Average Guys (and Gals) meet the jpeg2RAW Podcast: Win a Drobo S

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The Average Guy Podcast Network  and jpeg2RAW have teamed up to offer our fans a chance to win a huge giveaway!  A DROBO!  But not just any Drobo, a Drobo S.  Everyone needs a backup plan for their home whether you take a lot of photos or just have lots of files you want to protect. Of course, we need something from you before you can enter the giveaway.  You can qualify in 3 easy steps: Required to Win  -  Contest is now CLOSED.  Winner announced on 8/16/2012 on the Home Tech Podcast 1.  Like both of our Facebook Pages

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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