All Apple All Day

Finally. It's been 2 years. TWO YEARS. But that wait is over. Today, Apple announced that iOS 10 will have a dedicated HomeKit app, called "Home". This isn't the huge step forward that we may have been hoping for. We'll have to wait for that Alexa-style Apple speaker. But it's the first tangible step we've seen from Apple on the HomeKit front since... well, since HomeKit was announced. Home will act as a single controller for all of your HomeKit devices. You'll be able to set scenes, and use proximity triggers for those scenes. For instance, the lights will turn on when my wife pulls into the garage at night. Time will tell - but this should kick HomeKit into high gear. With guaranteed real-estate on every iPhone, developers will be more likely to support Apple's ecosystem. Adding channels to tvOS just got better. The other huge takeaway from WWDC? Single sign-on for all tvOS apps. Today, adding a tvOS app is an almost hila

It's that time of year again - the Apple Keynote at the WorldWide Developers Conference.

New Columns! And all the furniture in a huge pile! The basement is a construction zone again - and as the Official Floor Installer, I'm just trying to stay ahead of the contractors.

This NuCore flooring review will also function as a Basement Update: We're finally, officially moving forward on the Phase 2 finish work.

It's June - which means it's almost WWDC Keynote time.  A mere 11 days from now, we'll get some answers about what Apple has planned for us. 

Thanks to everyone who reads AAAD! We recently blew past 500,000 pageviews.

It's May 12, which means that we're almost exactly one month to the next Apple keynote - the WWDC event on June 13. And finally - FINALLY - we may see some movement on HomeKit. But is it too little, too late?

We're moving into Basement Phase 2! That means we'll be taking the space from a roughed-in, usable-but-spartan basement, to a fully-finished living space.

Well, that was easy. It turns out that the in-wall wires WERE the issue.

Day 2 of our Ethernet project. At the very least, we've isolated the problem.

We finally got started on an Original AAAD project last night - wired Ethernet. I've been thinking about this one for years. 

This review is probably coming a bit late for most early adopters - Sony's 2016 4K HDTVs are already in stores. But for bargain shoppers like AAAD, the 65X830C 4K TV absolutely gets the job done. And it's a 4K TV set that can be found for under $2,000.

Well. That wasn't very much fun.

It's that time of year again! If you're like me, you're counting the days until the next Apple Keynote. And most likely, you're avoiding any Apple purchases until 3/21.

Wow, time flies! Sorry for the delay between posts. I'll have a more Apple-Centric post up ASAP, but in the interest of letting people know that AAAD still exists, here's a quick rundown of our current projects: