Managing Your Home Tech

Jim was joined again by Brian Burgess, Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris.  Jim starts the show with a bit of podcasting soul searching.  With 12 shows now in the books, what has the podcast become and who are we trying to reach?  Would love your comments on why you listen to the show and what you find most helpful.  Email podcast@theaverageguy.tv. For the rest of the show we talk about Blogging and Podcast basics, IBM’s Watson smoking real people on Jeopardy, new Motorola’s Tablets, upgrading a Mac Mini’s memories and the new Facebook page for the The Average Guy Network.

We tried 4 guys for the show this week and welcomed guest host Andrew Morris from Melbourne, Australia the this week’s edition.  In a very full show, we talked about the Team Viewer application, some discussion around the differences between Microsoft’s Technet and Action Pack software subscription services, the release of IE 9 RC, Bing’s gaining on Google, Facebook’s Q4 revenue, Brian newest post at AppAdvice, the Mac Mini, Windows 7 Family Pack, Christian’s WHS addin Magic Wake on LAN, W7 and 2008r2 Service Pack 1, Guitar Hero getting the axe, HP releases new WebOS offerings including a tablet, Media

Has anyone seen Brian?  We couldn’t find and had to do the show without him!  Christian joined Jim for show #10 and we talked about the new Android Market that is not a phone app, the upcoming Super Bowl ad that will include an unlock code for another level in Angry Birds and the difference between Sleep and Hibernate with your PC.  We also spend a few minutes talking about USB monitors and Christian covers a little news of his own.  In one of your shortest shows to date, we are quick and to the point.  Thanks to the uStream

Jim, Christian and Brian are back for another week of discussion on Technology in your Home.  We spend some time looking at some helpful productivity tips for Windows 7.  Topics like keyboard shortcuts, jumplists, the Reliability Monitor, our friend Ninite, Aero Snap and Shake, notification customization, using checkboxes, the taskbar and multiple monitors.  Did I leave anything out? Brian talks about his post on using his iPad to remote control his Windows PCs on his network using Splashtop.com.  Windows on an iPad?  Can it be?  We also cover all the different ways a person can remote to a PC or

Brian is back this week and he joins Jim and Christian for the latest edition of the The Home Tech Podcast.  We talk Facebook messaging, the new Netflix subscription model, how to configure Windows 7 Update and very small PCs.  Brain breaks out his new iPad for a quick review to top it off.  All that and much more with week! You can contact the show at podcast@theaverageguy.tv Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live.   · Claim Your Own Facebook Email Address · Netflix: A Misunderstanding or a hint · iPhone 4 on Version

We talked about more than just Audacity crashing (in fact, we never mentioned it on the recorded show) but at the end of the broadcast, Audacity died on us.  I thought we had lost the file and had no idea how to recover it.  To GOOGLE! We found the recovery instructions and did a live fix right on uStream!  Here were the instructions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=CrashRecovery  There were a couple spots that didn’t recover just right.  See if you can find them! Speaking of uStream, we are now LIVE each Thursday night at 7:00pm Central / 8:00pm Eastern.  You can join us

I met up with Randy Ksar, Social Media Manager for Motorola Mobility at CES last weekend and we took a few minutes right there in the booth to talk about some of his podcasting equipment as well as what is hot at Motorola right now. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen:   Zoom H4N Sennheiser MD46 Sennheiser e935 Shure SM58 Randy’s Podcast http://www.blogtalkradio.com/motodev http://developer.motorola.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/motodev http://www.youtube.com/sharemoto 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,

Brian, Christian and Jim talk Tech Christmas Gifts, what to do with the iTunes Gift card you received, how to store your music files, Windows Live Photo Gallery and of course, the Drobo.  It’s a post Christmas extravaganza! Don’t forget to go all the way to the end of the podcast!  Some additional content. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen:   What we Got for Christmas: Christian’s Beast Build: AMD Phenom II 109OT Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHZ 6-core Processor Asus Crosshair 4 formula AM3 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB DDR-3 RAM Jim’s Gifts:

Jim, Brian and Christian’s pre-Christmas Show!  We start the show by covering Brian’s TAG Post on Windows Live Movie Maker and discover how to build great videos with this free software. We also cover those crazy Microsoft Commercials where people say, “To the Cloud!” and no one knows why.  We talk about each one of the commercials in depth and give the product solutions that Microsoft fails to give. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen:   We put a post out there with the videos and the products used to achieve “cloudness!” http://theaverageguy.tv/2010/12/25/to-the-cloud-how-do-you-really-do-that/

Brian, Christian and Jim are together again to talk “how-to” tech for the average home user.  In show #3, we added some new music for the intro and at the end of the show!  Make sure you listen all the way to the end. For our third Home Tech Show we talked about Blogging and micro-blogging. How To Get Started Blogging with Blogger.com Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen: Other good sites for beginners – tumblr.com & posterous.com & wordpress.com Microblogging sites – Facebook.com or Twitter.com News we covered: Gwaker Gets Hacked! Link

The second show is up and running…and you won’t want to miss this one!  Once again joined by Brian, Christian and special guest John Zajdler from the Home Server Show, we talk about the changes that have most recently been made to Facebook, the worst rated wireless provider the US (guess who that can be?) and an iPhone App that saves lives. Brian covered some material on the Microsoft Bing Bar after feeling like we might have scared you away from tool bars last week.  Click here for his post. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E

Welcome to the first ever Home Tech Podcast.  Brian Burgess and Christian Johnson join me, Jim Collison and special guest John Zajdler from the HomeServerShow.com on a new podcast focused on Tech solutions for the Average Guy.  Got folks always asking you to help you with their new gadgets?  This is the podcast you want to have them listen to! Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Here: This week we spend most of the show focusing on Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials 2011.  Brian’s most recent posts on the WLE 2011 and Live Mail