9 Ways a Smart Home Improves Safety and Security
Smart homes are great for making your life easier and making your home feel more modern, or even futuristic. A lot of the features in my smart home are for convenience (e.g. …
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Home Technology Gift Shopping Resources
Shopping for a technology gift for yourself or someone else can be a very difficult task. There are lots of options out there. Does it work with the tech they already have? …
Start Using A Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Key
Cybersecurity is paramount these days. It seems like every day a new breach exposing personal information, including credit card numbers and passwords, is in the news. If it’s not a large company …
What’s In My Smart Home Toolkit?
When you start installing, configuring, and maintaining smart devices you start to realize there are some tools that can make the process easier. Sometimes you need to test smart home devices. Sometimes …
What’s In My Home Office?
2020 changed the world in large, obvious ways and in some smaller ways. One of the ways it changed my world is that I needed to focus more on the comfort and …
MQTT With Home Assistant Using Docker & Mosquitto
MQTT is a great protocol to have in your automation arsenal. I previously wrote a similar article about using the Toke Mosquitto container with Home Assistant and Docker. I have since switched …
The Best Free Photoshop Alternatives
Not everyone has the platform or the money for Photoshop, but there are some really good alternatives that anyone can use! In this article I will talk about the best alternatives, and …