Android Apps, Google Products, Phones, Getting Things Done, and Loyalty Card Apps – HT030

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gordon Schmidt for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast. Christians’ latest tech news for the Home Server crowd is that the BIOS for an HP EX485 MediaSmart server can be recovered if becomes corrupted somehow.  If you have somehow corrupted the BIOS on your MediaSmart Server,… Click for more / Podcast Player>

TAG Tech Deal of the Week – LIAN LI Black Aluminum PC-C33B ATX Media Center / HTPC Case

This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Lian-Li Black Aluminium PC-C37B Micro AT Media Center / HTPC Case from NewEgg,com for $169.99. A great case for those of you who have an HTPC in a normal PC case.  Not only does it look like it belongs in the entertainment unit, but it also has great cooling and will take a wide range of motherboards and drives.

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BIOS-Mods, Music in the Cloud, Nemo Docs, HP TouchPad, Facial Recognition, Cell Phone Rescue and Hamster Powered Computing – HT029

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Jason, one of the developers at BIOS-Mods.com, for this weeks’ installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys fire off with Christian filling us in with most recent project, Christian-Net, which is his project to create a digital life archive! Jason and Christian give us an insight into… Click for more / Podcast Player>

TAG Tech Deal of the Week – SAMSUNG SATA Internal Blu-ray Drive with LightScribe Support

This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Samsung SATA Internal SH-B123L/RSBP Blu-ray drive from NewEgg.com for $64.99 This drive is an absolute steal, being marginally more expensive than a comparable DVD writer, and has the benefit of LightScribe, that cool technology that lets you flip your media over and etch your own artwork onto the surface of the disk.

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Zune Pass, Virtualization, Open Source, RSS Readers, Device Convergence and Lowering Power Consumption – HT028

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gary Johnson (better known as Christians’ Dad” for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. After a few audio hitches the guys get things rolling by talking about Jims’ experiences using the 14-day trial of Microsoft Zune Pass to prepare the DJ tracks for his sons’ wedding,… Click for more / Podcast Player>