Whats The Last Thing You Bought?

If you download Picasa ( the original is no longer around ) But you can still get a version of it. I have it, and it's dead easy to resize the pictures you load into it.

 

Sorry if I've missed something, I'm no computer whizz and I don't know what IMGUR is (!) - assuming it is a photo library, why can't you right click and copy there, and right click and paste here?

I do that from all sorts of places - F/B, other forums, my computer etc.

Just wondered!

 

I don’t trust any of these cloud thingies and bought myself a Synology NAS with two 4 Tb drives in a RAID formation. All of my data is stored on it, documents, photos, backups of iPhone, iPad, laptop and desktop. All accessible on my phone when out and about. All the Synology Apps are FoC and the photo App automatically backsup the photos from both iPad and iPhone to the NAS.

The whole point of having two drives in the NAS is that they mirror each other so if one goes down you just replace it with a new one which then rebuilds itself from the good one that’s still in the NAS. The drives are purpose built for this purpose to run 24/7/52, however I can also allow the drives sleep when not called on for a given period. As soon as I access it, it wakes up and the drives spin up.

One of the best bits of IT kit that I have plus moving over to the dark side from Windows was a game changer.

 

Thanks for this great info, @Baza. I would ask a favor… could you please name out the acronyms that you’ve used? I’m not all that IT savvy so it’s a bit cryptic to me. But I certainly am interested. I need a much better system than I currently have.

 

I'd go one better than that Sandi, could I have it in English, as I didn't understand a bloody word of it . . I'm really not computer savvy one bit.

 

Apologies
RAID = Redundant Array of Independat Disks - basically the way it stores your information across a group of disks.

NAS = network Attached Storage - a small file server that plugs into the back of my router. This will show you the model I have. https://global.download.synology.co...DS218j/enu/Synology_DS218j_Data_Sheet_enu.pdf Currently it has two 4 Tb drives in it which I will need to replace with larger drives in the not too distant future.

You can have a number of users logged onto it at the same time, all with different rights if necessary. And you can give a non user time limited passworded access to a specific file or directory if you wish. I have used this facility a number of times and find it really useful.

Synology’s tech support is first class and once you get into it, accessing it is just like looking at a flash drive you’ve plugged into your PC using Finder or File Manager, or whatever they call it these days.

Let me know if I’ve missed anything. Can’t recommend it too highly

Going one step further, one of my sons runs Plex on his NAS as a multimedia server which means I can watch TV shows or films that he has downloaded.

As well as selling brand new units they also sell refurbished ones if you want to save a few pennies.

 

I went to a T-shirt shop and ordered the following T-shirt for my wife .
It is her on her bike on our tour in Corsica last summer..

 

For my Rocket I made a bargain.
I got the following windscreen (PUIG 20283F) for < €100.- (incl. transport) at an online dealer.

 

What an awesome t-shirt and a terrific gift for your wife, @Markus! What an outstanding husband you are.