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This is how you can synchronize your Microsoft Outlook calendar with your Android smartphone.

This is how to automatically create individual tar.gz archive for every directory found in current location. Sometimes the whole directory might be too big to archive so I need to go one more level under and create a separate archives for each directory found.

This is a summary of steps on how to install fun_plug v0.7 on D-Link DNS-320L NAS based on HDD-Installation of the fun_plug 0.7 on NAS-devices at http://nas-tweaks.net . For more detailed installation steps and explanations, please refer to  HDD-Installation of the fun_plug 0.7 on NAS-devices  post.

This is how to install Bittorrent Sync on your D-Link DNS-320L NAS server.

Recently my old dual core AMD Athlon desktop computer is showing signs of death. Intermittently, it fails to boot up. I suspect that it could either be the graphics card or the motherboard that is causing the boot failure, judging from the beeping sounds coming from the motherboard when it fail to boot. This has render my desktop computer unreliable and it's a sign for me to buy a new computer system. But, do I need a new computer system now?

Seems like the steps on how to get the NFS mount point from the D-Link DNS 320L NAS server were not properly documented in their user manual. After setting up and enabled the NFS service on the D-Link DNS 320L NAS server, I went ahead to setup and mount the share directory/folder in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS assuming the mount point in NAS was /Volume_1/... but that is not the correct mount point to start with! Found this answer from D-Link forum post from a member (ba43123) that helped me to correctly mount the NFS share directory/folder on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

This Tasker recipe is to automate the switching off of your WiFi setting when there are no WiFi connection for a period of time. Basically there are 2 profile to set. The first profile to provide a variable to flag if the WiFi is connected or not. The 2nd profile is to start the timer when WiFi is disconnected. After a given period of time if the WiFi does not reconnect, WiFi will be switched off. I created this Tasker recipe to save some battery on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus when the WiFi is on but no connection.  Note:  you cannot import this file into Tasker. Use this as a guide to create your own profiles.

This post is about setting Tonido on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with service to automatically starts Tonido every time the computer system starts. Recently I was looking for a software solution to turn my old Asus EeePC netbook into a personal home storage server. I found a few good solutions from my research and for my personal use case, Tonido Desktop seems to be a good fit. Tonido Desktop has few advantages over other solutions that I felt it qualifies for my use: It’s the easiest to setup compare to FreeNAS or ownCloud. Free Android app to access my files using my Android smartphone and tablet.  Free sub domain (https://<username>.tonidoid.com) for easy access to my personal home storage  server from anywhere in the world. This eliminates the effort of setting up your own domain name and port forwarding on my router for file access from the Internet. File sync capability (limited to 2GB files for the free Tonido Desktop software). Runs on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Tonido provide