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HomeSeer Technologies has just unveiled its new "HomeTroller-Mini" home automation controller.  The tiny 'PC in a Plug' device offers remote home control using the latest Apple and Android smart phones, tablet PCs and other devices.  It's running Linux on a 1GHz processor and is slated to begin shipping in the 2nd quarter of 2011 retailing for under $300...

This months "My Automated Home" feature is from Keyvan Rahimian who shows us around his DIY IPad based home automation set-up. The system uses an impressively professional looking visual interface in conjunction with with a hardware Ethernet to IR gateway from Global Cache to control his AV and Sonos whole house audio systems...

Here's a neat combination of hardware and software to allow you to control your AV system from your iOS device.  The Demopad app provides the customisable front end to your control set-up, while the Keene KIRA128 IP to infra-red module allows you to learn, store and send the commands...

Like us, many of you have no doubt gathered up a collection of tools and software over the years to help you set up your computers.  We've been hearing great things about this little device from the guys in our IRC channel and its something you might like to add to your kit.  The iodd 2501 is a caddy for a 2.5" SATA hard drive - but with a difference.  Connecting via USB or eSATA the unit is automatically detected as both a Mass Storage Device and an External Optical Drive.  This allows you to add all your favourite OS's as ISO files and using it's built in OLED display choose the one you want to install. You'll never have to hunt around for an install CD again or write a disc.  It's also easy to boot and install to devices like netbooks which have no optical drive, plus you can use it as a regular drive caddy for backups etc too...