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Family Diary

By on October 31, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Miscellaneous, WHS v1

Family Diary is a suite of applications to allow you to store appointments and contacts for your family and friends. The suite works across the PCs in your home, and includes a Windows Service, a Windows client application, an Outlook Add-in and a Windows Home Server Add-in. All data is stored on the home server where is can be accessed and updated by users on other PCs in the home.

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How to: Install Windows Home Server 2011 on the Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server

By on October 31, 2010 in How to Guides, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

Whilst installing Windows Home Server Vail on a home-built home server is easy, it can be a lot more challenging on dedicated home server hardware from manufacturers like HP, Acer and Fujitsu-Siemens where you don’t have the essential monitor connection to see what’s going on if the installation halts. Fortunately, experimentation can yield great results, [...]

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LaCie’s 2big Goes Bigger With 3TB Drives, Faster Speeds

By on October 29, 2010 in Network Attached Storage, News

LaCie have announced another update to their d2 USB 3.0 and 2big USB 3.0 storage lines, with the inclusion of 3TB drives boosting both storage capacity and transfer speeds.

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Roku Make Their Alliance with Netgear Official

By on October 28, 2010 in Digital Media Receivers, Hardware, News, TV, Video

Roku partners with Netgear which allows Netgear to sell Roku branded media players.  They are also looking to partner with other OEMs.

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Meanie Transforms Your Smartphone Into a Media Center Remote

By on October 28, 2010 in News, Windows Media Center

Media Center remote broken? Or do you just fancy showing off what that new smartphone of yours can do? Meanie lets you scoot around Windows Media Center all from the comfort of your handset.

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SecondRun.tv Gets a Second Run

By on October 28, 2010 in News, Windows Media Center

v2.0 of SecondRun.tv has been released this week – it’s a plugin for Windows Media Center which brings together a host of online media into a familiar guide format, split by channel. A wide variety of media types are supported, including Netflix and Hulu channels, flash based video content, streaming video from the web, video from RSS feeds as well as locally stored video such as DVD rips.

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Add-in Update: DNS Updater v1.0.1.0

By on October 28, 2010 in Add-in News, News

DNS Updater allows the use of a vanity URL (e.g. yourchoice.com) to access the server remotely, rather than the default homeserver.com domain. The latest release, v1.0.1.0 fixes a number of bugs reported by users.

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Add-in Update: Duplicate File Finder for Windows Home Server v1.2

By on October 28, 2010 in Add-in News, News

Duplicate File Finder gets a bug-fix update. We missed this one back in July, so consider this a catch up post!

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 3 – Installing Windows 7)

By on October 27, 2010 in How to Guides, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows

If you’ve been following our How to series on transforming the new Mac Mini into a kick ass Windows Media Center PC, then you’ll know that in Part 1 we installed and configured Mac OSX and installed 500 MB of updates for Snow Leopard, and in Part 2 we prepared the Mac’s hard drive for the installation for Windows 7, courtesy of Boot Camp Assistant.

If Parts 1 & 2 are complete, we must be at Part 3 and that means that our Mac Mini is waiting, arms outstretched, to receive Windows 7.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 2 – Boot Camp)

By on October 26, 2010 in How to Guides, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows

In the second part of our guide to transforming the new Mac Mini into a great Windows Media Center PC, we take a look at Mac OSX’s Boot Camp Assistant and repartitioning the Mac Mini’s hard drive to accommodate Windows 7.

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