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Events January 9, 2012
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Apple Television on the Way? More Likely with Nuance Unveiling Dragon TV

There some time there has been speculation that Apple might get into the television business and the past months have seen the rumor mill heat up significantly. Still, questions remained open with regard to what such tv would actually be and why Apple would enter a market with such small margins in the fist place. [...]

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Editorials, Rants and Raves December 15, 2011
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Lowes Learns About Viral Marketing (and Not Being Bigoted) The Hard Way!

Sarah and I have been watching “All-American Muslim” on TLC. It’s a glimpse into what it’s like to be both Muslim and American in Dearborn, Michigan. And while admittedly it’s slow at times, we’ve really enjoyed seeing how different people approach their religion, and learning more about the different ways people practice, even within their [...]

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News October 28, 2011
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Sony Internet TV Updated with Google and Android Market

The rumors are flying about Apple making a serious move into the television market. I love my Apple TV, but the idea of an entire television with Apple technology baked into its very DNA is something I would jump to grab. [I know, big surprise to anyone who knows me.] The only problem… It is [...]

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Reviews September 21, 2011
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The Sceptre 24″ E246BD-FHD LED HDTV / Monitor with DVD Player Review

When we built our house, for various reasons we decided not to put a TV in every room; we installed one 55″ LED VIZIO on the wall in the living room with all the home theater options, and we called it good. Well, sometimes the best laid plans don’t quite work out. Over time, we [...]

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News August 23, 2011
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What Book Is That Movie Based On? Check ‘Based on the Book’ to See!

How many times have you read a great book, only to watch it get destroyed by a sub-par movie? Plenty of times, I am sure. But how about things going in the other direction? How many times have you thoroughly enjoyed a movie or a television series, and yet you finished the show feeling like something [...]

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News August 4, 2011
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Secrets of “The Real World” Cast Contracts

When I was in high school, I remember watching MTV’s “The Real World”, and wondering how long MTV had the cast under contract. Since they all seemed to appear with regularity on various MTV reality shows, I assumed it was because it was a requirement, and not because they truly loved being on MTV. As [...]

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Music Diary July 31, 2011
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Music Diary Notes: MTV Turns 30 … What is YOUR Favorite Music Video?

MTV Launched 30 years ago today, on August 1st 1981. Over the decades, the music video art form has changed in some ways yet remains a product in service of a song. The channel itself has become somewhat of a joke in many ways, as in the late 1990′s the ‘music’ part became a minority [...]

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News July 27, 2011
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Speck Gets Some Love from the History Channel’s ‘Inspector America’

Have you caught any episodes of Inspector America? That’s the show where Timothy Galarnyk, an “infrastructure safety inspector with over 35 years of experience”, goes around the country checking out our cities bridges, roads, water-systems (among other things) in order to show what is right or wrong with the way our infrastructure is being maintained [...]

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News June 30, 2011
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Gadget Geeks: New UK Show Will Recommend, Repurpose and Renovate Gadgets

Have you ever wanted to have an expert to build a gadget specifically for you, or if you have a gadget that is almost exactly what you need but it is lacking a certain feature, then you’ll want to pay attention to this: SKY 1 HD, the UK based TV channel has just announced an [...]

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News June 17, 2011
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Nielson Study Shows How Teens Interact with Media

It is amazing to look at the image above and realize that reflects the top TV shows the year that seniors graduating high school this month were born! Many of the shows – certainly Seinfeld, Rosanne, Frasier and Home Improvement – are classics easily found in syndication now. The X-Files also launched that year, bringing [...]

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Quickies February 5, 2011
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GD Quickie: Twitter Guest Stars on “Grey’s Anatomy”

It’s a bit shameful, but I still watch “Grey’s Anatomy”. It’s my soapy guilty pleasure! I settled in last night to catch up on last night’s episode, and was surprised to discover that surgeons using Twitter was a big part of the storyline! I won’t spoil it for you, but I will say that even [...]

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Quickies January 27, 2011
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GD Quickie: Timing is Everything

How cool is this? While having my morning coffee I read a post that it was one year ago today that the iPad was first introduced. That’s right, one year ago today all the speculation about an Apple tablet ended, the computer world was turned on its head, and my all-time favorite gadget was announced. [...]

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Events January 21, 2011
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CES: Oakley 3D Glasses

CES Day 1: Dan to Judie “3D TV is one of the big things this year… I just don’t get it.” Judie to Dan “I KNOW, me either…” Kevin (thinks, but does not say) “Phew, one less new gadget this year…” CES Day 2, Morning: Judie, Dan and Kevin spend time with Oakley to learn [...]

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News January 6, 2011
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Hillcrest Labs Announces New Motion Control Televisons

Remember when a television was just the large box that showed pictures?!?  Television technology has seemed to change quickly and drastically in the past few years.  My kids saw an old standard tube television and laughed at it recently.  They could not believe that not long before they were born, we had one ourselves.  Hillcrest [...]

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News December 20, 2010
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VIZIO’s 65″ Theater 3D™ Razor LED™ HDTV is Lust Inducing

One of the first things Kevin and I bought for our new house was a 55″ VIZIO LCD HDTV from Sam’s Club. I’ll admit that we were a little bit nervous about purchasing a VIZIO, because we had not heard much about the brand, and the only places that we had ever seen them were [...]

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