Lego Space Shuttle

What is the recipe for awesome? Take one part whims, one 18 year old Romanian named Raul Oaida. Throw in some Legos and a healthy respect for science. Taking a lego space shuttle into space as a tribute to the ending of the shuttle program? That is quite simply one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long [...]

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DARPA Cheetah Sets Speed Record

Hi Folks… if yu’re reading this after the impending Robot takeover, then I for one welcome our new robot masters. Meet the Cheetah, it looks terrifing, it’s fast… yeah I think we’re pretty well doomed. Put a set of horns on this bad boy and we can all get drunk and run from it. Maybe charge [...]

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ACTA the next problem

So far we have fought for net nuetrality, and may or may not have won. We hit SOPA where it hurts, and PIPA is reeling. It’s alphabet soup. The latest head to pop up with this hydra is ACTA. It isn’t a US law, or a UK law. this is an international treaty, designed to [...]

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PIPA and SOPA votes postponed

As a general FYI and news of the Day bump, The votes for both PIPA and SOPA have been put on hold, it doesn’t mean they are dead, and with wonderful rhetoric like This Gem from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), “But the day will come when the Senators who forced this move will look back and realize [...]

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Back in Black: Stop SOPA / PIPA

We here at the CaffiNation don’t take our freedoms lightly. And we are banding together with Boing Boing, Google and many other websites to show people what the internet means to our society. Bad legislation that gives unchecked power to not only disable sites, but to do so in a hamfisted way, which can very easily [...]

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Live From CES with TPN

The CaffiNation Podcast has been running since January 9th 2006, and Since April of 2006 we have been part of the fine folks at the Techpodcast Network. As it is their custom the fine folks at the TPN are winging their way to Las Vegas for CES, the consumer Electronics show. Basically a week long technology festival [...]

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Stop SOPA Now!

If you like this website, hell if you hate this website, but like the ability to choose where you go online please read below. Quite Simply SOPA will allow the US government to turn off websites, on whim of a corporation. This will break the internet, no hyperbole. “Tomorrow, the US government will vote to have [...]

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Sleep Trek Style

Ever wanted to fall asleep abroad the USS Enterprise, any of them. To fall asleep after leaving your post, to the sultry sounds of the warp cores humming in some far off section of the ship. Well wait no longer. Here is a 24hr loop of the Ambient engine noise from Star Trek TNG… Wow. Sooooo Soothing: [...]

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House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

Who hasn’t felt the pangs of loss when an old scanner goes to that great digital divide in the sky? Who hasn’t had a moment of heartbreak as a digital denizen passes on? Well imagine if all your old tech could sing. That is what you get when Stepper Motors and other bits and bobs [...]

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Google Music Grows up

  No longer in Beta, Google has announced an update to their Google Music Service. Here is the breakdown. The service will remain free to host 20,000 of your tracks online, for streaming playback via mobile devices, download and syncing of playlists between devices.  I love being able to set a playlist as available for offline playback [...]

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Rocksmith, Forge your Skills

Are you a Rhythm Gamer? Guitar Hero god? Completed Physcobilly Freakout on iNSANE? nicely done. However real guitar players have long since derided these accomplishments as “button pushing” and other less savory terms. File Rock Band, Guiatr Hero and Dance Dance Revolution into the same catagory. Follow instructions on a screen to get better in a very specific set of tasks. [...]

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Siri – Then and Now

Siri is the new Apple personal assistant, voice recognition app. It can do so many things, and apparently one of them is comedy! Part of the challenge of designing software that reacts to people in real language is dealing with unexpected input. This isn’t a new problem, drop an F bomb in Zork, and you get [...]

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Google TV plus Ubuntu

I have a wonderful little setup at home, a Ubuntu Media Server running Boxee in the basement, makes the experience watching tv a wonderful thing. Views all my movies, TV online and a ton of fun other little features. But one thing was missing. My Google TV was cut off from the Pack, I couldn’t watch my [...]

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The passing of a giant

Steve Jobs died on October 5th 2011, at the age of 56. The news of which broke not an hour before we started to record our podcast. PodCast… As much as disagree with the association between iPods and podcasts, it’s there. And no amount of Portable on Demand broadcasting can change it. People listen on [...]

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Tracking you online

According the the EFF, Elctronic Freedom Foundation the House Judiciary committee just promoted and recommended HR 1981, which would require all internet service providers to keep a record of All traffic data for 12 months on each customer. Let me break this down for you, Is this a Law? Not yet. Could it make it [...]

