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Competition Time: Win a Copy of Digital Archound!

It’s time for our next exciting giveaway at We Got Served! A few weeks go, you’ll have read our review of Digital Archound Home Server Edition which digitises all of your important documents, saves them as a PDF, and stores them safely and securely on your home server, with fast search and easy retrieval when you [...]

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Win a $10,000 Digital Home Makeover From Microsoft

As part of the launch of the new Windows Media Center v2 Extenders, Microsoft are holding a competition in which one lucky winner can have their digital lives transformed from their current frustrated, disconnected experience to a digital enthusiast’s dream with $10,000 worth of new kit, including  a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders [...]

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Exclusive: Tranquil PC to Launch WHS-based M one Media Server

Whilst we’ve been sworn to secrecy, we’ve been aware for a while that Tranquil PC have been working on a new cutting edge Media Server system, and today we can at last reveal some of the details. Launched this Easter weekend, the M one is a Windows Home Server based system which combines 2Tb of [...]

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How To: Install Orb on Windows Home Server

If, like me, you have a long weekend coming up thanks to the Easter holiday, you may be looking for a project to work on with your home server. May I suggest working through the following How To developed by WGS forum member GaMeR, which walks you through installing Orb on your Windows Home Server system. [...]

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Tranquil PC to Launch T7-HDX Home Server Extender

  Back in September, when we reviewed Tranquil PC’s first Windows Home Server unit, the T7-HSA we loved its small, compact size which came with one big headache – a single internal drive and the lack of expansion options other than the use of external USB hard drives – which defeated the purpose of having such a small and [...]

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S1Digital to Launch Windows Home Server Hardware in 2008

Chris Lanier points today to Ian Dixon’s Media Center Show this week, which has an interview with S1Digital’s Paul Heitlinger about their plans for 2008. I bumped into Paul at the Media Center Show dinner in Las Vegas at CES hosted, and he mentioned that S1 were planning to launch Windows Home Server hardware in 2008. [...]

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PerfectDisk 8 for Windows Home Server Released Later Today

Raxco will today release an update to their PerfectDisk range of disk defragmentation software, including a new version of PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. PerfectDisk8 for Windows Home Server brings the full functionality of Raxco’s server-grade defragmentation products to Windows Home Server, although they are yet to integrate the software into the Windows Home Server [...]

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How Do You Integrate Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center in Your Home Setup?

Ian Dixon over at The Digital Lifestyle dropped me a quick IM this afternoon. He’s running a post today asking how his readers have attempted to integrate their Media Center set ups with Windows Home Server. It’s clear that these are two products which should, in a perfect world, work hand in hand to receive, store and [...]

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Todd Headrick Talks Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 on The Media Center Show

Ian Dixon has been doing a valliant job of editing and sharing a huge variety of interviews he conducted at CES last week. Even though 140,000 people attend CES, it’s funny how you bump into the same people regularly, and every time I saw Ian, he had his tablet PC and microphone at the ready. Great [...]

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Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life Now Available

One time (or should that be “short time”) WHS MVP and now Microsoft employee Rick Hallihan’s book, “Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life“ is now shipping at Amazon. Here’s the lowdown: Windows Home Server (WHS) simplifies the process of backing up PCs, and this complete reference brings the power of WHS to [...]

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