Author: Formby

Being able to see real time usage of your electricity at home is a bit of an eye opener. I’ve been using the Efergy home hub for a few days and I’m currently monitoring each separate circuit. I am being surprised, my wife always grumbles at the electricity bill and keeps saying that all my …

See what’s happening at home when you’re not there, from a security perspective. If you’re looking into doing this, check out the articles I’ve done. They won’t make you a genius but will hopefully help get you started. There’s a couple of low cost options using your existing USB camera and one about using an …

I’ve done a couple of articles on remote home monitoring but just thought that I should tell you about something that I’m playing with at the moment. It isn’t anything to do with security but this technology is brilliant. I do happen to have a few “network devices” on my LAN and I do tend …

Well I guess, the Start Screen and the way that the “Apps” behave is not suited to Luddites like me. It seems that, by design, when running an “App”, it is supposed to run in “Full Screen”  and doesn’t have an easy or intuitive way to quit the “App”- can’t imagine why. I found out …

Initially, the start screen with the tiles seems a good idea. All your favourite “apps” available with one touch or a click of the mouse, great, saves having to hunt round looking for the “program” that you want to use and then the search function, great again. Just fire up the search function and start …