Send Photos Wirelessly From Your Camera With Eye-Fi
The Eye-Fi memory card can send photos from your camera to a desktop, laptop, mobile device, or online sharing service.
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Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great
I’m a big fan of WiFi security cameras, and I recently got a chance to test out the new SmartCam from Samsung. This is a camera that you can monitor from a browser, but the real power is found in …
Continue ReadingReview: ASUS RT-N66U N900 Router
Asus took note of the open source community surrounding OpenWRT and Tomato and determined there was a market for an easy-to-configure consumer router with enough power and features to satisfy the most demanding users. After nearly a month with the …
Continue ReadingStreetlights Can Do That? An Entrepreneur Creates Smarter Cities
What do music, the iPhone and Hurricane Katrina have to do with streetlights? If you are Ron Harwood, everything. Ron is the inventor of Intellistreets, an LED street light system that goes way beyond simply lighting our streets.
Continue ReadingGreat Face-To-Face HD Chats in Your Living Room With Logitech
Logitech kindly provided me with two of their new TV Cam HD kits to test out. The HD camera requires HDMI to support the higher quality 720p image, and since my in-laws already had an existing Skype account, all that …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Review: Hitachi G-Connect
I have been traveling a great deal lately and I am one of those that travels with a veritable toolkit of things that I consider basics for being on the road. A travel power strip with USB outlets, extra chargers …
Continue ReadingWiFi Security and Monitoring Via DropCam
There are a number of baby monitoring systems out there, but many of them have a matching hand-held viewing device or only allow for viewing on a home PC that’s on the same network as the camera. Many of these …
Continue ReadingCloudFTP: Expanding Your iPad With WiFi Access to External Storage
The CloudFTP device was originally a Kickstarter project that was successfully funded back in January 2012. It’s now a retail product available for purchase by anyone, and it fills a much-needed gap for iPad users who have various mobile storage …
Continue ReadingUpdating a Home Network With TP-LINK
For some time now my Internet access has been held hostage by an old 802.11g WiFi router. Enter the TP-Link TL-WR842ND — with a maximum 300Mbps bandwidth.
Continue ReadingStay Connected With TP-Link’s Nano WiFi Router
Back in January when I attended CES in Las Vegas, I was quite surprised to discover that my hotel room (in a very well known hotel, too) didn’t offer WiFi Internet, only a standard Ethernet cable snaking out of the …
Continue ReadingA History of Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio
In addition to science fiction, another type of book that I absolutely enjoy reading is of the tech-history variety. Books like Hackers by Steven Levy, Revolution in the Valley (collections of stories and observations about the development of the first …
Continue ReadingCanada Has Its Own Digital Media Woes (Like 2GB Monthly Caps on Basic Home Internet)
I had the opportunity last week to attend Canada 3.0 in Stratford, Ontario, a gathering billed as Canada’s premier digital media conference. It seemed a no-brainer: only an hour drive (and to my home town no less), smack in the …
Continue ReadingiPhone Upgrades: Wood Is Good
iPhone 4 Replacement Back From Material6 I’ll say flat out that I love the look of the wood iPhone 4 Replacement Back from Tucker, Georgia-based Material6. My review unit was in South American Rosewood, a dark material with distinct grain …
Continue ReadingReview: Brother Printer Offers Wireless iDevice Printing Now, Connectivity Galore
Brother recently sent one of their MFC-990CW multifunction printers for me to play with; considering the model supported wireless printing from an iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone now (instead of waiting a few more weeks for Apple to release iOS …
Continue ReadingRedEye Turns Your iPhone Into A Universal Remote Control
For nearly any household or lifestyle task or interest, there is, as the commercials say, “an app for that”. Add to that impressive list the RedEye universal remote control system, which consists of a free app bundled with a Wi-Fi-to-infrared …
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