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This holiday season, there will be a lot of Nintendo Wiis under the Christmas trees. If you want to turn your new Wii into a media center, download Wii Transfer from Riverfold software ($19).

With Wii Transfer, you can share your movies, music, and pictures directly to your Nintendo Wii using the Internet Channel. Copy Miis from your Wii back to your Mac and save them as images. Browse iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums on your television. Convert your movies to formats the Wii understands, either streaming directly from your Mac or for playback in the Wii’s Photo Channel. Wii Transfer can even manage saved game backups copied to an SD card.

Media sharing works by running a small web server inside Wii Transfer. To connect to your movies, music, and pictures, you need to use the Internet Channel on your Wii and enter a URL provided by the software. If you purchased your Wii before July of 2007, the Internet Channel is free to you. If not you will need to pay $5 on the Wii shopping channel to obtain it.

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You all remember the Apple Pippin, the greatest

biggest flop of a game system ever, don’t you?  Since then Apple has stayed relatively far away from the gaming market all together.  However, I believe some of there products have, coincidentally, brought them somewhat back into it.  Look at the iPhone and its accelerometer.  Those two devices together make a great pair for a handheld gaming system and developers have already begun to take advantage of that with games like Spore (in the keynote).  Still, I think there is yet one more product that could soon be a nice little gaming device, and that’s the Apple TV.

A recent patent filing by Apple suggest a 3D gaming controller for their Apple TV that would supposedly be much like the Wii’s system.  This would be great for casual gaming on the Apple TV.  Think about it.  This device was made to be put in a living room with a large HD TV and home entertainment system.  It has the iTunes Store on it with a full library of podcasts, etc.  Why not add games to that list of items that can be purchased with this device?  It already has everything it needs besides the most vital part, the games and the controller (Apple remote?).  With those two additions, I feel it could one day become a serious competitor to the Wii.  Now, this probably won’t happen anytime soon if at all, but it’s a possibility.  What do you think?

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Computers.  Displays.  Cell phones.  Music players.  Online music.  Storage.  Networking.  Apple is already in a ton of markets, many of which, unfortunately, are tightly tied together.  However, Apple is still a relatively young company and can branch out so much more.  The questions is, if at all, where?  Will they enter the digital camera market?  The gaming market?  The GPS and auto market?  Or maybe even video cameras?  It could be any of the above, especially given the fact that Apple has applied for so many patents lately.  It will be interesting to find out, but heres my thoughts:

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