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Today’s Show: Utilities, Spyware, Virii, William Gibson, Hackers, Literature, Culture, Identity, Linux, Levity, Music

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Tonight’s show is a bit of a deviation from the normal show. We talk about some heady topics, such as Race relations online, we delve into Linux as a tool for educators, and we dig into some really useful utilities that you may want to consider for your PC. Overall I hope this show ends up being very useful to you.

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Tags: Culture, Hackers, Identity, Levity, Linux, Literature, Matthew Ebel, Music, Santa Claus, software, Spyware, tips, Utilities, Virii, William Gibson

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Today’s Show: Coffee, Drugs, Watches, Plush Toys, Holidays, Visual Styles, Ubuntu

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This episode is what happens when you are stuck writing, producing and otherwise cramming content for this long. I love what  do and I can only hope the episodes have been worth the fun. I’m starting to hone my workflow even more and I might just do a Making of The CaffiNation shortly. Let me know what anyone thinks of that. Might be another live show in the works too. Testing the waters. Speaking of waters I have been inundated with questions about how to make better coffee, what type of machine to buy ect. On today’s show i have a couple different tips for these questions, and I’ll be adding my own thoughts in as we go through them. I might also try my hand at writing a bit of a how to guide in the future, but not sure about it yet. A Long show with a ton of content and a bit of gab in between.

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Tags: Coffee, Drugs, fruit, Holidays, Linux, Paul Muller, Paul Rj Muller, Plush Toys, tips, ubuntu, Visual Styles, watches

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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.

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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
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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

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

One of the biggest problems I see people grapple with when trying to print photographs and graphics out on their color inkjet printers is that the finished product doesn’t always come out the way you expect it to. I spend a good deal of my time in my day job helping people fix their wonky documents and get the best possible result when trying to showcase their work in printed form. So Why not spread the love even more and distill the information into a small article for you. I have a couple of short tips and some terminology to help you out. However with a topic as huge and as technical as this its better broken up into usable chunks. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cmyk, color management, help, printing, rgb, tips

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On Today’s Show: Espresso, Newbs, Tips, Grid, Big Brother, Patches, Coffee

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• Adopt a Newb in Full Swing. Teach a Man to Tech, April 15th
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Real News Bytes

• Want a dose of reality. The grid is not safe
• The armed services is looking for the mentally fit now
  • Big Brother, officially comes to call – Bonus Link
• Patch test, quickest to slowest. Metrics to be had for security top to bottom

Tech Cruft

• The new wall lights are pretty and spiffy
• Ben Heck, PS3 laptop to engadget being auctioned off for charity
• Not particularly disposable, but New Post Its are awesome
• TV Beat down. Walmart, Best buy and others, gasp don’t follow the rules
• Meet the new bulb and why it will be awhile
• Geek Jewelry

Caffeine & Food

• Coffee and Tunes, neat tech
• New Toy, Happy Birthday to Me
• Party Barista, the good and the bad
• Coffee Bar?
• Iced Coffee

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Tags: Big Brother, Coffee, Espresso, Grid, Newbs, Patches, tips

Money is green, and frankly so is everything else lately. But money is also king, if it costs too much then green is bad, and just won’t work. If it being green causes people with lots of money to loose some of it or make less of it then green is still bad and will get crushed. However green, lately, is saving consumers lots of Money. And the court of public opinion has decreed that green is good. So like a casino giving out a gambling hotline number, Big business wants you to be green, through clenched teeth.

In case you hadn’t guessed Green is the new buzzword for everything from clothing to furniture of late. Green living, green cars, green tech. But what does it mean? Does it mean on one hand reducing conspicuous consumption of goods and tech leaving behind a wakes of debris in your path? Does it mean reducing the oft mentioned footprint that each one of us has? Or is it something about recycle buckets, carbon, and hippies? Quite frankly it could be all of them but don’t let buzzwords and stereotypes lead you to believe that this will all wash over, and that none of it really means anything.

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Tags: green culture, green ghost hunters, green living, green tech, hints, technology, tips, wired