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#59 The Home Tech Podcast: SSD Upgrades, Google Hangouts vs Skype, Yahoo! and the Internet Blackout of 2012
Jan 21st
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This week Jim and Andrew bring you the latest installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
Jim talks about this recent upgrade to a 120GB Mushkin SSD drive in his primary PC, and the performance increases he has seen as a result of the upgrade, as well as how he moved non-critical services from the SSD to a traditional rotating drive. Check out Jim’s post on the experience, and the benchmark comparison between the old rotating drive and the new SSD. The guys talk about SSD’s in general, and the performance benefits of the upgrade, as well as a similar upgrade he is performing this weekend on an older machine that is used at the family church for their media production.
#58 The Home Tech Podcast: CES 2012, Exercise Technology, Lightroom 4 Beta, Internet Addiction Disorder and the End of the Digital SLR
Jan 15th
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With everyone back on decent Internet connections, Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined this week by Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.
After some updates from the guys, Dave McCabe, from the Home Server Show, joins the guys live from CES, and gives an update on the ioSafe demonstration, and the week at CES in general.
Jim tells us about how he and Dave have produced a lot of videos from CES to put onto the Home Server Show, using Google Plus Hangouts and LiveStream. The guys talk about their observations of CES 2012, and what they expect from CES in 2013.
Mushkin Chronos 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
Jan 14th
I recently purchased a Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) from Newegg. It can be found here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236
I purchased it to replace a Western Digital 1 TB WD10EACS Green Drive that will be moved into my storage pool on the Window Home Server (where it belonged in the first place). It was also a bit slow at times. See the stats below:
The box with the new drive arrived this week and I couldn’t wait to get it installed on the weekend. After installing Windows 7 Ultimate from scratch (very fast install), updating all the software (even faster) and installing all the regular apps, I ran another ATTO Disk Benchmark with amazing results. How did I ever live with a spinning drive? Well worth the $150 upgrade!
Did You Miss CES 2012 in Las Vegas this Year? No Worries, 45 Videos Has You Covered!
Jan 12th
Over the last two years I have made the trip out to CES to cover the show with my friends from the Home Server Show. This year I opted to stay home, take a few hours off from work and help Dave McCabe cover the show from the comforts of the Average Guy studio! It ended up being a good call! Together, Dave and I produced almost 45 Videos that cover CES 2012 across 5 days and hundreds of products. Most of the videos are less than 15 minutes in length and are a quick watch. I few cover more content and are a bit longer. If you are a tech guy or gal, I am sure you will find them entertaining.
You can find all the video over at http://www.livestream.com/homeservershow/. Below is a sample:
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#57 The Home Tech Podcast: Travel Tech, McDonald’s Wifi, AudiBulbs, Crypteks, Robot Space Plane, Storage Spaces in Windows?
Jan 7th
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The gang was back this week and Jim was joined by Andrew, Christian and Bill Paulmenn. Jim’s wife Sarah also joined us at the end of the podcast. GIRL ALERT!
With all the guys in the house, it’s time to talk travel and travel technology. What kind of tech do you take with you when you are on the road for vacation or traveling for business? Jim travels with 2 Laptops (work and personal), Samsung Epic Touch 2 (Sprint) Phone and all the chargers necessary to keep things juiced. The guys talk able their stuff.
#56 The Home Tech Podcast: Amazon Fire, HP Proliant Microserver, Free iPod?
Dec 29th
Jim (who audio was coming from his camera mic for the entire show and not the Yeti!) was joined this week by John Zajdler from The HomeServerShow.com, Mike Howard from the jpeg2raw podcast and Rich O’Neil from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator. Both Andrew and Christian were still on holiday!
In a post Christmas, pre New Year show, Jim asks the question, “What did you get for Christmas?” and “What did you really want for Christmas?” The guys share!
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#55 The Home Tech Podcast: Facebook Wins, Yeti Blue Mics, Roku 2 XS, WD Live,
Dec 22nd
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Jim was joined this week by Andrew (on the phone), Mike Howard from the jpeg2raw podcast and Rich O’Neil from Rich’s Random Podcast Generator. Christian had the night off for his birthday! Happy Birthday Christian!
Andrew was on his way out of town and we caught him live via Skype to his phone. For Christmas, he was heading out to his parents bed and breakfast. You can visit there site at http://www.bellviewhill.com/ and we recommend you say there if you are ever in Melbourne Australia.
Financial Tech Podcast 11: Big Bonus and Kindle Fire
Dec 20th
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So you got a year-end bonus… now what?
End of the year boosts are nice on multiple fronts but the variable income, if not planned for, can slip right between your fingers if you are not careful!
Here are a couple of great options for putting that money to good use:
- Spend the bonus on paper first for 1 time bonuses
- Pay down debt
- Get rid of credit card and charge card debt
- Make an extra payment on your mortgage
- Save
- Emergencies
- Major Purchases
#54 The Home Tech Podcast: HP MicroServer, WHS 2011, Low Power CPUs, Samsung Galaxy S II, Tom Tom, Issuu.com and Viber
Dec 10th
Jim and Andrew are joined this week by Gary Johnson for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off the show with an update on the solar grid feed system Andrew and his wife installed in May this year, followed by some discussions around if the others would “green” their lives.
Jim talks about his new HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L, which has arrived, and been set up running Windows Home Server 2011 for some testing with a Drobo S.
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#11 Rich’s Random Podcast Generator: Hybrid Drives, Drive Caching, Icy Dock Xpander, RocketHybrid 1220, Acronis True Image Home 2012
Dec 4th
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Today I’m joined by John Zajdler MS WHS MVP and Mike Faucher of BYOB. Jim Collison is off today. So…John’s HP MediaSmart Server EX 490 has died (motherboard) so he’s modding it with plans to turn it into a port multiplier drive bay. Mike had an issue caused by a miniport adapter in bridge mode that was absolutely killing his wired network speed. The miniport adapter was likely installed when he put VirtualBox on his PC. He disabled it in Device Manager and the issue went away. I had the same issue on my laptop where it would occasionally fail to connect to WiFi. I also had been using VirtualBox.
