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Free Coffee, And a night full of energy

Tonight’s live show is yet another in a long line of fun shows we’re trying. If you see something that could be better or some feature you would like to have added please feel free to drop me a line. I love the interaction of the live taping and if you’ve never stopped by we’d love to have you.

This show is a bit of everything and i really felt like we did in fact seize the night. A great crew of people assembled to listen and comment in on the taping as well as host of wonderful tech and caffeinated goodies played a fun part as well.

Everywhere from medical journalism to coffee community’s responsibility was covered. Funny stories hard hitting news, and everything in between.

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Geek Cruft:

• Media needs to take responsibility for medical reporting
• 5 spiffy internet collectibles! Thanks Jen
• Apple Sues over multi-touch
• Kansas does stupid publicty, thanks Jay
• More geeky Pillows, tweetie
• Chatting Pillows
• Geeky Geolocation apps squaring off, what say you? Buzz is pretty cool
• Ever wonder why its so hard to get tickets online? blame these guys
• Compass table doesn’t steer you wrong
• So wrong it had to be right, the iMaxi
• Your pet fat, Expensive lesson
• Turn Your phone into a remote, IR is needed
• Know Your Meme, awesome resource
• Shady URL
• OKGO rocks video insanity Epic Rube Goldberg style

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Red Espresso, Rooibos ftw
• Cooking shouldn’t be hard. but using the dishwasher is a bit much
• knives and your coffee mugs can be friends
• Molecular cooking weirds me out
• Color changing Easter eggs
• Evil water bottle?
• Coffee and your heart rhythms
• Beheaded R2D2 cake!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: android, apple, giveaway, kansas, medical news, meme, Microsoft, okgo, pillows, responsibility, Robots, shady, Tickets

I’m sure if you are even passingly interested in technology news you are probably aware that we are once again on the cusp of a big Apple event. This happens every year to some degree. Since the world went gaga for the iPod some time back this means tons of media coverage. Even the morning news shows now tart up a 4 day old story as Tech Bytes and feed it to the masses.

The iPod, the iPhone, iMac, iaM tired of it. Even the i fixture in front of the word speaks less of original thinking and more of branding, and its fast becoming hackneyed

I like a machine that does what it is supposed to do, hopefully with as much transparency as possible and then goes about its business. I have never been one to give in to devotion or cultish following of any tech products. At their core they are purchases to be made, or not. Ecosystems to support, as someone in tech support, and liars. All products lie to you either through omission, or through outright deception. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: apple, Bill Gates, devoted, fanboy, functionalism, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, open source, PC, Steve Jobs, Windows, your rights

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So sleep did not come, and technology has risen up against me

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I have often related a belief held dearly by one of my previous employers. He always  said, whatever it is that you do for a living will end up causing you no end of difficulties at home. Meaning if you’re a plumber prepare for a lifetime of leaks, electricians blown fuses are in your future. The Computer guy? Hows about a whole bunch of off the wall nonsense errors and mishaps? Well tonight yet again I feel that pain. Nothing seemed to gel correctly for me. I decided to go with the flow and try and do the best that I could. Windows 7, Apple’s Mice and Missteps, The Nook, The evils of DRM, Disney, legos star war, its mass mayhem here

I had an awesome time doing TPN Weekly at the start of the week, however productivity dropped right after that.

There is a new contest from Jeffery Powers over at Podcast Madness, Enter the code blogsimple for a chance to win a year-long subscription to Mozy, a web backup solution. Listen to the show for a second chance to enter. Lots of shows are involved and each one of us has a different code so be sure to head over to Podcastmadness.com to see the rest of the gang.

