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A new add-in was released by developer Sam Wood today, called WHS Disk Management. The add-in is an extension of the standard WHS Server Storage interface, helping users visually identify the physical disks they’re working with. Here’s how it’s used:

Select one of the disks, or expand the columns after the disk ID, to see infomation about the disk. It takes awhile to render, because it’s doing a WMI crawl to find the disk controller. You get SCSI bus/port/LUN, plus disk controller. That’s useful information if you know which port is which on your SCSI/SATA controller.

Sam has a couple of additional features planned: [Read more]

Combining hundreds of photos, a few short video segments and a musical soundtrack using Pinnacle Studio 11 Ultimate Edition proved both rewarding and frustrating. [Read more]

What do you do when you've got a platform (PS3) that's a fantastic media playback machine but lacks games? You bring games TO IT. StreamMyGame allows you to stream the visuals and sound directly from your PC onto your PS3 at up to 3200x2400 resolution (PS3 only supports 1080p), supporting Windows XP, Vista, and DirectX 8-10. All the [Read more]

One often-overlooked feature of the PlayStation 3 is its ability to install another OS onto the system, but if you’ve ever dreamed of playing PC games on your PS3 console, you’ll find the aforementioned feature quite handy as third-party software company, StreamMyGame, has launched a free application that “enables you to play any PC game via a PlayStation 3 running Linux.”

I realised something weird today at work. Outlook 2003 doesn’t display public holidays beyond 2007 - I have no idea why! To add holidays until 2012, you will need to install this file. This update provides holidays for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 calendar and for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 calendar for the years 2007 through 2012. [Read more]