Comfort Web InterfACE – Review
“With this latest hardware and software upgrade, Comfort’s already impressive feature list now grows to include the ability to :- view real-time video images from…
November 2002
FirM (Franks ir Messenger) – Review
Submission by Andy Powell – “Firstly a little bit of background just to get you in the mood… I recently received Homevision as a Christmas…
Broad Band Power Line Modem – Review
Submission by Andy Powell – “It’s not often that powerline technology gets me excited, most of us use X10 and we know it has short…
Home is Where the Computer Is
“A new study has shown that more and more people consider the computer the most important device in the home Computers are playing a more…
Video Surveillance
Submission by Paul Helliwell Just been having a play with some new software that captures video from a camera for cctv type applications. This one…
Onkyo Net-Tune Ethernet Audio
Submission by Nick Shore – I saw a mention of Net-Tune in a Home Cinema Choice article – this looks like the consumer electronics future for network…
Hope for ISDN Based Always On Connection?
Kwong Li brought this BT announcement to my attention yesterday. “Mr Danon finished by saying: “We recognise that the benefits of the new communications revolution…
Keene Electronics IRBKIT – Review
Submission by Jason Starkie – IR Distribution on a budget – As your Hi-Fi and Home Cinema set-up grows there usually comes a point where…
Thomson Stop Making UK TiVo Box
Yesterday EuropeMedia.net reported that Thomson have decided to stop manufacturing TiVos for the UK market. “TiVo’s UK manufacturing partner, Thomson, will cease production of the…
Domestic DivX Player
“A Singapore firm is to release a DVD player that can also play films encoded in the DivX, one of the most popular computer formats…
£20 Telly
The 20 quid maplins TV/Radio is back in stock! With it’s “composite in” feature it makes an ideal tool for setting up CCTV cameras around…
IR Remote Manager v1.3
Submission by Dan Toma – The version 1.3.x of the standalone application and of the AutoM8it plugin is available at the following addresses: http://www.geocities.com/tdanro :…
AutoM8it – New Application Launcher Plugin
Submission by Jim Brett AutoM8it.com have just released the new Application Launcher output plugin. As its names suggests this plugin adds application starting ability to…
TiVo TurboNet Card Now Available in UK
London based Home Automation e-tailer Laser.com have just received stock of the TurboNet TiVo LAN cards, TiVo Memory and the hard drive brackets! "We…
New Release of AutoM8it.com
Submission by Jim Brett AutoM8it.com are pleased to announce a new version of the AutoM8it and X10 plugins. New for Version 0.0.4 New seperate Device…
Microsoft Takes the Tablet
Submission by Daniel James After years of development, Microsoft is unveiling a tablet computer controlled by a pen as well as a traditional mouse and…
IP Network Camera £199.99
Submission by Amer Savas The new FW1100 is now available at an introduction price of £199.99 + vat + del until 15th of Jan 2003….
UKs First CE.net WEBPAD Now Avaliable
Submission by Jack Walker The Wireless UK has now added a new WEBPAD to its inventory. The e-DigiNote is the first CE.net wireless hand held…
IR/RF Recording Playback for Dummies
From the uk.tech.home-automation newsgroup – “I’ve added a very preliminary page to my web site explaining a simple and inexpensive method for recording and playback of…