Home Tech Special – Live Review of a NEST Thermostat

During the post show of Home Tech 132 (http://theAverageGuy.tv/ht132) we got Mike Howard from http://jpeg2RAW.com to give us a live review of his 2 NEST Thermostats.  Its all contained in 8 minutes of video.  You can review the Nest Learning Thermostat – 2nd Generation T200577 on Amazon here:  http://amzn.com/B009GDHYPQ Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. 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 the RSS Feed and pick your Pod Catcher of

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Grooveshark Explored, Christian Makes it to University of Maryland, Subsonic FTW, Cloudflare, pfSense, Nokia Lumia 520 – HT134

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com.  Christian is back in school at the University of Maryland and we had a chance to catch up with him.  We covered our new pre-show music channel using Grooveshark, some issues that Christians has been having with his host provider and… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Post Labor Day Employment Data and the NFL – The Guide Rock Capital Market Commentary – FT040

Last week was crunch time in the National Football League (NFL). With the 2013 regular season approaching rapidly, NFL teams cut about 700 players from their rosters over the Labor Day weekend.  That was a big cut—about a 40 percent drop in player employment—as rosters were pared from 90 to 53 players.  However, it’s not… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Window To Go with Windows 8 Enterprise, Remote Backup with WS 2012 R2 Essentials, What’s New with VMware ESXi 5.5, Safe Podcast Listening – HT133

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Paul Baran (@Tinkererguy) from http://Tinkertry.com and Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) for Home Tech episode #133.  We spent the majority of the show talking about how John is using Windows To Go on a 32GB Data Traveler Workspace drive from Kingston.  We get an update from… Click for more / Podcast Player>

The Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology – The Guide Rock Capital Market Commentary – FT039

“So much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens.” Well, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy is a lot more complex than the simple tools mentioned in the oft-memorized William Carlos Williams’ poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, but an awful lot is… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Banned by YouTube, Is Yahoo Back? Christian-Johnson.net, Connect to Windows Server 2012 Essentials Remotely, Email Management with Outlook, Haswell Based HTPC, NEST – HT132

Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Andrew Morris(@unrealshots), Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com for Home Tech episode #132.  We are back to old school with 132 as we left the show notes open to any tech topic the guys wanted to cover.  We chatted about being banned by YouTube.com, the return of… Click for more / Podcast Player>