Every Synology DSM update is huge. It looks like the upcoming DSM 5.1 is no slouch either. Not only are they adding new online backup and sync sources but they’ve built a new self-hosted rich note service that includes new mobile apps.
There’s a bunch of new stuff coming I’m excited about. Remote SFTP connections from the Synology, security auditing, and improvements to the DS Photostation are at the top of my favorite new things.
The price will double after September 29th. Better get on that.
We accidentally published a new episode of the Technical Difficulties podcast and this one is all about using Fastmail as an email service provider.
I’m a big fan of their product and the idea of paying for a good email experience. Fastmail is constantly improving and just this week announced that they are caching images to help secure user information. Yup. I follow a blog for an email service. That’s how much I like them.
Relay.fm is a new podcast network by Mike Hurley and Stephen Hackett that aggregates new shows with tried and true podcasters I’ve enjoyed in the past. Inquisitive is the spiritual successor to ⌘+Space and Connected is the successor to the The Prompt show.
I’m particularly looking forward to Jason Snell’s new show Upgrade.
I listen to at least 6 podcast episodes a day across many different genres and several networks. It’s one of my favorite forms of media.
From Christina Warren:
For just $200, and a little bit of luck, I was able to successfully crack my own iCloud password and use EPPB to download my entire iCloud backup from my iPhone. For $400, I could have successfully pulled in my iCloud data without a password and with less than 60 seconds of access to a Mac or Windows computer where I was logged into iCloud.
These kinds of hacks don’t concern me all that much.
2Do for iPhone is almost ready to launch.
I’ve been on the 2Do beta since it was announced and have a few conclusions to share:
I’ve never been on a beta with such a fast paced development cycle I’ve never been on a beta that was so open to user input 2Do might be the prettiest and most creative task manager I’ve ever used on the iPhone There’s still a lot of room for innovation and moving away from the pre-iPhone mentality of a check-list
Craig Hockenberry has a lengthy post up about his favorite things in the Terminal. It’s so full of greatness it’s hard to pick one tip to highlight. I love this kind of thing because it’s helpful and it’s written in a unique voice.
The command line also responds to control keys. The ones I use the most are Control-A and Control-E to move to the beginning and end of the line.
From Brian Krebs:
Here’s the kicker: A comparison of the ZIP code data between the unique ZIPs represented on Rescator’s site, and those of the Home Depot stores shows a staggering 99.4 percent overlap.
Brian Krebs is incredibly smart and also fairly reserved with his FUD. I believe him and it probably means another massive release of credit card data. This is only going to get worse until companies suffer such staggering loses that security becomes as important as developing a new logo.
Arq is a backup utility for the Mac. Until now you could use it to backup your files to Amazon S3 (including Glacier). The latest version adds support for Google Drive which is nice since you can get 15GB for free with Google.
There are several great things about this post about link rot.
Someone took the time to evaluate how many bookmarks died since 1997 It made me realize how little I use browser bookmarks now It’s published to Pinboard as a note By way of the ever prolific @GlennF