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Hey there, Dollface

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to see yourself as a doll, now you have that chance. CloneFactory, based in Japan, is giving people the opportunity to create a doll resembling the customer. After a digital composite, the company is able to make the doll any way you would like, with outfits to [...]

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Light bulb burning for 110 years.

Normal lightbulbs usually last for about 1 year, or 2500 hours, depending on how much you use the light. How about a lightbulb that has lasted 110 years. In Livermore, California, A Firehouse has a lightbulb that’s been burning since 1901. Made by The Shelby Electric Company, it is a handblown bulb with carbon filament. [...]

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Hack the Planet

In a groundbreaking bit of public policy the Pentagon has now deemed acts of CyberTerrorism  now constitute an Act of War. Computers have been around for about 60 years, virii for about 30 or so, but now the first piece of policy directly related to declaring hurting digital information has come to pass. Hold on [...]

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NEC LifeTouch W

A while ago there was this mythical posting online i was very excited about, it was the dual screened Courier, Go ahead, look at that article. it was a magnificent response to the iPad. A dual screen wonder with guesture support, a built in form factor people were familier with and the microsoft engine behind [...]

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Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion

  I feel bad for Skype, well as much as I can feel bad about any business that was just purchased for a sum I will never see in my life. 8.5 billion in cash. the company has been passed around a lot. it seems the service is great but the marriage had its problems.  And to be honest [...]

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HipstaCase, Retro iPhone fun

    I personally think instagram is the bane of photographers everywhere. Any goofball with an app and an iphone tries to look arty with a filter. It takes some of the skill and fidelity out of capturing things with film or a high end digital camera. But than again art isn’t about the methods, but [...]

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How to print better pictures

Printing seems easy, and it should be. But printing quality images at home to save money over the drugstore prints is very hard. The biggest problems I see people have is that after they are finished trying to print photographs out on their color inkjet printers, the finished product doesn’t always come out the way [...]

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Digital cartridges for 35-mm cameras

New technology replaces outdated tech, it comes at the expense of older workmanship. It renders an investment in a hobby worthless. For all of the photography buffs of the world, the avid snapshot fans and the nostalgia fan. The 35 mm camera is still an older technology but it appears ready to get an infusion [...]

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Machete Slinghot, Blades of Fury

You know some stories write themselves.  This is a giant slingshot that shoots a machete, there is no subterfuge in the name. Watch the video it IS as dangerous as it sounds. Experts only, Some Darwin awards are merely held in reserve. This is crazy. Crazy like a Zombie Eating FOX! How would you like to bring [...]

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No Frills

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What is FEAR

Sketching can be cathartic sometimes. clearing out jitters, nervous energy or just taking eyeballs from a computer screen. Other times it can really help focus you down. This one was inspired by Mitch Joel diving into the social web and picking apart why the name doesn’t fit. his Fear acronym was the catalyst for this [...]

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FizzBin, Support

An idea put forth by Scott Hanselman, fizzbin is a tech support secret handshake. Basically a commonly agreed upon word that once spoken will make the person on the other end of the line stop reading the tech support script and send you to someone who knows their stuff. I’ve worked in technical support for 7 [...]

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iFloat Pool Speaker

    Summer is almost here so now is the time to get cool savings on cool tech, for hot days ahead. I know most people love listening to tunes while they are outside, and there is no greater dichotomy in summertime fun than to try and listen to the radio in the pool. Gadgets [...]

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The Real Twitter Bird

    Addicted to twitter? Can’t wait to hear the latest and greatest out of the mouths and off of the fingers of celebrities. Watch as normal people make fools of themselves and spread information at the same time. Learn SEO, B2B, Varble your Mergivs and whatnot. No other technology can be so useful and [...]

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Printing a Human Bladder

    Now a 3d printer is a very simple device. It produces some awesome results. but consider this. A normal 3d printer prints slices or layers of a desired object in pass after pass in one of two ways, either spraying a resin / agent into a dust bed in a particular pattern hardening [...]

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Star Wars R2-D2 Xbox 360

Mark Bongo,owner of Major League Mods and  Xbox modder extrodinaire has come up with another winner. This time giving the business to R2D2. This one of a kind unit comes complete with a projector, Aux inputs and a heavy dose of awesome. Where do the controllers go? Huge thanks to mark for tipping us off concerning his latest masterpiece.

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World’s smallest video camera

    While not quite Inner Space small yet, the world’s smallest video camer measureing up to 1mm cubed is going to go into production soon. There are tons of possibilities from non invasive medical uses to replacing the side mirrors on vehicles, reducing wind drag. With a remarkably sharp 65K pixel resolution this miniature camera will [...]

