Home Tech – The Average Guy Podcast Network

During Home Server Show’s Coverage of CES 2013, we had the opportunity to catch up with Brian Burgess of GroovyPost.com and talk about about CES, his writing and a bunch of tech talk!  Brian was a contributor to theAverageGuy.tv and was a guest host on Home Tech thru Show #10.  He wrote the opening and closing bumpers for the show that are still used.  Special Thanks to Brian and GroovyPost for doing the interview. The Home Tech Interview (HTI) is a special edition of the Home Tech Podcast   The Average Guy Facebook Group The Average Guy Facebook Page 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim (@jcollison), Andrew (@unrealshots) and Christian (@TheWizBM) are joined this week by Kevin Schoonover for Show 105! New Show Twitter Hash Tag for the show each week. Use “#HT105” when referencing the show.  Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E athttp://theAverageGuy.tv/live This week, you could be mistaken that you’re listening to the Build Your Own Box Podcast, as the guys talk a lot of DIY, from building a pfSense router, an all-in-one PC, and adding secure storage to your home environment using the new ioSafe N2 NAS. Jim tells us about his recent network upgrades, including his home network hardware and more recently his Internet connection, as well as adding a pfSense router to add some Internet filtering and to stabilize the performance of the upgraded connection. Following from a post on the Facebook group from Jim Barton, the guys talk about cloud storage, and accumulating storage across the multiple offerings.  Be sure to check out the Cloud Storage Know It Guyde for Cloud Storage options. After some Windows Phone chat, Kevin talks about his recent purchase of an ioSafe N2 NAS, which brings you technology from Synology along with ioSafe fireproof hardware.   Andrew talks about a DIY project from our friends over at ZDNet to build your own All-in-One PC, using the Intel Loop L5 Barebone System.  The guys discuss some of the merits of building your own PC, versus buying pre-built systems. To close out the show, Kevin talks about some of the deals available on Office 365, as well as the inclusions you receive in the package pricing. The Average Guy Facebook Page The Average Guy Facebook Group 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Andrew’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/unrealshots Christian’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheWizBM / Bios Mods Site: http://Bios-mods.com Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim recently sat down with Ray Ortega for the first new spinoff from Home Tech.  We are going to call it Home Tech Interview.  I know, creative.  For now it will run inside the Home Tech feed.  If it goes well, I will give it its own feed.  What do you think?  podcast@theAverageGuy.tv Ray Ortega is the host of The Podcasters’ Studio (TPS) and Podcast Quick Tips (PQT). Both shows are podcasts about podcasting. He covers topics on  how to record, edit, publish, and promote your podcast whether you have time to listen in depth (TPS usually runs approximately 45 minutes) or only have time for one tip (PQT is one specific tip in 5 minutes of less). Ray is also behind the Podcasters’ Roundtable, a almost monthly podcast around podcasting.  Do you see a trend here?  We have AUDIO ONLY for this episode.  The Video was not of good quality! Since we had problems with the video feed the first night and it’s really not watchable, I have included the RAW Video from the second night’s interview.  Some good discussion both before and after the interview.   The Average Guy Facebook Group The Average Guy Facebook Page 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim (@jcollison), Andrew (@unrealshots) are joined this week by Rich O’Neil (@dvn7) and John Stutsman(@johnstutsman) for show 104! Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Use the new Amazon Link: http://theAverageGuy.tv/Amazon   Meet up with Mario: http://theaverageguy.tv/2013/01/23/average-guy-meetup-in-omahajanuary-29-with-mario-from-drobo/ N40L Posts at the Home Server Show: http://homeservershow.com/tag/n40l The Average Guy Facebook Group Home Use Program at Microsoft: http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/chooser.aspx?culture=en-US The Best thing about Outlook.com you never knew about:  http://www.labnol.org/internet/setup-outlook-on-custom-domain/24699/ Pogoplug is offering unlimited Cloud Storage now for $29 for the year. https://pogoplug.com/promo/friends2013 The Average Guy Facebook Page 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Andrew’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/unrealshots Christian’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheWizBM / Bios Mods Site: http://Bios-mods.com Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim (@jcollison), Andrew (@unrealshots) and Mike Howard (@jpeg2RAW) are joined this week by Ces White (@iDexMedia) and Special Guest Mario Blandini from Drobo for show 103! New Show Twitter Hash Tag for the show each week. Use “#HT103” when referencing the show.  Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E athttp://theAverageGuy.tv/live This week, The Average Guy Network is the first to break the news on the Drobo 5N, when the guys are joined by Special Guest, Mario Blandini from Drobo.  Mario talks about some of the new features in the Drobo 5N, as well as some of the features that are coming to the entire Drobo range. Save $40 on the Drobo 5N right now!  http://amzn.com/B00AMAJGOO Mike talks about the latest security flaws found in Java, and what this means to the average user. Mike and Andrew talk about Geotagging your photos in Adobe Lightroom, and a GPS logging application called GPS Logger for Android.  Fitness tracking applications such as Runkeeper and Endomondo also give you the ability to create the required GPS Log to enable tagging of your images. Andrew talks about the success of the Raspberri Pi, which has now shipped over 700,000 units, which is incredible, given initial thoughts were that the device may have sold as many as 1,000 units! The guys go on to discuss the Verizon case study, where one of their customers identified an employee who outsourced his role to China. POST SHOW DISCUSSION In content you can only get on YouTube, I have uploaded the post show discussion.  