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Home automation products are still a bit thin on the ground for the Mac platform.  However Indigo from Perceptive Automation is a quality smart home management system.  Its built-in web server and client/server architecture give you control and access to your home remotely from other Macs, PCs, internet tablets, PDAs, and mobile phones. Indigo supports the PowerLinc home control interfaces, and is the first Mac software that can control both INSTEON and X10 compatible devices...

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve done this, but a few days ago I decided to draw up a list of my favourite technology from the last 12 months.  As I asked myself what items I had been using on a daily basis, the ones I really couldn’t live without, I came to the realisation that the top ten or more technologies I was thinking of, came from just two companies!  It probably won’t be too much of a surprise to find out who they are, but here is my shortlist for “Top Tech” in 2007…

Submission by: John Lamont - Background - On a PC Since discovering Homeseer as a Home Automation controller for my X10 modules throughout the house, I've been in gadget heaven. Flicking on/off/dimming lights and with some Hawkeye's, basic motion detection is possible. Then I obtained a wireless Oregon Scientific Weather station for the Fry's miss-price of $60 while on a trip to California...

A very nice article on how this guy remotely mounted his Mac mini under a kitchen unit, then extended its ports onto a UK double socket faceplate, complete with USBs, Power, Video out and Ethernet etc...

"My father wished to install a computer in the kitchen, hidden, and with few to no visible cables. Encorperating a TV into the setup somehow. Situation: The kitchen had been recently overhauled, tiled, plastered, and cleaned up. So I had a blank canvas to work from...