Author: Jim Collison

LastPass Tips in 3 Minutes on Home Tech Tips – HTT002

Amber Gott from LastPass at http://lastpast.com is our tipster for this week the new Home Tech Tips.  She covers some tips on password security.  First, get started with a password manager.  Second you should have a unique password for every single site you log into.  Third, use two factor or multi-factor authentication whenever possible Support… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Amber Gott from LastPass, Heartbleed Checker Tool, Multi-Factor Authenication Options, New Android App – HGG173

Amber Gott (@lastpass), Online Community Managerfor Last Pass (https://lastpass.com/) joins Jim (@jcollison) and for show #173 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community. Amber covers what’s new at LastPass, including a move with new offices and space.  What happen during the Heartbleed outbreak and what you… Click for more / Podcast Player>

unRAID in Ten Minutes on Home Tech Tips – HTT001

The tipsters from jpeg2raw.com (@jpeg2raw) – Mike Howard (@jpeg2raw), Tim Kemperle and Ces White joins Jim (@jcollison) to kick off the new Home Tech Tips #1.  We cover the product from Lime Tech http://lime-technology.com/ with unRAID. Support the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund: https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Ask the Podcast Coach for June 14

The week on Ask the Podcast Coach, Dave covers the Smart Podcast Player. We talked about a new service from Daniel J Lewis called My Podcast Reviews. The service sends you and emial with all your iTunes reviews from all the global stores.  I spend some time covering some tips that I have learned on Twitter and using Zapier.com to automate tweets.  I also spent some time talking about the crackles that can be caused by a Logitech C920 on slower computers.  Dave looks at the difference between Sony Sound Forge and Audio Studio and using My Speed to do

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Ask the Podcast Coach for June 7

This week on Ask the Podcast Coach, Dave predicts there will be a flood of podcasters who now say that podcasting is over rated.  He also goes over different ways to promote your podcast with top bloggers.  Since I like to talk about Microsoft Azure, we talk about how you can use it to build a test or production WordPress setup.  We cover strange volume issues with Google Hangouts and a caller asks, “What the heck is Twitter good for?”  It not war, btw.  Catch the full audio, video link and show notes at http://askthepodcastcoach.com/rebranding-your-podcast-twitter/

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Jim’s Appearance on Home Server Show 263

It’s time again for the Home Server Show Meetup!  The 2014 edition will come complete with a Friday night setup party, all the tech breakouts you can handle, a trip to Fry’s Electronics and the Microsoft Store as well as Sunday Morning breakfast at Waffle House.  You will want to be there. With guest Kevin Schoonover and John Stutsman, we cover some news, dropping SSD prices and a whole bunch more. Home Server Show is live every Tuesday night at 7:30pmC/[spp-timestamp time="8:30"]E (+15 minutes) over at http://homeservershow.com/live. Find the audio and links to the video at http://homeservershow.com/meetup-2014-overview-home-server-show-263.html

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