HomeServerLand have a great post on how to pin your Windows Home Server shared folders to the Windows 7 taskbar. Fellow MVP Alexander Kent has translated the original German text from Windows Guru Bjoern Buerstinghaus for this excellent tip, which i am using right now. Alexander takes us through the necessary steps, which you can […]
Website "Missing Remote" have a short post where they look at Solid State drives (SSD) compared with the more familiar Hard drive (HD). They compare the power usage and drive temperature of an Intel SSD with a 2.5" Toshiba 5200RPM drive and a 3.5" Seagate 7200RPM drive. An interesting read which you can find here.
CeBit 2010 takes place in Hannover, Germany and is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. This year participants will be able to attend technical sessions related to Windows Home Server and MVPs and CLIP members will be on hand to share their technical expertise with […]
The add-in WHS Mobile has been updated to version 1.5.4.0 and brings embedded icons, fixes foreign characters, fixes the alert number in the app icon, and more. Change Log: Fixed: Spaces in user names with streaming. Had left some code out by mistake. Fixed: Japanese/Chinese characters in files and folders making the folder/file not load […]
The Innoventions Dream Home in Tomorrowland at the Disneyland Park in California has been updated and now features the HP MediaSmart EX495 Home Server. You can catch out a virtual tour of the home here, where you’ll find the EX495 behind the desk in the family room. Thanks to “The Windows Home server Blog” for […]
The Air Video app for iPhone users is great for Windows Home Server users. Just point it to your Videos folder and you have access to your entire video library. HP makes a similar solution for their own home servers, in the form of iStream but it is nowhere near as functional and simple as […]
The Home Server Show Bonus Edition is a (nearly) 2 hour special which has John (DieHard) and Greg Welch (WelchWorks) talking about Digital Archound or DA Document Manager 2010, which you can find here.
I’m sure we all know what DVBLink is now, and if not you should as its an excellent solution for having tuner cards in Windows Home Server. Garry Whittiker and Jason Coombes join Ian Dixon in episode 245 of "The Media Center Show" podcast to discuss networked tuners using DVBLink. Jason has all his tuners […]
If you are a SOHO or Micro-biz customer, a question you will eventually ask is "Which server is right for me?" Blog “Ronaldg’s Ramblings” has a great post that looks at the various options available to you including Windows Server Foundation, SBS and Windows Home Server amongst other offerings. You can read it here.
SabNZBd is a binary newsgroup downloader/newsreader available as a Windows Home Server Add-In by developer Michael Larsen. SABnzbd simplifies the downloading verifying and extracting of files from Usenet (newsgroups), and uses NZB files (similar to .torrent files, but for Usenet), which can be acquired from a variety of usenet indexing services. New features in SabNZBd […]
