I grab a lot of iOS apps when they’re free — quite often they’re free for a very limited time, before they go back up to regular price. Freebies aren’t always super, but I have gotten a lot of fun ones. This Core Dump is a collection of apps I ...

For some reason, I’ve always spent a lot of time driving. There was that decade where my in-laws lived 650 miles away, making for many long weekends spent on narrow, Northern Ontario highways. Then 13 years or so enjoying a 250-mile round trip commute for work, five to ten times ...

As soon as I saw Jenny’s post about the Lego VW Camper Van back in October I knew I had to have it, just as she did when she first saw it. I was a good boy all year, so I was fairly confident that my letter to Santa would ...

I really wanted to love Fruit Blast. If you’re not familiar with it, Fruit Blast is sort of a first-person shooter for your iPhone or iPod Touch. And it looks nice. The developers are Mark and Parker Lewis, a father and son team from California and avid BB gun enthusiasts, ...

Moshi Monsters are currently trying to take over the world, it seems. The site, aimed at kids around seven and upwards, now boasts over 50 million members, many of them paying a subscription fee to keep their own Moshi Monster happy and entertained. If you don’t pony up the fee, ...

Social networking is the norm. Facebook now boasts 800 million active users, half of which check the site every day. Twitter generates over 300 million tweets each day. Even MySpace, though in decline, is still kicking as the 136th biggest website in the world. While all of this global connection ...

Looks like smartphones are the new baby monitors – there are a number of super popular apps on pretty much all smartphone platforms that allow parents to use their phones as baby monitors. No surprises there ... we all carry around smartphones these ...

This week Family Gamer TV talks to Tobi about Kinectimals, their family’s alternative to a real pet. We also look at the new Kinectimals with Bears, the Windows Phone 7 version and the physical cuddly Kinectimals cats. Tobi said the same as Vanessa, that their young daughters found Kinectimals to ...

A few weeks ago we gave you a crack at winning $100 to spend at Kodakgallery.com and the response was good enough that Kodak has offered up another $100 gift code for GeekDad readers. At this point, it’s getting late for holiday shopping, but you could order some pretty interesting photo-related ...

I’ve been asked to do this so many times and I’m finally (starting) to make good on all my Yeah I’ll Get To It I Promise. Except that I haven’t completely pulled back the curtain to show what it is I think everyone’s been asking for. That is, exactly how ...