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Geek Cruft

• Dresser tool chest, save some coin
• Nook new Barnes and Noble venture, Borrowing feature
• Presentation Zen: Sumi-e, color, and the art of less
• OS Throwdown
  • Windows 7 rolls out
  • I’ll be upgrading machines in work tomorrow
  • Would you throw a launch party? I guess i just don’t have those type of geek friends
  • How To Throw A Windows 7 Torrenting Party Without Getting Arrested
  • Microsoft throws down a theme gallery as well
  • Real Free Software free software freebies worth $1,089
  • Ubuntu 9.10 comes out soon as well
  • Apple Continues to erode their warm fuzzies with their core
  • Magic Mice from Apple, some people think not?
• Trust Disney to be the keymaster to your gatekeeper? I personally think not
• Keyboard shortcuts – Google Reader, its all about the workflow
• Wave Slowly taking shape as we play: Caffination@googlewave.com

Video Glimpse:

• Where were you when the Deathstar blew up?
• Human Jumbotron

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Inspiration from Gary Vaynerchuk How does Wine make you money online?
• Beautiful Letterpress coffee Bags
• Naked Coffee? not in this town, Thanks MAS
• Make Lego Cookies
• Storm the Lego Wedding Castle

Want to contribute?

Feel free to send in any recipes, reviews or like minded articles and I’ll gladly post it with a link back to your lair!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: apple, apple comercials, free software, lego cookies, lego wedding cake, mac osx, Microsoft, snarky, sumi-e, torrenting, Windows 7, zen design

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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog

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Tonight we’re running on one engine and trying to bring the plane down safely this metaphor might not land at the right airport or even the correct city but by golly we’re gonna try. So I suffer from migraines from time to time. I’ve been through most medical treatments out there some work, others not so much. Mostly a ton of the latter and not to many of the former. They tend to come on stronger when I’m under stress, not saying things are stressful but just making conversation.Tonight’s show is overshadowed by one such migraine and my standard fix just isn’t working.

Despite working under a cloud, or fog as the case may be we managed to find some rather awesome and tasty links to share with the group. From Food tech to Lego Letter, Adobe and Apple to Hulu and the Wii, lots of tech, some fun flavors and as always great caffeinated links.

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News in brief

• Wikipedia Changes Editing Policy
• Microsoft ad agency goofs up, but people focus elsewhere
• Snow leopard to dominate the news for the rest of the month strap in

Geek Cruft

• Adobe and Apple Cs3, CS4 the kerfuffle begins
• Apple, Antivirus?
• Lego Spaceships Spell Out the Alphabet
• Create a fake life
• Sony’s E-Reader v Kindle, neat features coming
• Tetris, yes… haircut no
• Stream video from Hulu to your Wii
• RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Open mind good points but a little one sided

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Gizmodo has a tasty run going on
• The perfect coffee cup
• Japanese do Pizza up right
• Alton Brown is my Homeboy
• Getting Lit takes on a whole new meaning
• Not unlike a ship in a bottle this glass is just for looks
• Astronaut works on Zero G coffee Cup Concept
• How is coffee affected by the climate?
• A short tale from the dark side
  • Chocolate Cookies Recipe
  • Royal Icing Recipe
  • The Results
  • Coffee Cat Approves
• What does the future hold? and how can coffee help me figure it out

Next time we’ll look over this and so much more

• As a Coffee Guy… this article has good and bad points… Consider the source

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Adobe, Alton Brown, Antitrust, apple, astronaut, Coffee, cs3, CS4, hulu, Japan, Lego, Microsoft, migraine, RiP!, tetris, Wii

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A Rossum of Robots? How Rossom would that be?

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It seems that my entry into the BotJunkie Collective Noun contest was one of the three finalist. I shall vigorously defend my collective noun as the one true choice. A rossum of robots was chosen for its alliterative possibilities, and its historical context.

Today’s show has a ton of great content stretching from Russian UFO’s to Green tech in Fed Ex. We cover a nifty product sent into the podcast to review as well as a couple other finer articles and points in caffeinated living. Some shows are fueled by caffeine, some only scrape their way out the door because of it. This show is one of those. The network was down for a couple hours the pets are staging a full on revolt and its a dark and stormy night… Snoopy is no where to be found

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week. Week Four is Underway!Time is winding down to get involved and submit your codewords. make sure you head on over and check out the goodies.

