Today Tuesday 2/26/2008 Starbucks will be closing their stores from 5:30 PM - 8:30 pm. During that time Dunkin Donuts will be offering small coffee, latte and iced coffee for a measly .99 cents. So that no coffee lover goes without. They even have a new commercial aimed directly at starbucks.
Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, three corporate heavyweights have been engaging in a marketing slug fest for the past year. At times it seems like everyone is against Starbucks, and you’d be right. In business you don’t aim to beat number 2, you aim to topple number 1. And there is no bigger One in coffee than Starbucks. Read the rest of this entry »
Tattooing is a very old art form, the Ice Man Ötzi, had 57 tattoos and this Ice age rocker was alive 5300 years ago, give or take a year. I’m pretty sure Ötzi never could have imagined that all this time later tattooing could be on the cusp of a paradigm leap forward. How does Digital Tattooing sound to you? Well it might be an oversimplification. The entry into the Greener Gadgets Competition is actually a sub dermal implant, with a fuel cell that runs off your blood. It has bluetooth connectivity, and probably can txt message. Read the rest of this entry »
Spend this Tax Day helping those with less Technological Know How-then yourself. Turn a negative infamous day into a positive experience for everyone.
The long and the short of this holiday are that I want all of those able minded Tech’s out there to set aside one day to work with someone less technologically fortunate than yourself and teach them a skill they will be able to use technology to its fullest. Keyboard shortcuts, smoother work flow, install firefox and walk them through it. Anything is fair game.
Give me your tired, your frustrated, your unsure users yearning to click freely. The elder statesmen of your family group. Send these, the grandparents, the parents, the anger challenged, the hunt and pecks. I share my experiences with them and lead them to the golden shore of understanding. Read the rest of this entry »
Day 3’s run down. Our intrepid adveturers at CES 2008 Andy and Todd have been pulled to the limit. 12 hours sleep in 3 days does not make a lucid podcaster. but they still can Throw down some damn fine content when called upon. The guys are podcasting live from inside the Zune tent at CES.
Today’s winner is …. MyDreamFlyer. Since the dawn of man people have wanted to fly this brings that dream into your living room. Not quite hitting the par of the 3 million dollar flight sims but this model is fantasy made steel.
GoDaddy has been a long time sponsor of the Techpodcast Network. Todd will correct me if I’m wrong here, but He has not only the longest running continuous sponsorship deal with GoDaddy but he is also the Podcaster Prime, The original GoDaddy Podcaster. In This clip you see the GoDaddy Bike from Orange County Customs. This Bike is pretty Damn Sweet!
In short Todd is pretty much the man when it comes to GoDaddy and their products. I’m switching over to their hosting service myself when this contract is up, and all but my Puzzle Piece pro domain has come from them, the service is awesome.
Trend Micro’s booth with David Perry. A great conversation with a vendor, being really honest discussing the future of Tech in your home, home automation and the future of security products.
This whole thing is much later than we have been the past couple of days due to a couple of Mid-Night wake ups.
So each day at CES 2008 Andy and Todd are going to be rocking out the best of the best they see from the show floor. The have interviewed countless people, culled through the coal laying all around to find these diamonds. These brilliant gems shine brighter than their respective competitors and one shines above them all That is the Pick of the day.
So here are the products featured in order.
TuneUpMedia: Music organization, works with iTunes and sifts your music cruft
Dlink’s SecureSpot: Get a hold of your home network and manage the environment, security, routers the whole 9 yards
Dlink’s Digi Photo frame: Menu options, rss subscriptions flickr streams whats not to like?
Creative xDock HD: Upscaled HD video from your iPod
Alright so after our intrepid adventurers Andy and Todd had but a might bit of rest they venture forth for the day. Here you are going to see a great deal of information about what it takes to Cover CES, from a video logistics standpoint. This explains a frequent question we get, why are there no new videos? Its because our boys in Blue (this actually works since both guys are Members of BluBrry!) are busy making content, the act of pushing said content can only happen in select locations, and the HD reel take twice as long to process as the back channel.
Thanks for the Plug Guys! and make sure you check out all of the other member show on the TechPodcast Network as well
This clip should give you a very real look at what good podcasters do. They sacrifice sleep so that the mail goes through… errr Show must go on? Again we follow Andy and Todd as their intrepid journey continues, into the weeee hours of the morning. Not many people know this but for each out after 1 am they add an e for each hour of wee in the morning… just thought you should know.
Andy McCasky again gives us a glimpse deep into CES 2008 with a very stunning view of the HD DVD booth. Sad times indeed.
Well as a proud owner of an Xbox 360 I had a small vested interest in the format war. But no problem, I don’t own a single next gen disk. I have been burned too many times in the format wars of the past, as I think we all are. And frankly this one seems forced. I can count on 1 hand the amount of movies i have specifically planned on and watched the extra content on. Because thats what this war seems to be about, extra space for extra content. The movie is now secondary. By the way, 3 of those 5 movies where the episodic content for Lord of the Rings, so that could possibly only count as one. The rest i couldn’t care.
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