We are already massive fans of Civilization IV Gold (check out our review) now Aspyr tempt us to expand further with Beyond the Sword. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword focuses on the late-game time periods and delivers 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by the development team at Firaxis Games.
Having been a massive fan of the AppleTV a number of friends have been pushing me towards the idea of a Mac Mini media server. To date I have fought the idea mostly down to the cost and complexity of such a system in a family living room.
Generally when I get a new gadget or bit of computer tech the excitement rushes a review out within a day or two of using it. This time with the EyeTV Sat I have been so engrossed I honestly haven’t had time.
Probably one of the newest features iPhone 3G customers envy in the 3GS is the handy ‘Voice Control’ recognition capabilities.
The iPhone voice recognition enables users to say “Call enter any name here” and your iPhone (hopefully) phones that person or “play all songs by Radiohead” and yes you guessed it plays all songs by… Radiohead.
When Apple released the new ‘Remote App‘ for iPhone featuring gesture control of both you computer and AppleTV (See our five reasons for AppleTV) media libraries I couldn’t help but get excited.
Controlling your home media setup with a swipe of an iPhone screen is just one of those slightly nerdy things I have to do when we have friends round. Now though the iPhone lends an additional home media hand with the release of TV Guide.
I have been asked a number of times about our deployment of EyeTV and the role it plays in teaching and learning. We have been using Elgato’s EyeTV (review) for recording our film and television programmes for about three years now and this service is further offered to around ninety teachers.
The use of TV in teaching isn’t anything new and many departments have amassed dozens of VHS tapes over the years.
We asked some of our twitter followers to post us a screenshot of what is on their iPhone. We specifically asked they include their favourite apps from the iTunes Apps store. Here are just a few of the replies we received.
Twitter Ids are at the bottom of each screenshot and click the image to visit the user’s blog.
