Recent content by g4jsg

I've been using lightroom from the synology for months now and had no problems.

I use Wordpress, I have done for over 10 years now, and woocommerce is really good, there are lots of plugins to give you added features for woocommerce too. My tips on using Wordpress are: Choose a wordpress web host, so they perform auto WP updates and most offer cache plugins too. Protect...

I moved all my videos to a synology drive, I got a gigabit network switch and put cat 6 Ethernet cables between all my devices. I can now edit 4K videos on my PC directly from the synology drive without any problems.

I've got the same drive and I have the same problem. Some AVI files play and some do not, the codec is crucial but you can always convert the files in something like VLC - which is free :) Saving them to a MP4 format should help, I had 100's of AVI movies and after converting them all I still...

I don't do weddings, however, I do write tech/gadget blogs weekly and I do struggle to come up with new narrative on products that are similar. I found writing about the perimeter aspects of the products helps me come up with new and interesting blogs. For example a USB hard drive is not...

Looks like a great website, easy and clean at first glance, navigation is easy, it flows through each section well and the images look nice with the explanations at the bottom too. Squarespace is a great platform to put a nice website together without needing web skills, so you can concentrate...

A tip here - if it's a real emergency to get access to your data and for whatever reason you can't get your computer working.... Do you have a laptop, you could just pull the HDD out of the computer, put it in a USB enclosure and you can then access your data on a laptop. Then once the...

I use synology DSj216 to store all my local files, I only use my computer drive for data I'm working on. It's a mirrored drive so if one drive fails I won't lose my data, hopefully. I then have the synology backing up to a cloud storage service as an additional backup of my data, it's only...

I'm based near Manchester and I'm just getting into photography (in terms of trying to make a living form it), I'm a tech lover and have a YouTube channel about tech and Gadgets, and I've decided to vlog about my photogrpahy and wondered if there are others around me who are doing the same and...