Posts Tagged ‘ces’

Hands On With the enTourage eDGe

January 19th, 2010

We told you back in December about the enTourage eDGe and how excited we were to visit them in Vegas and get some hands on time. Today we have a video demo we did,  straight from their booth at the Consumer Electronics Show. Check it out and tell us what you think. Did we call it right? Is this the future of homework?

iPhone SAT Prep App

January 12th, 2010

iPhoneApp Princeton Review

While at CES, we took a second to chat with the folks at the Princeton Review booth. If you don’t know who that is, you probably don’t have a kid in high school yet, but they’re the people responsible for helping many a college hopeful brave the grueling SATs and GREs.

For the busy college bound high school student, Princeton Review teamed up with Modality (who has an impressive library of academic/educational iPod/iPhone apps) to create the SAT Vocab Challenge application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. We’ll let them tell you a little more about it. By the way, this app won the “Editor’s Choice Award” from Children’s Technology Review.

You can find the app here: SAT Vocab Challenge Lite for free. In addition, SAT Vocab Challenge Volume 1 and Volume 2 are NOW AVAILABLE for $4.99 from Apple’s App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

6 Yr. Olds Googling Porn? Marian Merritt Talks Online Safety

January 12th, 2010

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Marian Merritt is Symantec’s Internet Safety Advocate. She took time out of her schedule in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show to speak with Digital Shepherds about Symantec’s parental control, web-based software, OnlineFamily.Norton.

In this second clip she talks about some interesting information that Symantec discovered when looking at the usage habits of some very young internet users.

Finally, Marian shared her thoughts on the concept of “cyberbullying” as opposed to bullying in general and best practices for computer and digital device use by youths, including how we as parents can be the most effective in raising smart consumers of personal electronics and digital media.

D-Link Boxee Box (Video Demo)

January 11th, 2010

With new media content and web content becoming increasingly ubiquitous, D-Link has provided a way for you to watch content from the net, or from your computer’s hard drive…on your TV/HDTV. The Boxee Box is essentially a media server which comes with a remote that has a built-in QWERTY keyboard on one side and has a glossy black case that is a finger print magnet, but once it’s set up you shouldn’t be touching it anymore.

As you can tell from the picture above which shows the rear of the Boxee Box, it comes with quite a few connectivity options to get you hooked up. The connections on the rear of the Box are:

  • 1 HDMI Connector
  • 1 Optical Digital Audio (S/PDIF) Connector
  • Composite Audio Connectors
  • AC Power Connector
  • Ethernet Connector
  • 2 USB 2.0 Connectors
  • SD Card Slot
So, would you like to know more than what we’ve posted, including taking a look at the user interface? How ’bout a video demo? Thought so. :)

iLuv App Station

January 10th, 2010

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Over the next week, we’ll be cross-posting some of our videos from our trip to CES on one of Fox’s local affiliate websites in Los Angeles. We’ll keep you in the loop by cross-posting here so you can read up on some of the hottest gadgets to come out of one of the world’s largest consumer electronics shows.

With that said, take a look at iLuv’s App Station. An updated take on an older concept that we actually liked!

iLuv App Station on MyFoxLA

We’re at the Consumer Electronics Show

January 8th, 2010

We’re still working on bringing you the coverage that matters to your family, but we’re also doing some blog posts for Los Angeles’ local Fox affiliate, KTTV Fox11 News at http://community.myfoxla.com/tshakadshepherds. Stay tuned here in the coming days as we upload interviews with some of the companies who are making e-Readers, also, David Sutphen of the Internet Innovation Alliance and much more!

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