Answers to your tech questions for your Apple devices and beyond. Dave Hamilton, Adam Christianson, and Pilot Pete come together weekly to answer your questions and discuss things of interest to Apple and Mac geeks, presenting them in ways that are both entertaining and informative for the average listener.
Sometimes it's time for a deep dive. Today it's time for three! Listen as your two favorite geeks dive into Photos, NAS (Synology… and more!), and Backups.Note: Shownotes are complete!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 718 for Monday, July 16, 2018 <https://macgeekgab.com/>
00:02:05 eero Labs Beta Features
Macstock
00:04:39 Albert-Photo Editing
Pixelmator
How to edit photos on your Mac
Take and edit photos with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
How to edit with third-party apps and extensions in Photos
GraphicConverter
GIMP Photo Editor
Acorn Photo Editor
Affinity Photo
00:12:09 John-Sharing Photos in iCloud
Hazel
Shared iCloud Photo Albums
iXpand from SanDisk
00:17:41 James-Indexing Cookbooks with OCR
PDFScan+
00:21:28 Ken-GC-Scanning Words from Pictures on-the-fly
Family Sharing
00:22:49 Daniel-Photos Launches Funny
OnyX
00:27:39 SPONSOR: Ring Doorbell and Floodlight Cameras – Save up to $150 on Ring of Security Kits
00:30:03 SPONSOR: BBEdit from Bare Bones Software
00:31:58 ?-EP-Olga-Which Synology DiskStation to Buy?
Synology Products
Compare DS418play DS918+
QNAP TS-451+
00:45:00 Louis-Things I can do with my Synology DiskStation
Drive
Hyper Backup
Shared Folder Sync
Set up VPN Server
Office
Synology Moments
Note Station
Docker
Surveillance Station
Chat
Transmission and Couch Potato (file sharing)
01:02:38 Bruce-Personal offsite backups
Synology HyperBackup
hubiC (not accepting new accounts)
Synology C2
Time Machine Quotas on Synology
01:11:40 Todd-Can I clone to a Synology?
iSCSI for the Mac
Netboot to Synology
01:16:27 Karl-BTRFS or EXT4 on a NAS
QNAP says EXT4 is better than BTRFS
01:23:01 MGG 718 Outtro
The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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