Easy Appointments is a highly customizable web application that allows customers to book appointments with you via a sophisticated web interface. Moreover, it provides the ability to sync your data with Google Calendar so you can use them with other services. It is an open source project that you can download and install even for … Read more about How to Install Easy Appointments on Your Synology NAS
My previous guide for Komga involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Komga version via Portainer. Komga is a free and open source comics/mangas server. You can easily browse libraries, series and books via a responsive web UI that works on desktops, tablets and phones. … Read more about Synology: Install Komga With Portainer
Dockhand has taken out 7 separate Docker tools with a single elegant and modern container, drastically reducing overhead, complexity, and the number of services running on your NAS. Launched at the end of 2025 and exploding in popularity in 2026, it’s considered by many in the homelab/self-hosted community as the natural successor (and often superior) … Read more about Farewell to 7 Docker Tools: Dockhand Just Killed Them All in One Go
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. The goal is to provide you with a friendlier, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics and a free, open-sourced alternative to paid solutions. Umami collects only the metrics you care about and everything fits on a single page. You can use Umami on your UGREEN NAS … Read more about How to Install Umami on Your UGREEN NAS
Strapi is an open-source, Node. js based, Headless CMS that saves developers a lot of development time while giving them the freedom to use their favorite tools and frameworks. Strapi also enables content editors to streamline content delivery (text, images, video etc.) across any devices. In this step by step guide I will show you … Read more about How to Install Strapi on Your UGREEN NAS
For years I’ve run Docker containers on my Synology NAS and UGREEN NAS boxes and relied on Watchtower for automatic updates. It was convenient until it wasn’t. Silent image updates started breaking services, containers failed to restart properly, and I lost visibility and control over when and how changes happened. After trying several alternatives I … Read more about How to Schedule Automatic Container Updates in Dockhand