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- IFA 2008: Shuttle x27 Looks Like a Great Home Server ChassisToday
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I’m at the airport en route to IFA - Europe’s largest Consumer Electronics trade show which runs in Berlin every year. I’m attending for just one day, and whilst Home Server news is likely to be thin on the ground, one of the products I’ll definitely be checking out is the Shuttle x27, a very small footprint barebones PC which looks like it could make a fantastic home server.
The x27 is powered by Intel’s new low-power Atom processor, is sized at just 7 x 10 x 2.75 inches has has the following spec:
- Intel 945GC chipset
- Intel GMA 950 onboard video
- 4 USB 2.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet port
- Analog 5.1-channel audio
US Pricing is expected to be around $189 for the barebones kit. Very cool indeed.
More Info: shuttle.com
Similar Posts: - Windows Home Server Launches in Japan TomorrowYesterday
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Looks like the Japanese version of Windows Home Server will be hitting the mean streets of Japan tomorrow with a consumer launch event in Akihabara, Tokyo’s technology district.
Launch partners include Streaming21, Dell, Epson, NEC, Mouse Computer Japan, Logitec, Thirdwave, Unitcom, Tsukumo, PDX Japan, Clevery, Regin, Applied, Sofmap, and Sycom.
Streaming 21 released the following on tomorrow’s launch:
Streaming21 & Microsoft Head to Japan with Windows Home Server
Unveil Seamless Digital Home Solution at Windows Home Server Consumer Launch Press Event
Tokyo, Japan - August 29, 2008 -
Streaming21, a leading solution provider of seamless on-demand service platform and Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) will bring Windows Home Server products to the Japanese market with a Japanese language version.
A consumer launch event will be held on August 30, 2008 at Akihabara, the heart of the consumer technology scene in Tokyo, to officially announce the market availability of the product bundled with hardware in 3C stores.
Companies to release Windows Home Server products for Japan include Streaming21, Dell, Epson, NEC, Mouse Computer Japan, Logitec, Thirdwave, Unitcom, Tsukumo, PDX Japan, Clevery, Regin, Applied, Sofmap, and Sycom.
Streaming21, as the global ISV partner for Microsoft Windows Home Server, was recently introduced as the software solution provider at a press even
- Add-In Update: TV Manager 1.0Yesterday
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Brent Friedman’s free add-in, TV Manager is finally out of beta and has been released to the web with a sparkly 1.0 against it.
As many of you will know, TV Manager automatically moves Recorded TV files from your Media Center machine over to Windows Home Server for management and storage.
Here’s the details from Brent:
The biggest feature of TV Manager is the ability to watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path.
You can delete recordings from the Windows Home Server Console or using Media Center. You can also play the recordings on non-Media Center PCs using the Windows Home Server Console or Windows Explorer.
TV Manager is free of charge and the client works with Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Vista Media Center. The TV Manager add-in works with or without Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.
Changes Since The Last Beta:
- Fix: TV Manager Service setting permissions.
- Fix: Compatibility with limited user accounts.
- Fix: Launch recordings straight from the Windows Home Server Console.
- Fix: Changed how recordings were moved (to fix ghost file issue) but lost the ability to monitor progress percentage.
- New: Added Media Center Extender compatibility.
- New: TV Manager Add-In interface redone.
- New: Experimental ComSkip feature (disabled by default)
- New: Regenerate the Xml in case of cache corru
- Microsoft Publish Windows Home Server Development GuidelinesYesterday
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As part of an ongoing push to engage more developers to support the Windows Home Server platform, Microsoft today published a 17 page document acting as a guideline for the creation and integration of add-ins for the operating system.
The document provides high level advice to developers on maintaining Windows Home Server’s strong user experience, through careful consideration of the following design recommendations:
- Software solutions should work without additional configuration.
- Issues should resolve automatically.
- The console is not a general-purpose desktop.
- Software must be installed through the Add-In page in Windows Home Server Settings
- Console tabs should be used only when appropriate.
- Console tabs should be limited.
- Application configuration must be conducted through a Windows Home Server Settings page.
- Notifications should be used sparingly.
- The colour blue must be used *lots* (OK, I made that one up)
There’s lots more detail on these topics in the document, which is essential reading for all community and other developers out there thinking of writing add-ins for Windows Home Server.
Download: microsoft.com
Similar Posts: - Windows Home Server Team Meet Channels 9 & 10August 28
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A few of the guys from the Windows Home Server team (CJ Saretto, Mark Pendergrast and Brendan Grant) caught up with the folks from Channel 9 and Channel 10 (Microsoft’s Developer and Enthusiast Community Sites) to talk about the upcoming Professional Developer Conference in LA and also show off some new home server hardware – the previously mentioned Epson Endeavour (available only in Japan, guys) and a very cool new reference design from VIA called the Antigo, based on a Pico-ITX motherboard.
We had the pleasure of spending time with Mark, CJ and Brendan at April’s MVP Summit – great to see them getting out there in the community and spreading the word on WHS.
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