Category: 863: Weekly Tech News Recap | 01.17.14, FOLLOW UP: Streaming Sochi, ADDENDUM: Streaming Sochi, HTML5 and the Future of the Web

The January thaw and rain has caused some of the ski areas to close temporarily, but it is snowing today and the temperatures are again falling. So, this season akin to Indian Summer in its shortness and abnormal weather is over. Grace is off visiting friends in Phoenix so I will be able to watch…

Ridiculously over-engineered? Or the perfect case for your iPad mini no matter where you’re headed? Simply put, the Griffin Survivor Case is the most protective case they’ve ever built. *Save $30* and we’ll even throw in a Hammerhead Stylus while we’re at it. Just because.

You don’t have to be a nerd to know that HTML is something to do with computers. Maybe you even know it’s an acronym that stands for “Hypertext Markup Language” but did you know the HTML standards we use today have been around since the early 1990s? That’s an eternity in computer years. Naturally, things…

In response to my aforementioned article, reader Erik shared an additional way to follow the Games in February, should you be interested. I’ll post it here in its entirety. Thanks, Erik! __*Digital over-the-air broadcast television*__ __”NBC (broadcast locally on WPTZ-TV 5.1) aired more than 5,500 hours of gorgeous 1080i HD Olympic coverage for the 2012…

“*Last week,*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb862/ I wrote about the various ways to watch and engage in the 2014 Olympic coverage. However, after receiving a few emails from readers, I realized that “distraction” was perhaps a poor choice of words. The topic of the article was merely about how to follow the 2014 Olympics via the internet, and that…

*Mail Pilot Mail App Now Available* A few months ago, I had trouble using Apple Mail on my home computer with Mavericks (“*as did a lot of other people*”:http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/31/apple-working-on-fix-for-os-x-mavericks-mail-app-issues/), so I researched some alternatives. Mail Pilot looked amazing, but it was still in beta mode and not yet released in the App Store. I signed…

_Dear Friends,_ I had a quick trip out to Las Vegas for the “*Consumer Electronics Show*”:http://www.cesweb.org with a bunch of meetings and about as much traveling as show attendance. A bunch of people didn’t make it to the show because of the canceled flights due to weather. Hapy and I made it out to the…