Introduction I have been an original SlingBox user for a number of years and overall have been happy with it. Though the interface was very laggy, it served a purpose of watching live or recorded TV to a mobile device. Recently I redid my entertainment setup and switched everything to HDMI connections. Since the version [...]
If you are like me you love to stream your content to other devices both inside and outside your network. The issue is the typically convoluted and unstable packages such as Twonky, tVersity, or PlayOn. There are obviously solutions like Windows Media Center or XBMC but they do not stream or transcode to mobile devices. [...]
One of the biggest inhibitors to going to a VM environment (more in a later post) are USB devices. The worst of these devices are the Insteon Controllers. Whether using Hyper-V with a USB to IP adapter, or ESXi, I was unable to “reliably” get the these USB devices to work correctly or consistently. Add [...]
I have been a fan of D-Link routers for quite sometime. I have always thought their hardware was good, reliable, and well priced. Since I have an iPad 2 which has a 5 GHz 802.11a transmitter, and I soon will have a new iPhone 5 which also has the same transmitter, I thought it was [...]
As most who have read my posts know, I have been a fan of iHomeserver for quite some time. One of the challenges I had was how to manage movies properly. I have more than a 130 iPad movies in my collection and with an average size of about 1 Gig for each, there is [...]
For the past 20 years, I have been impressed with Onkyo products. Not only from a feature perspective but value as well. It is difficult to find receivers that offer more features and better performance for the cost. I am happy to report that something’s never change. Recently my 10 year old Onkyo started giving [...]
It is pretty obvious from the amount of people that read my first write up on iHomeserver, that we are still looking for ways of not having to deal with iTunes. When I first started using the program it was pretty good, but as early releases often do, there where some features missing. Since that [...]
Apple Released a Podcast app today. Rumored to be available only when IOS 6 was released, I was surprised to see it this early. Here is short run through of the application and how it looks on the iPad. Features on the iPhone are the same but screen layouts are obviously a bit different. The [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As far back as I can remember, I have disliked iTunes for the PC. Partially because it is a single PC solution, partially because I do not like the rigidity of the architecture, and mostly because it just performs badly on the PC. Thanks to “TimeKills” from our forums, I was informed of a post [...]