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Geek Cruft

• Rossum of Robots FTW!
• Listener comment on Onstar Privacy, scary
• Podcasting Patent, patently absurb. H/t to Bwana
• In soviet Russia UFO’s loved the open sea, Yarr?
• Russia None too happy with US Supercomputer edge
• Perennial nudge greenpeace Paints HP in a bad but non toxic light
• Therapists signing up for WOW to help addicted… not going to end well
  • Suicide hot line… please hold
• Yarr! Fabled Northwest passage appears, spells our doom
• MS Bings Yahoo
• * Red Shirt Cologne, When teleporting into hostile territory only use the best
• New Space Engine makes it to mars in 39 days, but how does it handle the Kessel Run
• Jump like a kangaroo, die like a human
• Tin foil hat alert. Hacking could lead to Armageddon… not the movie
• Fed Ex, what can green do for you?

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Coffeetime Cold Brewing System Reviewed
• Boldly open what no man has before
• Defcon brings you COFFEE WARS!
• Affogato? I like it, never knew it had a name
• Get bombed
• This is not the cake you’re looking for

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: bing, coffee wars, defcon, Microsoft, onstar, Robots, russia, therapists, ufo, Yahoo

Consider this a Little FYI for those of you looking forward to Windows 7, and those who are trying to understand why we have so many issues with compatibility between XP and Vista.

From what I gather in XP, Microsoft let people put files anywhere, programmers, coders, applications, whoever cared to write anything for XP you could store files wherever in the hierarchy permissions and best practices be damned. The same went for how you pulled information from the operating system, access any file you like and go for the gusto! This was great for quick and dirty coding but horrible for security and conformity. When Microsoft laid out the groundwork for Vistathey moved towards focusing on standards, best practices, and security. This caused some issues.

Jumping ahead to Windows 7 after my quick look it looks to be the same. However here is the big change. Vista coughed up a lung when it found files out of place, or programs tried to interact with the OS in a way they weren’t supposed to, it couldn’t deal with them. Programs broke willy nilly allover the place, and the place was a wreck. In Windows 7, a new feature called XP mode will enable programs to work within a sandbox, so they can store files in places where they would like, to a certain extent I’m sure, and then drop back out of XP / Sandbox mode for the rest of the OS to work correctly. XP mode is designed to be an insulated environment which gives you security and functionality at the same time.

Moving forward Microsoft will be focusing on pressing developers to work within API’s, and place nice with the file system. But until everyone is on the same page I think XP mode, whether you understand what its doing or not is goign to make people a lot happier with the next version of Windows.

The sad thing about this whole mess is that Microsoft gets all the blame while the people who wrote sloppy code get to throw a fit.

I hope this little blub goes a ways to explain the issues that are out ther right now, and please if you think I’m off base throw down in the comments.

Hat tip to Chuck for bringing the issue up in the comments of CaffiNation 336 and getting me thinking.

Tags: codeing, Microsoft, programming, vista, Windows 7, windows xp, xp mode

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Today’s Show is brought to you by the letter C, and the Number 5

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Lots of things happening on today’s show, and this is the second show I’m recording today the mother’s Day episode recorded with my Mom will air this coming Sunday morning be sure not to miss it. But for this show we have a ton of great news cobbled together for your listening enjoyment. There is a lot of talk about movies, Goats, video games, corporate mergers, the At symbol and tons of news about coffee.

