Teresa is away again, but 5-year-old Hannah fills in for her.

Recalls and Safety Information:

• Necklace Recall

Tech News:

• 100GB HD Camcorder: the Sony SR Series
• Proposal for Family-Friendly Cable Content
• High Heels for Drivers

Toy News:

• Indiana Jones toys coming
• Wonder Pets toys coming
• Stan Lee: The Action Figure

Interview

Due to scheduling conflicts, we have no interview this week. Next week for sure.

Video Game News and Reviews:

• LCD Screen to make your Wii Portable
• PS3 Price Drop?
• New Sonic RPG coming
• Real Heroes: Firefighter coming to Wii

Review

Animal Genius for Leapster

While the DS version was just announced, Hannah's an old pro at Animal Genius for the Leapster.

Closing information and Feedback

Feedback

• The anonymous feedbacker revealed: Dan from the Love Long and Prosper podcast
• New feedback from John at the Jesus Geek podcast
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This week, and for much of the summer, Teresa is away, so Dale is "Mr. Mom," but we have an awesome interview and lots of cool announcements with more news to come in the coming weeks! All that, and we improved our sound quality!

Recalls and Safety Information:

• Thomas and Friends Railway toys recalled

Toy News:

• Build-A-Bear Workshop? How about Build-a-car with RideMakerz (Click to see the one Dale built.)
• What's with all the doll websites (And where are the communities for boys?)
  • BarbieGirls.com
  • Cartoon Doll Emporium
  • Club Penguin
  • Cyworld
  • Habbo Hotel
  • Webkinz
  • WeeWorld
  • Stardoll
• Trash-talking toys?

Tech News:

• A Visa card that you can swipe remotely: convenient, or pickpocket's dream?
• Call 911 silently
• WWDC: Apple releases Safari 3 Beta for Mac & Windows and more Mac OS X Leopard details

Interview

This week, we have an informative-yet-chaotic interview with the entire cast and crew of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, including Grant Baciocco & Doug Price, as well as Dr. Grant, Dr. Floyd, Dr. Steve, Fidgert, Tim Porary, and even the Narrator! Find out why the Narrator never comes to the live shows!
And, as a special bonus, you can listen to the full unedited 45 minute interview at our website!

Video Game News and Reviews:

• Majesco announces Fish Tycoon for DS
• Scholastic announces Edutainment titles for DS: "I SPY: Fun House" and "Animal Genius"

Review

Wii Play

Teresa stops in long enough to play a few rounds of Wii Play and discuss the pros and cons.

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Closing Announcements:

• We get an anonymous voice message. (Who was that digital man, anyway?)
• If you're listening to the mp3 feed in iTunes, get the enhanced version!
• And hello, Afghanistan!

We were at Subway a couple days ago for lunch and got some kids' meals. Included is a card allowing for a free song download from the Hannah Montana show. The catch is that the songs are for Windows Media Player in WMA format, and you need Internet Explorer for Windows to go to the site. We're a Mac/iPod family, so these are useless to us.

SO, here's the codes. First one to enter them gets them. Just go to subwaykids.com and enter the following codes to get your freebies:
P9n25gtzYbTVnq2
P9nb6NqpMghY7qr  read more »

The interview from Episode 7 was way too chaotic and long, so it had to be abridged for the podcast. Here is the entire interview, uncut.

Episode 7 was getting long, so I decided to cut this story, but there's no point throwing it out. Here's The Toys R Us Top Summer Toy List!

If you try to play our podcast right now, you can't. It's there, hosted on our server, files all snug in their directory, yet completely inaccessible. The same is true of podcasts around the world--not all of them--but a lot of them.Why?  read more »

Teresa and I signed up for DirecTV a few years ago so we could get a real TiVo. To this day, we love it. That said, we're trying to cut down some channels to keep our costs down, so we've been looking at both Dish Network and DirecTV's bottom offerings. (The family packs don't include the Discovery Channel, and I'm a big Mythbusters fan.)

So last night, I called a Dish affiliate to ask whether their DVR was available with their Top 100 pack. He answered my question (Yes.), and I bid him a good night.

This evening, my cell phone rang, but since I was driving at the time, I handed it to Teresa to answer it. It was the Dish affiliate I'd talked to last night. He'd noted our Caller ID and decided to essentially "*69" us.  read more »

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As part of Tech Talk for Families' ongoing commitment to provide tech resources for families, we want to let you in on the action by building an online community of mutual support for parents and families who use technology. (That would be pretty much everyone, we're thinking!)  read more »