Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton
August 13, 2015 20:54:44
Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton
August 21, 2015 18:56:02
Michael Arnold When will you do a build for us? Hey Insider! You'll have access to our Patron Only Activity Feed, with secret posts from us. We'll be sharing photos, extra videos, and commentary about the show. You'll also have our undying gratitude!
August 22, 2015 00:14:29 · Reply
Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton I have scheduled us to record the build video on Thursday, so tomorrow! - Shannon
August 26, 2015 17:24:50 · Reply
Eldergamer There are very few alarm systems that are free of monthly fees so when I came across the Smanos I had to try it. I purchased the Smanos alarm system. Like you I had trouble with it, enough trouble that I decided to keep looking. A friend was also looking at systems the same time I was. He purchased an alarm from a company called iSmartAlarm. First thing I thought was it has something to do with apple but it’s just one more a company jumping on the ‘I’something naming convention bandwagon. It has an app for both Android and IOS. Anyway, I used the Smanos for about a week. It never worked right. I simply couldn’t trust it, when it comes to alarms that just seems unacceptable to me. My friend seemed to be happy with his so I boxed the Smanos up and shipped it back to Amazon. I purchased the iSmartAlarm alarm system from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/iSmartAlarm-iSA3-Preferred-Package-Security/dp/B00ESVCRJO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440611715&sr=8-1&keywords=iSmartAlarm It wasn’t perfect either. I had trouble with getting the system connected to the app for my phone. The remote is also not a very good design but after I fixed the phone issue I haven’t had any trouble. I’ve had no false alarms or technical hang-ups since. I’ve had it for about a year now and I don’t even give it a second thought. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Peace of mind. There may be better systems out there. I only have experience with the two mentioned above.
August 26, 2015 17:59:12 · Reply
Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton
August 27, 2015 18:46:34
Jon Hancock Additional info on Win 10 upgrade. This is specific to Dell, but may apply to others. Dell apparently encodes the recovery partition. If you clone the original HDD to an SSD the windows update will fail. I had to swap the SSD with the original HDD, performed the Win 10 upgrade, and then clone the upgraded HDD to the SSD. Works fine.
August 27, 2015 20:10:11 · Reply
Matthew P Stein Take a hard look at the Saygus V2 and also consider that right now, only the Nexus 6 works with Google Fi, so if you are leaning towards trying "Fi" then your only choice is the Nexus 6. Saygus is a potential monster with 2 SD slots and 64 GB storage native, so you could potentially carry 464GB of storage in your phone..... (a part of me wants it just for that reason.....).
August 27, 2015 22:21:10 · Reply
Scott Heinowski Is the Asus Memo pad really pronounced Mee-mo? I'd think it would be Mem-oh, like the paper pad, or inter-office memo.
August 28, 2015 01:35:42 · Reply
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Julian Owens Another great show. Thought I'd give you your yearly review. Great job since signing on and watching all of them, I think you guys put a lot of heart into the show you do. You make quality entertaining shows that are fun to watch and learn. Keep up the great work. Started off small on Patreon but decided as of today to give you all a pay raise. Congrats, I'm bumping my patreon per show level.
August 15, 2015 00:05:29 · Reply
Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton Julian! Thanks dude. We definitely have a ton of things we want to improve on the show, but we're happy to hear that you're enjoying it and can see our passion for tech! Let us know if you ever have concerns, questions, or just want to say hi. :) - Shannon
August 17, 2015 18:03:18 · Reply
Julian Owens For those of us who are trying to run a small router / system in a garage, I have killed two with 100+ degree Texas heat, what can you guys recommend for a router or mini switch that can handle 100-110 degree F heat? Fanless would be nice but if it has a fan, that's ok too. Thanks again for all of your help.
August 19, 2015 15:20:00 · Reply
Shannon Morse and Patrick Norton Hey Julian! Patrick here. I'll ask folks on the show if they know of a particularly robust router, but I suspect if it's 100-100 outside, it's probably way hotter inside your garage. Any chance you can move that hardware into the house? If not, make sure it's not anywhere near a windows (direct sunlight is brutal), and try moving it down by the floor, esp if the floor is concrete. Consider cracking open the case on the router, drilling holes in the top, or just leaving it outside the case. Setting up a biscuit fan that blows air on/over it might help, or just keeping a fan going inside the garage to move the air around. And, of course, there's always sealing and insulating the roof the garage, adding ventilation to reduce the amount of heat buildup inside. Hope this helps a bit!
August 21, 2015 19:03:50 · Reply