Author: Jim Collison

The Home Server Show #69 – Merry Christmas!

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This week’s show is FULL of news.  Dave is joined by Jim and John and we go over tons of news items.  Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas! HP’s Software update A Retraction.  AVAST’s false positives. Time Machine to WHS PP3 and OpenDNS Add-In: Lights Out Add-In: P80 D-Link Camera Solution for WHS More camera surveillance with WHS Add-In: Perfect Disk for WHS PP3 TV Archive and AC3 My Movies new release and trial link Artigo A2000 Review Remote Desktop for Windows7 versions that do not support RDP WGS Reader Awards The Digital Lifestyle Awards Using Windows Home Server Reader

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The Home Server Show 68

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In Today’s show we will be going over news items with Dave, John, Jim and Chris.  We also have two interviews for you.  One is with Nigel Wilks, AKA, Cougar.  He is going to tell us about his new Add-In,WHS Health.  Dave also speaks at length with Tom S.  You know him in the forums as WODYSWEB.  This will be the first of a couple of interviews about going virtual.  Virtualization is a hot topic and we will be covering everything you need to know to get started. Get the show here: http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-68-virtual-server-windows-home-server.html Could Anti-Virus on WHS keep this from

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WHS Health Add-In with the Palm Pre / Pixi (For the Window Home Server)

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The newly released add-in for the Windows Home Server (more info at The Home Server Show or MediaSmart Server.net) from Nigel Wilks and Alex Kuretz, which was primarily developed to render the health status of your Windows Home Server on an iPhone or iPod Touch, has an additional benefit!  Maybe only for me? I was installing it tonight and testing it on my Touch when it occurred to me that I should be able to get this working nicely on my Palm Pre.  Sure enough, it looked great!  I’ve included some photos below. The add-in is a keeper.  Thanks Nigel

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Office 2010 Beta Available for Public Download

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          If you haven’t heard, Microsoft has released a beta version of Office 2010 for the general public.  In the past, these kinds of events were not always available to the masses but over the last several years, Microsoft has made better by letting more people test.  A good example of this was the Windows 7 beta. You can download it from here.  http://us1.office2010beta.microsoft.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US Beware, you shouldn’t try to install this on a work computer (may get you in serious trouble with your IT folks).  Read this before you try anything!  http://www.winsupersite.com/office/o2010_beta.asp Remember, I search so

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The Home Server Show 67 – PP3 In Depth

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The Home Server Show 67 – PP3 In Depth Today, John, Jim, Chris, and Dave talk about PP3 in depth.  We will go over what we like and what we don’t like.  We will also go over a few tweets and forum posts about PP3.  Chris un-installs the beta and installs PP3 during the show.  This is another fun one with some outtakes at the end that you will not want to miss. Are you going to CES?  I’ve added a forum to discuss all things CES.  Please drop by. AJ and Diehard have been added as a moderators of

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Top Nine Tech Things You Should Have Tried in 2009 (but still can in 2010).

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The end of the year is a great time to start throwing around lists of stuff.  As I started reflecting on 2009, I thought about all the technology that I used and how I wish others had know about it as well!  So here it is – the nine things I wish you had tried in 2009!  (Not in any order) Full Disclosure:  I was not paid to write these nice things and it is solely my own opinion.  If you have one, leave a comment below. Skype  – http://www.skype.com – I use this Voice over IP (VOIP) application all

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