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TAG Tech Deal of the Week–BYO AMD PC Kit

MSI 760GM-E51(FX) AMD 760 Socket AM3+ Motherboard and AMD FX-8120 3.10 GHz Eight Core AM3+ Unlocked CPU and Sony Optiarc AD7280S-OB 24x DVDRW Drive and Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 XMS3 4GB DDR3 RA Bundle

This week’s Deal-of-the-Week is a Build Your Own AMD PC Kit from Tiger Direct for $349.

 

Including an MSI Motherboard, AMD 8-core CPU, Sony DVDRW drive, RAM, Case, and 1 TB Hard Drive, this would be hard to go past for a PC to get you up and running after a failure, or anyone looking for a good PC on a budget.

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

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined this week by Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast.

imageThe 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!

GoogleThe guys move on to talk about the new Live features in Google Analytics, where you can see in real time traffic visiting your website.  If you have a website that receives a lot of traffic, this is an excellent way of determining where your traffic come from, and how it reaches your site, be it Twitter, Facebook or other social media sources.

TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Seagate 2TB External Drive

Seagate 2TB Expansion External Drive

This week’s Deal-of-the-Week is the Seagate 2TB External Hard Disk from Tiger Direct, a bargain at $89.99

This is a USB 2.0 device, making it an awesome choice for creating offsite backups, or a large disk to have in your bag of tricks for carrying support tools, software installation files, and the like.