Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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The Acer H340 Reviewed

Kelvyn Taylor of THINQ.co.uk has a review of the Acer EasyStore H340 Home Server: One of the few four-bay Windows Home Systems on the market, the EasyStore H340 does its job well. It’s decently priced, too, for a four-bay NAS system with 2TB of storage thrown in, but be prepared for the eccentricities of the […]

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Tagging your Music Collection

Website "lifehacker" has a post on how to whip your music’s metadata into shape by using tagging software. The good thing about doing this is that your music will be better organized on Windows Home Server and easier to search. various tagging software are taken a look at including Jaikoz for primary tags and Mp3tag […]

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Add-In: Poca-WHS 0.6.10.0331

We last bought the add-in Poca-WHS to your attention back in March when it was in the works of being produced. The good news is that it is now available as a open beta, which is both functional and stable. The add-in is a pod catcher which runs on Windows Home Server, without needing a […]

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Home Server on Designing Spaces is Streaming Online

We earlier wrote about Windows Home Server appearing on the Designing Spaces TV programme on both The Learning Channel and Women’s Entertainment but it is also available 24×7 streaming on the Designing Spaces website, which you can find here. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]

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Backing up WHS to CrashPlan Central Online Backup

One of the online backup solutions for Windows Home Server which I have been using for the last several months is CrashPlan Central. Although there are other dedicated offerings for Home Server users, such as KeepVault and CloudBerry Backup, I find that these can work out expensive for my 500GB of data which needs to […]

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Installing TwonkyMedia Server 5.1.2 on the MediaSmart Server

One of our readers Thomas Schindler posted a comment to our "MediaSmart and Twonky Media – Still High CPU Issues" article, with a solution to the problem. The latest update from HP for the Twonky Media Server is version 5.1.1 whilst the version from TwonkyMedia is 5.1.2 which rectifies the high CPU utilization issue. Tom […]

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Communicate your SettingsTab – ConsoleTab for Developers

Add-In developer Andreas M who is mostly known by his Advanced Admin Console Add-In has a Windows Home Server developer tip. The tip explains how to communicate between your SettingsTab and your ConsoleTab which is needed when an end user makes changes to the settings on the settings tab and clicks either OK or Apply. […]

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The Asus TS mini Vital Statistics Reviewed

Register Hardware is a website dedicated to hardware product news and reviews who have a 4 page review of the Asus TS mini Home Server. The units vital statistics are taken a look at as well as its data throughput, which you can read about here. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]

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The Home Server Show Podcast Episode 84

This weeks episode of The Home Server Show podcast has Greg Hayes from Raxco, the company behind PerfectDisk talking about defragmentation and especially about PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. You can find episode 84 here. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]

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HP Data Vault Now With 3 Year Warranty

Our friends at HP have been in contact with some good news. All new and existing HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault customers will now benefit from a three year return-to-base warranty on the unit. This warranty change is global and applies to US, EMEA and the Asia Pacific areas. If you need to ring HP […]