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First Day: Instacast

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Apple broke podcasting when they released iOS 5. On the iPhone smart playlists were broken and and my podcasts wouldn’t sort correctly when syncing. Fine in iTunes, a jumbled mess on the iPhone. As for podcasts on the iPad – a nightmare. I dealt with the iPhone issues and gave up listening to podcasts on the iPad.  Yesterday at lunch I finally decided to install and use Instacast. There are several well regarded podcast apps but Instacast was a name I remembered and apparently I had bought it awhile back. [...] Read the rest »

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First Impressions: iPad

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I've had the new iPad for almost half a day. What are my first impressions and was it worth the upgrade from my iPad 2. The two big changes for me were the screen that everyone is talking about and Verizon wireless. Read the rest »

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Synology DSM 4 Released

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Synology has released DiskStation Manager 4. I've been running the beta since I started with Synology and the upgrade was painless. There are some things I really like about Synology although I've yet to dive into the new features. Read the rest »

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Confessions of a iPad Fanboy

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With the latest iPad I became a true iPad fanboy. I arranged to sell my current one before the announcement and pre-ordered the new one shortly after. Here's my full confession. Read the rest »

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Synology to Windows Home Server Using iSCSI

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I've been looking at the capabilities of the Synology NAS products by looking over the Synology DiskStation 212j. This time around I gave it a spin as an iSCSI target from Windows Home Server 2011. The goal is to have the Synology NAS accessed by WHS 2011 as a local drive. No additional software is needed, it's all built in. Read the rest »