Category: Home Tech

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NEST Thermostat, Lightning Strikes, Surge Protectors and UPS Devices – HT081

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined this week by Gordon Schmidt and Bill Paulmenn for Show 81 of The Home Tech Podcast.  Gordon spends the first part of the podcast talking about the NEST Thermostat that he reviewed in a post right here on the site.  We also talk about a lightning strike at Bill’s… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta Deeper Dive: Domains and Storage Spaces

Jim was joined by John Zajdler, Chris Courney (Drashna), Greg Welsh, Mike Martis (BYOB) and Paul Braren for a deeper dive into Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta that was released to the public on July 11, 2012.  In the show we look at two of the more discussed features of the new OS in Domains… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Windows Server 2012 Essentials Revisited, Sucuri, Yahoo Security Leaks, SkyDrive Updates, Pogoplug – HT080

Jim and Christian are joined this week by Renny Phipps for Show 80 of The Home Tech Podcast.  Christian spent a bunch of time redesigning the site this last weekend.  If you not reading this on the site, stop out to http://theAverageGuy.tv.  We also produced a special Windows Server 2012 Essentials first look early in… Click for more / Podcast Player>

A Review of The NEST Thermostat

I was first introduced to the Nest as I was scrolling through my large list of RSS feeds in Google Reader in the fall of 2011.  Since then my interest has grown in the product.  The idea is perfect… take one of the items in your house, the thermostat and make it better. In the past the Nest was sold only through the website www.nest.com but on May 8th, 2012 the Nest became available at Lowes and more recently at the Apple stores and Amazon.com. It is always nice when a product comes to a local retail store so I

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Windows Home Server, Photo Management and more on Windows 8 – HT079

Jim, Christian and Andrew are joined this week by Chris Lux and John Zajdler for Show 79 of The Home Tech Podcast. This week, it’s a Windows show, with the guys starting off talking about the recent Microsoft announcement relating to the Windows Server 2012 lineup, which removes Windows Home Server and Windows Small Business… Click for more / Podcast Player>