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97 Home Tech Podcast: The Disaster that is Windows 8? iPad Mini, LastPass Giveaway, Pogoplug Giveaway
Jim and Christian are joined this week by Gordon Schmidt (G.Wade’s Knee Jerk Reaction) and special guest Ces White (www.dexine.tv) for show 97
Lots of connectivity and sound issues this week. Apologies for the sound quality for most of the podcast.
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Home Tech Podcast Special: Nokia Lumia 800, Windows Phone 7, Navigation, Nokia Drive, Bing Maps
Jim is joined again for another installment covering the Lumia 800 and Windows Phone 7. He is joined by Christian, who appears on the Thursday night podcast of the Home Tech Podcast. He was also joined by Mike Martis from BYOB and a new guest Tim Black.
We spent the first half of the podcast talking about Navigation options with the Lumia 800. We talked about the Lumia 800 size differences with other phones, Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Bing Maps and Local Scout.
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Tim and Mike talked about their experience with both the Samsung Focus and the HTC Titan (not the Titan II). Jim also spends some time comparing the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy sII and the Lumia 800.
#63 The Home Tech Podcast: Its All About Windows 8
The show kicks off with some very exciting news from Christian, who has scored himself a holiday internship at NASA in one of their software development teams. A big congratulations from all of us here at The Average Guy!
For those who like to test the latest and greatest in Microsoft Operating Systems before they hit mainstream, Microsoft has released the Consumer Preview for Windows 8, available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Be sure to grab the Product Key before you close you browser session!
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If you do your testing of new Operating Systems in a virtual machine, Jim recommends Virtual Box from Oracle. Andrew has had some issues with getting the preview installation to load into a virtual machine, and is going to pursue the option of booting from a VHD file, which lets you essentially multi boot your hardware, without creating additional partitions on your hard disk.
#47 The Home Tech Podcast: Skype, iPhone vs Android, Drobo Server, Android ROM’s and Photo Imaging Software
Jim and Andrew and Christian are joined by Mike Howard from Jpeg2RAW for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off with some Skype chat, relating to the aggressive update cycle since Microsoft acquired Skype, and draw some comparisons to the Group Chat feature within Google Plus, as well as talking about the Facebook and Skype integration.
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Jim tells us that his wife is buying a new iPhone 4S, and the merits of iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry devices, and discuss the recent Blackberry Outage, and if the advancements in iPhone and Android could be the writing on the wall for Blackberry.
Jim talks about his new server wish list – a small form-factor PC to connect to a Drobo – check out the discussion over in our Facebook group.
#46 The Home Tech Podcast: Disk Defragmenting, In-flight Internet Access, Steve Jobs and Weather Stations
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Jim and Andrew and Christian are joined by Bill Paulmenn for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
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Christian is back this week, taking a break from the school work for an hour or two, catching some time for technology!
After some updates from Bill and Christian, Jim tells us about his trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit Oracle World, and his visit to Drobo – watch out for the podcast that Jim recorded with Mario Blandini from Drobo while he was visiting. Jim tells us about the performance of in-flight Internet access on his flight, a great way to be able stay online whilst in a flight, and not have to resort to reading a book while flying!
