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DIY NAS – Backing Up Your Files (Remote)

April 20, 2013 – 5:54 pm |
DIY NAS – Backing Up Your Files (Remote)

A few days back I wrote a guide about backing up your files locally. This time around, I will be teaching you how to backup your files in a remote location say another NAS in …

DIY NAS – Backing Up Your Files (Local)

April 15, 2013 – 1:48 pm |
DIY NAS – Backing Up Your Files (Local)

Now that you have started storing your precious files and data into the NAS, it is time to back it all up. It isn’t fun when you lose all your data. Things such as photos …

VPN Gate – A Truly Free VPN Service

April 13, 2013 – 1:10 pm |
VPN Gate – A Truly Free VPN Service

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) can be used for several things. The most common use of them is to bypass geographical restrictions. There are many sites and services on the net that only serve certain regions; …

MōVI – The Ultimate Handheld Camera Stabilizer

April 7, 2013 – 2:42 pm |
movi handheld camera stabilizer

If you’re into cinematography, video capturing, cameras and anything that deals with capturing/recording light through devices, this upcoming product will be sure to please you. Stabilizing a camera while moving isn’t a simple task. There …

DIY NAS – Adding Hard Drives and Setting Up Samba File Server

December 25, 2012 – 12:37 am |
DIY NAS – Adding Hard Drives and Setting Up Samba File Server

The next step to making your DIY NAS serve its purpose is to format and add those hard drives (HDD) to the system. You have them all plugged in the different SATA ports and so …

DIY NAS – Installing Ubuntu and OpenSSH (Remote Access)

December 16, 2012 – 5:00 pm |
DIY NAS – Installing Ubuntu and OpenSSH (Remote Access)

Now that you’ve your hardware all picked up and assembled, it is time to put them to work. In this part, I will walk you through the initial installation of the Ubuntu Server OS itself …

True Skin – A Possible Future

November 25, 2012 – 5:36 pm |
True Skin – A Possible Future

What will our future be? What kind of technology will there be, researched and developed in such a way that it changes the way we live completely? “True Skin” is an intriguing video that discusses …

Why DIY a NAS?

September 30, 2012 – 8:13 pm |
Why DIY a NAS?

Having setup and run SwiftNAS (my home’s DIY NAS) for little over a week already, I thought it would be nice to share with you a little of my experience in the form of a …

DIY NAS – Purchasing and Assembly

September 16, 2012 – 8:43 pm |
DIY NAS – Purchasing and Assembly

Purchasing the different components and parts of the NAS requires some thinking and deliberation.  While all parts should work as long as they’re paired correctly (e.g socket 1156 motherboard with a socket 1156 cpu), some …

DIY NAS – Decision Making

September 16, 2012 – 3:57 pm |
DIY NAS – Decision Making

Long long ago, I’ve owned a Network-Attached Storage. One word, it was crap. It was cheap and the performance spoke for it. It was my first time dwelling into the world of network storage and …

SIGHT The Future of Seeing

August 3, 2012 – 11:31 pm |
sight concept video

The future of seeing is right here in this very short film. How will you imagine our future to be? Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo sure has taken the gift of sight to a whole …

Audio Recording Upgrade: Blue Yeti Microphone

June 10, 2012 – 6:56 pm | One Comment
Audio Recording Upgrade: Blue Yeti Microphone

I’ve been making videos for quite some time already. For all my audio recordings so far, I’ve been relying on the microphone on either the video camera or on my headset. Neither of them are …