Merry Christmas from Nio

Season's Greetings from Nio! He sings "Santa Claus is comin' to town". I think he's shooting for the Bruce Springsteen version.

Riding the trike

Nio gets on his trike for a ride!

Nio on the phone

Nio's calling someone on the phone.

Toys R Us Kid

Nio's a Toys R Us kid, and apparently so is daddy. Check out Nio working the scooter in the 2nd video.

Uh-Oh

Uh-oh says Nio.

Splash Water Park

It's summertime! My family takes me to a trip to the splash water park to cool off.
Thanks to Filipeanut for his song, "All I Rap about is Filipinos" from the Podsafe Music Network

Meet Grandparents at Airport

I go to the airport to meet my grandparents. I wear traditional Chinese clothes to greet them for this special occasion.

Thank you to Adrina Thorpe for her song, "Fly, Fly, Fly" which can be found on her debut CD, "Elusive", and on the Podsafe Music Network.

Duration: 4:10
File Size: 23.5 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Easter Egg Hunt

I meet up with the Easter Bunny and go on an Easter Egg hunt with other kids in the neighborhood! Pardon the brightness on the video. My daddy may have accidentally pushed the backlight button on his camera to make the picture overexposed.

Many thanks to Poundcake for their song, "The Midas Brush", from the Podsafe Music Network.

Happy Easter!

Duration: 8:05
File Size: 46.2 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

21 Month Photo Slideshow

Yay! I'm 21 finally...months that is. To celebrate, my daddy made this slideshow with pictures from when I was just born to photos from just this past week. The music comes from the Podsafe Music Network and is entitled "Angel Light" by Jeremy Kushnier from his album, "In Time".

Duration: 4:14
File Size: 21.4 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Piano Improvisation

This is an improvisation at the piano.

I hope you enjoy!

Duration: 3:23
File Size: 19.51 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Climbing the Table

I try climbing up and down on the table in front of the TV. Will I succeed without hurting myself? iTune in to find out!

By the way, it looks like I was way off on my Super Bowl pick. Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers and all their fans. Look out for the Philadelphia Eagles next year! (maybe...)

Also in the news are rumors of yet another new video iPod. From what I've heard, they're thinking of making it a bigger screen and that it would also be a touch-screen. So it may be goodbye to the click-wheel, or perhaps there will be a 'virtual' click-wheel on the screen. We'll see.

Don't forget to tell your friends about me, and subscribe through iTunes!

Duration: 1:47
File Size: 10.4 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Preparing to Go to the City

Before going to the city, I look around the front of our house and explore the wonders of our car and Christmas lights. You'll notice that I'm sporting a new Philadelphia Eagles knit cap that I got for Christmas. Who do I think is going to win Super Bowl XL? It's a tough choice. My initial gut feeling is that the Pittsburgh Steelers will win because they've been there before. However, Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren is no stranger to Super Bowl success. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Seahawks win, 28-10. They beat the Eagles so bad this season that I'm hoping that Monday Night Football loss was justified by the fact that they were a stepping stone for the Super Bowl champs.

Sorry if this video podcast is so dark. My daddy tried to adjust the brightness and contrast as best as he could.

Duration: 1:45
File Size: 10.3 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 video podcast (.m4v)

Yay! I'm in the iTunes Top 25!

Well, don't get too excited. My daddy switched my podcast category from 'Arts & Entertainment' to 'Family'. So I checked the iTunes Music Store this morning and saw that my podcast was ranked NUMBER 23 (in the Family section). There was a bit of a boost in subscribers according to Feedburner.com.

Yesterday was an eventful day at Apple Computers. At their MacWorld Expo, CEO Steve Jobs introduced their first Mac computers with the Intel Processors. Among them were a new iMac and a new laptop called the MacBook Pro. With these new Intel Duo Core processors, they're saying that the MacBook Pro runs 4X FASTER. We'll see if these claims are true in the near future. Some cool features about the MacBook Pro include the built-in iSight camera as well as an Apple Remote for running Front Row.

My guess is that Apple is phasing out the Powerbook and iBook names from their notebook product line. They want to make sure they get the word 'Mac' in each product name. So I think the MacBook Pro will replace the Powerbook, and later this year we'll see a MacBook consumer-level model that will replace the iBook.

They also released a new iLife '06 suite. My daddy and I use iLife a lot to create our podcasts. The new GarageBand looks like it will have a lot of features that will be fun for podcasters to play with.

iTunes was also updated to version 6.0.2. Nothing major here. They created a mini-store at the bottom of the iTunes window which is a little annoying. My daddy had a tough time figuring how to disable it as I'm sure a lot of other people will to.

Here's how to turn off that mini-store:
Go to the Edit Menu and select 'Hide MiniStore' (The keyboard shortcut is Shift-Apple-M)

They also have a little button on the bottom right to Show/Hide MiniStore, but it looks exactly like the Show/Hide Artwork on the left hand side. So it's not exactly the most intuitive thing in the world. Anyway, how many times have you used those buttons on the bottom right hand corner of iTunes?!?

Well, there's your Nio-Mac-Tip-of-the-Day!

I Eat Yogurt

I think the title is self-explanatory.

Duration: 1:25
File Size: 7.1 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Happy New Year!