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Picasa 3.9 on a Synology NAS and Mac OSX

Picasa 3.9 on a Synology NAS and Mac OSX

I have a large collection of digital photos on my Synology NAS (currently a DS-209II running DSM 4.2). Managing this with iPhoto is quite a challenge, because it cannot handle the photos being stored somewhere else. It copies everything across to its library, which can grow quite big. With current expensive SSD storage this is […]

Running Scubapro SmartTRAK on my Mac

Running Scubapro SmartTRAK on my Mac

I have been struggling quite a bit to get my diving computer – a ScubaPro Galileo Sol – working on my Mac. ScubaPro only produces its SmartTRAK software for Windows. There is a Mac program available called JTrak which runs natively on OS X, but it lacks many of the features of SmartTRAK. Lately, I […]

Google tries to think for me

Google tries to think for me

Today I was struggling a little bit with my Google Apps mail (similar to Gmail). I was just about to test automatic sending of emails from an application and created an alias for my own account. Several test mails later, I didn’t receive any e-mails at all. Tried different settings, but nothing seemed to help. […]