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[REVIEW] Aperion Home Audio Link: One Link to Rule Them All

By Gabe Stampone • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Tech

Sometimes you come across something that is so well thought out, so well designed and so gosh darn idiot proof that you suddenly see a genuine need for something. Gentlemen look no further than the Aperion Home Audio Link. The Home Audio Link (HAL for short) is a wireless solution that gets all your audio [...]



[REVIEW] The Go Anywhere Pelican i1015 iPhone Case

By Gabe Stampone • May 18th, 2010 • Category: Tech

I love my iPhone and I love to take it everywhere, but as I’m planning a canoe trip with the family taking it on the trip on water with kids is a little daunting.  Enter the Pelican i1015 iphone case, a water-resistant, dustproof, crushproof tank of a case.  It’s pretty bulky, and it certainly couldn’t [...]



[REVIEW] Coghlans’s Magnesium Fire Starter: We Didn’t Start the Fire. Oh Yes We Did.

By Gabe Stampone • Mar 24th, 2010 • Category: Lifestyle

Ever since the dawn of time mankind has been fascinated by fire.  Truth be told, camping helps many of us scratch that pyro itch in constructive ways.  Think about your fondest memories of camping and some of them probably center on sitting around a campfire.  But as society has increasingly made our lives easier, the [...]



[REVIEW] A Visit With the Vizit

By Gabe Stampone • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized

In technology there are few companies who are thinking about things differently or offering a useful alternative to existing products.  The digital picture frame fad may not be as hot as it once was, but that may be because nobody is thinking about it in new and creative ways.  Enter the Vizit by Isabella Products. [...]



[TECH] Litl Comes Up Short

By Gabe Stampone • Jan 26th, 2010 • Category: Tech

The fine folks at Litl were nice enough to send us a Litl Webbook to test out and let both big and little hands play around with it.  The results of our tests showed some promise for the Litl company, but there are some shortcomings. When we opened the box we were impressed with Litl’s [...]



TNT’s Men of a Certain Age: For Men of a Certain Age?

By Gabe Stampone • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

The Father Life had the privilege to screen a preview of TNT’s new drama Men of a Certain Age, which premiers December 7th at 10:00pm.  Men of a Certain Age was created by Ray Romano and Mike Royce, who had both worked on ABC’s long running Everybody Loves Raymond.  Men of a Certain Age follows [...]



Interview with Jason Schwartzman of Fantastic Mr. Fox

By Gabe Stampone • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment, Features

Personally speaking, when I first heard of Fantastic Mr Fox and found out who was a part of it, I knew I was going to see this movie no matter what.  After seeing movies such as Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited, I became a big Wes Anderson fan.  The [...]



[REVIEW] Energizer 15 Minute Charger

By Gabe Stampone • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Tech

We managed to get our hands on the Energizer 15 minute charger to see if it’s true to it’s word and if it’s worth your hard earned money.  First, the contents of our test unit:  a 15 minute charger, 2 AAA batteries,  2 AA batteries, wall plug, directions, and a bonus 12v plug handy for [...]



Review: MacBook Air

By Gabe Stampone • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Ah yes, the MacBook Air. The mere mention of the name sends even the casual Mac fan into a daydream. But is it everything we’ve dreamed of? We went to our own inside guy for all things Mac, Gabe Stampone, to get some answers. var linkwithin_site_id = 39140; (function () { var elem = document.createElement(‘script’); [...]