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Hulu Plus Arrives on the Nintendo Wii

Andrew Edney

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Feb 18, 2012

If you live in the US and you have a Nintendo Wii, you can now get access to Hulu Plus instead of only being able to access Netflix.

Wii owners can download the Hulu Plus app from the Wii Shop Channel and begin a new entertainment experience. Hulu have optimized the Hulu Plus interface on Wii so you can easily point and click with the Wii Remote as you navigate through thousands of popular TV shows.

For $7.99/month, Hulu Plus subscribers can instantly stream current season episodes of hit shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Glee.

For the first month of launch, Wii users without an existing Hulu Plus account will get a two-week free trial when they follow the sign-up instructions in the Hulu Plus app.

Hulu Plus is coming to Nintendo 3DS later this year, so stay tuned for that announcement.

Have you tried it yet? Let us know what you think.

WordPress App for iOS Updated to version 2.9.4

Apple
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 18, 2012

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WordPress App for iOS Updated to version 2.9.4

The WordPress app for the iPhone and the iPad has been updated to version 2.9.4 bringing with it a number of fixes.

It’s easy to manage your WordPress blog or site from your iOS device. With WordPress for iOS, you can moderate comments, create or edit posts and pages, and add images or videos with ease. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted WordPress.org site running 2.9.2 or higher.

What’s New in Version 2.9.4

* Reader: better caching, pull to refresh
* Added approve button for comments
* Fixed HTTP Authentication
* Fixed problems with external keyboards
* Improved quick photo stability
* Swipe to moderate comments
* Fix Geolocation data on images
* Improved XML-RPC compatibility with problematic hosting providers
* Misc bugfixes
* Crashes: fix crash due to CoreData multithreading

Download the WordPress app from the Apple App Store

LogMeIn App for iPhone and iPad Updated to Version 3.0.832

Apple
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 18, 2012

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The guys and girls over at LogMeIn have just released an update to the LogMeIn app for the iPhone and iPad so you can access your PC or Mac from your iOS devices.

From your couch, on the train or in the air – get anytime, anywhere access to your PC or Mac.

Remotely control your PCs and Macs over WiFi/3G with the free LogMeIn app on your iPad or iPhone. It works with LogMeIn’s free award-winning software installed on as many computers as you like. You can remotely access your files, run your applications and control your desktops from anywhere. With everything at your fingertips, you’re finally free to go.

Access your information and get stuff done.

• Access your home and work computers on the go.
• Control your Mac or PC as if you’re sitting right in front of it.
• Get to your computer files and edit them from your iPad or iPhone.
• Remotely run any application on your computer from your iPad or iPhone.
• Fix computer problems remotely for business or personal IT.
Upgrade in-app to experience these LogMeIn Pro features, and more:
• HD video and sound streaming for seamless remote control from any device or Pro enabled computer (available for Windows, Mac coming soon)
• My Cloud Bank integration that links your LogMeIn app with popular cloud services
• File Manager for transferring files and folders between computers and saving them to your device
• Remote printing to any AirPrint compatible printer
• Photo App Management for accessing and transferring photos from/to your iPad or iPhone photo library

Remote control features include:

• Intuitive and flexible control modes
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports use of special key combinations
• Start a sleeping computer with Wake-On-LAN

How does the in-app subscription upgrade to LogMeIn Pro work?

• Downloading the app is free, and includes FREE remote control of all your computers
• If you choose to upgrade to a LogMeIn Pro subscription, simply select yearly ($39.99)

What’s New in Version 3.0.832

Update includes performance and stability improvements

Download LogMeIn from the App Store now

WHS 2011 Add-in Update : AWIECO RemoteLauncher version 1.0.1

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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WHS 2011 Add-in Update : AWIECO RemoteLauncher version 1.0.1

AWIECO’s RemoteLauncher Add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 has been updated.

The AWIECO RemoteLauncher add-in for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 is a free and useful add-in, which gives you more administrative possibilities to manage your SBS or WHS remotely. With this add-in you have access to predefined System Tools like:

• Windows Explorer
• Internet Explorer
• Commandline
• Event Viewer
• Services
• Control Panel
• Computer Manager
• Device Manager
• Registry Editor
• Task Manager
• Server Manager
on your Small Business or Home Server directly over the Dashboard. If you need other tools and applications to run over the Dashboard, you can simply add them by a right mouse click. Through this add-in, you can start applications installed on your Server from your client.

v1.0.1

• Added: Field for working directory
• Added: Remote Desktop Shortcut
• Added: Language: Japanese, Polish

Learn more from the AWIECO website

WinZip App for iOS Released

Apple
News

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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WinZip for iOS has finally been released and you can download it now for free!

