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...
Back in Black: Stop SOPA / PIPA
by Paul Muller | Jan 17, 2012 | tech
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,...
Live From CES with TPN
by Paul Muller | Jan 7, 2012 | News, Show News, tech, video
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...
Stop SOPA Now!
by Paul Muller | Dec 14, 2011 | tech
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....
Sleep Trek Style
by Paul Muller | Dec 13, 2011 | tech
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...
House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix
by Paul Muller | Dec 6, 2011 | tech
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...
Google Music Grows up
by Paul Muller | Nov 17, 2011 | Geek, tech
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...
Rocksmith, Forge your Skills
by Paul Muller | Oct 19, 2011 | GameRoom, tech
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...
Siri – Then and Now
by Paul Muller | Oct 19, 2011 | tech
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...
Google TV plus Ubuntu
by Paul Muller | Oct 8, 2011 | Geek, tech
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...


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































