morning I read a magazine in which an article was written about home burglary. One of the remarks made by people who had experienced a home burglary was that it was terrible to happen because they lost so many private belongings. So far I completely agree! Then the remark was made: “my notebook was […]
Backup strategy and Synology Online back...
I’m happy to see that more users are starting to use NAS devices (Network Attached Storage) to store and share their data, music, photos and videos within a household. Many people choose for a setup with a RAID 1 configuration which means that they have installed 2 harddisks that hold a copy of each others […]
LastPass – The last password you’ll have
LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. Although I’ve never been enthousiastic about using a password manager, I’m completely convinced now! My main concerns were usability and reliability of the application. One of the main benefits of using a password manager is that you are able to use unique […]
Backup (and restore) your photos using F...
Flickr is a very popular photosharing site. Basically you can use it to store your pictures and share those with your friends and/or family or make them available to the rest of the world. A free account offers you 100 MB of photo uploads a month and you can view the last 200 uploaded photos. […]
Delete Gladinet Cloud Desktop settings
I use Gladinet Cloud Desktop which enables you to access your free skydrive.live.com account from the Windows Explorer. It also offers some other nice features like backup. For some reason I had to delete all the settings of Gladinet Cloud Desktop. This fixed some issues I had with using the application (like chunking files for […]
Keep your Bookmarks in Sync
Are you using multiple internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and / or Safari? You might run into the issue how to synchronize your bookmarks between all your browsers and computers. You can easily synchronize and backup your bookmarks online using www.xmarks.com. Have a look at the website. It’s free!