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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...

Kaleidescape have unvieled the latest version of their KEAOS operating system - V3.5.  New features include the ability to automatically synchronize music from a Kaleidescape System to iTunes on a PC, an iPod or other digital music player,  new classical music interface that lets users personalise their classical music listening experience, greater data safety in the event of disk drive failure, and new options for sharing personalized movie scripts and favorite scenes with other Kaleidescape users...

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…

We all know that systems integration is the single biggest hurdle in building complex smart home systems today.  The Amigo Challenge is putting up thousand of Euro in prize money to encourage submissions to their project.  Watch the video after the jump for Amigos glimpse of an integrated, truly intelligent smart home future...

Here's one we haven't covered before, HackMyth is described as "the home automation control kit for mythTV" and offers Z-Wave wireless control of your smart home, from the same box that carries out your PVR functions...