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72 Home Tech Podcast: Oracle v Google, Bing and Facebook, IE Only on Windows 8, NEST, Vudu and Microsoft v Apple Sales Numbers
May 11th
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.
#43 The Home Tech Podcast: ISP Cloud Storage, Nike MAG, Google Plus Widgets, Input Director, E3 Spark Plugs, Metro Start Pages, and a stroll along Nostalgia Street
Sep 9th
Jim and Andrew and Christian are joined by Rich O’Neil for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The show starts off with Andrew giving an update of the status of solar installation rebates in Victoria in Australia, and why he is installing more solar panels on the house.
Jim tells us about Cox Communication’s new offering, which gives their Internet subscribers a cloud-style backup solution, starting at 1GB to 50GB up to Unlimited storage, depending on your subscriber plan. If you are a subscriber, this is a great alternative to the other cloud solutions we have spoken about in the past.
#37 The Home Tech Podcast: Rich’s Random Podcast Generator Beta
Jul 31st
Warning: Long Show Ahead!
One weekend, Rich O’Neil (and some of tech guys that hang around the Home Server Show Podcast) thought, “what would happen if we just recorded some of the conversations we have around our tech stuff?” The result was this podcast that we recorded on July 31st. Rich’s Random Podcast Generator was born! Interested in your feedback.
We used Google+ Hangout to record the conversation. If this project is successful, we will try it again on it’s very own RSS feed!
We chatted about SSD Drives, RAID, UNRAID, problems with Apple, Android and Windows Phone 7 and much, much more.
Here are some links for the show:
http://www.futureshop.ca/EN-CA/product/id/10160313.aspx
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836431024&Tpk=yeti%20blue
http://compare.ebay.com/like/280714779827?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231378
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148362
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226206
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227542
http://wpblog.perfectdisk.com/?p=1415
http://www.raxco.com/support/kb/788/
Thanks to those who joined us on the podcast – John Zajdler, Bill Paulmenn, Mike Howard and Mike Faucher
#13 The Home Tech Podcast: Skype Crashes, Antivirus Tips, Windows 7 SP1, Speech Macros and SyncToy!
Feb 25th
With both the Home Server Show and The Home Tech Podcast back on their regular schedule, Jim, Brian, Christian and a new regular Andrew Morris, welcome Gordon Schmidt to the podcast. Gordon is a long time listener and fellow family tech support guy. With a full compliment of tech guys, it’s time to get down to business.
This this weeks show, we cover the new, redefined purpose for the podcast. “From Tech Guys, For Tech Guys!” Jim does a quick review of the new HP Pavillion dm1 Netbook, covers the much needed fix for his Xbox and media center and covers Windows 7 SP1 with the gang. Christian covers some speech recognition macros in Windows 7 and get the team all fired up about it. Gordon looks at SyncToy 2.1 right before a major Skype meltdown. You would have heard all the mayhem if you had listened live!
How To Connect Windows 7 Media Center To an Xbox 360 and Stream Media
Feb 3rd
If you’re new to Windows 7 and own an Xbox 360, you might want the ability to watch the Media Center Content from Your Xbox. Here we take a look at how easy it is to set it up using Media Center Extenders.
The cool thing about Windows 7 Media Center is you can access your movies, music, and other digital media from it with your Xbox. Here we’ll walk you through the process of adding media to the Windows Media Center (WMC) Libraries then setting up your PC and Xbox to talk with each other so your Xbox 360 can access those Libraries.
The Home Tech Podcast #8 Decloaking and Christian’s Corner!
Jan 22nd
Brian is back this week and he joins Jim and Christian for the latest edition of the The Home Tech Podcast. We talk Facebook messaging, the new Netflix subscription model, how to configure Windows 7 Update and very small PCs. Brain breaks out his new iPad for a quick review to top it off. All that and much more with week!
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· How to Configure Windows 7 Updates
· AMD Announces Fusion-Based Embedded G-Series Platform
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· CompuLab’s Fit-PC2i is Extra Tiny, Ready for Windows 7
· Barnes & Noble Nook Android-Powered E-book Reader
How to Configure Windows 7 Updates
Jan 20th
If you’ve been a Windows user since XP, you probably know the importance of keeping the OS up-to-date. If you’re new to Windows or more specifically Windows 7, here we’ll take some time to go over the importance of making sure you have Windows Updates configured properly.
If you want to help make sure that your PC is is more stable and less vulnerable to malicious attacks, the 2 main things to keep up-to-date is your Antivirus software and Windows Updates. The 2nd Tuesday of each month Microsoft has what’s called “Patch-Tuesday”. This is the day when Microsoft releases patches to improve stability, fixes to known vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks. Let’s take a look at the process if you’ve just re-installed Windows 7.
Windows Update
To check to make sure your Windows Update settings are on…click on Start>>All Programs and scroll to Windows Update.
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Top Ten Average Guy Posts for 2010
Jan 1st
Everyone else was doing a Top 10 post and since the numbers don’t lie, I thought I would jump into the mix. So here are the Top 10 posts for TheAverageGuy.tv
10. How To Setup Windows Live Essentials 2011 on Windows 7 – Brian
9. The Home Tech Podcast #2–Facebook and Bing Bar and Browsers, Oh My! – Jim
8. Windows Multipoint Server 2011 beta – John Zajdler
7. The Fitness Tech Podcast #3–I’ve Got Holes in My Shoes! – Jim
6. Install the Old Version of Windows Live Essentials on XP – Brian
5. The Fitness Tech Podcast #7–the Mud Mafia, Winter Gear and Eating Clean. -Jiim
4. Fitness Tech Podcast #9–The Clean Diet How-to with Carrie – Jim
3. To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That? – Jim
2. The Home Tech Podcast #1–The Beta Show! WLE 2011 – Jim
To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That?
Dec 25th
What does that really mean? In a very catchy ad campaign, Microsoft touts some of it’s newest technologies (and some old one’s too!) in an attempt to impress you enough to move “to the cloud!”
The only problem is that they don’t really tell you how to do it! Our crack team of technologist get to the bottom of each commercial and tell you how it’s done. We have imbedded each one for you to review. Software applications needed are listed below each video.
Sharing a Youtube Video (Most likely made with Windows Live Movie Maker) through Windows Live Messenger
Sharing Windows Live Office documents on SkyDrive or sharing Office documents using Windows Live Mesh.
Windows Live Mesh to pull up the screen of the PC at home and simple copy and paste to the local laptop to view with Windows Media Center. Window Media Center was also used to record the TV content at home.
Getting Started with Windows Live Writer
Dec 17th
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Recently we showed you how to setup Windows Live Essentials 2011. We also took a closer look at one of the apps – the Bing Bar, and today we will take a look at Windows Live Writer which is a valuable program for bloggers.
Installing Windows Live Writer
If you haven’t installed it already just download and kick off the Windows Live Essentials installer. Remember you don’t need to install everything in the suite and when the install kicks off, select Choose the programs you want to install.
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Now select the programs you want to install. In this example we’re just going to install Windows Live Writer (WLW).
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After installation is complete you’ll find Live Writer in the Start Menu.
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