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Archive for April, 2011
#32 The Fitness Tech Podcast: Special Mud Mafia Edition
Apr 30th
Jim and Carrie get together for a chat about some major updates to the Mud Mafia webpage, team additions, changes, an upcoming races and mileage expecting to double the current numbers. The Mud Mafia webpage has some new content! Carrie was able to overcome her normal technical deficiencies to overhaul the site adding a racing calendar, a place to update racing mileage for the Family, a place to add races, and more details about where the Mud Mafia has been and where we expect to be this year.
Jim and Carrie talk about training mileage (ahem, 150 for Jim in April) and the upcoming Lincoln full marathon on May 1st. May is setting up to be a big month for the Mud Mafia family. Between some ultra distance races, an Ironman, several marathons, and halfs, the mileage to date of over 530 will double before June. Notable family member achievements are discussed including Dan Camp, Double Jay, and the 40 or so runners that have made the first generation of the Mud Mafia 60 strong. Now, if you want in the family, you have to know someone in the family. Stay posted for some big projects in the coming months from Jim, Carrie and the Mud Mafia!
#23 The Home Tech Podcast: Google Apps for Domains, File Recovery from Hard Drives and Memory Cards, Hulu Plus, Colour Calibration, and Yahoo! has sold Delicious
Apr 30th
Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by good friend of the show, Chris Lux for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
With everyone back on deck, and the Skype Gods working in their favor, the guys kick off with some listener feedback from Michael in Connecticut who shares with the show how he uses the often talked about SyncToy to copy his critical data between his Windows Home Server, and his cloud storage provider of choice, Mozy.
Moving on from backups, Jim talks about his recent experience of recovering data from a friends’ failed hard disk, using the “6-inch drop method”, which involves dropping the disk onto a hard surface from 6-inches which sometimes seems to work as a last ditch effort. The guys go on to talk about the other various methods they have used, such as freezing a faulty drive (in a zip lock bag to prevent condensation build-up), and even the KISS method of swapping the faulty disk into a different PC. Although these techniques do work from time to time, the most failsafe method is still taking a regular backup!
#5 The Financial Tech Podcast: Mint.com and Listener Questions and Answers
Apr 29th
Andrew Hunt and Jim Collison are back for another episode of the Financial Tech Podcast. Andrew updates us on what is currently keeping him busy. We also spend some time discussing the benefits of using Mint.com as well as answer some questions submitted by you, the listener.
To submit your questions, email podcast@theaverageguy.tv
Comments submitted by a listener.
“One of the things I see all the time is when a new management employee signs up for the stock program, they almost always start at the maximum payroll deduction we allow of 10%. Then a few months later, sometimes even sooner, they drop out of the program and sell out the balance in their account. In comparison, the few that sign up for smaller amounts, say 5%, tend to stay in the program longer and actually build up a decent balance.”
Secure Data Deletion for the Average User
Apr 24th
- by Rich O’Neil
There’s been a lot of talk about secure deletion of data from a hard drive. How do you ensure that no one will ever read your personal data once you’ve decided to dispose of or repurpose a hard drive? Maybe you want to hand down a hard drive to your kids but want to guard against them grabbing one of the many freely available data recovery utilities on the internet and taking a crack at your data. How do you deal with that?
#22 The Home Tech Podcast: Facebook Security, Office 365, Sanitizing Hard Disks, Data Sync, and Streaming Media
Apr 22nd
With Christian on his music tour, and Andrew unwell, Jim is joined by Mike Howard and Rich O’Neil for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys kick off talking about Facebook changing their default security settings without notifying the user community. For those of you who had changed your Facebook security settings to use https by default, be sure to check your Facebook security settings to make sure that your settings are how 
you want them. To check, log into your Facebook account, go to Account Settings, Settings, (or click here) and expand the Account Security area, to make sure your Secure Browsing setting is how you like it.
#31 The Fitness Tech Podcast: Marathon Nutrition, A Reader Email, Running Shoe Tips and Phone Apps for Calories
Apr 20th
Jamie and Jim are back for some traditional and old school fitness tech podcasting! We cover some nutrition ideas for long fitness events, read a listener email, give some tips on buying the right shoes, building up your running distance to reduce injuries, some discussion around stress fractures as well as new technology in shirts. We also spend a few minutes at the end talking about nutrition Apps for your iPhone or Android device. Its and action packed 40 minutes.
You can follow Jim on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison.
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Intro and Exit Music from “Motion” by Adelaide. Hear more great tunes at Listentoadelaide.com
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#30 The Fitness Tech Podcast: 2P2Marathon–From Smoking 2 Packs a Day to Running a Marathon? Jason Phipps Interview
Apr 17th
In one of the more emotional podcasts we have done to date, Jim and Carrie catch up with Jason Phipps and listen to his fitness story. Jason was a 2 pack smoker on December 11, 2010. On December 12th, he quit and signed up to run a marathon! Carrie and Jim spend the next hour listening to a very inspiring story from a very determined guy. On May 1st, he will run is first marathon, ever! We talk about how he got started, what kind of program he used, how he incorporated technology to help and who helped get him there. It’s a must listen to anyone struggling to get started.
Jason’s Blog: http://jasonphipps.blogspot.com/
Carrie’s Blog: http://keepingitclean.org/
The Mud Mafia on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/themudmafia
Clock Blocking site: http://clockblocking.com
You can follow Jim on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison.
If you want to contact us here at the show, email us at podcast@theaverageguy.tv.
#21 The Home Tech Podcast: Removing Malware, Easy Transfers, Video Sharing, Virtualisation and A Google A Day
Apr 15th
Jim, Christian and Andrew are this week joined by Mike Howard for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off talking about their choice of Virus and Malware removal tools, with Microsoft Security Essentials, Avira AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, McAfee Stinger and various Symantec Removal Tools, as well as the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, which comes from Microsoft via Windows Update.
Jim talks about using the Microsoft Easy Transfer Wizard for moving files off an infected machine, as well as moving the files back after rebuilding a machine. The Easy Transfer Wizard can also be used for upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP and Windows Vista.
#29 The Fitness Tech Podcast: Special Guest Ryan Feagan and More Bike Talk!
Apr 10th
Jim and Jamie sat down with Ryan Feagan to cover his passion around biking. Ryan shares with us how he got started with the sport as well as what it takes to keep him fueled and ready to ride. It’s a great interview and one you will not want to miss! You can follow Ryan on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/rfeagan
Jamie and Jim also spend so time talking about the upcoming running schedule. Just 3 weeks to the Lincoln Marathon on May 1st.
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#20 The Home Tech Podcast: About.Me, Secure Online Storage, Amazon Cloud Player, Microsoft Patch Tuesday and Google Latitude now has history!
Apr 9th
Jim and Christian are joined by John Zajdler and Bill Paulmenn for this weeks edition of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys kick off with Jim talking about the new online profile site About.Me, a recently discovered online service, which will not only allow you to have a single online bio that you can reference from all your various places on the web, but bring together all your social networking details together, with support for most of the popular sites, including and by no means limited to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, flickr, foursquare, most of the commonly used blogging platforms, and custom services you can add via URL or RSS. For the those of us interested in statistics, About.Me also provides some numbers about where your profile is being viewed from, and what they look at on your profile.