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Elfoid Humanoid Phone

  Behold the Elfoid. This tiny Mouth of Sauron is the next generation of mobile technology. To boil it down to its basic and most creepy level. this device watches you while you talk. and sends your voice along with the interpreted visual cues to a similar device on the other end. Basically creating a [...]

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Cyborg Zombie Cockroaches

Of all of the creatures on this planet large and small, nothing is more durable than the cockroach. Well that and Kieth Richards. Why woould we give them cybernetic upgrades? Nothing kills these things, perhaps they will eventually take over control of the circuits and rewire them to to control us? Alright all of this is [...]

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Zero XU electric motorcycle, Portable charging

I love the concept of an electric car, I just don’t love the price tag. My commute is a laughably short 16 miles, but horrifying hour in traffic. I thought about biking, Not really in the shape for it, and the time would be either about the same or even slower for the bike. Now a motorcycle would really [...]

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NES 8-bit breathalyzer

Who doesn’t remember blowing into NES Carts to get them to work, having to shove another tape in the machine to jury rig the thing. to get that miraculous connection and still be able to play Duckhunt. God forbid your sibling bumped into the system while you were on the last level of SMB3, no [...]

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Open Windows 1 – 7

This is a beautiful piece of geekery, Imagine taking the time to upgrade through every single instance of windows OS from Dos 5.0 (A prerequisite for Windows 1.01) to Windows 7. Remarkably this is actually possible, so if by some miracle of time travel you had an 80 gb hard disk from the age where [...]

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Tumblr, WP, Back to Front

For a while now I’ve been using Tumblr. I tried to direct people to the environment over there because I love the community and the workflow and frankly the design just works. I can use it from my phone with no effort, and people can share the work in a very smooth and easy fashion. [...]

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Be Thankful and Get Fun Stuff!

So it is that time of year again when everyone gathers around a large table, eats copious amounts of homecooked food and makes some bad decisions during the course of conversion with family in tight quarters. But it is also the time when people like to say what they are thankful for, things that have gone right, or lessons [...]

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OMG PONIES!

You think the terrorists didn’t win? A bomb squad blew up a damn toy pony because some kid left it near a park and a school. Justify this if you want under an umbrella of fear but COME ON. My kid leaves a trail of junk behind him wherever he goes. Do I need to warn [...]

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Lab Propaganda

We are running out of ideas for signage in our lab. No one reads anything. So I’m trying a new approach, propaganda inspired posters detailing the Do’s and Do Not’s of lab life. We have Mario, a goomba, Godzilla and The Wolf Man so far. What say you?

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The Origin of Science Fiction 100 years later

One Hundred years ago, today, Science Fiction film was born with the debut of Le Voyage dans la lune, or “A Trip to the Moon” by Georges Méliès. The special effects are mighty innovative for their time and the story is a loose amalgam of two popular books From the Earth to the Moon by [...]

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Thelonious Arrives, Feel the Music

WordPress 3.0: Thelonious debuted today, this is a fantastic step forward in blogging, and CMS solutions. Here are some of the features that the new version will bring on. WordPress is what this and most of my other sites are all run on, so being able to upgrade versions to a newer spiffy-er one is [...]

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Dropping the Mic like a Robot

If movies have taught me anything robots are awesome and in order to make a point in a rap battle you need to have a good and iconic grip on your mic, possibly drop it at the end of a slamming statement. Imagine my syurprise when both of these unrelated pieces of mental detritus were cobbled together [...]

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HDMI Cables Ripoff

Setting Up a home theater? Well one of the biggest expenditures you will encounter during the initial setup is the cables, if you listen to the people in the Big Box Stores. Trst me when i tell you you are so much better buying the cheaper version. In the past gold connectors, gas injected cables, [...]

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Gearboard Controls Mess

Gearboard takes a very common problem with modern gaming machines and hopes, at least the concept will take off. Everyone who dabbles in game systems has started to see the creep, game by game, peripheral by peripheral much more of our storage is being devoted to game specific pieces of hardware. Gearboard is an attempt to take [...]

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Wooden Time Wonder

If you have been listening in or reading this site for very long you know I love the steampunk aesthetic but even more than that I love clockwork devices. The beauty, the symmetry and the precision required to create a functional timepiece that goes beyond most tech. Yes computers are intricate but their beauty is in programming. The beauty of a well [...]

