Author: Jim Collison

Video Review of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm – HT149

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Gordon Schmidt (@GWadeTech) and Kevin Schoonover(@schoondoggy1979) join Jim (@jcollison) for show #149 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network. 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 http://theAverageGuy.tv/live or call in your questions or comments to be played on… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Is Topping 3% a Bad Thing? – The Guide Rock Capital Market Commentary – FT051

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Like the mother of a bride reviewing flower arrangements and fretting that a brilliantly sunny day could be marred by dark clouds hidden just beyond the horizon, pundits have been parsing the exceptional year-to-date performance of U.S. stock markets and fussing over the future. It’s true. U.S. stock markets look like they may be headed… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Top 10 Posts for The Average Guy in 2013

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I was inspired by my friend and podcast guest host Paul Braren to create this Top Ten list of 2013.  It’s been a great year for http://theAverageGuy.tv and 2014 looks even brighter!  Hope you enjoy and find this useful. Some year over year stats before we get started   2012 2013 Visits 24,040 35,993 Unique Visitors 15,863 23,732 Pageviews 38,797 58,099 Pages / Visits 1.61 1.62 Avg Visit Duration [spp-timestamp time="1:43"] [spp-timestamp time="1:29"] Bounce Rate 72.60 71.88 Just a note:  Christian installed a new service in late December of 2013 and we have already seen a significant improvement in Bounce Rate (now

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The Nest Protect – Smoke + CO Alarm: About, Unboxed and Installed

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My Nest thermostat is not so lonely anymore!  Thanks to The Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund I have the pleasure of reviewing the latest from Nest. The Nest Protect is a smart smoke and carbon monoxide detector and that doesn’t take much when compared to the average home smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. The biggest and most interesting part of the Nest Protect for me is the fact that it doesn’t over react. I think we all have cooked something a little to well done and opened the oven to take care of the issue only to have another issue.

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Gear Added to the AverageGuy.tv Studio: Lights, Camera, Action

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Christmas of 2013 was good to Jim and my tech setup at home for Podcasting!  A couple of gifts from Santa (you know who you are) and some great hardware upgrades from the family and the home studio has improved by 100%  Let me share them with you. First off, after a camera debacle on Surface Geeks and  the Home Server Show two weeks in a row, both (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJLj2-c2T8)  and (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxczBUl_i4) highlights just how bad it was. I think even Santa must have noticed. I received a box from Amazon on Christmas Eve with no note, no return address and

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12 Things To Do At the End of the Year for a Digital Health Check – HT148

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Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from http://jpeg2RAW.com join Jim (@jcollison) for show #148 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network. Show Music provided by http://mynameisrudolph.com/ 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 http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Listen Mobile:   Catch Mike… Click for more / Podcast Player>