I’m constantly looking for different ways to stream my media to my portable device. Recently while listening to the HomeServer Show podcast, I found out about a new program called Air Playit. For quite some time I’ve been using Air Video and have been very happy with it. It has done everything I asked it [...]
05/05/2012
The Amazon Cloud Drive
When I heard that Amazon was releasing a cloud drive I thought to myself, “not another one”. How many Dropbox clones can you have. Fortunately this was not the case. Finally a cloud service that does not do a “me too”. The Amazon cloud is a bit different in a couple of ways. First off, [...]
04/29/2012
SkyDrive on WHS 2011-One install is all you need
If you are like many and are jumping on the SkyDrive band wagon you might find yourself having to install it on many systems in your house. The issue soon becomes with many of these services is that you end up installing on too many devices. Since I have many computers on my internal network, [...]
04/27/2012
PlayOn DLNA–Some things never change
A couple of years ago I tried using PlayOn to stream media to my my devices. I always thought the concept was good but back then, I had many issues getting things to work correctly. I do not remember all the details only that it would consistently disconnect, lock up my system, and was generally [...]
04/26/2012
Microsoft’s New Online Backup
Recently had the opportunity to try the beta of the new Online Backup from Microsoft. Presently it is being tested along with the Server 8 Beta, however based on my limited experience with it, I hope they make it available for Windows 8 as well as the existing server products. It goes head to head [...]
04/21/2012
Windows 8 on IOS
Every once in a while you just want to try something that you probably don’t need, but can’t help but being impressed by the cool factor. That’s pretty much the best way to explain the new Splashtop app for the iPad. When I heard about this from the homeservershow, there was a natural attraction and [...]
04/13/2012
Dropbox–The lifeline to all your devices
Dropbox is certainly not a new product. The company was founded back in 2007. It has grown steadily and for some of us, it has become something that we rely on in our every day lives. For me it is a critical part of how I do things whether it is sharing document with others, [...]
03/26/2012
MyMovies-Converting Files for your Mobile Device
One of the key features in MyMovies that many people do not know about is media conversion. It is one of the sleeper features which I find very useful. In a nutshell, along with ripping your content you can also have your media converted for a mobile device to a specific folder/share all in one [...]
03/25/2012
Creating a Stripe-Mirror in Storage Spaces
Here is a short video How to create a stripe or mirror in Storage Spaces
03/24/2012
Storage Spaces-Mirroring and Stripe-JBOD
In the first part, I performance tested the parity volume to see how it stacked up against a hardware RAID. Now that we have seen the huge performance impact of parity volumes, it was now time to see how the Mirroring as well as the stripe-JBOD (drives are striped with no resiliency) performed. Original article [...]
03/20/2012
iHomeServer gets new features
Since my last post, iHomeserver has received a few new features worth mentioning. If you have not done so already, download the trial and give it a shot. 2.1.32.0 (03/02/2012) New Features – Podcast updating, add new podcast, download podcast episodes added. Bug fixes: log file rotation, increased buffers between client and server; icon [...]
03/18/2012
Highpoint RocketCache 3240×8–First Impressions
Ever since I got back from CES I have been waiting for this controller card. The thought of mixing some SSD’s with hard drives seemed exciting to me. I realize that the Z68 performs many of the same features but what attracted me most was this card could be used on any motherboard, as well as [...]
03/13/2012
Exploring Storage Spaces in Server 8
Recently I did some testing and a short video on Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Although very easy to use, the performance was not very impressive. I wanted to see if both the process, as well as the results would be the same under the new Server 8. Link to Windows 8 article: Storage Spaces [...]
03/11/2012
Storage Spaces-The Verdict (for now)
Storage Spaces has been the buzz since the release of the consumer preview and the beta of Server 8. Naturally the attraction is the flexibility of the Storage Spaces and how easy it is to configure it. That being said, it also lays down the challenge, as so many DE replacements before it, to see [...]
03/08/2012
Installing Hyper-V and Creating a VM in Windows 8
Here is a short video on how to install Hyper-V and create your VM on Windows 8. Hyper is not on by default so you have to turn this feature on to use it. Hyper-V for Windows 8
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