http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:12:11 -0700 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:43:10 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Using-Brizzlycom-for-Twitter?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner If you use Twitter, you may want to check out Brizzly.com. I made the switch from Tweetdeck to Brizzly. There are quite a few Twitter clients out there, and there is no single best answer. As with most things, the answer depends on the questi... Products/Services Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:43:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Using-Brizzlycom-for-Twitter?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Holiday-Gift-List-2009?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Gift Ideas for the Wired Home. Here is my Holiday Gift giving list for 2009. Basically my list of favorite technologies I think belong in most homes. I tried to limit things to reasonably hi tech or at least appealing to the high tech minded. Android... Products/Services Ideas Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:45:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Holiday-Gift-List-2009?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Combo-Wired-Deadbolts?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Here is a fairly inexpensive piece of high tech I highly recommend for any home. It is a relatively simple concept, but took a few generations to get it right... a residential compbination deadbolt lock. The two big residential lock companies... Products/Services Home Automation Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:09:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Combo-Wired-Deadbolts?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Whole-Home-Audio-with-a-Squeezebox?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner   Logitech SqueezeBox DuetWhole home audio is great when it works. It should be simple, but rapidly becomes complex and costly very quickly. The cheapest and easiest way is a bunch of radios throughout the house tuned to the same station. We've ... Products/Services Home Automation Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:19:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Whole-Home-Audio-with-a-Squeezebox?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d16-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-Pt-3?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Wow, lots of comments!Too many to respond to by comments, so now we have a part 3.Part 1 here.I guess I need to defend myself a bit. First off, the product sucks. Secondly, I did an extraordinary amount of research, and lastly, I did use a highly com... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:43:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d16-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-Pt-3?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-Pt2?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner This is part 2 of a 2 part post. See Part One Here.MP3 LibraryI have a reasonably large MP3 library that I want as a music source. Russound offers a very expensive Media server for this purpose, but my music is already all stored on a network attache... Products/Services Home Automation Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:50:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-Pt2?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-PT1?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner  One area where technology innovation continues to disappoint is whole home audio. I can remember my father trying to hit this elusive goal, but speaker boxes, amps, and various other limitations foiled him. The system always “mostly worke... Products/Services Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:11:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Whole-Home-Audio-Continues-to-Disappoint-PT1?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d5-The-140-Character-Void-Twitter-Fills?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Twitter’s rapid growth is phenomenal and doesn’t appear to be slowing. There are articles daily on Twitter’s growth, and more and more people (celebrities, companies, and regular folk) keep joining and tweeting.  I’... Products/Services Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:23:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m6d5-The-140-Character-Void-Twitter-Fills?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d17-Electric-Lawn-Mower-in-my-Future?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Neuton CE 6 Electric Mower I hate my gas mower. I am ready to replace it – with anything.  I think an electric mower makes the most sense and in fact I am looking forward to getting one. I have PV solar system on my roof, and feel thi... Products/Services Neuton CMM1200 Electric Mower Green Sun, 17 May 2009 15:10:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d17-Electric-Lawn-Mower-in-my-Future?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d12-The-Other-Solar-Power?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Thermal Solar PanelConverting sunlight into electricity is quite a technical feat, but there is nothing particularly magical about using the sun to make things hot. Thermal solar panels don’t have the sizzle of their photovoltaic cousins, and i... Products/Services Ideas Tue, 12 May 2009 21:54:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d12-The-Other-Solar-Power?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d7-Lost-One-Internet-Connection-Reward?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner We just ran out of ProductivityI work at home most days. I have two phones on my desk (home and work) and two screens on my computer. I actively check multiple email accounts, Twitter, and participate in 3-6 conference calls a week. Evidently, everyt... Products/Services Thu, 07 May 2009 02:13:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m5d7-Lost-One-Internet-Connection-Reward?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Winter-Park-Ski-Train-Comes-to-the-End-of-the-Line?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner I normally write about technology related topics, but this one got my attention.Yesterday, it was announced the Colorado Ski Train was sold and is leaving Colorado. This train has run from Denver to Winter Park ski resort since 1940.The news was a su... Observations Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:07:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Winter-Park-Ski-Train-Comes-to-the-End-of-the-Line?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Home-Hot-Water-Recirculation?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner If you are building a home or doing a major remodel, you may want to consider a hot water recirculation system in the home. As its name implies, it circulates the hot water to keep the water and pipes hot, providing near instant hot water at the fauc... Ideas Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:41:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Home-Hot-Water-Recirculation?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d17-Honey-I-Tracked-the-Kids?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Several of the cell companies are offering GPS tracking for employers/employees. I’m not certain, but I think Nextel was the first to do so on a national scale. For vehicle tracking instead of person tracking, there are even more services avail... Cellular Phones Products/Services Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:17:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d17-Honey-I-Tracked-the-Kids?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d14-We-Know-What-You-Did-Last-Summer?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner Our lives are increasingly online. It is not only where we spend our time, but where we keep our information – pictures, letters, documents, movies, the list goes on. As our information assets move online, so do the criminals. We hear about it ... Observations Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:11:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8139-Home-Technology-Examiner~y2009m4d14-We-Know-What-You-Did-Last-Summer?cid=exrss-Home-Technology-Examiner