Archive | September, 2010

Apple TV Payments Taken, Shipping Soon

Cupertino fill their coffers again as the all new Apple TV prepares to ship.

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Hands On: Norco RPC-4224 Rackmount Chassis

Norco’s 24-bay rackmount server case is strictly for those users who are serious about their storage. What could you do with 48TB of space?

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Media Center Master & Media Browser Updated

Two essential plugins for Windows Media Center have seen updates over the last week. If you’re a Media Center user or you’re thinking about using Media Center for watching TV and Movies then you must check both of these out – whilst there’s a lot of buzz out there about Boxee, XBMC and Apple TV, Windows Media Center in conjunction with Media Center Master and Media Browser takes a lot of beating.

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Add-in Review: Cloudberry Backup v1.7 for Windows Home Server

We continue our look at online backup services for Windows Home Server with Cloudberry Backup, a relatively new service (the first release was in November 2009) but one that has quickly gained popularity in the community. Initially powered by Amazon’s S3 storage service, Cloudberry has recently added a Windows Azure storage option to the service, allowing the user the choice of where their data is hosted.

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New From Sweden, the Excito B3 Home Server

Single bay home server duals as a Wi-Fi router and firewall, with file and print server, media streaming and client backup thrown in for good measure. But unlike other Swedish products you can think of, there’s no self-assembly required.

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ivi TV: Watch Live TV From the Internet, The Sequel

A week ago, I wrote about a new Internet-based live TV service called ivi TV.  It didn’t take long for the “big media copyright conglomerates” to respond.

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Seagate First to Push Out 1.5TB Portable External Hard Drive

It seems like only yesterday that we reviewed Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex and GoFlex Pro drives and yet here they are with another first. Today, the company announced the world’s first 1.5TB 2.5” portable external hard drive.

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Zune Services Extend to Europe and Australasia This Autumn

Redmond takes on Apple, Spotify and others in Europe with launch of music and video download store and streaming subscription service for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7.

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.com Is 25

Verisign celebrate the 25th anniversary of the .com domain with $300,000 of grants available to eligible projects focused on improving Internet infrastructure. But more importantly, what were you doing in 1985 when you could have been registering thousands of domains?

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How to: Build an ATOM/ION-based HTPC

The days of hulking, noisy home theatre PCs are long gone. Choose the right components, and you can build a small, silent and powerful PC that will neatly fit into your TV cabinet, stream high definition video, music, photos from a home server or NAS and serve as a kick ass DVR.

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