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Netflix Streaming For Wii

Netflix announced not too long ago that they would enable Media and Movie Streaming to the Wii. All of this is done via a disc which you need to get from Netflix for your wii. The disc has to be in the machine in order to watch a movie. Which is a bit of a pain. The Xbox 360 [...]

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Reel Lawn Power

The Momentum Reel Mower by Fiskars is a new level of green tech. For the longest time my parents had an old Soctt Push Mower, being that my dad is named Scott it was funny to watch Scott push Scott around the yard, until it was Paul’s turn to do it. Those things were hard [...]

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Play Pen

AT first glance Piano Playing Pen is a pen with the ability to read music, and play it back to you. And that is almost correct, this pen will play the tones to the music as you swipe it over the page, the only problem being that it only works on special sheet music. I [...]

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Cardboard record player

Not for the audiophile in the group, but a definite must have to any record collector, and i know a few. This unique design transforms the packaging of the record into the player itself! Overall a fun and playful take on packaging. Not that i think this is the best use of the box but it does solve [...]

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LHC is ALIVE

THE LHC, the world’s biggest machine has been slowly ramping its energy levels up. After numerous setbacks and false starts its ready to finally end the world. Thew impressive thing about the massive size of this device is that it honestly sets a new world record every time they fire it up and kick it [...]

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Return of the Commodore 64

Not in reality, but the form factor is making a comeback. I always loves teh idea that a all in one base unit with an eternal monitor made sense. More often than not in laptops, all in ones, and other compact form factors the display is the point of failure. By cramming all of the [...]

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Steampunk Computers!

I have finally found a soup to nuts Steampunk machine / design concept that I can really get behind. From the looks of things each and every little detail is taken care of. I hate it when the aesthetic doesn’t extend correctly and seamlessly to the peripherals. With this design shown over at Yanko Design, they thought [...]

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Remotely Managed Cars

Wired recently reported that a Hacker Disabled More Than 100 Cars Remotely. The “Hacker”, not to be confused with Angelina Jolie in the movie of the same name, obtained a password and managed to abuse a no start function in the cars. This time the system in question is canned Webtech Plus, a way for car [...]

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Adopt a Newb 2010

So it has been 5 years since i first came up with this concept.the idea behind the celebration was simple, more than any other career choice IT can be learned on the go, provided that there are people willing to teach. I owe my career and my livelihood to the countless techs forum posters and [...]

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Planned Obsolescence

One of my problems with Apple is that they provide very few options to keep old machines current. It’s called planned Obsolescence, your machine will not only be out of date soon, but the OS might not even run on your machine in a couple of years. And since Apple updates their OS nice and [...]

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Foldable Power

One of the biggest buzzwords lately is Green Tech. But the problem with generating power is that quite frankly its a bit hard to do. Solar energy is by far the most talked about alternative energy source but Solar energy is operating at around 20 % efficiency. That means for every 10 units of energy collected by the panel you [...]

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Wardriving Made Easy

A simple enough hack but ingenious. Take one part Wifi Detecting shirt from Thinkgeek, subtract fabric with scissors. Add in your car and shake and bake till it looks awesome. I’m not sure announcing your intent to go wardriving is the best practice considering the overall attitude towards borrowing another person’s poorly secured internet connection. [...]

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Smart Gun cool tech

My thought has always been that guns are not inherently bad. Bad people use guns to spread their malfeseance and careless people leave them out where accidents can happen. If you own a gun, your right isn’t just to own it but but rather should be contingent on your care and propper treatment of the weapon. [...]

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Circuit Shelf

Although just a design concept these shelves are just awesome enough to get me thinking about how i should properly decorate the CaffiNation Lair. The idea looks simple enough to implement. I can’t help but think these shelves, depending on their price would be a huge hit in many a geek lair. The Obvious end to this [...]

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Downhill Plotting

“Life is not one big joke, its a series of little jokes all lined up in a row… there they are look at them” ~Richard Pryor, Moving There must be something in the water supply this week, or the moon is in an odd alignment or possibly, just possibly everyone I know is having at [...]

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Cult of Hype

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 [...]

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Ninja Unboxing the GooglePhone

For those that are interested in the Nexus one by Google. I Love this video NINJA’S UNBOXING.

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Process: The Mix

The process of making a podcast has many parts. This selection gives a doodle, a sketchnote if you will explaining how my mixer is set up to replicate a live studio session and save on Post processing

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Process: The Voice

I get a lot of questions on how my podcast is created. I’ve decided to help out a little and give you a flow chart to guide you. As well as a couple of tips along the way to smooth production for you. This will be a series of quick tips How you speak is [...]

