Balancing family and podcasting, especially when doing a family-centric podcast, can be difficult. We have a solution.

Recalls and Safety Information:

• Coby Boombox Recall
• OpenOffice Password Crack: Good or Bad? Yes.
• Acer joins the Sony battery recall club
• Evil Twin Wi-Fi Access Points
• Google Ads with Spyware
• Dirty USB Thumb Drives with Trojans

Toy News:

• SpiderShootEmUp: It's Duck Hunt Meets Spider-Man!
• Barbie Girls: It's Barbie meets Second Life. Full review next week.
• VTech adds Smartville line for age 1-3

Tech News:

• George Foreman's iGrill: the lean, mean cookout party machine (not the fake version)
• Amazon vs. iTunes in the race for DRM-free software
• Mobile Wallet: your cell phone as a credit card
• Tritton TRI-UA512 AXPC USB headphones: Surround Sound in headphones
• Michigan couple seeks to adopt through MySpace
• Teen text messaging: Win $20K, bt lower yr gramA n sp ability
• Gadgets broken? This website will help fixya
• Should the presidential debates be posted on YouTube or given a Creative Commons License (CCL)?

Interview

This week, Dennis Gray from the 101 Uses for Baby Wipes podcast joins Dale to talk about familycasting: podcasting about your family. The original Daddycaster talks about why he's been on hiatus (You know you've been wondering!), protecting family privacy online, and tips for setting up your own familycast.

Video Game News and Reviews:

• Wii supply low, but demand still high (But we got one!)
• "Playstation Eye" for PS3: The new and improved EyeToy isn't a toy. It's just attached to and used with one.
• PS3's try to cure uncurable diseases: the Folding@Home project
• Transformers coming to Nintendo DS with Wi-Fi play

Review

Sonic X for LeapFrog Leapster

5-year-old Hannah joins us again for another Leapster review. This time, we take a look at Sonic X.

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