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81 Home Tech Podcast: NEST Thermostat, Lightning Strikes, Surge Protectors and UPS Devices
Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined this week by Gordon Schmidt and Bill Paulmenn for Show 81 of The Home Tech Podcast. Gordon spends the first part of the podcast talking about the NEST Thermostat that he reviewed in a post right here on the site. We also talk about a lightning strike at Bill’s place and the destruction is caused to his out buildings. That discussion led into one about Surge Protectors and UPS Devices. Andrew found what will be come a popular Christmas gift for this year and Jim finished up the conversation with a question about the new leadership at Yahoo and a rant about not getting the newest update for his Sprint Galaxy SII.
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Gordon’s Blog mykneejerkreaction.com
Andrews near by Sky Resort: http://www.mtbuller.com.au/Winter/
Bill’s in house surge protector: http://makeitright.ca/Holmes_Products/holmes-approved-products/complete-home-surge-protection
Whole house surge protection from Jim’s Power company: http://www.oppd.com/ResidentialCustomers/ProductsServices/SurgeGuard/22_001271
Useless Gadgets – The Wiki Reader - http://thewikireader.com/
Gaming build for Jim. Post at the Home Server Show.com http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4236-new-gaming-rig-for-jims-place/
A Review of The NEST Thermostat
I was first introduced to the Nest as I was scrolling through my large list of RSS feeds in Google Reader in the fall of 2011. Since then my interest has grown in the product. The idea is perfect… take one of the items in your house, the thermostat and make it better. In the past the Nest was sold only through the website www.nest.com but on May 8th, 2012 the Nest became available at Lowes and more recently at the Apple stores and Amazon.com. It is always nice when a product comes to a local retail store so I can get some hands on experience and see the product in action even if it is only a demo.
72 Home Tech Podcast: Oracle v Google, Bing and Facebook, IE Only on Windows 8, NEST, Vudu and Microsoft v Apple Sales Numbers
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.
Gordon covers the NEST Thermostat, Walmart using Vudu to convert DVD’s to Digital and the Microsoft Touch Mouse.
Jim takes a look at the real sales numbers for both Windows and Apple.
