Video conferencing always seemed really cool. I remember seeing 2001, A Space Odyssey a bunch of years back. The calls back home seemed to be very futuristic. They also seemed to be very expensive. This was verified by my high tech work where invariably there was a room outfitted with some pretty expensive gear that brought [...]

As a single person and later as a parent without kids, I never really thought about this topic. Sure I knew that we needed to keep an eye on our children to make sure they didn’t discover the hidden and not-so-hidden dangers of our house and the world at large, but 24 by 7 monitoring? [...]

If I weren’t an Apple fan I might not have gotten an AppleTV. But, I am, and I did, its pretty great (mostly). Here are my five: No need for DVDs: I can load movies into it via my computer and store them. So, for those movies that need to be shown again, its like a [...]