Archive | January, 2010
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Hands On: Lite-On eTAU208 DVD/CD Rewritable Drive

By on January 31, 2010 in Hard Drives and Storage Reviews, Hardware, News, Reviews

For those of you out there who own a netbook, have I got a deal for you: the Lite-On eTAU208 DVD/CD rewritable drive.  Why this deal?  Read on.

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Hands-on: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200

By on January 31, 2010 in Hardware, Network Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage Reviews, Reviews, Small Business

Iomega’s latest small business network storage device gets the hands on treatment, and comes out really well!

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Forum Focus: Western Digital Advanced Format Drives and Windows Home Server

By on January 31, 2010 in Storage, Windows Home Server

New Advanced Format hard disk technology is supported on new operating systems, as well as older systems courtesy of a Western Digital utility…. which is blocked for installation on Windows Home Server. WGS Forum users are attenpting to tackle the issue, but for now, be careful about using new Western Digital Green drives.

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Confusion Reigns Over Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO Server Restore

By on January 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

The Server Recovery process on Fujitsu-Siemens’ SCALEO 1500 and 1900 home servers is leaving owners confused about data loss. Will the procedure delete data in your shared folders…. or not?

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Add-In Review: AdminiMe

By on January 30, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Apps & Add-in Reviews, News, Reviews, Software

Recently, I announced a new WHS add-in, AdminiMe.  When Nick Asseloos asked for some volunteers to beta test a new add-in a few months ago, I thought sure, why not?  It really was not that much of a test, as the add-in was closer to RC quality then CTP quality to start out with.  Now it is time to review the finished product.

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Add-in: Project Umbrella – Home Calendar, Contacts and Tasks (AIC ‘09)

By on January 30, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

The first proof of concept preview of the winning entry in 2009′s Add-in Ideas Competition has arrived, and it’s giving you a full installation of Sharepoint on your home server!

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Windows Home Server “Vail” Leak – What’s Going On?

By on January 29, 2010 in WHS v2, Windows Home Server

The web’s on fire with news of a leaked build of Windows Home Server, but things are strangely quiet here at your favourite home server site. Have we been asleep all week? Find out what’s going on…

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Add-in: Manageability Add-in for Windows Home Server

By on January 27, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

With this add-in you can discover and monitor the power state of all of the computers on a network along with performing many management operations.

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LG N2B1 Network Attached Storage With Blu-Ray

By on January 27, 2010 in Hardware, Network Attached Storage

LG have produced a couple of great looking NAS devices over the last year or so, and their latest effort, the N2B1 offers a new innovation – an internal Blu-ray rewriter for archiving data up to 50GB.

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Add-In Update: DA Document Manager 2010, a.k.a. Digital ArcHound

By on January 26, 2010 in News, Software, Windows Home Server

Quite some time ago, I reviewed a nifty archiving program called Digital ArcHound.  An amazing piece of software for preserving all those important documents.  Over the past several months, the company (and user base) behind Digital ArcHound have been beta testing an updated version, and it has now been released to the general public.

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