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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server for the Average Family Part 2

This is the second in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help of WMC and WHS. 

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How-To: Install Firefly Media Server for Windows Home Server

Do you own an iPod, or use iTunes heavily? Do you want an easy way to access your server's music on iTunes much the same way that HP MediaSmart Server users can? Well, HP used the Firefly Media Server in part to accomplish what they did. And we are going to show you how to install FireFly.

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How To: Play Media Stored On Your Playstation 3 With Windows Home Server and PVConnect/TwonkyMedia

Having problems playing back media on Windows Home Server with your Playstation 3. You went out and got TwonkyMedia didn't you, thinking that would solve it. Then that stopped working, right? Okay, let's fix it.

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SageTV for Windows Home Server v6.4.2 Beta Released

SageTV have released a beta update to their TV recording and distribution software for Windows Home Server (and other platforms).

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Review: Logitech SqueezeBox Duet and SqueezeServer

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

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How To: Install Orb on Windows Home Server

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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Top 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With Your Windows Vista Media Center PC

Hey guys I put together a video tips video on soapbox of the top 5 things you can do with your Windows Vista Media Center PC. This isn’t purist Home Server but one of the tips is! Let me know what you think! Video: The Top 5 Things YOU didn’t know you could do with your Vista [...]

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HP Moves MediaSmart Server Update Back to April

We’ve just heard from HP that they will be moving their planned February update for the HP MediaSmart Server back a couple of months to early April due to the need for “additional testing”. The update, announced in early January, is set to bring a suite of new features to the MediaSmart Server, including enhanced media streaming from [...]

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