Important Stuff – Securing Your Digital Lifestyle
If you weren’t following the horror story of Wired journalist Mat Honan’s personal hacking over the weekend, then do yourself a favour and read his…
Software
Open Source Freedomotic Home Automation Software Updated
Our friends over at Freedomotic, the open source Home Automation Software project, have sent us details of their latest update. Version 5.3.0 is now available for download…
Plex Client Now Available in Official Samsung App Store
Thanks to the sterling work of the Plex team – especially ‘hd1080’ – owners of all 2010 Samsung C-Series TVs with ‘Internet@TV’ and all 2011…
AlertMe Launch Web and Smartphone Remote Heating Control with British Gas
AlertMe have just announced that its web and smartphone enabled remote heating control service is now available in the UK exclusively from British Gas. The…
ComfortClick Manager KNX Visualization Software
KomfortKlik, a specialist in home automation software development, is proud to present ComfortClick Manager KNX visualization software which enables full building automation and control via…
Keene Electronics and ExtraVegetables Announce Control4 KIRA Drivers
Home automation driver creators “Extra Vegetables” have recently enable the IRAnywhere hardware from Keene Electronics to talk Control4. The system can be used to provide…
Make a Home Media Server With Old PC & Open Source VortexBox
While VortexBox has been around since 2008, it had a major update late last year and it’s now based on Fedora 16. Just download the…
iRidium Release New Version of KNX Home Automation Software
The guys from iRidium have contacted us with the details on the latest release of their Home Automation software app… “iRidium Mobile Ltd. presents a…
Free Open Source Mayhem Software Has Home Automation Potential
Mayhem is a free open source software application that allows you to connect devices to services on your Windows computer. While it’s possible for programmers…
Plex Media Server – Now with Added DLNA
Our favourite media centre system, Plex, has released another update, this time to the server half of the partnership. Amongst the list of fixes and…
iRidium 2.0 Controls Your Home From iOS, Windows, Android, Mac OSX , BlackBerry
iRidium version 2.0 is coming in April this year and the company showed a beta of the product at the recent Integrated Systems Europe show….
Freedomotic – Open Source Home Automation Software
Last year we ran a piece on ‘Freedom’ – new open source building and home automation software distributed under GPL2 license, written in Java (so…
Control4 MyHome App for Android Home Automation
Control4 are bringing their Andriod MyHome app to many more users as they roll out versions in 19 languages in the next few weeks. The…
Mac OSX Home Automation Software Indigo 5.0 Released
[Update ] Check out our Indigo Review here. Perceptive Automation have announced the next major release of their Mac Home Automation software – Indigo v5.0. …
xAP Viewer iOS Home Automation App
xAP is an open protocol aimed at connecting disparate Home Automation devices. Last week James Traynor released his ‘xAP Viewer’, a free iOS App aimed at…
Crestron Releases Updated iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone
Crestron have updated their ‘Crestron Mobile‘ (free) and ‘Crestron Mobile Pro‘ (£69.99) apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new versions bring support…
WeatherSnoop 2.0 Weather Station Software for Mac OS X
Tee-Boy software have just announce the release of version 2.0 of their WeatherSnoop for Mac OS X. WeatherSnoop interfaces with a wide range of personal…
SecuritySpy CCTV Video Surveillance Software for the Mac
UK based BenSoftware today announces SecuritySpy 2.0.9, an update to their multi-camera video surveillance software on the Macintosh platform. With features such as motion detection,…
Meet KLEXi for iPad
More Plex / iOS media goodness, this time from third party developers Ambertation. Using the HTTP/XML API to the Plex Media Server, the German devs…
Plex iOS App Video Walk Through
You asked for more info – you got it. Check out our 3 minute video walk through of the brand new Plex streaming media centre…