The CaffiNation Podcast

 

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On Today’s Show: Green, Brown, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Jetpacks, Power, Star Wars, Caffeine

Real News Bytes

• How can Brown go Green?
• Kids can be a drag
• Thinking beyond yourself: Help the elderly
• Don’t Panic!: Real World Hitchikers Guide

Tech Cruft

• Micro Projector for Cell Phone Movies
• Rocketeer or Jetpack? you decide
• A Tribute, Chaos Theory and Art almost cyberpunk
• Power tree
• Crossover: R2D2 Ice Bucket and Carbonite cubes
• Indoor Herb Garden. Apartment living made fragrant
• Halo Costumes done right
• You know your famous when you get a bug named after you

Caffeine & Food

• Stay up, Stay Safe, Stay Caffeinated
• Crossing the line? Urban Free Range Meat.
  • I have a small history with furry urban beasts
• Starbuck’s new energy look
• Caffeine in Doughnuts
• Caffeine in Milk

Music:

• Nine Inch Nails: 1,000,000

Contact Me:

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Deadlines Suck!

Sometimes you just don’t have enough time to get your work done. And lets be honest you’re probably more than a little behind due to some time management issues as well. But going over that tired ground won’t help you stay up any later, any safer. Ands frankly you don’t have time to read a long drawn out article to get your jitter and shake free caffeine fix. Productive hours is what your looking for, not strung out on some energy drink crash at 2am a mere two coherent paragraphs away from a brilliant paper.

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On Today’s Show: Biotech, DRM, EA, Wifi, Mothers Day, Highschool, Coats

Real News Bytes

• Philly Wifi Issues
• Interesting Idea fuel on the go
• To kill a coat… Art ventures towards the line
• The fans have spoken. EA and DRM
  • Track Down Mom : Bonus Link
    

Tech Cruft

• WWF: Humor
• How to cheat while fishing
• Game Culture enters the living room
• The Culture of power
• Backyard games, Bug Bat
• Marshmellow gun, come on up the ante fire s’mores
• Man made waterfalls, for art
• get a new Clue
• Halo and Mario Brothers in Highschool

Caffeine & Food

• Ice Sphere
• Dev Cake… I like Cake
• Greek / Turkish Coffee information

Contact Me:

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On Today’s Show: Audacity, Backup, Babbage, Difference Engine, Flat Earth

Real News Bytes

• Audacity Crashed… Now What do I do
• Difference engine Built, amazing
• First Digital camera was not really a hand held
• I spy with my little Eye, a video game
• Achtung: Wolfenstien 3d’s birthday
  
• Earth was never flat, but may have had two moons
• Free Music is Good NIN

Tech Cruft

• Xerox finds out how to make printing things useless
• Awesome idea for charging and backing your phone’s data up
• With those tools i could build an awesome fort, or just hire the A-Team
• The Navy is building a better boat, looks like a star wars replica
• Tall Legos
• Mario Rc Cart

Caffeine & Food

• Robot learns to cook
• High Voltage Hot dog cooker
• If you really like your Beer
• Lobster Claw Game
• Heartbeat controlled coffee grinder… What?
• wasteware… neat idea

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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The program that i recommend to any podcaster for recording, no matter how experienced they are is Audacity. Its free and rarely ever fails. However as with anything free there is some trade off, the trade off here is in the niceities of features, specifically the lack of a built in recovery tool. However despite any problems i have ever had with the tool the benefits of being a full featured audio editor have never been overshadowed by the occasional crashes. I have crafted this article to hopefully help you along recovering from a crash.

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On Today’s Show: Sickness, Food Poisoning, Coffee, Tea, Common Sense, weddings, mistakes

Real News Bytes

• Trotting out the same tired story is not news. Keyboards are dirty
• Small error that won’t make paying at the pump easier. 9 tenths indeed
• Spiffy Idea, Arm the crossing guards
• Lifelock mistake, CEO involved
• Orson Scott Card Takes Rowlings down a peg
  • Direct Link. Throw down doesn’t cover it. Read this posting
• Blogger gets drilled, but he isn’t the profane one

CaffiNation Out and About

• Philly Food Guys
• Rod’s Pulse Podcast
• Thanks for Talking to Me!

Tech Cruft

• If Pain was a backpack, Helicopter rocket pack doomed
• Robot Bugs will kill us all, Sure they just target people
• Backyard water warfare, revisited
• These shoes were made for networking
• Sustainable LED art for China
  • Steampunk Jewelry, because they can
• Flash Mob Rickroll

Caffeine & Food

• Your my extra life, Gamer themed wedding
• Coffee Round table, Most caffeinated minds join to form Voltron, or Java Man
• Tea is the flavor of the month

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Huge Thank you to Dave Gray & Jeff Powers who via twitter helped me fix this episode!

 

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On Today’s Show: Rants, steaks, ghosts, security, coffins, Indiana Jones, facial hair

• Hi Def? I think not
• Cash Cow

Real News Bytes

• It might get interesting in the world of Patent law soon. Miranda Violation
• Microsoft Tool bypasses security… bad idea
• Web still a baby, throwing tantrums

Tech Cruft

• Hardcore web development NYT was hand coded
• A ghost hunter, a cell hunter
• Indiana Jones Whip? without the whip
• Whoops! Designer Gaff
• Creepy couches
• Creepy outfit
• Why hide your wire? Light the candle
• Programming languages and facial hair

Caffeine & Food

• Have your computer brew your beer,
• Mentos and coke go boom
• Thanks to MAS, we have a real steak and coffee recipe
• Food Network rocks one as well

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Start Mooing!

The world of micro transactions steps a little further into view today. The video game industry has decided that this is not only a lucrative way to take more money away from people, but they can sell it as a value added feature as well. I can’t stand the idea that after I pay hard earned coin for a game that I need to fork over more money for content that is either already on the disk or should have been. Here is what we have.

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I am not a stupid man. But I need a little clarification here. I’m currently enjoying the fantastic Stanely Cup Playoffs. I am being told that the game is being broadcast in “Hi Def” Thats just great. I’m a comcast cutomer. I don’t pay the extra money for Hi Def service, because i have a 19 month old son whose needs are greater than a Hockey crazed dad’s need to see thread on a jersey.

Here is my problem, This game looks just as crisp as the rest of the channels. I’ve been told I can get Hi definition signals from Cable for my local channels for free. But they seem to be blocked. Even with the tuner in my spiffy TV, a 32″ Samsung LCD. But for some reason the otherwise crisp clear picture on ABC looks like trash when it comes time for Lost, and Football. (more…)

 

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On Today’s Show: steampunk, wordpress, Metallica, RvB, Utensils, Bikes

• Best wishes to John And Blanca
• Crazy week in review
• Wordpress Tweaking Very short SEO Overview
• Lance Armstrong is Bugging me

Real News Bytes

• Time to buy The White Album again. Holographic Storage debuts
• RvB Explains Gadgets and obsolesce.
• Metallica smells money crawls from under a rock

Tech Cruft

• R2D2 Goes Steampunk, and awesome
• MonoWheel, Transport. Bike engineering hasn’t changed much
• This is a blatant waste of money, squeeze your own tube
  
• What’s inside might scare you. The Dust from your machines hurts their performance
• Not quite there yet but off the grind with a USB crank charger
• Awesome value for the coin, Spin me right round USB Hub

Caffeine & Food

• Off the grid week at Dvice caps with a tasty mallow and a snarky comment session
• Who needs drawers? Utensil Darts
• Star Trek Bottle Opener. Bold go joke goes here
• Coffee Marinade? I’ll try this one shortly.

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!