Archive | August, 2008

My Personal TV Digital

By on August 31, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Video, Windows Media Center

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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IFA 2008: Toshiba Qosmio G50 With Gesture Control

By on August 30, 2008 in Hardware, Windows Media Center

Touchscreens are like so last year.

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IFA 2008: LG Announce N4B1 Network Attached Storage Device

By on August 30, 2008 in Hardware, Network Attached Storage

Are NAS Devices about to hit the mainstream?

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IFA 2008: Logitech Squeezebox Boom

By on August 30, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Those of you who have followed WGS for a while will know that we’re big fans of the Squeezebox range of digital media receivers. This week. Logitech announced the latest edition to the range.


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Samsung Release Four New Digital Photo Frames

By on August 30, 2008 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

We don’t feature digital photo frames all that much here at WGS, and maybe that’s because we’ve often found them tricky to configure with Windows Home Server – that said, they often work perfectly with modern home computers running Windows Media Player 11, so they can be a great addition to your digital home.


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IFA 2008: Shuttle x27 Looks Like a Great Home Server Chassis

By on August 30, 2008 in Hardware, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

One of the products I’ll definitely be checking out at this year’s IFA is the Shuttle x27, a very small footprint barebones PC which looks like it could make a fantastic home server.

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Windows Home Server Launches in Japan Tomorrow

By on August 29, 2008 in Hardware, Software, Windows Home Server

Looks like the Japanese version of Windows Home Server will be hitting the mean streets of Japan tomorrow with a consumer launch event in Akihabara, Tokyo’s technology district.

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Add-In Update: TV Manager 1.0

By on August 29, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Digital Media Receivers, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Brent Friedman’s free add-in, TV Manager is finally out of beta and has been released to the web with a sparkly 1.0 against it.

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Microsoft Publish Windows Home Server Development Guidelines

By on August 29, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Under the Hood, Windows Home Server

As part of an ongoing push to engage more developers to support the Windows Home Server platform, Microsoft today published a 17 page document acting as a guideline for the creation and integration of add-ins for the operating system.

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Windows Home Server Team Meet Channels 9 & 10

By on August 28, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Hardware, Windows Home Server

A few of the guys from the Windows Home Server team (CJ Saretto, Mark Pendergrast and Brendan Grant) caught up with the folks from Channel 9 and Channel 10 (Microsoft’s Developer and Enthusiast Community Sites) to talk about the upcoming Professional Developer Conference in LA and also show off some new home server hardware.

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