Automated Home

When I bought my new MacBook Unibody back in 2009 I had envisaged keeping it for two years.  Shortly after I got it though, Apple tweaked the design by adding a new SD slot and built-in battery as well as restoring the FireWire port and ‘Pro’ moniker.   In the end I’ve had that machine for [...]

We’ve spent may hours with Drobo and DroboShare over the last few weeks preparing our review. We’ve finally put down the camera, finished the text and graphics so today we can published our findings.  Read on for the in-depth review including video, photos, graphs and screen grabs from Windows, Mac and Linux.  Oh, and our [...]

Smarthome enthusiasts love to control and monitor their homes remotely. I’ve found nothing is as well suited to this as a Smartphone. Whether you communicate with your house via SMS text messages or email, or view your CCTV cameras remotely, nothing beats the screen size, data connectivity and portability of a Smartphone. My last three [...]

One of the most popular projects that readers of Automated Home embark upon, is moving all of their media files (music, video, photos etc) onto a central server. Many of us have ripped our entire CD collections to MP3s on our hard drives over the last few years and, if you’re like me, also taken [...]