Features & Columns

Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 12: WHS n the Wild

By Eric B. Rux

I’ve asked this question before: How do you use your WHS system in your home or your business? How has it changed the way you deal with data on your PC and in your network? Are you able to access your data in new and exciting ways? ...

What Happened to the Music?

By Jason Bovberg

We're still in the midst of the iPod revolution, so it's difficult to calculate the magnitude of its power and reach. Suffice it to say, the CD is reeling (but, so far, surviving) under an onslaught of legal and illegal downloads. ...

Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 10

By Eric B. Rux

It was bound to happen. Heck, it's happened many times before. I lost a hard drive in my PC last month. ...

Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 11

By Eric B. Rux

This month, I want to take a step back and provide an overview of some of the WHS buzz that I’ve been tracking (e.g., on blogs, with the WHS Team, with friends). None of these topics is yet ready for a full-blown column, but they’re interesting enough for brief commentary. ...

Blu-ray Is Worth Fighting For

By Jason Bovberg

I’ve watched the next-generation DVD format war unfold with great interest. The conflict—which amounted to a couple years of hostile sniping and maneuvering—had many of us on the edge of our seats. From the lowly tape-based VHS format, through the unwieldy laser disc, through the promising but limited DVD, we had been inching ever closer to that Holy Grail: absolutely film-like resolution and presentation of movies in the home. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD promised to achieve that goal. ...

Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 9

By Eric B. Rux

Back in April, I told you about my five favorite Windows Home Server (WHS) add-ins. The add-in I want to tell you about this month is different. It's designed to add some fun, useful features above and beyond the typical WHS product that comes off the shelf. It’s called the Website Management Add-In for Windows Home Server—otherwise known as Whiist....