Superna is a company that makes solutions to connect all your different systems together. They have a software layer that will connect your XP Media Center, Vista Media Center, home automation, and touch panels from various third parties. Oded Vardi from Superna spent a few minutes telling me…

While in Orlando at the Electronic Home Expo, I got a chance to visit with John Oliver from Cutting Edge PC's. Cutting Edge makes some really nice high end Media Center machines with features like Whole House Control and integration with VideoGiant.

Betsy Hjort, principal program manager, turns the camera on Jennifer & Charles (literally!) as she tells us about her role on the Windows Server team and reflects about her tenure at the company over the last 12 years. Way back in the day Betsy was a Pascal coder, but things started to change…

Trying Silverlight can lead to an addiction.  We know this.  But you're not alone.  Whether you're a Developer, Designer or just a web junkie...there's people out there just like you.  Don't be afraid to come forward.  Share your story with us.  It's okay.  In…

Today, the guys at PerfectDisk announced on their blog that a new build of PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server is now available. This new version includes full integration with the Windows Home Server console, where PerfectDisk 2008 will now have its own tab. The PerfectDisk software defrags…

For users of both Microsoft OneNote and Firefox, the "Clip to OneNote" Firefox extension offered an easy way to send complete web pages and snippets from the browser to the OneNote software. The extension was originally designed for Firefox 1.5 and OneNote 2003, but it can still work with…

You gotta love it. Only in Japan would you find a copy of Windows Vista packaged like this in hot pink. The packaging is part of a special promotion for the Japanese market, where Windows Vista Home Premium is bundled with Windows Live OneCare and a Vista tips & tricks book. Boy, and here I was…

Kirk Evans interviews Mark Kashman, the Product Manager for Interactive Media Manager.  IMM is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system built on top of SharePoint 2007.  In this episode, we take a look at the architecture of IMM, see it in action, and we even see a sneak preview of a…

A new version of Windows Desktop Search has just been released - Windows Search 4.0 Preview. (The "preview" part means it's still being tested out, sort of like "beta.") For those of you who don't know, Windows Search is the desktop search feature that is built into Windows…

You may not have noticed but Popfly just got updated. It wasn't one of those "check out all the new bells and whistles" kind of updates, though - it was one of those "behind-the-scenes" kind of updates instead. So what did they do? Besides fixing a few bugs, Popfly got an…