I dabbled in Wii homebrew last year but didn’t do much beyond getting the Homebrew Channel working and messing around with a few apps. Then last week I saw this post on Lifehacker and thought, I have got to try this. The Lifehacker tutorial is pretty straightforward … the Wii hacking community has done some [...]
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Wii Fit “is a very, very mild workout”
This is really no surprise to me, but an American Council of Exercise study on the effectiveness of Wii Fit determined it to be “underwhelming” (found via Joystiq). I’ve always said it was a combination of Wii Fit and changing my eating habits that made it possible for me to drop 40lbs. Just playing Wii [...]
If you already own Wii Fit, get Wii Fit Plus
While I continue to wait for the delivery of my FitBit I picked up Wii Fit Plus last weekend. Wii Fit Plus is basically an upgrade to the original Wii Fit that came with the balance board: it contains all of the original games and activities, then adds a bunch of new games (Training Plus) [...]
What’s your favorite Wii game? Here’s how to check …
Hey kids, don’t show your parents this one! I came across this post on Kotaku that describes how to find your play/usage statistics on the Wii through the Nintendo Channel. Curious, I of course had to check my own: Yikes! I think we may have left the Wii on accidentally a few times, which may [...]
Wii puns go mainstream, still not funny
As investigators searched the home near Lakeland for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering the home, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame. I saw this headline on the local paper this morning: “A [...]
Cookin’ up some Wii homebrew
I saw this post on Lifehacker yesterday about installing homebrew on the Wii without needing to use the Twilight Princess hack and decided, what the heck, let’s give it a try! Wow, talk about amazingly simple. Only minutes after downloading the necessary files, I had the Homebrew Channel running on my Wii. After doing a [...]
Indiana Jones Wii is fun, but annoying
Since we finished Lego Star Wars last month, my daughter and I have moved onto Lego Indiana Jones on the Wii. It’s a fun two-player cooperative game just like the Star Wars version, but just going through the first two sections (“Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Temple of Doom”) we’ve run into quite a [...]
Do I still want (or need) a FitBit?
Back in September, when I was in the middle of my weight-loss regiment, I pre-ordered a FitBit. At that time, the little gadget was supposed to be shipping in January. Well, it’s now August and it looks like I might actually finally have my FitBit this month (they hope to start shipping on August 10). [...]
Vizio VECO320L 32″ LCD HDTV
We’ve been transforming our guest bedroom into a combination guest bedroom/exercise/game room. The TV in that room was an old silver 13″ Magnavox tube that just wasn’t going to work for playing Rock Band 2 on the Wii, so I started shopping for a new flat screen television. While I wasn’t specifically looking for a [...]
April Fool’s Day
Google’s annual April Fool’s day joke was pretty creative: AutoPilot to automatically respond to your e-mail messages. There was also PC World’s article about the new TiVo that can record shows before they air (the TiVo SuperAdvance) that I thought was cute. Other than that, I really didn’t see a lot of other tom-foolery. However, [...]
