Category: Windows Home Server

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Sony Home Share VGF-HS1E Available in the UK

The Sony Home Share (or shall we call it the Hockey Puck v2) is now available for purchase in the UK. The white VGF-HS1E comes complete with 2 x500GB SATA drives has Gigabit LAN and 3 x USB ports for £499, but you will also have to shell out another £100 for a copy of […]

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Jungle Disk to Backup more than WHS

Jungle Disk is an online backup solution for Windows Home server and the next major release is in deep development and should be available in beta shortly. The biggest change to this new 2.50 version is the ability for it to run as a background service on all platforms as well as a range of […]

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Stream your iTunes Music Collection over the Internet

MediaSmartHome.com has a tutorial on how to stream your iTunes music collection over the internet by using the included Firefly media server and FirePlay, a Flash based interface to the FireFly Media Server.   Once you have followed the 13 step tutorial, you will have Britney Spears streaming over the web to a laptop in […]

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Scaleo Home Server Power Management Tool

SCALEO Power Management Viewer is a new German language tool for those of you that own a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server. The tool enables you to see the Power Management details in a simple list. More details are available in German or translated via Google translation into English.

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Add-In: My Movies – Coming Soon

Ian Dixon’s Blog has details that one of the most popular Media Center plug-ins is coming to Windows Home Server. The movie collection management and playback application “My Movies” will work as a server for My Movies client applications and includes a fully automated Disk Copier. It also works as a meta-data provider for other […]

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WHS and Windows Media Center UK Meet Up

Media Center enthusiast and fellow MVP Ian Dixon has posted about having a meet up next year with like minded enthusiasts. So what do you reckon to a UK event for Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center and other digital lifestyle product enthusiasts to meet and discuss tips or to show your home grown projects […]

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The Home Server Show #19

This edition of The Home Server Show Podcast has snippets of the latest WHS news as well as your emails and a review of the online backup solution “KeepVault for Windows Home Server”. You can listen here.

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KeepVault Online Backup for WHS Limits Space

KeepVault is an online backup solution for Windows Home Server who were offering unlimited storage for only $99 per year. But this has now changed, Proxure the company behind the product now offer 100GB of storage for the same price as well as additional storage space if required, but for an extra charge. For example […]

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Update NIC Drivers on the HP MediaSmart

If your Windows Home Server is a MediaSmart Server from HP then there is a walk through on We Got Served on how to upgrade the NIC SiS191 drivers on the unit. Get the details here.

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New Windows Home Server MVPs

After being away for a few days at Microsoft in Reading, it’s good to notice on my return home that three new guys have joined Microsoft’s MVP program for Windows Home Server. Existing MVP Donavon West of Home Server Hacks is now a WHS MVP as well as newcomer Sam Wood and Alex “Yakuza” from […]