I’m liking the cool direction thought up by the marketing folks to push Home Server. StayAtHomeServer.com paints the Home Server as some sort of nightly news story, tongue firmly planted in cheek. There are some interesting and funny videos about Home Server there.
(via Nick Mayhew)
They’ve made a children’s book for the campaign, called “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? Helping Your Child Understand the Stay-At-Home Server” by Dr. Tom O’Connor Ph.D. The introduction says:
Just so you know, Tom O’Connor does not actually have a Ph.D. He is also not actually a person. And the entire premise of this book is fictional. But on the bright side, a Windows Home Server is a real product. Perhaps you’d like to buy one?
Apparently, a server is a “funny-looking box” that “makes friends with computers”, offices are places where people say bad words, and when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, they get a Home Server. The book will be on Amazon soon, and I’m going to love having it on my bookshelf.
(via the Home Server blog)
Finally, Donavon West has a new Home Server Hacks blog. For now, it just tells you how to upgrade the RAM in an HP Media Smart Home Server (which the company claims is impossible, but is actually quite doable) and a walkthrough for adding a hard drive to the server. Hopefully he’ll get into more general Home Server tips in the future.
December 10th, 2007
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
Home Server, Server, Windows |
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Some sweet deals on Xbox 360 stuff now:
You can get the 20-gigabyte hard drive for just fifty bucks, normally $100 ($90 on Amazon, best Amazon price is $66). Toys “R” Us is selling it for a mere $50, and though it isn’t in stock online, you can pick it up in-store for that price and no shipping costs.
(via Slickdeals)
Same deal with the 360’s HD DVD drive, which Toys “R” Us is selling for $129.98, fifty dollars off (best price on Amazon is $150, normal Amazon is $160)
(via Engadget)
Finally, American Express is selling 100 Rock Band bundles tomorrow for just fifty dollars, barely a quarter of the normal $170 price. You’ll need an AmEx card and hit up the MyWishList website at the perfect time, noon tomorrow.
(via Kotaku)
My Rock Band referral mission is well on its way to success. A few more orders, and I think I’m gonna make it.
December 10th, 2007
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
Xbox 360, Xbox |
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Microsoft sold 310,000 Xbox 360 consoles over the Thanksgiving week, almost, but not quite, catching Nintendo’s Wii in sales. Microsoft missed taking first place by 40,000 units, but still outsold Sony by a factor of two-to-one, PS3 price cuts be damned. Amazingly, Microsoft sold almost as many consoles that week as it did the entire previous month.
In an addendum to a story on the console maker’s various woes with Xbox 360 reliability, Tech Check reports that US consumers purchased more than 310,000 systems for the week of November 18. For the entire month of October, the NPD Group reported Xbox 360 sales of 366,000, compared with 519,000 Wiis and 121,000 PlayStation 3s.
(via Digg)
December 10th, 2007
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Nathan Weinberg |
Nintendo, Sony, Xbox 360, Xbox |
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More Windows Live Hotmail email addresses are available for you to use as as the perfect domain for your email address. Those in India can now get @live.in email addresses, those in the Philippines can get @live.com.ph, and Spain now has @hotmail.es (@live.es is already available, and has been for a month).
December 10th, 2007
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
Live, Hotmail, Windows |
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