Less than two months after revealing the new iPhones and iOS 7, Apple held another event yesterday on October 22nd to reveal what else? More Apple products, such as the revamped Macbook Pros, Mac Pro, and new iPads. They also gave more details on the new Mac OS X, Mavericks. So many new details, where do I begin?? Well as par the course, Apple read its report in terms of sales, app downloads, etc.; and to be honest it is quite impressive. They’ve sold over 9 million iPhones by the end of the launch of the newest iPhone devices last month. With over 1 million apps available in the App Store, it currently touts a whopping 60 billion downloads! But enough with this on to the stuff you really want to know about...what's new! Apple released it's latest version of Mac OS X (version 10.9) Mavericks yesterday. The new OS has over 200 new features. Some notable ones, are workflows (Automator) can be saved as speakable items so that they can be ran via voice command. Another handy feature that will help improve battery life is App Nap, when you are not using an application or the window is minimized, App Nap slows down the app to conserve your battery. There is also better support for when you use multiple displays, giving each display connected to your desktop it's own menu bar and improved access to applications when using the multiple displays. You can check out the full list of new features here, Mac OS X new features I also appreciate how even though there are many new features, they still maintain the familiarity of the OS. Oh and did I mention it's FREE for all Mac users, even if you aren't running the previous release of Mac OS. It's available now from the App Store. They also reintroduced the new Macbook Pro, with retina display. Equipped with two Thunderbolt 2 ports, PCle-based flash storage, 4th Gen dual core or quad core processors, two USB 3 ports, it rivals it predecessor in terms of speed easily. The 13-inch MacBook Pro resolution boasts 2560x1600 pixels and the 15-inch model has 2800x1800 pixels, so saying the graphics are good is being quite modest. Hard drive capacity ranges from 128GB up to 512GB flash storage. in terms of portability, the new Macbook Pro weighs And of course it comes pre-configured with Mac OS X Mavericks. The base model for the 13-inch Macbook Pro is priced at $1299 and the base model 15-inch Macbook Pro is price at $1999. My personal favorite moment from the event was the in-depth reveal of the completely redesigned Mac Pro. It's no longer the standard tower but is an all black cylinder shape and at first it strikes you as odd, but ohhhh the specs on this thing!! Available in Quad core or 6 core (with Intel Xeon E5 processor), memory starting at 12GB and configurable with up to 64GB, and Dual AMD FirePro D300 or D500 graphics processors. Oh and did I mention that it can support up to six Thunderbolt displays or three 4K displays and has PCle-based flash storage starting at 256GB and can be configured up to 1TB. The all new Mac Pro Quad core pricing starts at $2,999, the 6-core starts at $3,999. The Mac Pro will be available in December. Annnndd drumroll.....there's a new iPad, meet the iPad Air! It's thinner, approximately 7.5 millimeters thick and weighing just 1lb. It is also engineered with an A7 chip that is designed with 64-bit architecture. It comes pre-loaded with iOS 7 and the iWork apps (Numbers, Pages, Keynote) as well as GarageBand and iPhoto. Pricing for the iPad Air starts are $499. So will you be purchasing any new Apple products? www.apple.com

(Photo credit: Nintendo) Nintendo not only dropped the price on the Wii U today, but also launched a cheaper DS model, the Nintendo 2DS. The device is priced at $129.99, and most notably doesn't close like the other DS models. It does however have the SD card slot, touchscreen (it comes with a stylus as well). The most notable feature other than it being cheaper is it will play all 3DS games in 2D and it also plays games that are made for the original DS as well. It comes in blue and red and will be available on October 12th.

