Ian Dixon from The Digital Lifestyle.com is organizing a meet where he will announce the winners of the The Digital Lifestyle.com Awards 2008. There will also be food, drink, giveaways, some great conversation and an opportunity to look at new products. So if you fancy meeting the community and to share information; the event will […]
The Digital Lifestyle.com are hosting their 2008 awards where they are after your votes for amongst others, the best free and commercial Windows Home Server application, the best WHS OEM and the best WHS community resource. So don’t forget to vote for mswhs.com if you think we deserve it. The Nominations close December 20th, so […]
The Home Server Show podcast #26 is available, which has the latest Home Server news and in this episode David McCabe talks about Bitdefender 2009 Total Security. Show #26 is available from here.
YouTube has a video showing a Sony PSP being used as a monitor for the Windows Home Server desktop. The handheld Sony is running custom firmware from a guy known as Dark Alex called PSPdisp which allows you to see your WHS screen on the PSP by using the USB port. The firmware and homebrew […]
Developer Andrew Grant has just published the following on his blog: This is a screenshot of using Live Mesh on my work machine to login to Vista (running under VMWare fusion) on my MacBook at home, which is logged into my Windows Home Server development box, which is installing a copy of Vista Home Premium […]
The Windows Home Server Team Blog has a great 10 point chart highlighting the differences between a Home Server and a network attached storage device (NAS for short). After reading through the list, you may agree with one reviewer who called Home Server a "NAS device with a brain." The chart is available here.
The Home Server Show website has a two part gift guide especially for the Home Server enthusiast. From enclosures and docking stations to a UPS and external hard drives, the guide can be read here and here.
Gadget and computer hardware blog "CrunchGear" have a holiday gift guide dedicated to the HP MediaSmart Server with a chance to win it too. Available from here.
Blogger Christopher Price writes about the death of his Celeron D Home Server after the PSU literally exploded in front of his eyes. Chris explains how he was able to recover his data even though the motherboard also died at the same time. You can read the story here.
UK based magazine PC Pro have reviewed the SQA-5H Home Server from Tranquil PC and give it a respectful 5 out of 6 star rating. "As a cherry on top, Tranquil has thoughtfully installed the open-source Firefly media server, adding the ability to stream music over your LAN to iTunes and network devices." You can […]
