Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #188 "Catching Up with Paul Braren in Germany, Travel Tech in Europe"

Always fun with Jim, who speaks really good English! It was a joy to talk tech for a bit, after being far away from the comforts of home for some weeks. Took a bit of sneakiness to stay online in my Mainz Germany hotel, including a D-link SharePort Go Mobile Companion DIR-506L and LastPass form-fills with auto-relogin, and testmy.net. We got it done over a meager 3Mbps connection. Here's Jim's intro:

Paul Braren from TinkerTry.com (https://tinkertry.com/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/tinkererguy) joins Jim (https://twitter.com/jcollison) for show #188 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community.

and my closely related articles:
TinkerTry.com/travel-tech-for-an-americans-month-long-trip-to-germany
TinkerTry.com/how-i-got-a-sim-for-my-us-smartphone-before-my-trip-to-europe
TinkerTry.com/insecure-about-using-public-wifi-connect-to-your-homes-openvpn-appliance-for-free

It sure was handy to have my VPN give me US web pages and advertisements while in Germany, given I don't know how to speak German. Was able to use TiVo Roamio streaming from home as well.

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