Author Archives: jrothmanshore

Use Instacast to manage iPhone podcast subscriptions without syncing or streaming

Posted on January 3, 2012 by jrothmanshore

While Apple has steadily rolled out updates over the past several years that eliminate the need to sync with a computer (Exchange accounts, iCloud, over-the-air updates, to name a few), I have been stuck syncing my phone over a cable … Continue reading →

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Everything closed on Christmas Day? Take the kids to play at the airport

Posted on December 25, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Christmas is a challenging day for Jewish parents with little kids.  Toddlers and pre-schoolers want nothing more than to run around, and being cooped up in the house can drive everyone crazy.  However, it’s too cold to play outside for … Continue reading →

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Solving Airplay performance problems with a power line adapter

Posted on December 18, 2011 by jrothmanshore

I love being able to stream music from my iPhone and iPad to the Bose Wave Radio in our kitchen, but over the last several months, we have been doing it rarely due to interference problems.  One day it would work fine, … Continue reading →

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A hack for reading your Apple iOS ebook on Shabbat

Posted on December 4, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Lately, I have come to prefer buying books to read electronically .  It’s not that I prefer the screen – far from it, I do enjoy the physical sense of flipping through the pages of a real, paper book – … Continue reading →

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How my iPhone personal trainer kicked my ass

Posted on November 20, 2011 by jrothmanshore

I used to exercise by kayaking in the summers on the Charles River, but my toddler age kids make it difficult to find time to slip away. I only made it out twice this past season. For many years I … Continue reading →

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An update on Rafael’s broken leg

Posted on November 7, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Last weekend, Rafael had a hard landing off a slide.  He didn’t recover the way he normally does, and a trip to the emergency room uncovered that he had a buckle fracture in his leg. While the ER docs were confident … Continue reading →

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If you check-in your location on Facebook that you’re at the hospital, it probably isn’t that serious

Posted on October 31, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Today started innocently enough. Our 16-month-old son, Rafael, was kind enough to sleep until 6:30 am, and his sister Ayelet slept until 7, so everyone was in a good mood and had a good morning.  We had plans to meet … Continue reading →

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How to convert an iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 into an iPod Touch for a child

Posted on October 24, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Now that my wife and I have both upgraded to the iPhone 4S, we needed to do something with our old iPhone 3GSs.  While they are showing their age, they are still serviceable and have a couple more years of … Continue reading →

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iPhone 4S is the perfect camera phone for parents of young children

Posted on October 17, 2011 by jrothmanshore

To be frank, parents with kids under the age of six of this age spend a great deal of time marveling at each amazing new feat or silly moment of their children and scrambling to record it.  They then try … Continue reading →

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Shortcut: Use Vimeo to convert WMV files to MP4 format for free

Posted on September 26, 2011 by jrothmanshore

While working on a recent personal video project, I was importing about two dozen short video clips created by various friends into iMovie.  Most of them imported without any trouble at all, but a few of them were WMV files … Continue reading →

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