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Stop using Google!
live.com is (finally!) sooo much better. Yes, I know "Google" has become a verb and it's hard to say "Live it", but the reality is Live's search results are (finally) better. Live's mapping ( http://maps.live.com ) is far...
The connections are eerie
Via my regular browsing of blog searches for Windows Home Server related stuff I came across this poor guy's extremely sad story of data loss. http://adams-allegory.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-lost-everything.html First connection: He should have had...
Visual Studio Express and Windows Home Server
Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express . He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I'm super excited that WHS is going to enable...
Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG
Stop Digital Amnesia SWAG Originally uploaded by ckindel . Have you checked out www.stopdigitalamnesia.com yet? I know in my first post I had a typo in the URL (thanks Mark for fixing it remotely for me!). My marketing team (and the vendors who helped...
HP MediaSmart pic
DSCN0235 Originally uploaded by ckindel . Here's a pic I took this morning in the Microsoft booth at CES of the Windows Home Server powered HP MediaSmart device. I put my latte next to it so you might be able to appreciate the diminutive size of the device...
Amazing Response
My inbox is overflowing with messages from people congratualating my team, asking questionsm, and pointng me at all the great press we've been getting. I awoke this morning over a hundred emails directly to me and my RSS reader overflowing with feeds...
Bill Gates' CES Keynote can be viewed online
Head over to http://microsoftatces.com/ to view Bill Gates' keynote where he announced Windows Home Server.
Windows Home Server
Windows Home Server prototype Originally uploaded by ckindel . I am writing this from the Windows Home Server blogger's lounge in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Bill Gates just finished up his CES 2007 keynote where the product I have been slaving over...
Stop Digital Amnesia?
Noticed a banner ad on cnet.com that clicked through to this site www.stopdigitalamnesia.com (Stop Digital Amnesia). Hmmm... Yet another Microsoft viral-teaser site. Something big will be announced on 1/7 at CES... Reminds me of Furry Goat's post about...
Furrygoat discovers the RAID rebuild
Poor Steve (Mr. Furrygoat) . Like many geeks out there he bought a RAID5 system thinking it was a silver bullet providing massive reliable storage for all his precious data (precious to him, due to the time it took to back up all his DVDs, not necessarily...
MCE Controller v1.1 Released - and now open source
I built MCE Controller as something that would be useful for my own home. I had minor aspirations of making it do more than it does, but the reality is that I don’t really have the time nor the inclination (it works beautifully for me as is). Until...
Do you have a NAS at home?
A bunch of us were sitting around arguing about why people are buying these inexpensive NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes. Then we started arguing about who was buying them. I’ve poured over all the market research I can find and neither of these...
John Cleese Promotes Computer Backup
From adrants.com : “While it's about five minutes longer than it needs to be, this video , created in January to promote LiveVault disk data back up, thankfully, features John Cleese who can make anything amusing. In the video, Cleese, taking on...
6mbps for less $
I’ve been having some issues with Comcast lately. First my bill seemed high and second they kept declining pay-per-views. Of course we were trying to watch pay-per-view movies on our family movie night (Saturday) and when I would call Comcast (based...
My flickr.com photos
Given all the photos we took in Alaska last week (488 between Kevin & I) I decided to actually try out a few of the latest online photo sites. I tried both smugmug.com and flickr.com . Besides allowing you to store your photos online, these sites...
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