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I recently came across a post over at Ian Dixon's Digital Lifestyle blog, and first reported by Broadcast Buyer, talking about a new addin that will be available in November from Microsoft as a free update to Vista Media Center.

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D-Link DSM-750 Extender for Media Center Firmware Upgrade Now Available

Over the next few weeks, we'll have full reviews of the new Media Extender Extenders from D-Link and Linksys (the Linksys arrived this week, and the D-Link is on the way). But if you're an existing owner of the D-Link DSM-750, there's a new firmware upgrade for the unit that you'll want to check out.

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Hey, We Americans Don’t Always Get The Good Stuff!

I've been reporting several articles recently that discuss services that are available only to U.S. residents.  I came across an article that indicates that we are not always #1 in the good stuff. 

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Add-in: Download Manager v2.3

Christof Rakowski has released a new version of his Download Manager add-in, taking it to version 2.3.

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BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta 2 Now Available

BitDefender have released Beta 2 of BitDefender Total Security 2009, which rovides internet security for a wide range of operating systems, including Windows Home Server. Find out what's new in this release.

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Would You Really Trust Your ISP to Back-Up Your Data?

Online backup is set to go large in the next four years, according to a recent study, and your ISP is sharpening its profit pencil. But who would you trust to look after your data?

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How-To: Listen to Internet Radio with Windows Home Server and SHOUTcast

SHOUTcast is a free application which anbles you to access thousands of internet radion stations from all over the world. Did you know you can set up Windows Home Server to be your own, personal SHOUTcast server, so you can listen to internet radio anywhere in your home? We’ll show you how, thanks to Drashna’s [...]

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Installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server

If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to [...]

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Great Set of How To Guides Over at MyHomeServer.com

Eric over at myhomeserver.com has written a great suite of tutorials for extending the use of your home server, including setting up a printer to allow you to print over the internet, setting a static IP adress for your home server, and upgrading the RAM in a HP MediaSmart Server (a task I’m increasingly thinking [...]

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How to… Create a Website on Windows Home Server

Andrew Grant’s written an excellent “How To” guide on using his Whiist add-in to create a website, hosted on your Windows Home Server, that friends and family around the world can access remotely. The guide is a great introduction to Whiist and discusses some of the options in Whiist, the files that compose your website, and [...]

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