Author Archive for Philip Churchill

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HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Wins a Recommended Award

Website HotHardware has a review of the HP MediaSmart Server LX195. The 7 page review looks at the specs, the design and the build quality. The reviewer then takes us through the setup and configuration and tells us about the features of the LX195. As well as this, performance against a number of NAS devices […]

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Sync WHS with Live Mesh

The Digital Lifestyle.Com has details of how to add your Windows Home Server shared folders to the syncing software Live Mesh. This could to useful if your Recorded TV folders are not on the same network as you could then get them synced over the Internet with Windows Home Server. Installing Mesh on Windows Home […]

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Win a Tranquil AVA RS5 “Special Edition” Media Server

The add-in My Movies and Windows Home Server manufacturer Tranquil PC are giving you a chance to win a Tranquil AVA RS5 “Special Edition” Media Server. The Tranquil AVA RS5 is a full featured Windows Home Server, that can contain up to 5 hard drives, and can optionally be extended with an additional 5 drives […]

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Win KeepVault for WHS – Day 2

We have another 40GB account to give away on day 2 of our KeepVault mega giveaway. Proxure, the makers of KeepVault have just released version 3.0 of the online backup solution for our Home Server’s and to help celebrate the release we are giving away a 40GB account every day through to Thursday, whilst Friday […]

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Win a KeepVault for WHS Account

KeepVault for Windows Home Server is the online backup solution for our Home Servers which has been updated to version 3.0 for added performance amongst many other features. To celebrate this good news the kind people behind KeepVault (Proxure) have agreed for us to give away some free accounts. Monday through to Thursday we will […]

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Add-In: @WHSTweet 1.0.5.1106

Donavon West from Home Server Hacks has just released an add-in which monitors your WHS health status and upon a health status change will sent a notification to your Twitter account. More information on the add-in @WHSTweet is available from here.

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WHS Version 2 to Add Tuner Card Support ?

Ben Drawbaugh writes at engadgetHD "Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server?" Ben starts the discussion by stating: Windows Home Server has become one of the best laptop companion accessories available today…We believe that the next version of WHS will also let you add tuner support and will not only let […]

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Installing VPN Software on WHS

Website Spackle has details on installing VPN software on Windows Home Server as well as details on setting up remote access on your router.    From making the settings "stick" to connecting to the WHS remote desktop directly (without going through WHS), this great post can be read here. WordPress Tags: Software,Spackle

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The Home Server Show Podcast #42

The latest edition of The Home Server Show podcast is available which this week is co-hosted by Jim Collison who along with David McCabe talk about how WHS saved a Windows 7 upgrade amongst other things. You can catch episode 42 here.

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Amazon S3 and Time Machine Backup Next Week for First-Gen MediaSmart

MediaSmartHome interviews Allen Buckner from HP on the 2.5 update, first-gen support and lots more for the MediaSmart Home Server. Allen states in the interview that owners of the first-generation MediaSmart Server’s (EX470 and EX475) will get the Amazon S3 and Time Machine Backup features in May, which hopefully will be next week as its […]