The NAS project I started awhile ago was settled when we picked the Netgear ReadyNAS line. Or so I thought. The issue was recently reopened when our HQ turned on mandatory SMB Signing and "broke" our NAS units out in the field. I was tasked to come up with a fix and that is where it got complicated.

When we noticed the new security standard had been added to our Group Policies, we contacted HQ and asked for it to be turned off. This prompted them to ask questions about our field setup. Unfortunately, our HQ really doesn't understand our requirements and think we all live in a perfect world with a datacenter in the same building and WAN connectivity.

Read more: NAS Project Update

At work, we have several very remote field offices that only have a satellite/VPN link to our network. There are only 2 or 3 users in each of these offices. Because of the slow connection speeds and the need for large amounts of data storage (i.e. construction photos), we are thinking about installing a NAS solution at each site.

So far, I have come up with the following options for doing this:

Read more: Picking the best NAS solution

As more and more friends buy Android phones, I get more questions about which apps they should add to their phones. There are a lot of lists out there, but I thought I would assemble my own list of favorites.

Over time, I will try to break down the list and explain why I chose them.

Let me know what your favorite apps are and I will add them to the list.

Here it is:

Read more: My Favorite Android Apps