All Apple All Day

We watched BIRDMAN on our AppleTV last week. The movie was great. The experience was awful. In fact our AppleTV has been doing a terrible job with streaming movies for a while. Maybe wiring the entire house for ethernet will help?

We've been living with our Nest Thermostat for almost a year now. It's great. Even though it intentionally makes our house freezing every night, no matter how many times we tell it to STOP. But we can make it better... .

If you recently upgraded to an iPhone 6, there's a decent chance that your sales associate told you about the Verizon EDGE program. In short, you pay full freight for your iPhone 6, in 24 installments. That means $600 or more, instead of the $200-$300 you'd pay with a carrier subsidy. Is this a good deal, or not?

Our 21" iMac is about 5 years old. It is, without question, the best computer that I have ever owned. But it could be better. Should I replace its HD with an SSD? Or sell it and replace with a 27" Retina iMac? ...

We've always wanted an espresso machine.  But the fully-automated types we liked were really expensive, and seemed to be somewhat difficult to use.  The Delonghi Latissima Pro Nespresso machine solves one of those problems. ...

Thanks to everybody - I never thought that this blog would get any traffic whatsoever, but it seems like there are quite a few people out there who share my interests in iOS and home automation.

My parents celebrated their 60th birthday a couple of years ago.  As a gift, I put together a 40-minute iMovie from all of our home movies. It was a big hit - but it could have been a lot better. ...

We recently purchased a new all-in-one printer, and signed up for HP's new Instant Ink program. They claim that it can save users as much as 50% on ink. But will it really? .