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Author: Johnny Canuck

  • New Revolutionary UK Folding Plug: GENIUS!

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    Sure they drive on the wrong side of the road, drink warm beer and have designed their electrical system to boil a kettle in the short space of an ITV commercial break, but every once in a while some Brits create some simply outstanding simple and gorgeous products. Think about the Lotus Elise, Jamie Oliver’s…

  • The DadCast Episode 6 – Tsunami Mon Ami!

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    Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… The Dads are all back from a summer of parenting, projects and travel. Join us in this episode 7 for the start of our second season as we try to figure out if Google’s Wave is nothing more than a ripple in the pond, one of…

  • 7 Minutes with Windows 7

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    We do a lot of Windows bashing here at 2FatDads.com and in all fairness we usually have been given many good reasons to be so negative about the aging and flailing Microsoft OS.  We’ll been using it since the Windows 3 days and most of us are very knowledge at making it do our will.…

  • Trust Me!

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    It’s not gonna have any of the problems Windows Vista had…. This time it’s going to be different… Trust me! Balmer even promises to come and personally fixes anything that goes wrong on the Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos machine. [ad name=”2fatdads_post”]

  • Snow Leopard: Hands On

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      Before I even get started with this, let me just that this hands on review will not rival John Siracusa’s in depth analysis of the latest flavour of Mac OS X. If you need that much detail, please go ahead and read his article here. It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads…

  • Tassimo: Service Done Right

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    We have this not-so-secret society here at work called The Brotherhood of The Disc, an amusing name for the 5 of us that banded together to pay top dollar for a Bosch Tassimo coffee maker. The “Why’s” of our purchase can be found here. So it’s no secret that we love our Tassimo coffee, none…

  • The Skype SPIM/SPAM Has to Stop!

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    Are you getting tired of these request too? I’ve had just about enough of it and seriously thinking of dropping Skype altogether for good. The problem is not about one occasional spam message. The real problem is what they are not doing to protect it’s users.

  • I Squish Your Head: Making the Shot

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    Every once in a while, we have a little time on your hands over lunch but can’t can’t out because of the rain. So from time to time, we’ll whip out the Lego mini-figs and set up a shot.   Toys and Macro shots are not particularly hard to shoot but being geeks and Lego-maniacs…

  • Coming Soon: The DadCast Entourage

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    I’m still editing up the latest DaDcast… I love it when the other Dads forget we’re still rolling tape… For now I hope you enjoy this little teaser! Johnny Canuck [ad name=”2fatdads_post”] [podcast]http://www.2fatdads.com/dadcasts/DadCast-Fat_Entourage_Promo.mp3[/podcast]

  • Piper Down! Piper Down!

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    It would appear that Twitter is down at the moment. Suffering form a DoS attack in Biz Stone’s own words: We had a lot of things we’d rather be doing this morning, defending against a DoS wasn’t one of them: Twitter Blog. A couple of things we suggest you refrain from doing: Randomly blurt out…