Episode 237 - WWDC, iPod Touch, and GCHQ

**Using Synology to Store and Access Files on Your Mac**

Having 1 Gigabyte shared for up and down you can pair them with a Smart Switch that's managed and aggregate them so that you get essentially two gigabytes that's one gig up and one gig down okay so you get faster access to it which is cool. Let me tell you something else you can do with this thing this thing can host virtual machine images Right which means you can use it as the virtual machine server and either use Thin Client devices as computers and and use those to be the virtual machine recipients or you can just do it through your your computer so you don't have to install VMware on your Mac kind of thing all the VMS will be hosted over at the drive and you can have them anywhere on your netor work you might be missed to know which is kind of of like net booting

**Managing iCloud Storage**

I got an error message on my Mac which told me your storage is almost full ah manager stor said I think if I clicked away to get rid of it I imagine the next sentence was ask Victor about this Synology thing he keeps mentioning uh that's probably right there in the error message so right so so there are a couple different things right Apple would tell you buy more iCloud storage and put your documents and desktop in the cloud and don't keep anything in downloads and that that would be a way of keeping your Mac clean and keeping things stored and that's true that would be one way of handling it the other way would be to put folders that are autom mounted on your Mac that are stored over on a signology and work out of them that way for instance I have video and music folders that mount when I boot the computer and I have them set up not to refer just to the local network link but also to what's called Dynamic DNS that signology makes as signology connect so that I can be out there in the world and View and work with my storage device

**Using FileMaker Databases on Network Drives**

I mostly like I use and mostly like icloud's uh documents and desktop thing except as a file Mega database I use every day and recently for last week every time I've launched it it's told me the the database I need can't be found because iCloud has backed it up it's the smallest thing and I use it every day but I have to go get it and then FileMaker can open it uh okay here's here's the thing you really really really need to be careful using FileMaker databases on network drives this is and iCloud counts as a network drive okay right yeah it does get also backed up every night through a keyboard Maestro script but that's another story I I would tell you to keep it local open it local don't have it in something that's shared with iCloud and then have their keyboard me script back it up overnight to an iCloud location because the way that FileMaker works is that even when you're not doing anything with it they make changes to the FileMaker database in the background sure and that's why why FileMaker server exists is FileMaker server exists exclusively basically to fix this problem so that you can use network drives so that you can have multiple people accessing at one point or time together

**Upgrading Your Home's Wi-Fi**

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**Author's Goodbye**

I'm going to let you go to do that because I don't want your data being in Risk I'm genuinely going to do it this moment and I I appreciate that thank you yeah um William is available at William at appleinsider.com and on Twitter at w Gallagher William where am I available everywhere that good something are sold I can't remember what the phrase is it's probably UK phrase wherever good books served no you uh you're over there aren't you on on that on I am yeah yeah good I'm V marks I'm on Twitter and Victor appleinsider.com we have really enjoyed this one I'm so glad you you guys were here for it thank you for listening leave us positive runes reviews on iTunes leave us positive comments in our email leave us questions in our email we'd love to answer listener questions we love trying we'll be back