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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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PerfectDisk 8 for Windows Home Server Released Later Today

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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Raxco will today release an update to their PerfectDisk range of disk defragmentation software, including a new version of PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. PerfectDisk8 for Windows Home Server brings the full functionality of Raxco’s server-grade defragmentation products to Windows Home Server, although they are yet to integrate the software into the Windows Home Server Console, [...]

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How Do You Integrate Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center in Your Home Setup?

Friday, January 25, 2008

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Ian Dixon over at The Digital Lifestyle dropped me a quick IM this afternoon. He’s running a post today asking how his readers have attempted to integrate their Media Center set ups with Windows Home Server. It’s clear that these are two products which should, in a perfect world, work hand in hand to receive, store and [...]

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Todd Headrick Talks Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 on The Media Center Show

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Ian Dixon has been doing a valliant job of editing and sharing a huge variety of interviews he conducted at CES last week. Even though 140,000 people attend CES, it’s funny how you bump into the same people regularly, and every time I saw Ian, he had his tablet PC and microphone at the ready. Great [...]

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Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life Now Available

Friday, January 11, 2008

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One time (or should that be “short time”) WHS MVP and now Microsoft employee Rick Hallihan’s book, “Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life“ is now shipping at Amazon. Here’s the lowdown: Windows Home Server (WHS) simplifies the process of backing up PCs, and this complete reference brings the power of WHS to everyday PCs [...]

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Streaming21 and WNC Debut WiFi Media Frame Connected to Microsoft Windows Home Server at CES

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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Looks like the partnership between Streaming 21 and WNC continues to prosper, with the companies showcasing a Digital Photo Frame which connects to Windows Home Server at CES next week. I have a vested interest here, having recently purchased a Samsung Photo Frame which only connects to PCs running WMP11 (i.e. not WHS). Let’s hope this [...]

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Photos From Yesterday’s Windows Home Server Launch in Taiwan

Friday, December 14, 2007

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Looks like yesterday’s launch of Windows Home Server at Microsoft Taiwan was a popular event, with a wide range of hardware and software applications showcased by Microsoft, Streaming 21, Sanpo, Chenbro, Gigabyte and WNC. Here are a few photos of the event, courtesy of Levia’s blog at Windows Live Spaces. Windows Live Spaces

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