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  • Windows 11 26H2 Cuts RAM Usage And Boosts Performance: How To Upgrade Now
    Microsoft has officially released the Windows 11 2026 Update (version 26H2), and while the announcement leads with productivity tools like AI-assisted File Explorer actions and long-awaited taskbar customization options, the real breakthrough is happening under the hood. Independent testing reveals that 26H2 delivers a major performance boost,... Read more »
  • Googlebooks Are Available Now From $899: Dell XPS, HP, Lenovo And More Here
    The first wave of premium Googlebooks went on sale today, with five new laptops from Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer. Of these five laptops, three are running Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" x86 processors, and the other two are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Arm-based SoCs. Starting at... Read more »
  • Huge 2TB MicroSD Express Card Spotted For Bodacious Nintendo Switch 2 Storage
    The Switch 2 has now been out for a little over a year but has quickly grown its library thanks excellent third-party releases such as Resident Evil Requiem, Pokémon Pokopia, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. These games, along with its own first-party titles, is likely cramping the paltry 256GB... Read more »
  • Early Amazon Prime Day Deals On Great SSDs From Samsung And More Are Here
    Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days don't start until tomorrow, but some folks have already jumped the gun and posted what are, if we can be honest, some darn decent deals on storage as long as you look at them relative to recent pricing. Just try not to think about what... Read more »
  • Google Says Android App Compatibility On Intel Googlebooks May Be Lacking At First
    The impending wave of Googlebook laptops, which feature an operating system that is somewhat of a hybrid between Chrome OS and Android, promise broad compatibility with the massive ecosystem of Android apps. Googlebooks are also designed to offer a premium Google laptop experience. Unlike most Chromebooks, the initial batch of... Read more »
  • This Tool Will Rid Apple Intelligence AI Integration From macOS 27
    Since the introduction of Apple Intelligence, Mac users have had the option to enable it in their operating system, and could easily toggle it on and off. That changed with this year’s latest slate of OS releases, as AI is now a deeply integrated part of the experience. However, a newly... Read more »
  • Top Apple Deals: AirPods Pro 3 Just At $179, Beats Studio Pro 50% Off
    With iPhone Duo availability on the horizon and people grabbing accessories ahead of time, Apple and other manufacturers are running major sales on many iPhone peripherals. Today, we're focused primarily on two leading Apple audio options (the AirPods Pro 3 and the Beats Studio Pro,) but we'll also mention some other... Read more »

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  • Synology Container Manager: How to Use Docker & Docker Compose
    If you went looking for Docker on your Synology NAS and couldn’t find it, nothing was removed. Synology renamed the package to Container Manager in DSM 7.2, and that rename is responsible for most of the confusion around this topic. Container Manager is Docker: it runs the same containers, it... Read more »
  • Best NAS for Plex in 2026: What I’d Actually Buy
    For about a decade, the answer to “what NAS should I buy for Plex” was simple: get an Intel Synology and let Quick Sync do the work. That answer died in 2025, when Synology moved its Plus lineup to AMD processors with no integrated GPU and took hardware transcoding with... Read more »
  • UGREEN vs. Synology: Which NAS Should You Buy in 2026?
    A year ago this wasn’t much of a debate. Synology DSM won on software, you paid a premium for it, and that was the end of the conversation. Since then UGOS Pro has had a full year of updates, Synology has made a few decisions that pushed people away, and... Read more »
  • Best UniFi NAS in 2026: Every UNAS Model Compared
    UniFi runs my entire network, and I’ve been running UniFi’s NAS line since the original UNAS Pro launched. Right now I’m running the UNAS Pro 8 in parallel with a TrueNAS box, plus a Synology and a UGREEN unit I use for off-site backups. The UNAS is what I keep... Read more »
  • Best UGREEN NAS in 2026: Every NASync Model Compared
    UGREEN went from “the charging cable company” to one of the most interesting NAS brands in about two years, and I’ve had NASync units in my own setup for most of that time. Two of them handle my actual backups: a DXP4800 Plus that turns on at 2 a.m. every... Read more »
  • How to Install Pi-hole (Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, Proxmox, Docker)
    Pi-hole runs on almost anything, which is good news and bad news. The good news is that you can install it on a Raspberry Pi, an Ubuntu server, a Proxmox LXC, in Docker, or on a NAS. The bad news is that the variety of installation methods makes it hard... Read more »
  • My First Look at the UniFi Dream Machine Beast: The Features That Actually Matter
    The UniFi Dream Machine Beast (UDMB) is Ubiquiti’s newest and most capable gateway in the Dream Machine lineup, priced at $1,499, and I just got my hands on it for a first look. It sits above the Dream Machine Pro Max ($599, which I’ve been running for close to two... Read more »

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  • How to Install Reactive Resume V6 on Your Synology NAS
    Reactive Resume is a free, open-source resume builder that lets you create, update and share professional resumes and cover letters with no ads, no tracking and no paid tiers. You write on one side of the screen and see the finished page update in real time on the other; then... Read more »
  • How to Install Swiish on Your UGREEN NAS
    Swiish is an open-source, self-hostable platform for creating and sharing digital business cards. It lets you build customizable cards with contact details, generate QR codes (simple links or full vCards), share them via unique URLs, and enable recipients to save the info directly to their phones, with PWA support for... Read more »
  • How to Set up Email Notifications in Antimatter
    Antimatter is a fully unrestricted, community-maintained fork of Mattermost that gives you a lightweight and reliable self-hosted team collaboration platform without commercial limits or paywalls. Once you have it running on your NAS device, enabling email notifications is one of the most useful next steps you can take. With email... Read more »
  • How to Install Transmute on Your Asustor NAS
    Transmute is a free, open-source, self-hosted file converter and compressor that runs entirely on your own hardware via Docker. It converts and compresses images, video, audio, documents, spreadsheets, data files, 3D models, subtitles, fonts, and more across thousands of format combinations, with no file size limits, no watermarks, and complete... Read more »
  • Synology & UGREEN Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.51
    On October 3, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.50 to the new 1.0.51 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options: New – Drag to reorder environments New – Drag to reorder tags, and the grid groups follow that order (Requested by your Internet friend Marius). New – Containers... Read more »
  • How to Install Antimatter on Your Synology NAS
    Antimatter is a community-maintained fork of Mattermost that removes commercial restrictions, user/message limits, and other paywalled or enterprise-only elements, delivering a fully unrestricted open-source self-hosted team collaboration platform focused on chat and core features without the corporate overhead. In my homelab I’ve been running it for days as the central... Read more »