On March 29, Microsoft announced that Windows Home Server 2011 was signed off, making it soon available for purchase. We can start seeing Windows Home Server 2011, WHS 2011 for short, available for evaluation as early as April and then in the OEM market by May. Downloads via MSDN and TechNet will also be available…Continue Reading
I’ve written quite a bit about Windows Home Server and how great it is, I’ve also done a good job of recommending it to family and friends as a storage solution for all the family pictures and videos. Today I read that in the upcoming release of Windows Home Server (codename Vail) will be stripped…Continue Reading
Last week I listed a number of reasons why everyone needs a Windows Home Server. Now that we understand the need and practicality of adding a Windows Home Sever to a network we are going to take some time to look over the specifications needed for a Windows Home Sever and some of the options…Continue Reading
Do you have a computer for the kids, for yourself and one you use for work? What about an iPad or video streaming device like an Apple TV? If the answer to these questions is yes, chances are that you have movies, music, family videos, pictures and documents scattered around all of these devices without…Continue Reading
If you are using a Windows Home Server to keep all of your computers backed up then you definitely need to have a Windows Home Server (WHS) Restore CD handy should a computer on your network go South. The WHS restore CD walks you through the process of restoring the backup files stored on your…Continue Reading
As the user of several desktops and a laptop, Windows Home Server (WHS) makes the chore of backing up computers easy…as long as the computer is on the network and powered on. If you frequently use a laptop outside of your network and ‘forget’ to leave it plugged in and on it probably will not…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
