Author: Jim Collison

A PC Running Android: Tronsmart MK908 Initial Review

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                       Well after two weeks in shipping, I received my Tronsmart MK908 Android Mini PC.  While Android is typically used in smartphones and tablets, someone got the idea of putting Android on a tiny PC about half the size of a deck of cards. Instead of having a built-in touch screen for operation, these devices plug into a standard HDMI port on a TV or computer monitor. The device itself came in very nice retail packaging and included the appropriate HDMI and USB cables. That was good because I was worried that cables were going to raise the total cost

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Overview of the Nokia Lumia 520, NEST Video Review, IFA 2013, Women in IT and STEM, Leap Motion Review, HP Microserver G8 – HT135

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Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson, Andrew Morris(@unrealshots), Kevin Schoonover (@schoondoggy1979) and Greg Welch (@welchwerks) for show 135 of Home Tech.  With a large cast of hosts and Kevin coming in from Denver, we have a lengthy conversation around the idea of being "too plugged in" with all our digital devices and… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Desktop Replacements: The Android Mini PC Option with a Tronsmart MK908

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Android mini PCs have become a very interesting technology segment in the last few years. The Raspberry Pi has really helped to drive innovation around small form factor computing. I became interested in them as a low cost option to replace light desktop computing such as word processing. Many Android mini PCs are about half the size of a deck of cards, making them very portable and versatile. The device can be easily attached to a HDTV and then run whatever operating system is installed; Android is the most popular and various versions of Linux may or may not be

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The Change in American Employment and Pay in State Government – The Guide Rock Capital Market Commentary – FT041

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Confluences are the building blocks of the world’s waterways. When two or more rivers meet, changes in velocity and turbulence tend to result in geologic scouring; erosive activity that may alter the shape of the river and its bed. The action may produce a ‘scour hole’ downstream from the confluence. For a river runner, a… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Home Tech Special – Live Review of a NEST Thermostat

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During the post show of Home Tech 132 (http://theAverageGuy.tv/ht132) we got Mike Howard from http://jpeg2RAW.com to give us a live review of his 2 NEST Thermostats.  Its all contained in 8 minutes of video.  You can review the Nest Learning Thermostat – 2nd Generation T200577 on Amazon here:  http://amzn.com/B009GDHYPQ Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/theAverageGuyTV Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ If you’d like to subscribe to the show, click on to update your iTunes library, or for other Podcast downloading applications, please click on the RSS Feed and pick your Pod Catcher of

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Grooveshark Explored, Christian Makes it to University of Maryland, Subsonic FTW, Cloudflare, pfSense, Nokia Lumia 520 – HT134

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Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com.  Christian is back in school at the University of Maryland and we had a chance to catch up with him.  We covered our new pre-show music channel using Grooveshark, some issues that Christians has been having with his host provider and… Click for more / Podcast Player>