All Apple All Day

We started the primary phase of our AAAD home remodeling projects today! The first crew is working on hardscaping at both our front and back entrances. Not a project that has a lot to do with AAAD, but necessary nonetheless. The second crew is working on rough-in for the basement - and that DOES have some home-automation aspects.

We've had our HR34 Genie since 2012. It's been great. But the latest software updates have slowed it down immensely. And according to DirecTV, there's nothing we can do about it.

I've never been a huge fan of jailbreaking iOS devices. And with the 4th Generation AppleTV, there is no longer a need to do so.

It's also Halloween Friday, and my costume isn't done yet. But that just means I'm making TWO stops on the way home tonight - it's Apple TV Day! Finally, Apple is giving us what we wanted - essentially, a more-powerful set-top box with the capacity to run games and apps.

Well, that happened more quickly than expected. (It was actually a few weeks ago.) Passing 300,000 and 400,000 in the same year is a pretty cool milestone. I expect that 2016 will be a bigger year for AAAD. We'll be taking on the DIY basement remodel AND our ethernet project simultaneously. And Apple will (probably) get HomeKit out of the theoretical and into the real-world. Thanks again to everyone who has stumbled across this website - it's fun to see how our house, and Apple, have changed over the years.

If you're a WOW! Internet subscriber, like me, you probably got some welcome news recently. They were increasing our internet speed! I was skeptical. But they really came through.

It's been slow-ish around AAAD lately - I apologize for that. As summer winds to a close, we've been moving full speed ahead on projects both inside and outside of our home. Not a whole lot of changes on the Apple front, however - but we're excited to get the new AppleTV on its release date during the week of October 26 .