I moved home back in June to a bigger 3 bed flat from my old 2 bed flat, where the 2nd bedroom had to double as guest room and my office. The extra bedroom is now doubling up as my office and a games room/2nd reception when my mates come around, which means we can [...]
After one of the longest home purchases ever thanks to the difficulty in getting mortgages at the moment, I finally moved into my new home last Monday. Packing for the move and unpacking after the move effectively took me out of action every evening for the last two weeks as I couldn’t get the time [...]
Although there’s a big and growing community of Windows Home Server users on the internet, I’ve yet to met one in the flesh. Given that WHS has been in the wild for around 6 months now, I’m a bit surprised. Yes, home servers are a ‘new’ concept, but I’d assumed that once users understood the [...]
I’ve just found a great page that plays an MP3 encoded at both 128kbps and 320kbps and challenges listeners to spot the better quality file. It’s an interesting test, and it’ll be interesting to see if Connected Internet readers can spot the difference. Don’t forget to come back and let other readers know how good [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on my fingers [...]
I pulled forward yesterday building a new media center, because my main PC died. I’m moving into a new flat soon with a bigger ‘office’ that I’m also going to use a games room, hence the need for a second media center PC to go with my current media center PC in the front room.
I’m really not having a good time with my PCs at the moment. Last week my Windows Home Server died, taking with it a lot of my music and photos. Now my main PC has died and won’t boot into Windows. I don’t know why all my bits and bobs are all failing at the [...]
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center for my media [...]
I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista. This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]
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