July 22, 2008: Oreo’s Grandpa

Dice Brick Smash is out. Post your high scores in the comments! Apple has added another feature to the AppleTV: Remote. Remote is a free application that owners of an iPhone or an iPod Touch can download and use to control their AppleTV or iTunes on their computer from anywhere on their network. This sounds …

Why AppleTV is Great for Kids

Television and computers have long been challenges for children. We want to give them television and Internet access in their bedrooms but from a very early age this is, obviously, problematic. Having spent some time about the mode in which the AppleTV operates I believe that this may be a really great solution to this …

March 2, 2008: Playing on AsoBrain

Dominica’s first thing this morning was playing MySims on the Nintendo Wii. She is starting to get into it a bit. It is a cute and simple game but it looks like it might be a bit of fun. It adds some new twists to the Sims family of games. The graphics are definitely good. …

February 15, 2008: Pontoon

Oreo was nothing more than a furry sack of potatoes this morning when we tried to get him dressed to go to daycare. It has been a really long time since he did a five day daycare week. He isn’t the young puppy that he used to be and his greying face definitely shows it. …

Netflix, AppleTV and the End of Television

I have written before about the downfall of broadcast television – including cable television and other “one to many” legacy distribution systems for video content. I have written that the DVD would be the last big physical media format for movies and that BlueRay and HD-DVD would never have the chance to be as popular …