I have Windows Home Server beta running, and it is running well. One thing missing though is media serving capabilities. I have multiple Vista PCs running Media Center, but I have several DVDs ripped to my file share on Windows Home Server. I wanted to be able to bring that media to a central location and watch on my TV in the family room. We have a theater room that has a projector and Media Center PC, but the family room has no PC connected to it. I could opt to have the media stored on the WHS and purchase another Media Center PC, but to have one that looks good ...

M. David Peterson has won a Zune for being one of the first 10 people to create and publish a VHD-based instance of a an rPath Linux based project. Me being a .NET developer, I really don't know anything about it.

Any way, he got his first Zune, and blogged about it, his experience?

"Zune Rocks!"

M. David, yes, I agre ...

Seems like only yesterday when the first 30GB flash based hard drives came out, now we're talking 160GB. Adtron announced their 160GB SSD HDD is shipping.

Of course the impact of this on the UMPC as well as the portable media player industry are huge. Longer battery life and performance come along with SSD HDD technology. How about getting a 160GB Zune or UMPC? Now that sounds like something to place on my list for 2007... ....nice.

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Kelly at A Yoga Coffee Outlook is giving away a Zune MP3 Player and all you have to do is create an entry in your blog and link to her site. What a great way to build up some linking (maybe affect your PR as well).

Hey, looks like I'm entered in the contest. ;-)

I told you about WebGuide4 and how it provides an excellent alternative for Orb. Now the developer has made available a Vista Sidebar Gadget to tie into WebGuide.

The gadget gives you instant access to your WebGuide and Media Center information right from the desktop. It makes a great addition to the software.

Microsoft is taking requests for folks who want to beta test a connector to Xbox Live via the PC. In the request it asks:

"Are you interested in being part of a select group that is invited to help beta test a new service that lets PC game players connect with their friends on the Xbox through the LIVE gaming network?"

This has been posted on the Internet over the past few months, at least now we know it is going to beta and should be released to the world shortly after that. We'll be watching for more information, and hopefully participate in the beta test.

CTitanic a UMPC blogger and frequent poster at the OrigamiProject.com forums, has a review of the Boxwave FlexiskinRead More »

Gizmodo has a review of the Belkin TunePower which is an add on for extending the battery life of your Zune. The review isn't too in-depth, but provides some additional photos other than the stock ones I have here.

The TunePower runs about $59 and provides about 6 to 12 additional hours to your Zune.

Not really a test, but I currently have four drives on my Windows Home Server beta providing 1TB of storage. One of the USB enclosures are giving me a little trouble not being recognized after boot up. Yesterday I had to reboot the WHS machine, and the one drive didn't come back online. When going to the admin interface it displayed the drive as being offline. All share access went on as normal. I was able to access my duplicated shares without any problems. In addition, the file share that weren't set up for duplication were still there with files in them. Some files became unavailable until the USB came back up and joined the rest of the drives in the cluster.

So far everything works g ...