The easiest way for anybody to get started with building a smart home is through the lights. They're the easiest to setup and some don't even need a hub — just the bulbs, a decent Wi-Fi connection, and your...
By David Ponce
It may very well have singlehandedly changed the way I looked at computers forever. It was 1996, I was around 15, I had pimples, and I had just discovered Duke Nukem 3D. "It's time to...
By David Ponce
Being horizontally challenged is not easy. I'd know. I had to lose 50 pounds, once. It was less fun than watching dry paint get dryer. But you know something? I'm glad I...
By David Ponce
Fun little piece of non-news: If you're using Apple's Safari, changing your homepage to any website in the world is a breeze; but if that site is Google, the browser throws this prompt at you: "Are you...
There's no debate that the switch is the easiest smart home item that you can start with. If you go with the Etekcity Smart Plug Mini Outlet, you can readily control your lights and track your energy usage through...
Useful bit of software here. Especially for bloggers. See, every time I need to make a post, I have to open my FTP application and upload my files. It can get tedious. And since computers...
By David Ponce
The endless possibilities for Microsoft jokes have caused a serious case of writer's block. I believe it senseless that I should have spent the best part of a quarter hour looking for something smart to say...
This is really, truly great! It's an experimental user interface being developed by a man called Pierre Dragicevic. If MS ever hears about it, it very well might revolutionize the Windows OS. Of course, I've been...
By David Ponce
A few days ago, we brought you news of TopDesk 1.4, a great piece of software that reproduced on Win XP the nifty "Expose" functionality found on OSX. For those of you who only rarely come...