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Free, New App Allows Seamless Enjoyment of Your Music
Turn your next workout, work session, or nap on the couch into a more enjoyable music experience with this free app from DJ software experts, Serato.
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Smalltalk: Building a Network for Parents Like You
Ours is a world of social networks. There’s Facebook and Twitter, sure, but it also seems as though we’re moving more toward smaller, more specialized services. While there are a myriad of options for everything from cultivating business contacts to online dating, Smalltalk, GeekMom’s newest sponsor, seeks to create a special place just for parents. […]
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Math App ‘NumberShire’ Adds Up to Learning Fun (Giveaway!)
Looking for a fun math-learning app for your kids backed-up by real-world classroom testing? Check out NumberShire (and enter to win a free copy).
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CLZ Comic Book App: An App Worth Its Weight In Books
CLZ Comics is the most expensive app GeekMom Dak owns—and the one most worth the money.
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Games, Music and More: A Pokémon News Round-up
The last few days have been positively overflowing with new developments on the Pokémon front — so much so that I decided to save it all up for this news round-up!
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Tis the Season — For Cheap Apps
Did your kids score a new iOS device for Christmas, or maybe you treated yourself to a new iPod, iPad or iPhone over the holidays? I’m pretty psyched myself after receiving an iPad Mini with Retina display to replace my much-loved (but showing its age) original iPad. Loading an iPad up with games is a heck of a lot cheaper than investing in the cartridges needed to fill up a 3DS library, but the holiday season is the best time to stock up on iOS games. Many developers have some of their top titles on sale for up to 90% off. No line-ups, no parking hassles and you don’t even have to change out of your PJs — just log on to iTunes. For even bigger savings, check for stores that have iTunes cards on sale.
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Now Available on iTunes
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was one of the movies to watch for, spiked out by GeekDad’s Doug Cornelius in his Guide to This Summer’s Movies. It got a pretty stellar review from GeekMom’s Amy Kraft. You can buy it on DVD and Blu-Ray starting December 17th, but if you want to get a viewing in before Monday or you just want to skip the madness of malls and holiday shopping crowds altogether, it’s available as a digital download now on Apple’s iTunes.
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Sam Haynes, Schaffer and More Bring You Music of the Season
Halloween just isn’t Halloween without parties, and parties aren’t parties without music. Thankfully, internet, you have me looking out for you. Here are my prime picks for this season’s best musical offerings, easily available for your digital consumption.
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I Really Hate UltraViolet: Is It Just Me?
I’m beginning to lose patience with the whole digital movies thing. Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea of having a digital copy of a movie and being able to watch it on all our devices is great. In fact, I’m fully onboard with that. We have Apple TVs throughout the house and an iTunes library large enough that the computer hosting it has a 6 TB external hard drive exclusively for that purpose. And I actually buy those movies. But the studios seem determined to mess up a good thing through competing standards for digital downloads. In particular, the insistence on pushing UltraViolet exclusively seems thickheaded.
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Hip-Hip-Hooray for Peppa Pig’s Sports Day
Designed for iOS and Android devices, this super-cute app can entertain with six different activities.
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Rent Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope for 99 Cents This Week
This week’s iTunes rental of the week is Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about—you guessed it—Comic-Con International. If you like documentaries about geeky topics, now’s a good time to rent it for a buck!
Continue ReadingHacking Together Whole Home Audio With Apple, Logitech, and Rogue Amoeba
I love music. I love having music on all over the house. In the “old” days, you could tune a radio in each room to the same radio station, and experience whole home audio – with advertisements, and people talking …
Continue ReadingThe Case for Buying iPads for Your Kids
Sure, iPads are expensive, but when you consider them as a replacement for some of the other gaming hand-helds they beg for, the economics might just make sense.
Continue ReadingApps for Apes Seeks iPads for Orangutans
Apple’s iPad has been in the news recently in Canada, and not just over rumors about retina displays and 4G LTE capabilities. The Toronto Zoo has been shortlisted by Apps for Apes, a program that repurposes donated iPads for orangutan …
Continue ReadingScience Project + Daughter + Dad = iTunes Hit?
I’m going to guess that most GeekDads love science (and they love even more that their kids love science) So, when a child comes home with a science project and you happen to have a bent for the musical side …
Continue ReadingMy Little Pony Gets Interactive: An App Review and Giveaway
I’m only now beginning to grok the vast entertainment possibilities afforded by the family iPad. Mostly the kids and I use it to game or maybe do a bit of light reading, but Ruckus Media’s new My Little Pony storybook …
Continue ReadingVeteran Music Geek Alan Parsons Talks iPad Recording, ‘Irreversible’ Loss of Fidelity
The pioneer electronic musician talks about technology and the current music industry.
Continue ReadingLost the Digital Copy Code For Your DVD? Here’s Where To Look
There’s a pecking order when it comes to movies around our house. A very few are worth seeing in a theater, some are definitely rentals, some are worth buying the DVD (or buying a copy on iTunes) and a very …
Continue ReadingReview: The Rock Speakers Your Neighbors Will Hate
I don’t know how you spent the extra hour gained over the weekend thanks to Daylight Saving Time, but I was taking care of a few outdoor winterizing odds and ends. Packing up the trailer and filling its plumbing lines …
Continue ReadingPlaying With Your Food – A Review of Edamame Touch
It’s not often that I am given a chance to review an app based on my favorite appetizer. This was my first thought when I was presented with a download code for Edamame Touch for the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the …
Continue ReadingTeaching Kids Computers, Part 2
After teaching my kids some fundamentals about computer architecture and the file system, I was able to introduce them to my favorite applications. I’ll describe them briefly here and write some other posts about how my kids have used them. …
Continue ReadingMonster Dash: It’s an iPhone Smash
Some video game characters are destined for greatness. Gaming standards like Mario, Sonic, Samus and Master Chief have become veritable entertainment icons in their own right, with pop culture clout that far exceeds your 42″ LCD. But not everyone is …
Continue ReadingHow-to: Create a Chapterized Audio File of Your Kids’ Audiobooks (or Your Own Mixed CDs)
Step 7 As a final touch, you’ll want to get the album artwork and you’ll probably need to hunt the internet to find it as the iTunes store probably won’t have it. Doug’s Scripts has a couple of scripts which …
Continue ReadingWant Something Other Than an iPod? Here Are Three Suggestions
With the iPod holding somewhere just shy of 75 percent of world sales for MP3 players, finding alternatives to Apple’s portable music player can be a bit daunting. There’s the Zune, of course, but I was interested in looking at …
Continue ReadingSonos ZonePlayer S5: Great-Sounding Wireless System That’s Not An iPod Dock
Knowing my fondness for music and gadgets, Sonos sent me one of their ZonePlayer S5 wireless music systems to play with over the past few weeks. Although wired.com’s Mark McClusky had previously reviewed the unit in December, I felt it …
Continue ReadingSix Months With An eBook Reader: Yeah or Meh?
It’s nearly six months since I first took the plunge and entered the world of e-Books and e-Book readers in a big way. As an avid reader and book collector (some would say hoarder), has the digital plunge been a …
Continue ReadingAll I Wanted For Christmas Was An AppleTV
In my experience, when it comes to home media centers, there are two main camps and an outlier. In the main camps are the uber-geeks who want to build everything from the ground up and those who go with a …
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