WinZip, the leader of file compression for over 20 years and the creators of WinZip the world’s # 1 zip utility for file compression, file sharing, file encryption and data backup.

With WinZip, a zip file management application for iPhone and iPad you can:
– Open Zip files and Zip attachments from email
– Browse and view Zip files, including multi-file attachments
– Open encrypted Zip files
– Copy the contents of Zip files to the clipboard
– View Zip file attachments from webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc)
Zipped file types that can be previewed:
– .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif

An easy-to-use interface for quickly opening and manage compressed Zip files on your iPhone and iPad.

I use WinZip all the time on my PC, so it’s going to be very useful to have it on my iPhone and iPad!

Download WinZip from the Apple App Store

Angry Birds Space Coming March 22nd

Gaming
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Just when you thought they had done it all with Angry Birds there comes news of the new game – Angry Birds Space!

Below is a short teaser – it doesn’t show anything of the game though!

So are you going to get it?

Bing announces two exciting feature updates for Windows Phone

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Bing announces two exciting feature updates for Windows Phone

Bing announced today two new free updates for Windows Phone – Bing Vision and Bing Image.

Bing Vision – available today

As well as allowing users to detect product information from QR codes and Microsoft Tags, Bing Vision now scans barcodes, CD, DVD and book covers. Plus Bing Vision can now provide local availability and cost comparison information on goods so people can quickly purchase items of interest while on the go.

Bing Image Matching for Newspapers (rolling out in March on Bing Vision)

Enabling people to quickly find the digital version of a print magazine or newspaper article, Bing Image Matching for Newspapers allows users to take a photo of an article using their Windows Phone camera and link directly to a digital version of the article online.

Offering global access, consumers will have access to content from over 3,000 publications worldwide.

Elgato Update Tivizen App for iOS

Apple
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Turn your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a mobile television! Use this App with Elgato’s Tivizen mobile TV tuner to enjoy live broadcasts anywhere you go! Experience the freedom of watching and recording live television, untethered from the internet.

App Features
• Watch, pause, rewind and record live TV on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
• No internet connection required
• View up to seven days of programme guide (EPG) data including details
• Email, tweet and print program details or screenshots to share what you’re watching
• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext

About the Tivizen TV Tuner
This app requires an Elgato Tivizen device. The Tivizen mobile TV tuner has a small, extendable and extremely robust aerial that receives the television signal (DTT/DVB-T/TNT/Freeview). Tivizen transmits that TV signal over to your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or computer. It sets up its own Wi-Fi hotspot or can be integrated into your home Wi-Fi network to be accessed by all computers and mobile devices. Tivizen does not require an internet connection and gives you unlimited TV without touching your data plan.

Elgato’s Tivizen device also works great as a wireless TV tuner for a Mac or PC. Watch, record, edit and enjoy live TV on your computer, completely free from cables. Also, Tivizen can be connected directly with a Mac and PC via USB cable. Elgato’s Tivizen mobile TV tuner comes with award-winning EyeTV software for Mac and THC software for Windows.

What’s New in Version 1.5

• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext
• The jump forward/backward buttons were replaced with scan forward/backward buttons. Touch to jump, touch and hold to scan
• Several cosmetic fixes and performance improvements

Download the Tivizen App from the App Store

Elgato Update EyeTV Netstream App to Version 1.1

Apple
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Elgato today released an update to its EyeTV Netstream app, allowing iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to control Elgato’s EyeTV Netstream network tuners.

What’s New in Version 1.1

• NEW (iPad): Built-in web browser in portrait mode – watch TV and surf the web at the same time!
• NEW (iPad): Teletext
• The jump forward/backward buttons were replaced with scan forward/backward buttons. Touch to jump, touch and hold to scan
• Several cosmetic fixes and performance improvements

Pricing & Availability
The EyeTV Netstream app is available for free from the App Store. EyeTV Netstream Sat and EyeTV Netstream DTT are available for £199.95 (including VAT) each, from Elgato and from selected retailers.

About Elgato
Elgato produces award-winning TV software together with a complete range of TV tuners and capture devices to watch, record, and edit TV and HDTV on Macs and PCs. Elgato is the home of EyeTV, the world’s leading television solution for Mac computers. Elgato also produces a variety of world-class H.264 video conversion and streaming products. Elgato is privately held with offices in Munich, Germany and San Francisco, California.

Microsoft Reveals the new Windows 8 Logo

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Today Microsoft revealed the new Windows 8 logo – and it’s getting mixed reviews!

