Many people contacted me asking what the difference between AdGuard and Pi-Hole is and which one to use on their Synology NAS. As we well know, compared to AdGuard, Pi-Hole is very popular and is installed by millions of people on Synology devices. But this is not the case with AdGuard home. Personally, I prefer … Read more Synology: AdGuard VS Pi-Hole
AdGuard is DNS ad blocking similar to Pi-Hole. It’s a privacy protection software which comprises open-source and shareware products that protect Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS users from unwanted ads, pop-ups, banners, as well as from tracking, obscene content, malware and phishing. Over 5 million people are reported to be using the … Read more How to Install AdGuard on Your Synology NAS
For Christmas, I got myself the cheap Xiaomi fitness Mi Smart Band 4 and I decided to use it to play songs from my Android smartphone, having all the commands directly from my wrist. I uploaded the songs in my Synology NAS using Audio Station after installing DS Audio on my Android device. In this … Read more Synology: How to Connect Xiaomi Mi Band 4 to Audio Station
When I read the news released by Synology on Christmas day, I almost choked on my turkey. Synology announced the end of life of several packages (31) for its DSM operating system. On the one hand, it is good news (it almost seems like an upcoming announcement of DSM 7.0). But on the other hand, … Read more Synology Packages: End-of-Life Announcement
Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. which make up your IT infrastructure and business. If you have a machine which is generating data continuously and you want to analyze the machine state in real time, then how will you do … Read more How to Install Splunk on Your Synology NAS