My son is a die-hard minecraft addict, who starts playing Minecraft every weekend morning at 7:00 a.m. He'd play Minecraft all day long, every day of the week, if I'd let him. But like most parents, I want my son to have a variety of interests, hobbies... and hopefully even some friendships with non-electronic real-live people.

Videos taken from your iphone or ipad are imported into iPhoto when you sync your device to iTunes, but it's not very clear how to get those videos out of iPhoto. You can't use the Share -- Email option, because iPhoto only lets you share photos via email.

To share videos over email, export the video as if it were a photo, and iPhoto will convert it to a Quicktime movie format that you can attach to an email or upload to YouTube.

First, sync your iphone or ipad with iTunes, so that your photos and videos are in iPhoto. Open iPhoto and find the video you want to export.

Click the File -- Export menu option and then press the Export button.

iPhoto will recognize that the file you're exporting is actually a video, and will ask you where you want to save the video.

Notice that iPhoto automatically added the .mov file extension? That's the file extension for Quicktime movies, which are viewable on both Mac and PC operating systems.

Once the file has been exported, you can attach it to an email just like you would any other type of file. Quicktime movie files can also be uploaded to YouTube.

Having recently moved into an apartment while we wait for our new house to be ready, I had to set up my wireless home network with a Linksys router hooked up to Comcast XFinity.

Here are the basic steps you'll want to take to personalize and secure your wireless home network. You don't have to be technical to do this - just follow these easy steps and make sure your settings are the same as the screenshots below.

1. Connect to your wireless network

Plug your wireless router (aka. wifi access point) into your Comcast, Frontier or DirecTV modem and look for a network named "linksys" in your computer's wireless networking settings.

On a Mac, just click the wireless icon on the top right of your screen to see a list of available networks.

On a Windows PC, you should see a wireless icon on the lower right of your screen, in the taskbar.

Select this network and it should connect without asking you for a password, because we haven't set up a password yet.

2. Log in as the Administrator

Open a web browser and type in http://192.168.1.1 to access the admin console for your Linksys router.

You'll be prompted for a username and password. Use admin in both fields, which is the default username and password for all Linksys routers.

3. Give your network a name

Click the Wireless tab in your linksys admin console and enter a name for your wireless network in the Network Name (SSID) field. I'm a Lord of the Rings fan, and a total geek, so I called mine gandalf :-)

Make sure you click "Save Settings" when you're done.

Since you changed the name of your network, you'll need to repeat the first two steps (connect to your newly named network, and log back in as the Administrator).