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Top Ten Average Guy Posts for 2010

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

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

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

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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Windows Live Movie Maker, To the Cloud! What? Can Drobo Replace Drive Extender? – HT004

Jim, Brian and Christian’s pre-Christmas Show!  We start the show by covering Brian's TAG Post on Windows Live Movie Maker and discover how to build great videos with this free software. We also cover those crazy Microsoft Commercials where people say, “To the Cloud!” and no one knows why.  We talk about each one of… Click for more / Podcast Player>

To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That?

What does that really mean?  In a very catchy ad campaign, Microsoft touts some of it’s newest technologies (and some old one’s too!) in an attempt to impress you enough to move “to the cloud!” The only problem is that they don’t really tell you how to do it!  Our crack team of technologist get to the bottom of each commercial and tell you how it’s done.  We have imbedded each one for you to review.  Software applications needed are listed below each video. Sharing a Youtube Video (Most likely made with Windows Live Movie Maker) through Windows Live Messenger

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