This is what Microsoft said about the new design:

With Windows 8, we approached the logo redesign with a few key goals on mind.

1. We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic by echoing the International Typographic Style (or Swiss design) that has been a great influence on our Metro style design philosophy. Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways.

2. It was important that the new logo carries our Metro principle of being “Authentically Digital”. By that, we mean it does not try to emulate faux-industrial design characteristics such as materiality (glass, wood, plastic, etc.). It has motion – aligning with the fast and fluid style you’ll find throughout Windows 8.

3. Our final goal was for the new logo to be humble, yet confident. Welcoming you in with a slight tilt in perspective and when you change your color, the logo changes to reflect you. It is a “Personal” Computer after all.

So what do you think of it? Personally I am not that impressed and I prefer the Windows 7 logo.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Free this weekend

Gaming
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Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Free this weekend

We are big fans of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 here at UWHS, and if you haven’t played it yet you can play the multiplayer version for free this weekend on Steam.

The free weekend starts on Thursday, February 16th at 10am Pacific Time.

Click here to start loading, or visit www.steamgames.com/about to install Steam.

The Free Weekend of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will let you play the entire multiplayer portion of the base game.

Lock and load people!

Check out our review of Call of Duty: MW3

WHS 2011 Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 SSD Owners Wanted

Windows Home Server

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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WHS 2011 Add-In: Home Server SMART 2012 SSD Owners Wanted

Dojo North Software are looking for SSD owners to help with their Home Server SMART 2012 add-in for Windows Home Server 2011.

Home Server SMART 2012 is the second-generation add-in for SMART disk monitoring for Windows Home Server. The first generation product, Home Server SMART, is designed to be used on Windows Home Server, which is colloquially known as Windows Home Server “v1.” Home Server SMART 2012, formerly known as Home Server SMART 2011, is designed to run on Microsoft’s Windows Server Solutions family of products, which consists of Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

Home Server SMART 2012, or HSS, is installed into WHS 2011 (I’ll use WHS or WHS 2011 to collectively refer to all Windows Server Solutions products) through the use of a WSSX installer file. The WSSX file can be run on the server itself, or from a client connected to that server via the Launchpad. HSS consists of two main components, a user interface and a service. The user interface is where you can see the health of your disks, view detailed analysis and configure settings. The service, on the other hand, runs continuously, monitoring your disks at pre-determined intervals (default 10 minutes; you can change this). The service can raise WHS alerts and send email notifications when problems are detected. You do no need to be logged into the server for the service to run.

Home Server SMART 2012 has all the features you knew and loved from Home Server SMART for WHS v1, plus a bunch of new features.

This is what was posted in the MediaSmart Server.net forums:

If you’d like to help, post in the forums or contact Matt on his website.

I am getting ready to release the next beta of Home Server SMART 2012, and I need your help. As many of you are well aware, the beta 2.2.1.21 (and earlier) does not correctly report SMART results for Solid State Disks (SSDs). This is because, before a few weeks ago, I never even considered SSDs or the fact they would report completely different data.

If you are running a home server with WHS 2011 (or SBS 2011 Essentials/Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials) and there’s an SSD in it, you can use the Home Server SMART 2012 beta code that I hope to have available in the next week.

If you don’t have an SSD in your server BUT you’ve got one in a desktop or laptop, I’ve created a Windows Forms-based UI that contains much of the Home Server SMART 2012 code, but can be run in 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. This “WindowSMART” application was built mainly for me to use as a means of testing code on the development PC before pushing it onto my home servers, but anybody can run it.

So if anyone is willing to volunteer to run either the HSS 2012 beta or the WindowSMART test UI, your help will be greatly appreciated–and hopefully should require very, very little of your time. Mostly you would just need to run the tool, take screen caps and email them back to me.

HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L for $199.97

Andrew Edney

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Feb 17, 2012

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Zones.com have the HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L for just $199.97.

I love the MicroServer – you can put anything on it you like, including Windows Home Server!

Buy the HP ProLiant MicroServer here

And thanks to Bill Hines for the tip!

Hands-on Review of the WD My Book Live Duo

Andrew Edney

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Feb 16, 2012

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Hands-on Review of the WD My Book Live Duo

Back in January we told you about WD’s new storage and personal cloud device, the My Book Live Duo. Now we get hand-on with it, so here is our review.

Connect this powerful drive to your wireless router for shared storage on your home network. Share data with all your computers, stream media to your entertainment center, and get to your files from anywhere with remote access and mobile apps. And with RAID 1 technology, you have double-safe backup for your data.

Who are WD?

From their website:

WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD® brand names.