The technology/consumer product giant LG presented at CES 2014 this morning and they announced some really cool stuff! The company provides everything from smartphones to washers/dryers for the home, and their presentation, covered the gamut. The company briefly started with their "LG Home Chat" which would allow you to send messages to your home appliances. (Smart House, anyone?) You can text your appliances to tell them to turn on. Really cool or really creepy, or as we nerds often joke, SkyNet. Next the company went to the LG Flex, which is the rounded smartphone that has been getting a ton of buzz lately. Is rounder better? Who's to say, could be somewhat of an ergonomic approach to smartphones. It will be available with AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. No date has been announced just yet. Up Next, LG's WebOS. Which is as it's name describes a OS built on the basis of..what else, the Web. From what I have seen it looks clean and fluid, and the company will be introducing it on the new line of SmartTVs. So of course with SmartTVs, you can stream directly to them with apps such as Hulu, Netflix, and they've managed to get an Amazon Instant App for their WebOS! In the fitness realm, because I did say the covered the gamut of products here lol, LG has developed the Lifeband Touch, which is a fitness activity monitor and heart rate headphones. You can get the stats of your workouts or daily activity directly from it but it also works with smartphones, works best with LG devices of course, but also Android and iPhone. It works with some of the most popular fitness apps, such as My Fitness Pal (personally use this one) and RunKeeper. This should be available Spring 2014. Top: LG Lifeband Bottom: LG Flex SmartphoneLG has debuted it's first all-in-one PC, the LG Chromebase. It will run the Google Chrome OS with a size of 22", it is expected to arrive in the 1st quarter of this year. Next up, for my home theater enthusiasts, the new SoundPlate which allow for Bluetooth streaming and has wireless sub-woofer. They also featured, their multi-room speaker system, which is WiFi and Bluetooth capable. They rounded out the sound/speaker segment with two new sound bars as well. LG will also be adding three new Blu-ray players. And the of entertainment system would be complete without......TVs! They will be bringing 12 new models of their 4K TVs. But the one that is literally stealing the show (and the awards, and someone's living room) is LG's105-inch 105UC9 curved TV. So think of it as a small movie screen in your house. It also boasts 4K also known as Ultra HD. That is four times the pixels of a 1080p TV. And if the 105-inch isn't quite your style, then there is always a 98-inch, 84-inch, 79-inch, and 65-inch model as well. No pricing or availability information was given. LG also introduced new washer/dryer systems as well as a new refrigerator. While not as exciting to some, LG is on the cutting edge when it comes to home appliances. LG Studio is the companies premium, top of the line appliances. I know what this geek is getting in her house when she buys it..any guesses?

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is this week (January 7-10) in Las Vegas! With 3,000 exhibitors and thousands of attendees, this is THE way to kick of the new year for technology. With the biggest names and tech as well as tons of cutting edge technology sure to be unveiled, this is an event you will want to keep your eye on. Stay tuned for follow-up posts as well as the latest details on the technology that will be revealed! Next year, my goal is to be blogging live from this event! I would be in tech heaven!!

Did you get the kids in your family new gadgets for the holidays? If you did chances are that you like most parents have the same general concerns about what you child is viewing or accessing while on the web or what apps they are downloading. Norton Family allows you to manage the content your children have access to on their mobile devices. There are two versions of the software, Norton Family and Norton Family Premier. Norton Family is the free version, offering parents the basic features: 1Web Supervision, so you can see what sites your kids are visiting and also block sites you don't want them on; 2Social Network Monitoring, let's you track what your kids are doing on social media; 3Time supervision, so you can set how long your child is online. There is also an app that allows you to track the activities from your smartphone or mobile device. The Premier version offers a few more bells and whistles such as Video Monitoring, so you see what videos your kids are watching on YouTube or Hulu; 2Mobile App Supervision (for Android devices), which shows you what apps your kids have downloaded as well as block certain types of apps or a specific one; 3Text Message Supervision that will allow you to see what your kids are texting, as well as control who they can exchange messages with. This version also includes weekly/monthly activity reports sent to your email. The Premier version is $49.99/yr. Norton Family

This movie looks like it's going to be awesome! It's made by the same team that brought use The Matrix Trilogy, the Wachowski's! The fact that Channing Tatum is in it and Sean Bean are HUGE draws for me, let's hope Sean Bean's character doesn't die in this...(Sean Bean fans understand this already lol) It's in theaters July 18, 2014. What movies are you looking forward to this year?

Happy New Year! With the new year, come the New Year's resolutions. Most people, always decide to start a new healthy lifestyle or just to lose some weight. Well I came across this nifty app, Zombies Run! This app combines fitness and gaming into one. The premise is you are trying to escape zombies, but in order to do so you have to run, no physically, get up and run! The game includes 40 missions (you can purchase more) in which you are to help rebuild your base to help civilization survive while running from zombies. While running you collect supplies and other things that help in your mission. You can also incorporate your music playlists into the game and at certain intervals you get messages and radio transmissions. Needless to say this won't be your average daily jog. You want to win, you've got to RUN! The app is available on both Google Play for Android and the App Store for Apple. The App Store currently has a sale for the new year, and it's only $2.99. Check out the trailer for it below: www.zombiesrungame.com

