Category: Reviews & How-To’s

Hands on Review of the Elgato Video Capture Device – Digitizing and Archiving Analog Video

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John Greenaway is a Home Tech listener since show #1 is guest writing for The Average Guy Blog. This item was purchased with proceeds from the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund. https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy Working through the outset of this project was emotional as well as therapeutic for me.  As such, I felt compelled to elaborate a small amount on why I embarked on this project and how the combination of my personal / family situation, my nostalgic nature, my interest and appreciation for technology, and my paranoid approach to data management, and archival led me to this point.  For those solely

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Buying a color laser printer on Craigslist: Some tips for the bargain seeker

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By Kevin Schoonover I spend way too much time shopping for things on Craigslist. Buying used can be a great deal or you could just be buying someone else's headache. You need to research and understand what you're buying. Specifically, around printers, vendors have good models and models that are not so good. Doing a… Click for more / Podcast Player>

McAfee LiveSafe: Giving McAfee another chance!

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By Kevin Schoonover UPDATE: 12.13.14 (I love that! I should have posted at 9:10:11am) McAfee LiveSafe has continued to perform exceptionally well. Of the six computers that I am running it on none have exhibited any issues. LiveSafe has not caused any slowdown or lock up or application issues. I’m still extremely pleased with the product. I have also deployed it on several android tablets. I have noticed that it does slow down older tablets. Also, I’m not sure that there is a clear benefit to running it on tablets. Although it does a very good job of screening applications

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Acer R7 Laptop Hands On Review

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My eight-year-old daughter has been using an old Windows XP laptop. My concerns for parental guidance and family control would be better served on a Windows 7 or 8 laptop. A Windows 8 machine would move her into the latest touchscreen technology. I’d started shopping with the idea of getting her onto a new Windows 8 laptop sometime around XP’s demise. Windows 8 became an easy choice as she had no issues using the touch interface and understanding the gestures. Things I wanted in a new laptop for her were Windows 8, touchscreen, 15 inch screen, light and thin as

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3D Printing Overview from Omaha North High School

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I recently sat down with Jackson Cutsor, a Senior from Omaha North High School in Omaha, NE and talked about 3D printing and some of the work that Jackson is doing at North.  Madeline Nelson was on the camera and big thanks to the award winner educator Therese Laux who helped get it all together.  I am excited about partnering with Omaha North in the future for additional podcasts!   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

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Hands on Review of the [5-in-1] RAVPower FileHub Wireless SD Card Reader with 3000mAh Backup Battery, Wireless Mobile Storage Media Sharing, WLAN Hot Spot & NAS File Server

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Bill Rockhold is a Home Tech listener and guest writer for the The Average Guy Blog.  This item was purchased with proceeds from the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund.  https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy With spring break approaching and summer vacation right around the corner, the season of road trips with children were quickly upon us. Our family’s biggest technology road trip hurdle was that my step-daughter had a tablet, but had too many videos to fit on the device. So, we would end up taking a DVD player to compensate for the lack of drive space. I thought that I solved the issue

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