The Xtreamer is a media player and streamer that enables you to play and stream movies and videos, listen to your music collection and show slideshows of your photos on your TV. This device enables you to display all your media that is stored away on other machines on your home network, including of course […]
The HP MediaSmart server EX 487 was first announced at the 2009 CES show in Las Vegas and and forms the first of the second generation of the HP Windows home server line of products. What’s in the box? Inside the box there is the server itself, a power adapter and cable, an Ethernet cable, […]
Kam Lau from KAMLAU.COM has a great guide on setting up eSata port multiplication with the Acer Aspire easyStore using a eSATA PCI-X port multiplier card included with a Sans Digital TowerRAID Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) unit. What does this mean? Basically when your storage capacity runs out on the Acer you can use a DAS […]
Ok you have a friend to asks why they should be using a Windows Home Server and now there’s 10 reasons you can answer him with, courtesy of the Windows Home Server Blog. Apart from the obvious backup and storage you’ll find the Top 10 here.
Today was the 1st day at CEDIA 2009 in Atlanta, a trade event for the residential custom installation industry and on display by Microsoft was a home server powered by the Windows Home Server software. Also on display was Niveus, a high end software and systems company who announced that it will be adding a […]
This weeks edition of The Home Server Show podcast looks at the latest press releases from Apple and how it effects Home Server users. News, views and a look at the Microsoft Press release from CEDIA 2009 in show #55. Available for listening/download from here.
The add-in Update History has been updated to version 0.3.0 Beta. This add-in displays the complete system update history so that Windows Home Server owners can make sure their machine is fully patched and up to date. New Features: Search for new updates. This will search for high priority updates for your Windows Home Server […]
The Home Server Show website is back with part 2 of using a friends computer to backup Windows Home Server using CrashPlan. This second part explains simply how to setup and configure the application onto your Home Server. Read it here.
Add-In developer and fellow Windows Home Server MVP Alex Kuretz is interviewed by Home Server Land in their continuing series of the Add-In Author Interview’s. Alex is best known for his add-ins Remote Notification, MSS Fan Control, WHS BDBB, WHS Port Forward and his website MediaSmartServer.net, a community for the HP MediaSmart enthusiast. You can […]
Technology evangelist Spencer Scott lists 4 of his must have Windows Home Server add-ins which he has tested on his machine. Spencer lists LightsOut, Advanced Admin Console, FTP Manager and WHS Web Logs as his favs, which you can read more about here. What about yours?
