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HP MediaSmart Delay – Waiting For Microsoft…?

By on August 30, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Home Server

Interesting post today from Mary-Jo following up on HP’s decision to delay the release of the HP MediaSmart Server. Interesting for a few reasons: 1. The rationale behind the delay came from Steve van Roekel at Microsoft, not from HP – surely it was HP’s decision to delay? HP are seemingly very quiet on the [...]

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HP MediaSmart Server Delayed – Not Friendly Enough

By on August 30, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Hardware, Software, Windows Home Server

Looks like HP have been politely invited to take another look at the software they’ll be bundling with Windows Home Server in their new MediaSmart servers. A report on SmallNetBuilder is stating that HP have delayed releasing the server until the “holiday period” to make their software more “user-friendly” to general consumers. Reading between the [...]

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Add-in: AutoExit for Windows Home Server 2008 Updated

By on August 27, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

The Release Candidate of AutoExit for Windows Home Server 2008 has now been releasedby Asoft. The new build includes numerous bug fixes, and importantly, now supports a Wake on LAN function to allow you to boot up home computers on your network remotely. ASoft AutoExit for Windows Home Server is a console add-in for Windows [...]

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Add-In: Xbox Community Feeds for Windows Home Server

By on August 25, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Xbox Community Feeds is a great new add-in for Windows Home Server, which aggregates your RSS feeds and podcasts, and serves them up to your Xbox 360. Here’s the blurb: Xbox Community Feeds allows you to view xml based content feeds (xml, rss, rdf) on your Xbox 360 video game console; you can also listen [...]

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Is Paul Thurrott the New Simon Cowell?

By on August 20, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Home Server

If you’re a North American developer who has entered the Code2Fame challenge with a kick-ass Add-In for Windows Home Server, then if you’re lucky enough to get to the final presentations, as well as impressing a host of internal Microsoft judges (I’m guessing this may be the usual suspects from the WHS team) you’ll be [...]

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Add-in: Sage TV 6.26 Release Candidate for Windows Home Server

By on August 17, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Sage TV allows you to stream your digital media directly from your home server – enjoy TV/PVR, Online Video, Music and Photos on any TV, PC or Mac screen at home or away from home with SageTV Placeshifter. SageTV is designed to be your “always on” digital entertainment hub that’s accessible at home or over [...]

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Add-in: DHCP for Windows Home Server

By on August 16, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Brendan Grant has released a new Windows Home Server Add-in for testing and feedback over at the MS Forums. It’s a DHCP server for WHS. DHCP is a protocol used by networked computers (clients) to obtain IP addresses and other parameters such as the default gateway, subnet mask, and IP addresses of DNS servers from [...]

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Add-in: AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server

By on August 10, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Coming to us from Belgium is a new add-in: AutoExit 2008 for Windows Home Server. AutoExit allows you to remotely control all of you home computers from within the Windows Home Server Console. You can shutdown or reboot computers on your network, send messages to individual machines and open Remote Desktop sessions to any of [...]

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Exclusive: Avast Anti-Virus for Windows Home Server – Preliminary Details

By on August 6, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Home Server

Those of you running the Windows Home Server beta will no doubt have noticed the lack of Anti-Virus products available for your system. The new home server category sits in between the traditional “server” and “home computer” categories which have been traditionally served by specific anti-virus products which vary greatly in price. A number of [...]

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Add-In: ipsHomecontrol 2007 for Windows Home Server – Coming Soon

By on August 2, 2007 in Add-ins & Apps, Windows Home Server

Over in Germany, it looks like ipsHomecontrol will soon be adding support for Windows Home Server. The software allows you to control various elements of your home automation system (if you have one) including lighting, temperature and more. The add-in will compete with previously announced home automation software including Embedded Automation Inc.’s mControl and Lagotek [...]

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