Joe DiFiglia is always looking at new and better ways to do things with his Windows Home Server and his latest venture is combing Sockso, a free open source personal music server with Home Server. Joe’s 4 page guide will get you up and running in no time which you can read here.
The Acer Aspire easyStore AH340-UA230N with built-in Windows Home Server went officially on sale in the US today. Retailing for $400 the small 8.3 x 7.8 x 7.08 inch unit is powered by an Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz processor with 2GB of DDR2 RAM and comes with one 1TB HDD and gigabit Ethernet. Hard […]
Website LiveSide which is dedicated to all things Windows Live are backing up their website nightly using Jungle Disk which backs up to Amazon S3. Which just goes to prove that Windows Home Server can also be used for backing up your website or blog whichever platform you use. You can read the full story […]
The Green Button forums (which are dedicated to Windows Media Center) have a discussion on the pros and cons of having Windows Home Server and Media Center combined, which you may find interesting. As well as leaving your own comments, you can also read what those who are for it and those who against it […]
Website Using Windows Home Server has a review on home automation add-in mControl which can interface with your security system, cameras, thermostats and can even be programmed for voice controls. Timothy Daleo steps us through the steps necessary of letting WHS help automate your home in the first part of this article, which can be […]
The 2nd beta of WHS Outlook v2.0 has been completed and the developer Mike Craven has decided to open up the beta process to the general Windows Home Server public as he needs some new beta testers. The add-in allows you to install Microsoft Outlook on your home server and then access it via the […]
“…the LX195 sits in a class by itself when compared with other single-drive diskful and diskless NASes.” This quote is from a review of the HP MediaSmart Server LX195 on the networking website SmallNetBuilder. What makes this 4 page review different than some of the others is that as well as comparing this model to […]
Microsoft’s Aaron Liao has been pulling in the punters at the Windows Home Server booth at Tech•Ed North America 2009 in Los Angeles. Aaron’s has been presenting the product over the last 5 days and has had people buy the MediaSmart Server online at Amazon after seeing it demonstrated and presented by himself at Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft Tech•Ed Online has a 10 minute video looking at how WHS fits into the home. Izak Laubscher and Frikkie Bosch talk about WHS four main pillars: Extending your current Network Infrastructure Growing your Files Backing Up Remote Access Available for viewing/download from here. Thanks to Susan Bradley for the details.
The add-in Download Manager has been updated to version 2.9 to correct an issue which was related to Rapidshare. The add-in is capable of organizing large amounts of data and can download ULRs. The program can also be configured to download a specified amount of data at a specified time and is also optimized for […]
