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Today’s Show:  NewB, Tech Questions, Reviews, Teeth, Fruit Snacks, fungus, archiving, Baseball, tetris, furniture, bandaids, legos, ice cream, coffee

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Today was supposed to be a live show with some new concepts being put forth. I’m still toying with the idea of doing video, I’m just not sure how to incorporate it into the stream around here. Its never good when the IT Guy, the Computer Guru has to spend hours trying to fix his own machines. So this podcast was the fallback position after the live show didn’t pan out.

There are a ton of great stories and blurbs that made it into tonight’s show, and I’m thinking that we are going to reschedule the other special events after I have had some dry runs with the technology involved.

That being said the Adopt a NewB day still needs some tweaking. I have Ideas and it might extend beyond a holiday, but I’m asking all of you. What do you think of the concept?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

• CaffiNation Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
  
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• Philadelphia Lost its Voice This past week. RIP Harry Kalas

Quick Hits

• The problems of Digital Archiving. Format matters
• Fungus Amungus, and its warm
• Touch Panel Dashboard, seems like a bad idea
• Jack Thompson is in the news again, as a spammer

Geek Cruft:

• Spellbinder, Awesome Guitar Hack
• Grass beneath your feet is more mobile now
• Possible relief for Broadband cap causalities
• Amazon says its a glitch, I have ideas
• Pacman Bandaids? why not
• Reboot your couch
• Tetris and Furniture
• Truth in Bedclothes
• Lego Boombox

Caffeinated Bits

• Lego Fruit Snacks
• Colgate Wisps
• Beauty in Coffee
• Three flavors no waiting
• Bacon gun, disturbing
• Senseo recall
• Indoor herb garden with thought put into it

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: archiving, bandaids, Baseball, Coffee, Fruit Snacks, fungus, furniture, ice cream, Legos, Newb, Reviews, Tech Questions, Teeth, tetris

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Today’s Show: Reviews, Caffeine, Christmas, The Pope, Hanukkah, Toasters, Coffee, Linux, Collaboration, Twitter, Apple

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This is the time of year when busy people go crazy, and crazy people go just a bit further, I have collected a great deal of news to tide all the busy folks over with information until they can stop to catch their breath while still leaving something to the imagination. We have a ton of great stories from serious to funny, from hoaxes to product reviews. As always its an eclectic show to say the least join us for our very own holiday rush edition. Remember if you’re still shopping to be kind to your fellow man, and if you’re done shopping to get out of the way of the crazy people who still may be.

Enjoy the Episode!

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Tags: apple, caffeine, Christmas, Coffee, Collaboration, Hanukkah, Linux, Macworld, Reviews, solar power, The Pope, Toasters, twitter

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Today’s Show: Software, Reviews, News, Tips, Helpful utilities for productivity

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Slightly different format tonight. A bit of a free flowing episode with a bit of news and then a ton of software to help you be more productive in your use of a computer.  This isn’t going to be the norm for episodes from here on out but every once in a while it helps to share some of the tools that I use on a daily basis.

• Back Channel Links Tumblr Blog Grinds
• The Everything Feed: Friendfeed
• The RSS Feed for this Podcast

Tech Cruft

• Time Eater Clock
• Not even my Songs are safe from consumerism anymore
• SMS isn’t a good idea for Emergency?
• Classrooms and New Technology
• Stats: CaffiNation reviews Woopra/ Overview

Software: Free and Better than Free

• Firefox: Why are you not using this yet?
  • Foxmarks: Bookmark synchronization plugin
    
  • FireFTP: Lightweight FTP application which lives in your browser
    
• Evernote: Note taking and reference software. Once you start to use it you can easily see how it can be of great use in the future
  
• Picasa: Photo editing and album management software
• VLC: Media File Player
  
• Google Services: Get an account with google, even if you don’t use it for email. Its worth it just to have for the other programs they run.
• NVU: Lightwieght HTML and Web site editor
  
• Irfanview: Any image anywhere this program can open. Make sure to get both the program and the plugin pack
  
• OpenOffice: Office and productivity application
  
• Audacity:Audio editing utility

Contact Me

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

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Digital native, freeware, Helpful utilities for productivity, News, newsSoftware, productivity software, Reviews, tips

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On Today’s Show: Christmas, Santa, Norad, Pleo, Tradition, Coffee, Reviews, and Podsafe Music

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Notes:

• So What are you doing? Tradition
• Last Year’s Christmas Eve CaffiNation Redux, T’was the night before Christmas

Tech Cruft

• Norad Santa Tracker 2007
• Even Pleos Love the holidays
• Go-Go Gadget Lights
• Snow Man kit, add your own snow

Caffeine & Food

• Naughty or Nice, Coal is on the menu
• When Coffee Time needs a throw down. Break out your Brass ones
• Toffee Coffee, last minute gift ideas
• Let them Come, 5 tips to survive the holidays while still serving good coffee

Season of Giving

• Penny-Arcade Child’s Play
• Coffee Kids – Via Coffee Geek

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

• Lord Weatherby: Santa Claus is Freaking me Out
  
  • Artist’s Site
• Joel Kopischke: Christmas In the Sun
  
  • Artist’s Site
• Twisted Sister: Oh Come All Ye Faithful
  • Artist’s Site

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Tags: Christmas, Coffee, Norad, Pleo, Podsafe Music, Poem, Reviews, Santa, Tradition, Twas the night before Christmas, Twisted Sister