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Getting the Most Out of Your Synology Networked Attached Storage: Did You Know It Can Do That?

While the initial consumer-grade NASes sold during the late 2000s/early 2010s had fairly weak CPUs and little memory, newer models priced in the $200-$500 range from about 2019 forward are… Read more »

cool tools, digital lifestyle   

Home LAN + NAS Administration & Security 101 and Beyond for Remote Work and Media Management

I’ve had NAS devices for almost 15 years and have grown our local network to 40+ devices for a family of 4, as the PCs, laptops, smart TVs, tablets, phones,… Read more »

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How to Bend Plex to Your Will to Handle Complex Libraries Without Losing Your Mind

It’s very easy to get started with Plex, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it becomes more and more complicated to keep everything tidy… Read more »

digital lifestyle, meta-tagging the universe, software   

Refreshing Power BI Datasets & Dataflows with APIs and Power Automate

When Microsoft introduced Power BI dataflows at the end of 2018 to separate no/low code cloud ETL from BI modeling and visualization, many people were initially confused about how refreshes… Read more »

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Use the Schema Tools in Microsoft Dataflows to Manipulate Columns

A new view (pictured above) was recently spotted recently “in the wild” in Power BI dataflows (credit for the find: Dave Rujiter). I can’t find anything about it in the… Read more »

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Third-Party Tools to Ease Power BI Development and Increase Analyst Productivity

While some cloud BI tools such as Amazon QuickSight do all their authoring in the browser, Microsoft chose to develop a dedicated client creatively named Power BI Desktop. Its initial… Read more »

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Spreadsheets Get Smarter About Structured Data, At A Steep Price

I find it interesting that Microsoft and Google have chosen to gate their latest data-driven improvements to their spreadsheets behind their most expensive enterprise licenses. These new features are great,… Read more »

Power BI, web apps & SaaS   

Things I Found Out the Hard Way to Get the Most of the Nvidia Shield

I bought an Nvidia Shield (2017 model) on sale for $140 at the end of 2018 and am amazed by how much this tiny device can accomplish. It’s connected to… Read more »

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En Mémoire de Mon Père Jean Louis Travers (1947-2020)

Mon père Jean Louis Travers est décédé hier, apparemment dans son sommeil et sans doute d’une crise cardiaque étant donnés ses antécédents. Je redoutais ce moment en raison de sa… Read more »

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Nobody-Asked-Me Advice to Makers of Custom Visuals for Power BI

As a Power BI consultant I use many custom visuals from the AppSource marketplace and have tested many more, if not most of them. The good news is that there… Read more »

best & worst practices, Power BI, user experience   

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