Synology to boost firmware for NAS servers
Synology released in March its Disk Station Manager 2.0 software, which, in my opinion, was by far the most robust and intuitive firmware for NAS servers. The company announced on Wednesday, however, that it's going to provide a major update of the firmware with added features and improved functionality, including: • Support for RAID 6 in four-drive and five-drive Synology NAS servers. RAID 6 provides better protection than RAID 5 by allowing for data integrity even when two hard drives fail at a time. • Enhanced IP camera support with more cameras added to the list. • Support for SMART, the popularpredictive failure feature found on most hard drives. Users now can use the firmware to monitor the health of the NAS' hard drives. • Network File System support.The new firmware also offers an enhanced audio station that allows for playing music directly to a PC's speaker (instead of only to USB speakers in the current version), and an enhanced iTunes server that has a new playlist-managing feature.The firmware will be available later this month as a free download.Synology also announced its new NAS server, the DS408. The device supports up to four SATA hard drives with a combined capacity up to 4TB with multiple RAID configurations. The DS408 will also be available later this month for an estimated $749.95. Related stories:Review: Synology Disk Station DS-107+Software upgrade redefines Synology's NAS devices
Monday, March 23, 2015
Sync two iPhones on one computer
Sync two iPhones on one computer
On the Summary tab, make sure that the guest phone's Options are set so that the phone does not sync with this library automatically. Just as important, make sure the box for "Manually Manage Music and Video" is checked. Next, click through the tabs at the top to make sure nothing is selected to sync with the device -- no apps, no music, no videos, photos, books, nor contacts. Nothing. Then hit the Apply button in the bottom-right corner. Always make sure your iPhone content is backed up somewhere before attempting to sync your phone with a new iTunes library.Screenshot by Donald Bell/CNETNow, if this is the first time you've tried connecting this device to this iTunes library, you may get a warning that the phone was originally set up to be used with another computer and that you're about to erase this phone and sync it with content from this library. That's some heavy language, and if it scares you too much, just stop. No Led Zeppelin bootleg is worth it. But since what we're really doing here is freeing this thing up to sync media manually, and we checked that no apps or info or other settings are being synced to this phone, you should be able to take the take the leap with little or no consequence. Of course, it couldn't hurt to make sure your data, photos, and media are backed up before messing around.Finally, now that the phone is set up for manual syncing, you should be able to drag any music or video content from your library and drop it right on the phone's icon to sync it over. That's all there is to it.To see the process unfold, check out my demonstration video on CNET TV.
On the Summary tab, make sure that the guest phone's Options are set so that the phone does not sync with this library automatically. Just as important, make sure the box for "Manually Manage Music and Video" is checked. Next, click through the tabs at the top to make sure nothing is selected to sync with the device -- no apps, no music, no videos, photos, books, nor contacts. Nothing. Then hit the Apply button in the bottom-right corner. Always make sure your iPhone content is backed up somewhere before attempting to sync your phone with a new iTunes library.Screenshot by Donald Bell/CNETNow, if this is the first time you've tried connecting this device to this iTunes library, you may get a warning that the phone was originally set up to be used with another computer and that you're about to erase this phone and sync it with content from this library. That's some heavy language, and if it scares you too much, just stop. No Led Zeppelin bootleg is worth it. But since what we're really doing here is freeing this thing up to sync media manually, and we checked that no apps or info or other settings are being synced to this phone, you should be able to take the take the leap with little or no consequence. Of course, it couldn't hurt to make sure your data, photos, and media are backed up before messing around.Finally, now that the phone is set up for manual syncing, you should be able to drag any music or video content from your library and drop it right on the phone's icon to sync it over. That's all there is to it.To see the process unfold, check out my demonstration video on CNET TV.
Syncing the Pre with a Macbook Pro
Syncing the Pre with a Macbook Pro
Missing Sync OptionsCatherine GougeGeneral ConclusionsAll in all, I would say that each of the above options are useful in their own way and can be used in combination to accomplish different kinds of syncs. The iTunes sync is great for keeping the Pre current with my downloaded music and podcasts (though the Pandora app is so great, I find myself listening to my purchased music less). The USB "drag and drop" option is great if you just want to add a few things manually (not automatically, every time). And the "Missing Sync" works well to automatically back up photos you take on your Pre (as opposed to automatically just adding photos from your computer to your Pre through iTunes). Still WonderingOne thing I have not figured out (but am hoping is covered by the Palm profile I created) is how to back up "contacts" from my phone to my computer. I must be missing something because I know that you can sync contacts with both iTunes and Missing Sync (if you want to override info on your Pre with info stored on your computer), but I can't seem to find how to send all the contacts from my phone to my Macbook. I tend not to add contacts on my computer--only on the Pre. If anyone knows and can tell me in a comment on this post, I would appreciate that info.
Missing Sync OptionsCatherine GougeGeneral ConclusionsAll in all, I would say that each of the above options are useful in their own way and can be used in combination to accomplish different kinds of syncs. The iTunes sync is great for keeping the Pre current with my downloaded music and podcasts (though the Pandora app is so great, I find myself listening to my purchased music less). The USB "drag and drop" option is great if you just want to add a few things manually (not automatically, every time). And the "Missing Sync" works well to automatically back up photos you take on your Pre (as opposed to automatically just adding photos from your computer to your Pre through iTunes). Still WonderingOne thing I have not figured out (but am hoping is covered by the Palm profile I created) is how to back up "contacts" from my phone to my computer. I must be missing something because I know that you can sync contacts with both iTunes and Missing Sync (if you want to override info on your Pre with info stored on your computer), but I can't seem to find how to send all the contacts from my phone to my Macbook. I tend not to add contacts on my computer--only on the Pre. If anyone knows and can tell me in a comment on this post, I would appreciate that info.
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