November 4, 2024

Synology Install WBO With Portainer

My previous guide for WBO involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest WBO version via Portainer. WBO is a free and open-source online collaborative whiteboard that allows many users to draw simultaneously on a large virtual board. The board is updated in real time for all ...
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November 3, 2024

How to Install LibreNMS on Your Synology NAS

LibreNMS is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install LibreNMS on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP 1 ...
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November 2, 2024

Synology Fixes Synology Photos Vulnerability

Here we go again! The weekend is barely here and we’re already being bombarded with sensationalist headlines on Forums, Blogs and, of course, YouTube videos chock-full of ads whose only goal is to scare people into clicking on the link to get to the story as fast as they can. This weekend and, most likely, ...
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November 1, 2024

How to Install Receipt Wrangler on Your Synology NAS

Receipt Wrangler is an easy-to-use self-hosted receipt manager. Receipt Wrangler helps you quickly create receipts with the help of OCR/AI image scanning. Organize receipts for easy filtering. Share receipts and track expenses among multiple users. Upload receipts directly from your email, web app, and mobile app. In this step by step guide I will show ...
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October 31, 2024

Synology: Discord Channel to Reach 8.5K Members

It’s almost All Hallows’ Eve and I have some spooky news for you: exactly one week ago, our Synology Discord server reached 8K members and now, only 7 days later, we’ve welcomed a few hundred new users and are on our way to 8.5K members! This makes it the biggest Synology community on Discord right ...
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October 31, 2024

TerraMaster F4-424 Max Review

The TerraMaster NAS family of products is expanding and today, October 31, 2024, I’m very proud to review the new F4-424 Max NAS. This powerful NAS embraces an Intel Core i5-1235U processor and comes with an 8GB preinstalled memory that can be upgraded to 64GB of RAM. This NAS model integrates the new TOS 6 ...
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October 30, 2024

How to Install Servas on Your Synology NAS

Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool. It is based on Laravel and Inertia.js and uses Tailwind CSS and Svelte for the frontend. Servas allows you to categorize your bookmarks by groups and tags. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Servas on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. ...
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October 29, 2024

Synology SRM Version 1.3.1-9346 Update 12

SRM 1.3.1 is the current operating system of the Synology RT6600ax, WRX560, RT2600ac and MR2200ac routers. Version 1.3.1-9346 Update 12 is the tenth official update released after the first Official Release 1.3.1-9346, and was released on, October 28, 2024. Unfortunately, the new SRM 1.3.1-9346 Update 12 version maintains the outdated PHP 5.5.25 version, an issue ...
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October 28, 2024

How to Install Ocular on Your Synology NAS

Ocular is a small budgeting app as an alternative to Google sheet’s annual budget planner. Its goal is not to track individual expenses, work with multiple currencies at a time or anything related. Ocular is a simplistic, beautiful and straight-forward budgeting app to track your budget across the years. Easy to use, to get started ...
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October 26, 2024

Synology: Portainer Docker Version 2.21.4

On October 25, 2024, Portainer switched from version 2.21.3 to the new stable 2.21.4 version. It’s mandatory to upgrade since multiple important issues have been fixed in this new version. Portainer 2.21.4 fixes an issue that prevents consecutive updates of Swarm services from reloading the page. What is Portainer? Portainer is a really awesome web ...
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