November 2011

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Zappiti Coming To iOS

by Damian on November 30, 2011 · 19 comments

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Zappiti, my go to video jukebox for my Dune media players has just announced that the official iOS App should be hitting iTunes in the coming weeks. For those who don’t know, Zappiti is an application that will aggregate your local movie and TV show library, gather all appropriate fanart/metadata, and export a feature rich […]

I have been a big fan of Sonos ever since I introduced the music streaming platform into my house over a year ago. Since then Sonos has made strides to add new features and services. Today, Sonos announced several new features that have been added. Also, if you are interested to know more about Sonos […]

About a month ago I posted a review on the PopBox v8. Since then several people have asked about the availability in the U.S / Canadian market. Well, today Syabas has officially announced that the v8 can be purchased globally directly from their online store at a price of USD 129.99

A new version of the handy AdminiMe Add-In for Windows Home Server v1 has just been released by the guys over at ASoft. In a nutshell, AdminiMe is an Add-In that monitors aspects of your server with various forms of logging along with the ability to send regular emails to the user with a summary of […]

CloudBerry Backup has been updated to version 2.5 for both Windows Home Server and Windows Home Server 2011. The big news with version 2.4, in case you missed it, was the ability to perform a differential backup on files of any size — this is a major feature that will shorten backup times and help […]

If you happen to be both a Boxee Box and SlingBox owner there is some good news. Slingbox has just released the SlingPlayer App for the Boxee Box. This will allow you to extend your SlingBox’s LiveTV feed directly to your Boxee Box for viewing. The only real advantage for this would be if you […]

Western Digital have announced the release of their new NAS appliance running Windows Home Servers sister product, the catchy titled “Windows® Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials”. Here is what WD had to say in their press release: – WD Sentinel DX4000 includes the Windows® Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system software and the Intel® […]

Odds are if you rip your Blu-ray collection (the main movie only) using a tool like Clown_BD you have come across at least several movies where there have been multiple playlists for what appear to all be for the main movie. Typically this will occur when there are multiple languages of the same movie included […]

First, I want to say “Thank you” to those that have left comments about this series of reviews.  Please keep them coming.  While I haven’t directly responded to each one, I’ve been reviewing them for any suggestions you’ve had and tried to incorporate them into the review. I tore down my HP EX495 a couple of weeks […]

Drive Bender released today version 1.2.1.5, their third update since the initial launch on October 14th.  This update corrects the following items: Release v1.2.1.5 release (2011-11-07) – Update: Implemented the “Pool setup wizard”. – Update: Fully integrated help system. – Update: Documentation has been greatly improved. – Bug fix: A number issues with add, merge and convert […]