Connected Digital World

One of the promises of Windows Home Server 2011 was the ability to backup your Mac to WHS 2011. Unfortunately that functionality wasn’t provided out of the box. There were hacks and workarounds to get it running, but Orbital Technologies have produced an add-in to get it to work. We previewed the add-in back in May, now it’s available.

This week I visited Amazon’s Christmas Wish List 2011 event, where they showed off all the tech, gadgets, toys and other stuff they think will be big this Christmas. Read on to find out what they think you want from Santa this year.

This week sees an exclusive two day media event being hosted by Ford at their world wide headquarters in Detroit, USA, and I am lucky enough to be invited.

I am on vacation and my Windows Home Server Console stopped responding. I can still upload, download and stream but the console screen (after login) is just gray and blue. Something is borked so what do I do? If I could get to the WHS Console I would just use the Restart button. Ugh. Restarting WHS should fix it, but how?

Why should we have to open an application just to resize an image? Maybe you are looking for a fast way to resize images? Check out this quick and easy tool.

So you made a backup. Now what? What do you do with it?

Most of us rely on Windows Home Server to perform our PC backups and store our data but what about standard users? What about your cousin in college or your Aunt with only one computer? This week I will walk you through a quick way to backup Windows 7 PCs.

Did you know that it is possible for the TV Archive function in your Windows Media Center to become corrupt? Want to know how to fix it?