Reviews

Glympse is a free application that allows select contacts to track your location during your travels in timed increments. This could be a great tool for parents who want to see where the children are on the road (provided the child allows that feature on their phone), or for when you’re visiting friends and like [...]

When Synology recently released their new DiskStation DS211 network attached storage (NAS) device, we were eager to put it to the test and share the review with our community. As previous versions, the DS211 is also a two-disk unit ideal for home and/or small businesses uses. The price tag on DS211 is $320 (diskless), although [...]

Last year, (it is somewhat surreal to say ‘last’, but here we are already in 2011), we did an extensive review on a robotic vacuum, named iRobot Roomba. Now, we would like to share our opinion with you on yet another friendly household robot, called Neato XV-11.

There are several posts to the Home Server Land Media Sharing and Streaming forum that discusses the different methods to convert CD and DVD media to store on their Windows Home Server.   Many members of our community have responded with recommendations of specific software packages.  It is surprising that there is a wide variety that [...]

With the Vantec NexStar DX External 5.25 Enclosure, you can easily add any 5.25 optical drive to your existing system. The NexStar DX connects to your computer through USB 2.0 & eSATA, offering speeds up to 1.5Gbps and even supports Blu-Ray drives! The NexStar DX is perfect for anyone looking to add any 5.25” device, [...]

So, you spend a lot of time putting together and collecting a large catalog of movies and video on your home server or PC, now what? Don’t you sometimes wish you could just watch them without having to go through the trouble of transferring them to your portable device? I am talking about the hassle [...]

The Lacie Rugged Safe drive is available in 500GB and 1TB and uses 128bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) hardware encryption with Fingerprint Scanner Technology to secure any data stored on the device.

NETGEAR is attempting to make a network-attached storage as common as sand on the beach by introducing their Stora device. This system is designed for first-time users who do not want to learn server administration as a hobby. Plug in the system, run the CD – that’s it. But is it worth the $230 price [...]