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Run your Own Personal Cloud

June 28, 2012
by madhan
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How to run Tonido in stand alone mode without relay

Frequently, we hear feedback from our users who say that they prefer to run Tonido without any external thirdparty server connectivity.

With Tonido, it is pretty easy to do it. Here’s how.

  1. Install Tonido Desktop, and setup an account say (johndoe) normally.
  2. After logging in, go to Settings->Network and disable Tonido Relay.
  3. In your router, enable port forwarding to the computer you installed Tonido on for port 10001.
  4. Now to access your Tonido install, simply type http://johndoe.tonidoID.com:10001 and you will be connecting to your Tonido Desktop directly.
  5. Your own Dynamic DNS or Domain: If you want to use your own domain using Dynamic DNS or similar you can do so too, you just point your Dynamic DNS domain to point to the IP address of the computer on which Tonido is running on.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

June 5, 2012
by madhan
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No more new Visual Studio Express Editions for developing non-metro apps

According to Ars Technica, the free Visual Studio Express 2011(or 2012) will no longer support building standard desktop applications using C++. It will only support building metro apps for the upcoming Windows 8 OS.

“If you want to develop desktop applications—anything that runs at the command line or on the conventional Windows desktop that remains a fully supported, integral, essential part of Windows 8—you’ll have two options: stick with the current Visual C++ 2010 Express and Visual C# 2010 Express products, or pay about $400-500 for Visual Studio 11 Professional. A second version, Visual Studio 11 Express for Web, will be able to produce HTML and JavaScript websites, and nothing more.”

As a long term user of Visual Studio Express edition, it is a blow to C++ developers worldwide. Microsoft must have its own reasons, but hoping that they will reconsider.

May 23, 2012
by madhan
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Announcing Tonido Release 2.51

A new Tonido release 2.51 is now out with some major Sync bug fixes and other minor fixes.

TonidoPlug2

There is now a additional feature of temperature monitoring of internal SATA HDD with warning and shutdown protection if temperature exceeds a threshold.

SYNC

If you are using sync, it is recommended to upgrade to 2.51 on your server as well as on the sync clients as soon as possible.

On some Windows computers, Sync was unable to complete synching files from the server because a specific WIN32 API call was failing causing “File Access Denied” exceptions. This has now been worked around.

For the complete release notes, please see http://tonido.com/release_notes.html

 

April 8, 2012
by gromit
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Android App – Music player improvements

For past couple of months, we have been working on improving performance of music player in our Android app. We faced many hurdles due to the limitations in underlying Android native player. In the latest version of the app (v39), for Android phones above Android 2.3.3, we have improved the streaming (mainly mp3) , mainly time to buffer and latency between two songs. This would also eliminate internment skips that some users faced while streaming music. Consider this update as one of many coming updates to improve user experience in music streaming.

April 6, 2012
by madhan
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Announcing Tonido Release 2.50

The next major update for the Tonido platform is 3.0, but we are releasing an intermediate update which will be Tonido 2.50.

Important notes before upgrading:

- Your TonidoPlug: Make sure photos and openid applications are deleted
- Your Tonido on MacOSX: To upgrade, please download and install new app from our tonido.com downloads. You cannot do usual Tonido in-app upgrade.

Major Changes:

Tonido Guests now can use the same Web UI as admins.

Guest login will use the same richer user interface as the admin user. However, guest users will only see the folders that are shared with them and they cannot browse and access anything else.

 

Much Faster Thumbnail Generation

Thumbnail image generation is more than 5x faster, this makes a huge difference on the TonidoPlug.

Control over Automatic WAN/LAN switch and Network Interface

More fine grained controls on these settings to disable Automatic WAN/LAN switch as well as the network interface to bind to.

Tonido on Mac OSX

Tonido now on the OS X menubar

Tonido now on the OS X menubar

Tonido Sync Updates

  • Fixed several problems causing sync to hang
  • Sync performance improved dramatically when handling a large number of small files
  • Updated sync client
  • Can now change the sync location via the client

Tonido Drive Updates

  • Tonido Drive now supports guest login

Reduced Memory Usage of Tonido app

  • Direct result of P2P features dropped Tonido now uses less memory and will be snappier

More Useful Stats

  • Tonido now shows your WAN address, total uptime and total files and data served.

Misc Bug Fixes

  • Fix issue with creating folders with WebDAV using NetDrive
  • Fix crash with Jukebox with certain malformed tags
  • Fix crash on Mac OSX when playing video and some audio files
  • And much much more, many inside the hood

As always please let us know of your feedback.

Enjoy!