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 […]
Charlie Kindel was the General Manager for Windows Home Server until February 2009, when he moved to the windows phone team, responsible for the new Windows Phone 7 Series (and an excellent job he done with that, just like he did with WHS). Charlie’s has a post on his blog "Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone […]
The How-To Geek returns with another tutorial and this one explains how to access your shared folders, create and delete them, manage permissions, enable folder duplication and change folder properties too. You can find it here.
The Home Server Show podcast this week has Chris, John and Dave chatting about the latest Home Server news, add-ins as well as an interview with Alex Kuretz from mediasmartserver.net about the HP update for EX47x and EX48x owners. Episode 78 is available here.
The 3.0 software from HP to update the EX47x and EX48x range to the latest software is now available to order from HP. To order the upgrade DVD, just visit www.hp.com and enter your product model number in the “Support and Drivers” section. Then follow the path for your MediaSmart Server model number to order […]
