DiskStation Internet services
Following on from my post on LAN services, the Synology DiskStation also offers a number of services you may wish to make available via the Internet. Ordinarily this will require port forwarding on...
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I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with EndNote (OSX Win Web) since the early days when it came on a floppy disk. Back then only libraries had a CD-ROM drive for access to Medline, although most of us...
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LogMeIn is a useful remote control service: shame it doesn’t work when my home Mac has gone into power-saving sleep. I use an ADSL modem in bridge mode which provides a fixed public IP address to my...
View ArticleAurora borealis over Reykjavík
Download a KML file (530KB) for viewing in Google Earth, showing tracks at the key sites during this trip. Recorded with a GlobalSat BT-335; zoom right in! Iceland KML
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I use Alfred every day under OSX, admittedly primarily as an application launcher. Alfred’s developer touts the ability of the software to ‘create immensely powerful workflows by connecting keywords,...
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Having used Google Reader daily (via Reeder and Flipboard), I was disappointed at the decision to close it, and so was looking for an alternative that would be less prone to implosion. Fever is a...
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Seventy per cent of the old town’s rooves were destroyed during the Balkan war in the early 90s; there is an almost uniform sea of orange tiles visible from the town walls, sent from France as part of...
View ArticleDisable Skype Home on Macs
Like many users of Skype I don’t want to link to FaceBook contacts (having long since deleted my presence there) and I don’t want see ads. Opening Skype should default to the Contacts list, and while...
View ArticleAccess Synology API data via Alfred workflow
I don’t really know PHP, but I like to tinker. When I came across a PHP library for utilising the Synology APIs by Nicolas Cerveaux (zzarbi) on GitHub I thought it would be a challenge to see if I...
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Wake a Mac on LAN from Internet via iOS and PHP
LogMeIn is a useful remote control service: shame it doesn’t work when my home Mac has gone into power-saving sleep. I use an ADSL modem in bridge mode which provides a fixed public IP address to my...
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Aurora borealis over Reykjavík
Download a KML file (530KB) for viewing in Google Earth, showing tracks at the key sites during this trip. Recorded with a GlobalSat BT-335; zoom right in! Iceland KML Seltjarnarnes, Capital Region,...
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Alfred v2.x workflow for broadband speed
I use Alfred every day under OSX, admittedly primarily as an application launcher. Alfred’s developer touts the ability of the software to ‘create immensely powerful workflows by connecting keywords,...
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Replacing Google Reader with Fever
Having used Google Reader daily (via Reeder and Flipboard), I was disappointed at the decision to close it, and so was looking for an alternative that would be less prone to implosion. Fever is a...
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Rooftops of Dubrovnik
Seventy per cent of the old town’s rooves were destroyed during the Balkan war in the early 90s; there is an almost uniform sea of orange tiles visible from the town walls, sent from France as part of...
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