Image Credit: iOn Switching

This week Ray and Tom answer your questions about VPNs (virtual private networks), recovering data from a crashed hard drive, and how you can use Avast! Anti-virus to protect your computer.

The guys are then joined by Landon Metcalf from iOn Switching, a tech company based here in Jacksonville, FL. They have a fascinating new invention that lets you control your lights and other electrical devices with a wave of your hand or with your smart phone. They’re in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign right now to bring this product to market. Check out the video below to see them demonstrate it in our studio.

Then producer Sean Birch joins Ray, Tom and Landon for another round of trivia questions and geeky discussion in this week’s Does Not Compute segment.

#60 Eye On iOn

Deemable Tech is back with another fun episode! First, Ray and Tom discuss some big recent news items including a familiar face coming to Windows Phone and security problems for Apple’s iOS. Then producer Sean Birch joins them for another round of the runaway hit trivia segment Does Not Compute! Do you know what a common cause for software glitches is? Is it Colonel Panic? Find out the answer in this week’s episode of the Deemable Tech podcast! 

Hey, did you know that we’ll be premiering our first hour-long public radio special at the end of March? If you’d like to be a part of it and have your question answered on air, leave us a voicemail at 1-888-972-9868 to “audition” for the show!

#59 The Adventures of Cortana and Colonel Panic

Ray and Tom are both back in the studio this week with big news. Ray and wife just had a second child! After congratulating the happy (and understandably tired) father, Tom has more tech and geek trivia questions for Ray and producer Sean Birch in this week’s round of our new DOES NOT COMPUTE segment. Are you enjoying the new segment? Let us know at questions@deemable.com

This is our last episode before the end of the year, so all of us here at Deemable Tech wish you a happy holiday season!

And remember, we are still prepping for the first Deemable Tech hour-long radio episode. Get your calls in at 1-888-972-9868 to “audition” for the show!

#57 DOES NOT COMPUTE

This week Tom and guest co-host Jax Computer Chic’s Elizabeth Pampalone are joined by producer Sean Birch to congratulate Ray on his new child! Then they discuss what you can do if you’re being bullied on Facebook, play a round of our new tech and geek trivia segment “DOES NOT COMPUTE” and answer a question about saving photos from your iPhone. Are all of your photos being saved to your iCloud? Find out how you can make sure they are.

Remember, we are also prepping for the first Deemable Tech hour-long radio episode. Get your calls in at 1-888-972-9868 to “audition” for the show!

#56 Deemable Tech Meets Marie “Hot Lips” Curie

TRANSCRIPT

TOM: From WJCT studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I’m Tom Braun, in for Ray Hollister,

ELIZABETH: I’m Elizabeth Pampalone, in for Tom Braun

TOM: and this is Deemable Tech. This week’s episode is brought to you by A Small Orange, Homegrown Hosting. A refreshingly different approach to web hosting. On the web at a small orange dot com.

ELIZABETH: Got a question about your computer, smart phone, tablet or the Internet? You can give us a call us at One Eight Eight Eight, Nine Seven Two, Nine Eight Six Eight, or send us an email at questions@deemable.com.

TOM: Well, as you can tell, Ray is not here again this week. Thankfully this time it’s not because he’s having an appendectomy like a few weeks ago. This time it’s actually because of something great: Ray and his wife just had their second child!

So congratulations to Ray! He’ll be back soon. And thank you Elizabeth for stepping in to help us out this week.

ELIZABETH: Happy to be here!

TOM: And also back again this week is our producer Sean Birch.

SEAN: Hello there!

TOM: And as we said on last week’s show, we’re changing things up a little bit here on the podcast. We realized that the people who listen to this and the people who listen to our segments on public radio aren’t necessarily the same.

We don’t have a specific plan just yet, but we do know that we won’t be spending as much time answering questions on the podcast. We’re still going to answer them, it just won’t be as many. Instead we’re going to try different things. And if you have suggestions for things you?d like to hear us try, let us know. Questions@deemable.com.

Before we dive into questions and other stuff, I got a call from a friend today with an interesting problem. Interesting to me, anyway, not so good for her.

She followed a page that had posted a story about a cat who had gotten lost and finally come home to its owners after six months. And she had posted a comment along the lines of “I don’t think it’s right to let cats outside.” Now that’s a statement that you can agree or disagree with, but she posted it in a really non-confrontational way. Just a statement of opinion.

But some people who she didn’t know who were not Facebook friends of hers started replying to this comment and saying really mean things. They were calling her names, saying she should be neutered, that she shouldn’t be allowed out of the house, etc. And she was getting notifications about these comments. So she called me in a real tizzy wanting to make the notifications stop.

Basically, this is Facebook bullying. What are some steps my friend could take to stop it?