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Does Your Child Love the Turntables? There’s an App for That
DJ Baby is a simple iPhone/iPod Touch app that lets even small children rock the turntables. It’s dead simple to use: Each of the four “records” has a vocal sample, and the button with the musical note starts and stops the backbeat. Clicking on the needle varies the vocal sample a little. You can try […] Continue reading
Review: Crush the Castle for the iPhone Is a Smashing Good Time
The beauty of many, if not most, video games lies in their ability to distance players from the real world by taking them into a fantastical alternative reality. So imagine, if you will, that you live in a world covered with elaborate castles made from wood, iron, and stone, but that are held together without […] Continue reading
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How Will the Apple Tablet iPad Change Our Kids’ Lives?
There has been much speculation about what Apple will be announcing today. Will it be a glorified book reader? An iPod Touch/iPhone on steroids? We will find out very quickly here, and then we can all envision how we could use the device. Will it help you at work? Will it be the perfect commuting […] Continue reading
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Talking Carl: The Best 99¢ I’ve Spent In A Long Time
As a parent of a three-year-old, distractions can be a powerful tool. Whether you’re at a restaurant waiting for food to arrive, visiting friends without your child’s favorite toy, or stuck in traffic in a car, being able to distract your child with something entertaining can be quite a relief. And while not suitable every […] Continue reading
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Would You Track Your Kid by GPS?
Question: if you had the ability to track your child’s every movement during the day, would you do so? Or is this an example of helicopter parenting taken to extremes? How about tucking a portable GPS unit in her backpack?
Partaking in my Saturday morning ritual of coffee accompanied by a laptop to scan through the […] Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, Electronic Geek, Entourage, Global Positioning System, Handhelds, iPhone, Smartphones, Television, Toronto Star, Video camera
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The One Time When Bricking Your iPhone Is A Good Thing
There’s a great little app that’s just made its way to the iTunes store. It’s called LEGO Photo (links to iTunes), and it allows you to take any photo from your camera lens or your existing library and turn the pixels into LEGO bricks. It’s simple to use – just take or pick out a […] Continue reading
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10 (More) Geeky New Year’s Resolutions
Repeat after me: “I hereby resolve that in the new year I…”
1. Will faithfully read every new xkcd, Penny Arcade and of course Dork Tower strip as it appears. If the joke in a strip is too esoteric for me, I will of course promptly Google it and subsequently pretend that I understood it immediately.
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Review: Voltron iPhone App — Megathrusters GO!
Here’s a quick test to see if you’d enjoy the Voltron iPhone game: Do the phrases “Activate interlock!” and “Form feet and legs!” invoke feelings of nostalgia, and can you recite the next lines? If so, I can virtually guarantee this game is for you; if not, you’ll probably still enjoy it.
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Arkanoid – More Retrogaming for Your iPhone
One of my favourite old school games from the Commadore 64 era has found a new home in my pocket, courtesy of Tatio’s latest remake – Arkanoid for the iPhone and iPod Touch, available now from the US iTunes App Store for $4.99 and for £2.99 in the UK.
For those that haven’t played it before, […] Continue reading
A 12 Days of Geekmas Wrap-Up
Congratulations to Doug Metz, winner of our 12th Day of Geekmas giveaway. Doug took home a $200 Sears gift card, a Star Wars iPhone case, a set of Musician’s Dice and the HP MediaSmart Server EX490. Moreover, he will forever be known as the grand champion of 12DoG ‘09!
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