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#53 The Home Tech Podcast:Virtual Private Servers, Toyota Tundra, HP MicroServers, and the Power of Social Media
Dec 2nd

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined this week by Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The show starts off, with Christian telling us about the trials and tribulations of hitting the limit of an unlimited web-hosting package, and the experience of choosing a new Virtual Private Server Provider (VPS), finally setting on Virpus, where he has even dealt with the CEO.
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Jim tells us about his Thanksgiving Turkey Post, about wrapping the turkey in bacon to retain the moisture within the turkey, and bring the flavor of bacon and turkey together!
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–AMD AM3+ CPU
Oct 15th

This weeks Deal of the Week is the AMD AM3+ 8-core CPU’s from NewEgg.com
AMD are the first CPU manufacturer to bring an 8-core processor to market – check it out over at NewEgg
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Build your own RAID 5-0 box
Sep 4th
For those of you who can never get enough storage at home, this weeks’ Deal of the Week may be for you. The Intel RAID SAS/SATA Controller Card from NewEgg.com allows you to build a RAID array in every combination you care to think of. Not the cheapest deal we’ve ever bought you, but definitely a useful one!
Match this card up with some SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 2TB hard disks from NewEgg.com, and the sky’s the limit for your new storage array.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid 2.5” Hard Disk
Aug 19th
This weeks’ Deal of the Week, is the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5” Hybrid drive from NewEgg.com, a worthwhile upgrade at $89.99. The drive is larger than an SSD, with improved performance over a regular drive.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – LIAN LI Black Aluminum PC-C33B ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
Jun 17th
This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Lian-Li Black Aluminium PC-C37B Micro AT Media Center / HTPC Case from NewEgg,com for $169.99.
A great case for those of you who have an HTPC in a normal PC case. Not only does it look like it belongs in the entertainment unit, but it also has great cooling and will take a wide range of motherboards and drives.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – SAMSUNG SATA Internal Blu-ray Drive with LightScribe Support
Jun 11th
This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Samsung SATA Internal SH-B123L/RSBP Blu-ray drive from NewEgg.com for $64.99
This drive is an absolute steal, being marginally more expensive than a comparable DVD writer, and has the benefit of LightScribe, that cool technology that lets you flip your media over and etch your own artwork onto the surface of the disk.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – Seasonic X Series 400W Fanless PSU
Jun 4th

This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Seasonic X Series 400W Fanless Power Supply from NewEgg.com
This is the perfect modular power supply for a Home Theater PC (HTPC) or other PC system where fan noise is no wanted, great value at $129.99.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – G.SKILL Ripjaws 16 GB DDR3 Memory
May 28th
For the power users amongst us, this weeks’ Deal-of-The-Week is 16GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 Memory from NewEgg.com.
Designed especially for the Intel P67 Chipset, this is a great, cost-effective way to upgrade your system memory for gaming, virtualization, or just giving your system a lift!
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – Turtle Beach Ear Force Wireless Headset
May 13th

This weeks’s Deal-of-the-Week is the Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 Programmable Wireless Headset from NewEgg.com for $212.99.
Not the cheapest Deal we’ve bought you, however for those of you into your PS3 and XBOX 360 gaming, the PX5 has been described as the “most technologically-advanced headset ever designed for PS3 and XBOX 360 gaming”, providing “unmatched audio quality, sonic control and a competitive advantage”.
The headset can be paired to your Bluetooth mobile phone and supports audio streaming, so you can be gaming, streaming audio, and take a phone call without removing the headset. Check it out at NewEgg.com
#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.