In other news the weather is starting to effect everyone around here, from the weathermen who aren’t quite as happy about rain events as the used to be to the arks being built on hills all around us. At this point we can hope for sun, or even just a dry day.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Quick Hits

• Google Mowing with Goats
• Decorative soaps for the geek in all of us
• Even Wolverine needed some technical augmentation, this just seems overboard
• Wolverine Claw Toys, sold separately? And not even sharp?
• Apple, Twitter? Apple, EA Games? I hope Neither

Geek Cruft:

• Styrofoam as fuel?
• 3d Printing and the Aloha State
• Amphora is 473 years old
• Office Sync brings Google Docs and MS Office in line
• If Dick Tracey hated fish, Wristwatch finds your prey
• Tape so tough you can use it as a fan belt
• DIY Turntable

Caffeinated Bits

• Sterile cutting board with the power of light
• Bottle Cheese Plate, My dad makes these
• Beer Shampoo? Frat guys never grow up
• Nacho Wallet? Bad joke, incorrect food, funny non the less
• Bar B Que’s best friend
• Nows the time for Noodle Luge
• Nuke testing helps identify fake whiskey
• Coffee and twitter

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Amphora, apple, beer, cheese plate, Coffee, ea games, Goats, Google, Microsoft, Noodles, turntables, twitter, wolverine

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Today’s Show:  Clocks, Microsoft, Apple, Nintendo, Lego, Zombies, Cameras, Robots, Design, Starbucks and Coffee

A day after people either love being around or can’t wait till its over we find topics that bring everyone together. Walking through a who’s who and major brand name dropping we peek into the stories floating around online to see whats really behind the announcements and how they’re trying to separate you from your hard earned cash.

We’re also opening the show up to suggestions for notable charities and causes that fit into the geek culture or coffee Cruft sections. Help us spread your words. I’m also very excited to explain a new series of articles coming out in the next couple of weeks called Tech in Tough Times, we’re going to be focusing on helping you get the most out of your machine and your software. So sit back, enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated ~!

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Geek Cruft

• Microsoft Stores?
  • How they can work, what they won’t be
• Apple the Jailbreak question
• Spiffy Nintendo Quilt
• Robotic Fist Launcher
• A clock that grows on you
• Clocks for the film camera enthusiast
• Crazy Eye Clock
• How to stand out in a crowd, with Deer Headphones
• Are you a nut about music?
• Anything can be your light
• 8 bit Awesome ties
• Robotic Overlords Control bugs now
• Lego Uzi?
• Lego Camcorder, in name only
• Webcomic Artist, and Podcaster Scott Johnson
  • Created 56 Geeks Poster
  • Starting on Zombie Poster

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Cream and Sugar meet
• No more Guessing, Is it really Caffeinated?
• Fill line meter
• Instant Starbucks?

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: apple, Caffination, Cameras, Clocks, Coffee, Design, Lego, Microsoft, nintendo, Robots, Starbucks, Zombies

In this collection of news bits we gladly give you the great news items that were either sent in or collected for use in the CaffiNation 218 but we just couldn’t shoehorn any more content in. Witty banter aside these are great fodder for thought. Frequently the things that don’t always make it into the Episodes are the pieces that require more to research or care to be put into the treatment thereof. Still I hope you enjoy today’s offerings.

On today’s Run You’ll see: The Pentagon, The White House, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Apple
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Tags: anthropolgy, apple, Bill Gates, Government advancements, gps, hud, Microsoft, mirror, The Pentagon, Xbox 360

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On Today’s Show: Hosting, Interviews, Mobile, Spectrums, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, David Bowie, and Ben Heck

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General Info

• Philadelphia Social Media Breakfast with @Jeffpulver
• Steve Lubetkin of ProfessionalPodcasts.com Take on the Breakfast.
• Apologies, and explanation

Real News Bytes

• Chris Parandian From MobileDiner.com Explains Spectrum Auction
• Big News MicroHoo is a possibility, and Google objects

Tech Cruft

• Build you own Synth, Like David Bowie
• You Can’t Build this spiffy gadget
• Undersea Cable problem
• The Next Wiimote style innovation
• Ben Heck Throws some Modded Console goodness at us.
• This Massive printer frightens me

Caffeine & Food

• Learn from other’s Mistakes
• Submit your Mug! Get Famous
• The world loves me

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Tags: Ben Heck, caffeine, Coffee, David Bowie, Google, Hosting, Interviews, Microsoft, Mobile, Mugs, Spectrums, tech news, technology news, Yahoo