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Review: Logitech SqueezeBox Duet and SqueezeServer

Monday, April 21, 2008

I’ve been looking around for a while trying to figure out the best way to get my music from my home server to my HiFi. For a long time I used an old laptop and just streamed stuff using Windows Media Player, took the output from the audio out socket and plugged it into my HiFi, [...]

Smarter Connections for Your Digital Home

Friday, April 18, 2008

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One thing I’m learning about being an MVP at this summit is that you get asked a huge amount of questions from other MVPs about the product area you represent - particularly when you represent a new, exciting product like Windows Home Server. Top 2 questions this week: 1. What’s happening with that Drive Extender bug? 2. When [...]

Digital Archound Competition - The Winners!

Monday, April 7, 2008

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Congratulations to Budgall, Jeffreez and Don C who were each the winners of a Digital Archound licence in our recent competition! Many thanks to all who entered - we’ll have a brand new competition here soon, so keep a look out.

Competition Time: Win a Copy of Digital Archound!

Friday, March 28, 2008

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It’s time for our next exciting giveaway at We Got Served! A few weeks go, you’ll have read our review of Digital Archound Home Server Edition which digitises all of your important documents, saves them as a PDF, and stores them safely and securely on your home server, with fast search and easy retrieval when you need [...]

Win a $10,000 Digital Home Makeover From Microsoft

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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As part of the launch of the new Windows Media Center v2 Extenders, Microsoft are holding a competition in which one lucky winner can have their digital lives transformed from their current frustrated, disconnected experience to a digital enthusiast’s dream with $10,000 worth of new kit, including a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders [...]

Exclusive: Tranquil PC to Launch WHS-based M one Media Server

Thursday, March 20, 2008

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Whilst we’ve been sworn to secrecy, we’ve been aware for a while that Tranquil PC have been working on a new cutting edge Media Server system, and today we can at last reveal some of the details. Launched this Easter weekend, the M one is a Windows Home Server based system which combines 2Tb of internal [...]

How To: Install Orb on Windows Home Server

Thursday, March 20, 2008

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If, like me, you have a long weekend coming up thanks to the Easter holiday, you may be looking for a project to work on with your home server. May I suggest working through the following How To developed by WGS forum member GaMeR, which walks you through installing Orb on your Windows Home Server system. Orb [...]

Add-in Review: Digital ArcHound

Friday, February 22, 2008

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Lounging here in my paisley shirt and brown corduroys staring across the misty fenstowards the turrets and gargoyles of academia, I have time to ponder. What is the perfect add-in? Is it one that installs with the minimum of grief and then works away in the background doing whatever it needs to do without further [...]

Tranquil PC to Launch T7-HDX Home Server Extender

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Back in September, when we reviewed Tranquil PC’s first Windows Home Server unit, the T7-HSA we loved its small, compact size which came with one big headache - a single internal drive and the lack of expansion options other than the use of external USB hard drives - which defeated the purpose of having such a small and neat [...]

S1Digital to Launch Windows Home Server Hardware in 2008

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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Chris Lanier points today to Ian Dixon’s Media Center Show this week, which has an interview with S1Digital’s Paul Heitlinger about their plans for 2008. I bumped into Paul at the Media Center Show dinner in Las Vegas at CES hosted, and he mentioned that S1 were planning to launch Windows Home Server hardware in 2008. The [...]