How to Monitor Your Home with FaceTime

Apr 19, 2011 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Using Apple’s FaceTime, you can chat with someone in another part of your house or a person on the other side of the world. It’s simple to use your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad as a webcam when using this built-in [...]

Monitor Your Home Remotely

Apr 15, 2011 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My home is seriously secure. I know this because I have like a billion cameras pointed into every possible nook and cranny. Recently, I was going through a bout of insomnia and happened to catch some news that the security system [...]

Lorex Baby Video Monitor Review

Oct 18, 2010 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With Pixie so ill recently, I was happy that the folks at Lorex had passed along the Live “Snap” Video Monitor for me to review. I was able to keep an eye on her as she rested in another room. This [...]

Does Your Home Need a Dropcam?

Sep 30, 2010 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Here I am taking a video with one camera of another camera here in my home. I think I have more security cameras in my home than anyone else in all of Seattle. The people behind the Dropcam state that their [...]

Lorex Security System Review

Apr 13, 2010 | 12 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve demonstrated home security systems in the past. This time, I’ve gotten my hands on a couple of different systems from Lorex. I’ll even be giving one of these products away at the end of this video review. One of the [...]

Security Camera Systems for Home

Jan 4, 2010 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The Vue is a wireless camera connected to my home network, thanks to the base station. The kit includes a base station and two wireless cameras. If you’re looking to add something like this to your home network, this is about [...]

What Wired or Wireless Network Camera is the Best?

May 20, 2009 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you listen closely to the beginning of this video, you’ll hear Wicket bark. I was doing a pan and scan of my living room downstairs, using a camera connected to my network remotely. I couldn’t believe he wasn’t caught lying [...]

Which Wireless Security Cameras are the Best?

Jan 18, 2009 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you look at this little device, you’ll see it looks like a phone. It’s not, though. It’s picking up audio and video from the wireless signal in my bedroom. I can use this tool to pick up up to four [...]

What Kind of Home Security Do You Have?

Oct 12, 2008 | 7 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Nearly a decade ago, I was on the cutting edge with a web cam. I didn’t even have broadband back then, but I had a semi-live web cam. People would watch it and save images from it. I received an email [...]

What Do You Do to Keep Your Home Secure?

Jul 6, 2008 | 17 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Home security is important. Crime doesn’t go away, it keeps growing. There are many things you can do to keep yourself, and your home/possessions, safe. Thanks go out to Joe for sending in some tips on how to keep your home [...]

Home Security and Electronics

Nov 4, 2006 | 4 Comments

Ken Thomson in San Francisco, CA sent me an email this morning with a handful of helpful hints – especially if I’m trying to build the geekiest Fort Knox on the planet: Being a retired real estate broker, I can tell you how to accomplish what you want. You are right; brand new is best [...]