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This cool little device has just been announced: The Xtreamer player is the cheapest way to play and stream HD (MKV H.264) movies or user-generated videos, listen to high-quality digital music and show high-resolution slideshows of your family photos on your TV.

This article is the first of a three part series of my building and setting up a Windows Home Server for a remote location.

As you may know, we have reviewed both desktop hard drives and portable hard drives here at Using Windows Home Server, and we have our hands on one of the new HP SimpleSave SD320A portable hard drives and its time for the review.

Well, for those of you who may be interested, and I’m sure that isn’t many of you, I have now finished my Windows 7 book and it is going back to the publishers tomorrow to start the print run 🙂

As you may know, we are fans of KeepVault from Proxure, which is a great add-in that allows you to backup offsite over the Internet. Proxure have released a new version of KeepVault, version 3.15.

Dave over at the Home Server Show podcast has just released show number 53.

Phil over at MSWHS.com has asked me to put out a quick post for him to apologise that MSWHS.com is currently off the air. UPDATE: Its back now!

Recently I wrote about my five Core Add-Ins for my standard Windows Home Server installations and I am about to add a sixth Add-In to the list. The AutoExit Add-In is one of those rare gems that does not get a lot of attention. This Add-In can save you a lot of time and frustration on your home network.