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The good, the bad, and the google

Still trying to get a handle on Google Wave. Its awesome, but still mighty raw. I listed a bunch of good and bad facts, I wanted to see how they compare to other’s notions thus far. The Good: Streamlined communication Streamlined and more cohesive multi-person document editing Just of the Lol The Bad It’s email [...]

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CaffiNation on TPN Weekly #27

Peek in over at TPN Weekly to see what havoc I wrought on the airwaves… nothing too out of the box but some fun extended discussion and some neat topics covered. Episode 27 of the TPN Weekly Show, CaffiNation Approved On Today’s edition of the TPN Weekly I’ll be giving you a run down on some of [...]

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Riding the Wave

Google Wave First Impression : Checking out the ability of google wave to extend beyond the walled garden, not working so well yet

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Google Wave Rundown

We give you the details on the google wave rundown from the developers video. Condensing 80 minutes into one outline.

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Vista gets all the guff

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 [...]

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Scamware

This is Scamware-FAIL Originally uploaded by Paul Rj Muller “CaffiNation” Just an FYI to people who listen to my show. I often post news from a site called mopo.ca, but today when i visited the site looking for the funny content I was accosted by a warning screen telling me i have a virus and [...]

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Helpful Tech Celebration

For those f you not in the Know Adopt a Newb is a Festival i started three years ago in an effort for techs to reach out and spread the wealth of their knowledge. Every April 15th i celebrate Adopt a Newb Day were I ask people to be more mindful and helpful towards the [...]

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Blog Design Guide: Backups

This is a short and simple post, consider it a best practices for blogging and website management in general. Back up all of your article and your uploads very frequently. The best looking design in the world doesn’t mean anything if your carefully tweaked theme is erased by a errant keystroke. This article will focus [...]

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Quick Tip: Hard Drive Rescue

So you have an older machine which died. You know you’re not going to have the machine fixed, but there is data you need to save from the now defunct beast. Provided the drive itself is not dead you shouldn’t have a problem getting your old information off. You might need a bit of very [...]

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Productivity Applications

Today we will be taking a look at productivity applications, as a continuation of the Tech in Tough Times Series. Microsoft office is the world standard in business, that is a fact. If your solution to document preparation doesn’t work with office, as seamlessly as possible then you are going to have a rough road [...]

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Microphone Techniques

We’re going to take a look at some simple and free ways to improve your audio productions from the start of the process. So you would like to do a podcast, but you’re really not sure how to make it sound good. If you have a USB microphone I can give you a set of [...]

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Tech in Tough Times: Anti Virus

This is the first in a series of articles focusing on trying to get by with a little less. In a time flush with horror stories of job loss and debt it would be ridiculous to think that if something breaks or is a bit old we would just mindlessly push off to buy another [...]

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What I learned from Podcasting?

Every once in a while its a real good thing to look back at what you are doing and how you do it to take in some of the lessons you might have missed.Basics never go out of style. And you might get something new out of the re-learning. So in that spirit I decided [...]

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What Type of Tech Are You?

The area covered by those labeled as the Tech, Computer Guy, or Gal are vast. Some of us play with lights on a stage, others fiddle with audio behind a curtain. Still others of us fix machines. But more often than not its easier to say I’m the Computer guy to friends and family when [...]

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Micro Blogging {Soc}ial {Net}works

Here we go with a quick rundown of each of the social networks I’m currently a part of and what is wrong and right with each one. Why bother beating about the bush here, we have needs they need to be fulfilled. There are problems and they need to be dealt with, shape up or [...]

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Security Tools Rundown

As any good kid from the 80′s will tell you “Knowing is half the battle” and G.I. Joe wasn’t far off in their assessment of value. Knowing is indeed paramount to success of any venture. But it is knowing where to go for the information that sets true professionals apart. Computer Security is a hazy [...]

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CaffiNation SysAdmin Response

Keith From The Mind of Root Podcast has started a SysAdmin Meme, basically its a survey where blogs post their answers in response to the orginal. I was tagged… Thanks Keith. And I thought it would be a fun thing to do so here you go. I don’t know too many SysAdmins who blog outside [...]

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Audacity Crashed… Now What

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 [...]

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Know-To: WordPress Tweaking

WordPress is an awesome tool to manage a podcast, a blog, or I’ve even used it as a comprehensive CMS (Content Management Solution) However some of the small little details often go unnoticed when your trying to make the content speak for itself. Permalinks are the URL that permanently links to your content. So that [...]

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