Author: Jim Collison

The Drobo Trilogy / Can it Replace Drive Extender?

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I (Jim) have spend a bunch of time over the last three weeks doing an in depth review of Drobo for the Home Server Show.  While the purpose of the review was to determine if a Drobo could be used to replace the current functionality that is now in Drive Extender in a Windows Home Server. If you have never seen a Drobo in action, you might want to see these reviews.  Click Here to Review What is a Drobo you ask?  Think of it as a data robot that helps you protect your data.  It’s a simple, scalable and

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Top Ten Average Guy Posts for 2010

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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

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Tech Christmas Gifts, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Tascam DR-07 and Drobo – HT005

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Brian, Christian and Jim talk Tech Christmas Gifts, what to do with the iTunes Gift card you received, how to store your music files, Windows Live Photo Gallery and of course, the Drobo.  It’s a post Christmas extravaganza! Don’t forget to go all the way to the end of the podcast!  Some additional content. Join… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Home Server Show #118

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It was the final podcast for 2010 and we partied like it was 1999! Hopefully we can revive the talk about WHS version 1 a little bit.  We also go over Jim’s Drobo posts and what we got for Christmas!  Next week is CES so we talk a little bit about Vegas and the new CES 2011 live feed page as well.  Enjoy and have a Happy New Year!  CES 2011 Live Page   You can listen to the show at http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-118.html        

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Getting Started with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been covering the different offerings available in Windows Live Essentials 2011. Another program we’ll take a look at this week is Live Photo Gallery 2011. Photo Gallery is a set of tools for organizing, sharing,   touching up you photos and publishing them online. It has a lot of features not included in previous versions such as the ability to create Panoramas, movies, slideshows, and actually has an interesting  search   feature using Facial Recognition. Install & Setup Live Photo Gallery 2011 Installation is simple and very similar to any of the other Live Essentials programs

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RunKeeper Pro for Android and iPhone is FREE in January

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If you have an Android or iPhone, your are getting a late Christmas present from the makers of the RunKeeper App.  It’s FREE to download in the month of January.  Up until now there as been a scaled down free version and a fee based Pro version.  Both are now free for the taking.  You can find both in the app store for each phone. I use RunKeeper and have really liked it.  The free version can be a little inaccurate on the mileage at times, but the rest of the application works great.  It will also auto tweet right

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