Category: Home Tech

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Watching March Madness, Super Routers, pfsense, Home Automation and iPads in Trucks – HT017

March 17th, 2011 - St. Patrick's Day Special – With the week almost gone, the Home Tech Podcast loaded up in preparation for a long weekend of green parties and college basketball!  Along with regulars Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris, we were joined by Special Guests Mike Howard and Bill Paulman. New Show Notes format… Click for more / Podcast Player>

TAG Deal of the Week — AMD Low Power Quadcore Returns to the Market

It’s quite a refresher to see the AMD Phenom II 910e return to the market after being out of stock for several months. Running as a low power, low cost, and high performance CPU, it is a great bargin for AMD fanboys and makes for a great HTPC. on your home network. Furthermore, Newegg has the best deal on the CPU, running at $180 thrown in with a free six month subscription to AVG Antivirus.  Click here for details.    

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Listener Comments, Angry Birds, IP Cams, WebOS and Ubuntu – HT016

Jim, Brian, Andrew and special guest and good friend of the show, John Zajdler come together for the next edition of the Home Tech Podcast.  Starting with a listener comment, we spoke a bunch about LiveCams and video equipment.  In a tangent, we talked about music quality and USB Record Players and Tuners.  Is the… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Apple iPads and iPad2, Windows 7 from a Mac, Ripping DVDs, Gmail Down and You Can’t Intimidate Apathy – HT015

This week’s show includes the regulars, Brian Burgess, Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris.  The guys spend some time talking about iPad and the new iPad2.  Brian covers accessing Windows 7 from a Mac, ripping DVDs and a Gmail failure.  Christian brings some updates and Andrew talks about a PC in a box, really!   Join… Click for more / Podcast Player>

The Home Tech Podcast Extra: We Finally Meet Christian’s Dad – HT014

So after the show #13 last week, Christian’s Dad, Gary got on the line and started a discussion on something we had been talking about earlier.  I left the recorder going and this is what we got!  Enjoy a short, midweek show and let me know what you think?  Should we invite Christian’s Dad back? … Click for more / Podcast Player>

HP Pavillion dm1z, Xbox and Media Center, Skype Crashes, Antivirus Tips, Windows 7 SP1, Speech Macros and SyncToy! – HT013

With both the Home Server Show and The Home Tech Podcast back on their regular schedule, Jim, Brian, Christian and a new regular Andrew Morris, welcome Gordon Schmidt to the podcast.  Gordon is a long time listener and fellow family tech support guy.  With a full compliment of tech guys, it’s time to get down… Click for more / Podcast Player>