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Old Detroit Needs a New Lawyer

On this weeks show we shout out to the Cupcake Camp Montreal crew before touching back on the RoboCop kid picture and the recent take down notice. Also we review the new Google apps, HotPot, Baraza, and Boutique.com. Somehow and at some point in the show Ben’s technical problems steers us towards the recent changes in airport security and the TSA’s aggressive pat-down policy. At this point the show kind of unglues itself we end up twirling metal tapes on bic pens waxing on about “The Talk” all good dads must have with their kids.

See you at Cupcake Camp!

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Our Regular English language podcast will be back with episode 31 but for now why don’t you stick around practice some of your high school or college french and enjoy 2 Fat Montreal Dads talking tech and geeking out “à la Molière”.

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Durant l’émission on a discuté des balados et animateur/podcasteurs suivant:

Un gros merci à Audible et J!NX pour leurs commandites du DadCast de 2FatDads.

This special edition of the DadCast has been released at 96Kbps instead of the regular 128kpbs. Please let us if this is acceptable.

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The global еlесtrісаl еnеrgу соnѕumрtіоn is ѕtіll rіѕіng аnd there is a ѕtеаdу dеmаnd tо increase thе роwеr сарасіtу. It is еxресtеd thаt it has tо bе doubled within 20 уеаrѕ. The рrоduсtіоn, dіѕtrіbutіоn аnd uѕе of thе еnеrgу should be аѕ tесhnоlоgісаl еffісіеnt аѕ possible аnd іnсеntіvеѕ tо save еnеrgу аt the еnd-uѕеr should аlѕо bе set uр. Dеrеgulаtіоn оf еnеrgу hаѕ lowered the іnvеѕtmеnt іn larger роwеr рlаntѕ, which means thе need fоr nеw еlесtrісаl power ѕоurсеѕ mау be vеrу high іn thе nеаr futurе. Two major tесhnоlоgіеѕ wіll рlау іmроrtаnt roles tо ѕоlvе thе futurе рrоblеmѕ. Onе is to сhаngе the еlесtrісаl power рrоduсtіоn ѕоurсеѕ frоm thе соnvеntіоnаl, fossil (and ѕhоrt tеrm) bаѕеd еnеrgу ѕоurсеѕ tо renewable еnеrgу rеѕоurсеѕ. An other іѕ tо use high efficient роwеr electronics іn роwеr gеnеrаtіоn, роwеr transmission/distribution аnd end-user аррlісаtіоn. This рареr dіѕсuѕѕ ѕоmе of thе mоѕt emerging renewable еnеrgу ѕоurсеѕ, wіnd еnеrgу аnd рhоtоvоltаіс, whісh by means оf роwеr electronics аrе сhаngіng frоm bеіng mіnоr еnеrgу ѕоurсеѕ to bе acting аѕ іmроrtаnt роwеr ѕоurсеѕ іn the energy ѕуѕtеm. If you are interested on learning more about renewable energy options we suggest looking at these Reliant Energy rates.

Jeremy Clarkson Ariel Atom

Google Zurich has a slide, and an awesome office

Google Montreal is also a pretty cool place to work (hint hint)

Photo Shoot of Robocop Kid in Detroit

Bugatti Veyron hits 407km/h even with Captain Slow at the Wheel.

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Once again we’d like to thank this week’s sponsor Audible for helping to make the show possible.

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This week the Dads return with a Clean tag, but that doesn’t mean they are not pissed about something. Francois finally kicks Bell to the curb, Ben hits out at big Box stores while Steve and Eric get their Geek ON about on-site/off-site back-ups and the merits of Carbonite.com.

As we rant about poor service it’s also important to point out those who do customer service right:

As well as the Twitter All-Stars for product we love using:

Once again we’d like to thank this week’s sponsor J!nx for helping to make the show possible.

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In part two of this week’s show with Pier-Luc Petitclerc we continue our left turn from the show notes and revisit our childhood superheroes on the silver screen, take a closer look at the Montreal Tech Scene and the growing popularity of co-working locations like Station-C, Notman House and Café Laïka.

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Once again we’d like to thank this week’s sponsor Audible for helping to make the show possible.

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@PLuc at PodCamp Montreal 2010 -photo by EvaBlue

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This week we’re joined by Montreal Habs Fan, WordPress and PHP Guru, Android and Linux enthusiast and all around Great Geek to know Pier-Luc Petitclerc (@PLuc). In this two part special DadCast, which incidentally loses the [clean] tag for the fist time, we discuss the upcoming MobileCamp Montreal, the benefits and frustrations of Android phones, phone etiquette in 2010, Ubuntu 10.10 as a development environment, and Steph (@Mononque) finally gets to talk about Word of Warcraft, the recent changes to character talent-tree and the upcoming release of Cataclysm. And if that wasn’t enough, Eric (@Schultzter) gets another new mic.

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World of Warcraft – Cataclysm Intro:

Once agan we’d like to thank this week’s sponsor Audible for helping to make the show possible.

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Stephen Hackett's Dog Cow Tattoo - Photo by iSMH on Flickr

Nearly Live from the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay…

This week we have the pleasure of being joined by with our first ever special guest dad: Stephen Hackett of founder of Forkbombr.net, guest writer for MacGasm.net and all around awesome dad of two great kids. Stephen joins us to discuss this week’s “Back to the Mac” announcement from Apple where they revealed the new release of Mac OS X: Lion, iLife, the Mac App Store and the super thin, super slick new MacBook Air.

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John Gruber of Daring Fireball on the Untitled Document Syndrome.

You can follow Stephen Hackett, Ben Brooks and John Gruber on Twitter. And of course you can always follow the DadCast using @2FatDads.

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Just ahead of the big Apple “Back to the Mac” announcement on October 20th that may or may not be about a new OS. The rumour mill has it that it should be 10.7 and not simply an incremental dot release. We should point out that the entire rumour is based on the Lion poking it’s snout out from behind the Apple logo in the announcement. As we recorded the show on Wednesday night, the 13th of October, Apple stock Price also surpassed $300.00. So after reviewing the state of Apple’s competition, we dress down the Win Phone 7 announcement and catch up on how McGoo is taking to his new Kindle.

We’re also quite excited to announce that Stephen Hackett founder of Forkbombr.net will joining us on the 20th for our Apple review.

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Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay…

We continue were we left off form last week’s show with as Francois was accusing Steve of being a Digg Apologist, which ends up becoming a review on the state of PodCasting. We review what we used to keep in iTunes and highlight some of the new stuff that stand out and has replaced it (list below). Ben revisits Freakonomics and makes it our Audible pick again. Steve finally let’s us in on the Laura Secord Accord and we all toy with the idea of break out our Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Manual and 20 sided die one more time.

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