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The Cell Phone Quest – Part 3

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Well, I had to get to it at some point.  So here it goes…the iPhone! (Full disclosure – I do not own an iPhone nor have been give one free of charge by Apple or AT&T) Hands down, the iPhone was and still is a game changer.  As I have mentioned earlier, I have an iPod Touch (everything the iPhone is with out the phone or AT&T) and just love it.  If Sprint carried the iPhone, it would be lights out!  Done deal!  Out of the park!  But they don’t.  So I still have to make a difficult choice. What

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The Windows Home Server Reload. Follow It Here…

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Friday, July 3rd  [spp-timestamp time="2:45"] PM.  I have been having some difficulty with my Windows Home Server over the last several months and it’s time to rebuild it from scratch.  It not has hard as you think, so I thought I’d bring you along on the process.  I’ll try to post some screen shots and pictures to give you a good idea of how you do it and what the home server can do.  So over the weekend, I’ll just keep adding to this post.  It will be fun.  Join me. Remember, I search (and rebuild servers) so you don’t have

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The Home Server Show 47 – MVP, Smartphones, and Fire!

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In show 47, we talk about everything under the sun.  We might even mention a home server here and there!  We mostly cover the ioSafe Solo video that was posted on July 1st as well as the new MVP’s, and some smartphone discussions. Here are the links to items discussed on show 47. Windows 7 Pre-Order Announcement. Order yours today before July 11, 2009. WGS Windows 7 Options and Details MSWHS Nod32 Antivirus iPhone Client for WHS Fantastic deal on the ioSafe Solo 500 gig drive at Provantage.com Microsoft Smartphone??? Leave me a voicemail with Skype! Click me to call

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I Have A Need…A Need For Getting Better Transfer Speeds From My WHS

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  One of the things that has bothered me the most about my WHS (Windows Home Server) experience that been the incredibly slow file transfer speeds that I get from my client boxes to the server and back.  Granted, I am using older equipment with slow processors, IDE drives and 10/100 network devices, but the fact still remains, I want more speed! Joe DiFiglia over at Computing on Demand posted some good info back in early June on a tweek that will get you some serious speed from the new gigabit switches and network cards.  It would be a couple

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Home Server Show Host is Microsoft’s Newest MVP

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Home Server Show founder and host Dave McCabe was awarded the title of MVP today by the WHS Microsoft Team!  Congratulations Dave!  Wondering just what an MVP is?  Microsoft states: Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others. I have been listening to the Home

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Worried About Losing Your Hard Drive to Fire? Worry No Longer!

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What is your worst nightmare?  Public speaking?  Getting married?  Nude in public?  Mine is losing all my data that is stored on my Windows Home Server to a fire.  I can see it now…the house catches fire and like a good father I race to get my wife and children to safety!  Just as I go running back into the flames to grab my computer equipment (oh, and you know I would!) the roof collapses into my basement and the house is a total loss!  Everything digital is gone.  What a sad day that would be! It doesn’t have to

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