Episodes
April 30, 2022
Phil Collison with 2 Apps that Make Live and Recorded Music Events Better – HGG532
Phil Collison joins us this week. Phil is my oldest son and is and has been a drummer for both performance bands and some groups at local churches. He talks about how he became a drummer and the practice it took to get there.
April 23, 2022
Rich Hay and a New Role at Microsoft and the Q&A Community – HGG531
Rich Hay joins us this week as we catch up with him and his new job at Microsoft. Rich is a good friend of the show and walks us through the process of becoming a Microsoft employee about 6 months ago. We also catch up with …
April 9, 2022
Jon Biggs with Health and Fitness Tech Tracking – HGG530
Jon Biggs joins this week and it’s all health tech. We look from top to bottom at monitoring your own health from regular check-ups from a doctor, services like 23andMe and Grail and even continuous glucose monitoring with I…
April 2, 2022
Cody Soodeen from Kara Water with the Kara Pure Making Fresh Water from the Air Around You – HGG529
Cody Soodeen from Kara Water joins us this week as we look at the Kara Pure. Their mission statement says, “Kara Water wishes to decrease dependence on groundwater by fully tapping into air-water with Kara Pure to provide ev…
March 26, 2022
Gavin Campbell with a big Home Networking Change. Out with the old, in with the new – HGG528
Gavin Campbell from HomeTech.fm joins this week and it’s all about home networks. He installed a new one in the last few months and lives to tell — in pretty good detail. That is mostly it. It’s all networking. I am serious.…
March 19, 2022
Why a Gas Truck Again? Plus Some Thoughts on a Techie way to make Sprits – Quicker with Data – HGG527
Mike is back this week! We have a St. Patrick’s Day beer and whiskey pour to start the show. We ask Mike, “why a truck again?” and we wrap it with some conversation about Bespoken Spirits out of California and how they have …
March 12, 2022
Bob and Ryan from ThinkComputers.org with Read Before You Purchase Reviews on Laptops, Motherboards and PC Cases – HGG526
Bob and Ryan from https://thinkcomputers.org join us this week as we look at some of their reviews on laptops, motherboards, and new cases. We spend some time looking at the latest industry trends as well as asking the quest…
March 5, 2022
The new IT Business Podcast with Marv Bee — Mike has a new Truck – HGG525
Marv Bee is back for the launch of his new podcast, The IT Business Podcast found at https://www.itbusinesspodcast.com/. We also chat some about Marv’s newest purchase, an OLED TV that was influenced by HGG 524 and we talk a…
Feb. 19, 2022
A New Home Theater Setup — Considerations for TV, Tuner, Lights and more – HGG524
Christian Johnson is back to fill us in on his latest Home Theater build. From considerations made for the TV to the thoughts behind the tuner, wiring and power, we get the scoop on his setup. Lots to learn and even more to …
Feb. 12, 2022
Gavin Campbell from HomeTech.fm with Home Security Camera Choices – HGG523
Gavin Campbell is back this week and is now a member of the HomeTech.fm crew! (Links down below) We spend most of the show talking about home security cams from Ring to Foscam and Sighthound to Blue Iris. We also spend some …
Jan. 29, 2022
Update on T-Mobile 5G and Microsoft Translator – HGG522
Jim gives a final update on his move to 5G Home Internet from T-Mobile. Jim also brings a hands-on review of Microsoft Translator and how he plans to use it for both Gallup and Home Gadget Geeks. We demoed it live on the sho…
Jan. 22, 2022
Community Questions and Hands-on with T-Mobile 5G Home Internet – HGG521
Mike and Jim take a few voicemail questions from the audience and then dive into a hands-on review of the new T-Mobile 5G Home Internet offering. We cover the good, the bad and the not yet figured out as we discuss the servi…
Jan. 15, 2022
Christian Johnson with Budget Server Storage and Network Changes Ahead – HGG520
Christian Johnson from Maplegrove Partners is with us this week and we spend some time talking about the best way to purchase budget server hardware for those home storage fans. We also chat with Christian about the future o…
Jan. 8, 2022
Erin Lawrence with Ring Sensors, Homey Bridge, Ecovacs and Samsung Ultrawide and Curved Monitors from CES 2022 – HGG519
Erin Lawrence from Tech Gadget Canada helps us kick off the new year with some interesting Gadgets coming out of CES 2022! We have a look at the much-awaited glass break sensor from Ring for their Ring Alarm system.
Jan. 1, 2022
A Home Gadget Geeks Look Back at 2021 and Look Ahead to 2022 – HGG518
Mike is back this week and we spend some time looking at our world of gadgets over the last year. What worked, what didn’t and what we really liked. We then spend some time looking ahead to 2022 and what we think the year wi…
Dec. 18, 2021
Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Techie Friends with Marvin Bee – HGG517
The dictionary defines a “Techie” as a person who is expert in or enthusiastic about technology, especially computing. We have Marvin Bee this week from the Podnutz Pro podcast and we look at all our favorite or not-so-favor…
Dec. 11, 2021
Rebuilt Unraid! Better Than Ever and Lightning Fast! – HGG516
Mike talks about his new Unraid build this week and all the parts that had to go into it. No big surprises, but lots of great stuff. All that and more. Thanks for listening. Full show notes, transcriptions (available on requ…
Dec. 4, 2021
Jay Mattison from TekEverything with PC Hardware Updates and Mechanical Keyboard Hands-On – HGG515
We have Jay Mattison from TekEverything at TekEverything.com this week as we have a general conversation about the status of PC hardware purchasing here at the end of 2021. We also look at 2 different mechanical keyboards th…
Nov. 27, 2021
Erin Lawrence with Hand on Pixel 6 Pro Review and Echo Show 15 Preview – HGG514
Erin Lawrence from Tech Gadgets Canada joins us this week as we do a long look at the new Pixel 6 Pro from Google. The good, the bad, and even the ugly and how she likes it so far. Will it replace her daily driver iPhone?
Nov. 20, 2021
Black Friday Trends for 2021 and Digital Assistances Everywhere – HGG513
It’s great to have Mike back this week as we catch up with him and spend some time talking about Black Friday deal trends, Digital Assistances, Slickdeal Alerts and some of Jim’s newest power tools purchases.
Nov. 14, 2021
Brian Flanigan-Arthurs with TextExpander and Classroomscreen – HGG512
Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, a Patreon Supporter and long-time listener joins us this week. We spend some time getting to know Brian and then dive into TextExpander. We then spend some time with Classroomscreen,
Nov. 6, 2021
Gavin Campbell with Emby / Kode Media Center and Unraid Setups – HGG511
This week we have Patreon Supporter and long-time listener, Gavin Campbell, with us. In this episode, we get to know Gavin a bit. We walk thru his media center setup using Emby, Kode, and Channels. We also dig into his Unrai…
Oct. 30, 2021
Jon Maddox from Channels and Updates for Channels 5.0 for Apple TV & iOS – HGG510
This week we have Jon Maddox from Channels at https://getchannels.com/ joins us this week to talk about the updates for Channels 5.0 for Apple TV & iOS, as well as Channels 4.0 for Android & Fire TV. Lots of conversation abo…
Oct. 23, 2021
Ed Ramirez Talks Technology Downsizing, Cryptohopper Demo – HGG509
Patreon Supporter Ed Ramirez joins this week. Jim gives a personal health update after a wild ride over the last couple of weeks. We revisit the idea of downsizing our technology footprints and doing more with less.