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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it. But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it. Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]

Add-in Update: Recorded TV Manager 3.4.5 & MCE Collections Beta

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Rick Drasch has updated his add-in, Recorded TV Manager, to version 3.4.5, as well as releasing a new add-in suite for Vista Media Center, called MCE Collections. Recorded TV Manager comes with the following changes: Version 3.4.5 Posted March 24, 2008 Startup Requirements- Improved the startup code regarding problems running the programincluding extended error reporting in the local eventlog. PERFORM_STARTUP_CHECK - Each [...]

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

Friday, March 14, 2008

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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 [...]

Vista Caller-ID WHS - Now in Public Beta

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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A few weeks ago, you’ll remember that we wrote about a caller-ID add-in for Windows Home Server called Vista Caller-ID WHS. Alexander Kent got in touch this week to let me know that after a successful private beta (powered by many of you, I believe) they’re now opening up the beta to all. So, if you’d [...]

Add-In: Vista Caller-ID Home Server

Thursday, February 21, 2008

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Vista Caller-ID is a free Windows Vista application that tracks and announces phone calls. It uses your Voice or Data Modem and Caller ID service provided by your local phone company in order to identify who’s calling. The team have now released an accompanying add-in for Windows Home Server, which automatically saves and logs caller ID information [...]

A Glimpse of the Future From Alienware?

Friday, February 1, 2008

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Alienware today released details of their new High Definition Media Server, which looks really fantastic for those people seeking high capacity storage, media recording and streaming capabilities and a wealth of connectivity options in one good looking box…. apart from the fact that it’s actually not a server at all. This “server” actually runs Windows Vista [...]

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 – Coming Your Way!

Monday, January 7, 2008

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This morning at the CES conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft will announce the forthcoming release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (formerly known as Windows Home Server Update Release 1). This is a feature update pack that will be released as a free upgrade through Windows Update to all Windows Home Server users in [...]

CES 2008: HP to Announce HP MediaSmart Receiver with Extender for Windows Media Center Support

Thursday, January 3, 2008

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Next up in HP’s CES MediaSmart announcements is the HP MediaSmart Receiver - a Digital Media Receiver (DMR) which is fully compatible with the HP MediaSmart Server and includes Extender for Windows Media Center Support (or the v2 Extender you may have read about elsewhere). The DMR enables you to playback music, videos and photos from [...]

Anti-Virus Protection, Enhanced Media Streaming and Vista x64 Compatibility Coming to the HP MediaSmart Server

Thursday, January 3, 2008

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At CES next week, HP will be making a number of announcements regarding their MediaSmart suite of products, which includes the HP MediaSmart Server. We Got Served was sent early details of those announcements today (you’ll see that CNET and Engadget have covered this too today). In Spring 2008 (Engadget reckon February, but that’s not confirmed) a free [...]

x64 Connector Announcement Coming at CES 2008

Thursday, November 29, 2007

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Good news is on the way for those of you who with to use Windows Home Server with x64 home computers. As many of you know, the Windows Home Server Connector does not currently support x64 home computers, which has caused a lot of frustration and angst amongst early adopters of the x64 platform. Microsoft have [...]