Summary: News: Xbox One AppleTV Update ************ Geek This Week: Aaron: Sonos!!!! Feedbands. Songza. Playing a ton of NES. Gozer: Wii U ************* Feedback and items of Note: Hey guys I just wanted to mention one of the most important features of the Mac Pro you forgot to mention,IT'S MADE IN THE USA!!!!! As always love the show Dawson Hey guys I just got this photo of me and my cousin( the original apple fanboy in the family) from my mom watching the WWDC Keynote live on our Apple TV. We both have our iPad minis(you can't see mine) and he had his iPhone. As always, love the show Dawson Ps I am the one on the left I'm trying to catch up on the E3 and it feels like Microsoft just doesn't get it. First it was just Windows 8, half touch/half garbage, now it's the X-Box with 24 hour check ins, no game rentals and the price point. Just because you can afford it, doesn't make it affordable -- there is such thing as stupid money. PS4 made their price point a lot more palatable. Plus putting MS in charge of my entire entertainment system, plus potentially home automation -- no thank you. MS has had their hand in the terrible Ford Sync venture, if you live with the car for a while you'll realize that having a Swiss Army knife approach in one system makes even the simplest tasks (like GPS) not work because the system is trying to do too much. Now the geeky stuff, you can skim over it -- I think you'd get a kick out of it. I have a home automation server with my own code on it -- it communicates to insteon lights in my house via a powerline modem and communicates to other things, like locks, door/window sensors, fire and CO2 detectors, window shades, blinds etc via a server I wrote for Raspberry PI -- I have 2 of those with custom expansion boards I made which are located upstairs and downstairs so running wires to them is not hard. Most of the interfaces are simply RF remotes hidden behind furniture connected to relays on the expansion boards. I've written an android client for my system so everything is readily accessible from our GS4 phones or a number of inexpensive Android tablets I have mounted on walls throughout the house. Plus I have IR pickups in our primary rooms which forward commands from the Logitech Harmony remotes to the main server and execute various actions. Obviously since this is a bit of an obsession I have gone a bit overboard (ask my wife). As she says we have 50 ways to shut off one light switch. I am not going to say this is for everyone, it's expensive in time and money, but at least for me, it's fun. I like the fact that I can buy some random of the shelf motorized drape and in about 30 minutes have it fully integrated into my system. Of course I'm a computer programmer and have been doing this type of stuff for nearly 2 decades -- I'm 34 so that makes it more than half my life, so obviously not for everyone. PS. 4k on a 65" tv is a gift that keeps on giving, it's fantastic. -Yakov ************** Sponsors: Check us out on Stitcher! Visit http://www.stitcher.com/geekcast and sign up. Not only can you catch the podcast through the app, but if you use the code ‘geekcast’ within the app and you’ll be entered to win $100! Audible: Try Audible Now and Get 1 Free Audiobook Download with a 14 Day Trial. Choose from over 85,000 Titles. Continue your membership and receive 1 audio book credit a month for only $14.95 per month! Just visit <a href="http://www.audiblepodcast.com/TheGeekcast">AudiblePodcast.com/TheGeekcast</a>
