Managing Your Home Tech

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Rich O’Neil for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off discussing Christian’s latest project, getting SharePoint 2010 up and running, and the upgrade to TheAverageGuy website, before moving on to another free exercising app for the fitness enthusiasts amongst us, with Nike+ for iPhone becoming free of charge for a limited time.  If you have a pair of Nike shoes, the Nike sensor and an iPhone, but haven’t downloaded the app yet, now is your chance to check it out for free! Listen Mobile: Andrew’s Average Guy Tech

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Mike Howard and John Zajdler for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off talking about Document Management for the Average Guy.  For those of you who still mange your records via a filing cabinet and paper records, this topic is for you.  Mike tells us about his preferred scanner the Fujitsu Snapscan S1300, and how he chose the software that he uses.  The guys discuss the products and methods they use to scan and store their documents, how they rename and search their scanned documents, the benefits of

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Bill Paulmenn for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. For anyone who has been off the grid for the past week, the guys start off discussing what is possibly the most interesting acquisition of the year, being the recent Microsoft purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion US, and what this could mean for the future of Skype as we currently know it, use it, and most days, love it! Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: The guys talk about the way they currently

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by Gordon Schmidt for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off with Christian giving a quick insight regarding the change in his development methodologies for his Windows Home Server add-in, Magic Wake-On LAN given the change in technology between original Windows Home Server and the new Windows Home Server 2011. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Jim talks about the latest news regarding the recent cyber-attack on the Sony PlayStation Network and the steps you can take to make sure your

Jim, Andrew and Christian are joined by good friend of the show, Chris Lux for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. With everyone back on deck, and the Skype Gods working in their favor, the guys kick off with some listener feedback from Michael in Connecticut who shares with the show how he uses the often talked about SyncToy to copy his critical data between his Windows Home Server, and his cloud storage provider of choice, Mozy. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Moving on from backups, Jim talks about

With Christian on his music tour, and Andrew unwell, Jim is joined by Mike Howard and Rich O’Neil for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off talking about Facebook changing their default security settings without notifying the user community.  For those of you who had changed your Facebook security settings to use https by default, be sure to check your Facebook security settings to make sure that your settings are how you want them.  To check, log into your Facebook account, go to Account Settings, Settings, (or click here) and expand the Account Security area,

Jim, Christian and Andrew are this week joined by Mike Howard for this weeks installment of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys start off talking about their choice of Virus and Malware removal tools, with Microsoft Security Essentials, Avira AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, McAfee Stinger and various Symantec Removal Tools, as well as the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, which comes from Microsoft via Windows Update. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Jim talks about using the Microsoft Easy Transfer Wizard for moving files off an infected machine, as well as moving the files

Jim and Christian are joined by John Zajdler and Bill Paulmenn for this weeks edition of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys kick off with Jim talking about the new online profile site About.Me, a recently discovered online service, which will not only allow you to have a single online bio that you can reference from all your various places on the web, but bring together all your social networking details together, with support for most of the popular sites, including and by no means limited to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, flickr, foursquare, most of the commonly used blogging platforms, and

Jim, Christian and Andrew get together for this edition of the Home Tech Podcast. After some listener feedback, and an update on the Stuxnet Virus from Mark Russinovich’s blog, the guys talk about Google’s upcoming “+1” service – when signed into your Google account, you will be able to “Use +1 to give something your public stamp of approval, so friends, contacts, and others can find the best stuff when they search.”  Results will show in your personal Google Profile. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: With the 31st of March being

Jim, Christian, Andrew and special guest, Rich O’Neil get together for this edition of the Home Tech Podcast. The guys start off talking about the Twitter aggregation service paper.li, which “organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag”, and go on to discuss Eventbrite, which is an online service to help you plan, promote and co-ordinate and even sell tickets for your meetings, conferences and events. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: After a quick update on

March 17th, 2011 – St. Patrick’s Day Special – With the week almost gone, the Home Tech Podcast loaded up in preparation for a long weekend of green parties and college basketball!  Along with regulars Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris, we were joined by Special Guests Mike Howard and Bill Paulman. New Show Notes format this week.  What do you think? Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Jim’s first thoughts: March Madness: Watch all games live here Feature topic: Pfsense: Super Router and Firewall. Monitor, shape, allow, and block all Internet traffic

Jim, Brian, Andrew and special guest and good friend of the show, John Zajdler come together for the next edition of the Home Tech Podcast.  Starting with a listener comment, we spoke a bunch about LiveCams and video equipment.  In a tangent, we talked about music quality and USB Record Players and Tuners.  Is the WebOS making its way a printer near you?  Maybe on a laptop?  We wrap up the show with some discussion around the Windows, Mac and Ubuntu OS. If you haven’t been out on the Average Guy Site, it’s worth a new look.  Our site designer

This week’s show includes the regulars, Brian Burgess, Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris.  The guys spend some time talking about iPad and the new iPad2.  Brian covers accessing Windows 7 from a Mac, ripping DVDs and a Gmail failure.  Christian brings some updates and Andrew talks about a PC in a box, really!   Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: News  iPad 2 news and video · iTunes Update Available Now for Preparation for iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 · Windows Live Mesh Beta Ending March 31st Mac OS X with Windows

So after the show #13 last week, Christian’s Dad, Gary got on the line and started a discussion on something we had been talking about earlier.  I left the recorder going and this is what we got!  Enjoy a short, midweek show and let me know what you think?  Should we invite Christian’s Dad back?  Give him is own segment?  Follow him on Twitter? Join Jim, Andrew and Gary on this special edition of the Home Tech Podcast! Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live. Listen Mobile: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theAverageGuyTV Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ If you’d

With both the Home Server Show and The Home Tech Podcast back on their regular schedule, Jim, Brian, Christian and a new regular Andrew Morris, welcome Gordon Schmidt to the podcast.  Gordon is a long time listener and fellow family tech support guy.  With a full compliment of tech guys, it’s time to get down to business. This this weeks show, we cover the new, redefined purpose for the podcast.  “From Tech Guys, For Tech Guys!”  Jim does a quick review of the new HP Pavillion dm1 Netbook, covers the much needed fix for his Xbox and media center and