T-Mobile is now offering 200MB of free mobile internet for tablets! How cool is that? But the part that really should get people is that you can either purchase a new tablet from T-Mobile with no money down and get the free data or you can bring in your own tablet (must be 3G/4G capable, not wifi only) and get the free data. Now 200MB doesn't seem like alot and in this day and age of so many data dependent apps, email and things of that nature, but it's still pretty neat. Of course this is more tailored for those who mainly use their tablet on WiFi and would only use it on the go occasionally. But from a business perspective this gets you to try out T-Mobile's network and see if you like it, and I see people going over, and in those cases they will get more money out of the deal. The only real catch for those people not buying a tablet from T-Mobile, is that you have to pay $10 for the SIM card, but that's a drop in the hat when you think about it. Also the tablets are no money down and the payments are broken up over 24 months.

After months of waiting and some not so good fortune for it's parent company, the Blackberry messenger app, or more commonly known as BBM has arrived for iOS and Android. I don't know about you but that was one of my favorite features on the Blackberry, and now I don't have to have one to use it. It is quite frankly a really good chat app, too bad Blackberry didn't take on that innovation before the smartphone onslaught from Android and iPhone. The app was released on Monday and has already reached an upwards of over 7 million downloads, those are pretty impressive numbers. The BBM app has a nice fluid functionality and I've always liked the fact that it allows you to chat with people without giving out your number, just connect using your PIN (which is still generates in the app by the way). The actual download was supposed to give first priority to those who signed up for the email alert, if you didn't sign up then you would get the message you had to wait prior to using the app. But if you download the app, launch it, then shut down the app and reopen you can get around this. The app makes you feel a little nostalgic thinking about when having a Blackberry was the cool device to have. But if you get a chance download it, it's pretty cool. Blackberry

While I was browsing the Internet I came across a blurb about the App Inventor from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). This cloud based software allows for anyone to learn how to develop apps for the Android devices. It walks you step by step through building a few basic applications, and then it also allows for you to branch off when comfortable to develop a little more on your own. You do need a Gmail account or school email that uses the Gmail platform. The App Inventor (now in version 2) works completely in your browser. The program even has an emulator so that you can test your apps if you don't have access to an Android device. It's aimed more at younger students but I think it's a good place to start for alot of people (particularly non-technology people) to dabble and learn more about building and designing apps. Check it out! MIT App Inventor

Well while I was out and about checking out the after Christmas sales, I finally ran across a Microsoft store; needless to say I was like a kid in a candy store. I got a chance to really toy with the item I didn't get for Christmas, the Microsoft Surface tablet. I've been asking for these and dropping not so subtle hints, but this looks like one of those gifts that will be from myself. Anyway, as I've mentioned before it's literally the professional person's tablet, with Microsoft Office included, this is a huge draw for business professionals that don't want to carry a laptop but want the convenience of being able to work remotely and access work documents. I love, love, love (did I mention love lol) the keyboard cover, which is detachable, it is surprisingly sturdy. The touch screen is very responsive and with the included stylus you don't have to necessarily touch the screen but can hover and move the cursor about. Overall, this just reinforced my earlier views about the device, it's going on my gadget list for me this year. If you haven't had the chance or are still on the fence about this device, stop by a Microsoft store and take a look. Microsoft Store

Photo credit: Natural Machines Facebook Profile By now I think we've all heard of 3-D printers, but one company has combined two of my favorite things, food and technology! Well here's Foodini: 3-D Food printer by Natural Machines. Now of course I am sure the first thing that popped into your head was it really prints food, and to be honest, my mind went straight to the Jetsons when I found out about this too; but the Foodini is more similar to a very high tech kitchen appliance and I mean that in a good way. It won't just print food off your screen but you place your fresh ingredients into the printer (they have capsules inside) and then it prints out the food, not cooked of course. But can your laser printer make a pizza? The machine is still in development and is expected to be out around mid-2014. The cost of such a device, around $1,300. Check out some of their food examples below! Photo credit: Natural Machines Facebook Profile Photo Credit: Natural Machines Facebook Profile The device is currently being developed in Barcelona. I'm no Rachel Ray in the kitchen, so if I can get a gadget that helps me out, then why not? And I'm a mom, so pizza and burgers are always a hit with my kid Natural Machines