Mike Howard talks about some new equipment he had purchased.   The guys close out the show, talking about Jim and Mikes’ new audio mixers, from Mackie – hit the video below to see some of the abuse the Mackie mixers can take!   The Average Guy Facebook Page The Average Guy Facebook Group 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Andrew’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/unrealshots Christian’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheWizBM / Bios Mods Site: http://Bios-mods.com Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim (@jcollison), Andrew (@unrealshots) and Christian (@theWizBM) are joined this week by Bill Paulmenn (@BillPaulmenn) and Renny Phipps (@rennyphipps) for show 102! New Show Twitter Hash Tag for the show each week. Use “#HT102” when referencing the show.  Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E athttp://theAverageGuy.tv/live   The guys start off the show hearing about Renny’s recent trip to the USA, before moving on to Renny telling us about the “God Mode” within Windows 7, which is a Windows 7 Easter Egg that allows you to create a folder containing all of the Control Panel shortcuts in one folder. Renny also talks about this 2013 goal of tidying up his Home Technology, assessing the hardware and applications he has, and performing a bit of a Spring Clean. The guys talk a about recycling options for disposing of old computer hardware, with options like Best Buy in the USA, Officeworks in Australia, local council clearances, or archiving old hardware in the home. For those of us who use multiple cloud storage providers, the guys talk about the ideal service to enable synchronization of data between providers without having to download and upload the data. For the die hard tech buff’s, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has just finished in Las Vegas – the show was comprehensively covered by Jim and Dave McCabe from the Home Server Show, and the guys talk about the highlights for them, from the various vendors who were at the show. Christian talks about the recent changes to Skype, which now allow full contact integration into Outlook – yet another step in Skype becoming the replacement for Windows Live Messenger, which is being retired by Microsoft.  Christian also discusses the current top selling laptop from Amazon – the Google Chromebook. Andrew talks about introducing a new TP-Link WR1043ND router into his home network, to enable a single wireless SSID to be accessible throughout the home, as his cable modem does not have sufficient range to be able to cover the whole house.  An affordable performance and coverage improvement. Jim and Bill talk about wireless security cameras available from vendors such as DLink, as well as talking about WiFi available from vendors such as AT&T and Comcast “in the wild”. Jim tells us about a Twitter stats site, TWTRLAND, a website into which you enter your Twitter name, and it will provide you with statistics as to how you use Twitter, including who you interact with, and things on Twitter that might interest you. To close out, Jim talks about a “crowd storage” solution, Symform, which gives you cloud storage by contributing storage to the “crowd storage” pool. The Average Guy Facebook Page The Average Guy Facebook Group 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Andrew’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/unrealshots Christian’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheWizBM / Bios Mods Site: http://Bios-mods.com Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.

Jim (@jcollison) and Christian (@theWizBM) are joined this week by Gordon Schmidt (@GWadeTech) and John Zajdler (@Dieharder) for show 101! New Show Twitter Hash Tag for the show each week. Use “#TAG101” when referencing the show.  Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Listen for the outtake right up front!  It’s ONLY in the Audio version.   It’s the first show of 2013!  Another full year of podcasting from the Average Guy Podcast Network! CES LIVE COVERAGE Star Trek Reference: http://www.hark.com/clips/rqwbzqyjnl-a-mnemonic-memory-circuit-using-stone-knives-and-bear-skins Watch the Youtube Video above to see the iPod / WHS build that John Z talks about. Gordon’s Site:  http://mykneejerkreaction.com Lastpass site: http://lastpass.com WHS2011 at Amazon:  http://amzn.com/B0050TVAWS Magic Jack: http://amzn.com/B0011UXSHK Starting your own small business:  http://www.sba.gov/content/follow-these-10-steps-starting-business Google AdSense:  https://www.google.com/adsense   PC Support Tools Mentioned: LogMeIn: https://secure.logmein.com Hard Drive Dock:  http://amzn.com/B001J8BPYM TeamViewer: http://teamviewer.com Portable Apps:  http://portableapps.com/ Join.me:  http://join.me Hijack this:http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ Malwarebytes:  http://malwarebytes.org Belarc:  http://belarc.com The Average Guy’s Cloud Storage Know It Guyde Hiren’s Boot CD:  http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd   What Jim Purchased: The Mic: http://amzn.com/B004QJOZS4 The Sound Board: http://amzn.com/B00721CHMY Shock Mount for the Mic: http://amzn.com/B0002ZO60I Old Equipment: Yeti Blue USB Microphone:  http://amzn.com/B008F4USMS Blue Microphones Radius Microphone Shock Mount:  http://amzn.com/B005DVF15A RODE PSA 1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm (Black):  http://amzn.com/B001D7UYBO   The Average Guy Facebook Page The Average Guy Facebook Group 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 choice! Or, you can now stream the show online at Stitcher.com at http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=22271 The Show Announcements and Schedule: https://twitter.com/#!/TheAverageGuyTV Jim’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jcollison Andrew’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/unrealshots Christian’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheWizBM / Bios Mods Site: http://Bios-mods.com Contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ Find this and other great Podcasts from the Average Guy Network at http://theaverageguy.tv Some links may contain affiliate codes that benefit the Average Guy Podcast Network.