Month: June 2015

TommyLog TECH – NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202 & OS X Time Machine

[Disclaimer: I am a NETGEAR Ambassador and I received this product in exchange for my honest, unbiased opinion and review]

Netgear ReadyNAS 202 Time Machine

Hey kids, for today’s TommyLog Tech I would like explore being a Mac user with the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202.

One of the first things that comes to mind when I think external hard drive or NAS and my Mac’s is setting up Time Machine. For those Mac OS X users who don’t know about Time Machine, here’s a short primer. Time machine is an internal OS X software that backs up every piece of your Mac experience. Its job is to remember how your Mac was the last time it was backed up. Time Machine can put that one file or application or, in the case of catastrophic failure, rebuild your entire machine. Every application, webpage, password, cookie and document is restored to its proper place. Time Machines isn’t just a backup, it can restore files “back in time” and saves a history of your work. As long as your Time Machine backup storage place has free space, it will keep revisions of your work. Apple has more info here on the matter. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Traditionally getting Time Machine to work wirelessly required either an Apple Airport Time Capsule or Airport Extreme with an attached external USB drive. This is not the case with the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202. Setting up Time machine on the ReadyNAS could not have been easier! A few quick steps and then it’s pretty much set it and forget it. It just works and work well it did!

Getting Time machine running on the ReadyNAS 202 is totally Tommy Approved!

For more information on how to get your very own The NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202 http://www.netgear.com/home/products/connected-storage/RN202.aspx#tab-techspecs

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TommyLog – MDA Camp & Selfless Service

Today I want to focus on serving others and following the amazing example of Clara who is away at MDA camp. This made me think on how much better the world would be if we just put others first!

TommyLog TECH – Spring Cleaning Your IOS Device

Spring CleaningHey kids, it’s Tommy and for today’s TommyLog TECH I want to talk about doing a little spring cleaning on your IOS devise. Last night I was watching a movie with my sweetheart on my iPad. A quarter of the way though the movie I got an error message saying that I was out of memory. How could that be?  I have a 32 GB IPad Air and I should have plenty of free storage space.

Well enough of this, I’m going to do some spring cleaning here. What I did applies to any late model IOS device, iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone.

First you need to make sure you have a good backup. I use Apple’s iCloud service  but you can use iTunes too. Here’s a great article from apple on backing up you iDevice https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977

After you have verified and backed up your devise you need to reset it. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201274

After resetting, reload your saved settings and apps from either your iCloud or iTunes backup and BAM!

It’s that simple- and welcome back free space 🙂 BEFORE 1.25 GB free space – AFTER 15.4 GB free space.

 

TommyLog – Favorite Clifford Childhood Memories

Hey Kids, at the request of Uncle Greg, Aunt Suzie is joining me in the TommyLog studios and we talk about some of our favorite/horrible Clifford childhood memories.

Who can forget all those Clifford family Christmas pictures that look so effortless, but yet took hours and hours and loads of tears to get just right. Kids, whats your favorite childhood memory?