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72 Home Tech Podcast: Oracle v Google, Bing and Facebook, IE Only on Windows 8, NEST, Vudu and Microsoft v Apple Sales Numbers
May 11th
Jim and Christian are joined this week by special guest Gordon Schmidt for show 72 of The Home Tech Podcast. We tried using the very new Google+ Hangout feature called “On Air.” The show video is now available on YouTube at the Average Guy Podcast Channel. Give it a try.
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Christian’s Corner
Christian decided to cover enterprise matter this week. We talked Oracle v Google, Facebook helps out Bing, Microsoft returns to it’s excluding roots and of course a deal of the week.
71 Home Tech Podcast: New SSD Drives, New Cloud Storage Options, Big Microsoft Changes, Samsung Galaxy S III
May 7th
Jim and Andrew are joined this week by Gary Johnson (filling in for Christian) and Special Guest Chris Lux for show 71 of The Home Tech Podcast. We chat about New SSD Drives, the newest in Cloud Storage Options (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox) as well as some big Microsoft changes with their software.
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Mushkin Chronos 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
Mushkin Callisto 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
Maybe it is time you actually read that Google Drive Terms of Service
68 The Home Tech Podcast: Sound Issues, Dropbox, Amazon Prime, Garmin 410 Deal, New Honda Key, Ultrabook Deal, RetailMeNot.com, Lightroom 4
Apr 6th
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Jim was joined again this week by jpeg2raw host Mike Howard, regular host Christian Johnson. Andrew came in late and left early from his holiday.
Jim showed off his budget sound card purchase from Best Buy: A Rocketfish Gaming Sound Card. http://www.amazon.com/Rocketfish-RF-51SDCD-RF-51SDCD-5-1-Channel-PCI-Sound-Card/dp/B002WE9T2W
Dropbox has doubled it’s storage offerings. If you are not using dropbox yet, following Jim’s referral link and help add to it. http://db.tt/Lr6yyoA
Mike and the team cover the benefits of Amazon Prime.
Fitness Tech deal of the week
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-GPS-Enabled-Sports-Monitor/dp/B0046BTK14/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333595153&sr=8-2
67 The Home Tech Podcast: Hotel Wireless, Best Buy, Snapon Tools and Monitor Stands
Mar 31st
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Jim was joined this week by jpeg2raw host Mike Howard, regular guest host Bill Paulmenn and special guest John Stutsman. It was a very funny show and we had a good time.
We start the show with some discussion on hotel wireless access points based on a question from Michael Burris on Google+. We also had a suggestion from a listener named Bob who contacted us through my http://about.me/jcollison. We spent some time talking about disassembling hard drives.
Financial Tech Podcast 12: Investing 101, Brightscope, Money Desktop
Mar 30th
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What’s the latest happenings for Guide Rock and GFCU?
We have a learning series
March 30th is our 3 class of 10
Investment focused – entry level
Tackle one topic each session
Focus on an environment where questions are encouraged
You are welcome to come, just rsvp to Andrew_hunt@guiderockcapital.com so I know how many bagels to buy!
Brightscope
How do you know if an advisor or if a 401(k) plan is what they say they are?
You can look on the sec… but that is kind of cumbersome.
66 The Home Tech Podcast: Stitcher, Skype, Windows 8 retina display, New iPad Heater
Mar 24th
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Jim was joined this week by John Zajdler (@Dieharder), Christian and Andrew.
We started with a discussion with some chat about the podcasting aggregator Stitcher, found at http://stitcher.com.
We also spent some time talking about Skype. We talked about a bit of history, how we all use Skype and even answered a few questions. Christian even shared how he and his friends use Skype to do homework together.
Andrew joined us a bit later to discuss how much work Microsoft created for him with a patch that had been released recently.
WHS Drobo Status Beta 2–An Update
Mar 19th
I have been working on reinstalling Windows Home Server 2011 back on my HP Microserver N40L after some issues with the first install. Part of the process was to install the WHS Drobo Status Beta 2 Add-in from Ross Dargan that can be found over at the Home Server Show Forums.
http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/files/category/7-whs-drobo-status/
The Add-in was part of a contest that we ran over at http://homeservershow.com. Ross answered the call and produced not only an initial beta, but now a second one as of January 15 2012. Here is what it looks like on my system. I actually have two Drobos. The first Drobo S (5 Bay) is attached to the WHS 2011 box via USB 3.0 and the second is networked attached via Gigabit Ethernet on the LAN. With his add-in, I can view the status of both Drobos from my WHS Dashboard.
#65 The Home Tech Podcast: iPads, Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S2, Microsoft’s MetroTablet Strategy, Windows 8 CP, New Xbox, Sched.org
Mar 17th
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The show moves from Thursday to Friday night this week and Jim is joined by Christian and special guest Chris Lux.
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If Jim gave you $700 for an iPad, would you use it? Both Chris and Christian decide.
We took a look at Jim’s new Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S2 to replace is current broadcast server. New had run out of stock early last week, but they are now back in! Check it out!
#64 The Home Tech Podcast: Jim is on the Run Again!
Mar 11th
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#61 The Home Tech Podcast: SSD Drives, Windows 8, The Microsoft Store, Facebook IPO
Feb 4th
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This week Jim, Gary Johnson and special guest Chris Lux bring you the latest installment of the Home Tech Podcast
SSD prices continue to fall while hard drive prices continue to rise. Newegg yesterday and today advertised 2 SSD deals at $109.99 for SATA III 120GB SSD’s
Seagate 3TB xt 7200 rpm drives are all but extinct. The model that that we bought at $149 before the Thai flood that was recently selling for $429 is no longer listed. Let’s hope that this means the new 3.5 hybrid drives are arriving soon.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
