Just a little under two months after its release candidate went live, Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 has been finalized and released into the wild. The new version of Microsoft’s slick, do-it-all server OS is a big step forward from its predecessor. Built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 base, Home Server 2011 features a simpler dashboard, a better backup solution, dead simple remote access to your home computers, and Silverlight-powered remote media streaming. For [...]

Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it’s now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system’s hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of multiple disks, a simplified scheduling screen, and more informative tool tips. Auslogics has also fine-tuned the program’s defragmentation and file [...]

  You didn't really think Google would have just any old countdown page for Mobile World Congress, did you? And instead of saying Google's counting down to MWC, it looks more like el Goog is building up to MWC. What you see above is where we stand as of Feb. 17, and just below is a little slider that goes from a blank canvas to what should be a fully formed Android extravaganza. Google's not [...]

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can’t get any, either. All [...]

Anonymous, a group not known for discipline, is giving itself a weekly deadline, a new attack every Friday. Following the Tuesday compromise of the website of tear gas maker Combined Systems, Inc., the Antisec wing of Anonymous struck a Federal Trade Commission webserver which hosts three FTC websites, business.ftc.gov, consumer.gov and ncpw.gov, the National Consumer [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-friday-attacks/ Sunny Mabrey Susan Ward Susie Castillo

Some things are so good they need a twofer. After showing how total technological sexual absurdity can be good for a laugh with Emma Stone back in November, Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg teamed up with Zooey Deschanel this weekend for another edition of “We’re Going to Make Technology Hump.” First things first, “Technology Hump” [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/deschanel-samberg-technology-hump/ Liz Phair Lokelani McMichael Lori Heuring

Shot Shot Pirate is very satisfying, because each level is short and to the point. You know what you have to do and you just do it. As you may have gathered from the name, you’re cast in the role of a pirate. Your goal is to shoot at a diamond and make it fall off a tower of bricks. The height of the tower changes as you progress through the levels. It’s not enough [...]

Apple let OS X Lion out of its cage just last July, but the company’s already started talking up the next version of its operating system, which it’ll call “Mountain Lion.” The details and developer preview that Apple has come out with indicate that even more iOS DNA is being mixed into OS X this time around, with more shared features and functions. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/74459.html Tamie Sheffield Tara Conner Tara Reed

I’m getting fat; that’s what you see on the screenshot to the right — my gradual move from chubby to portly. But never mind the numbers, look at the pretty graph! If you’ve ever read The Hacker’s Diet, this graph should be instantly recognizable. Each point shows the weight for a given day, while the trend line lets you see if you’re gaining or losing weight. When I use my “main” PC, I have a [...]

iMore recently heard Apple’s iPad 3 event would be happening on March 7, and now BGR is hearing that iOS 5.1 will follow on or around March 9. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/RBXCUiKC5Dw/story01.htm Talisa Soto Tamala Jones Tami Donaldson