Gordon Meyer

Enjoy this archive of older posts as I move to a new server. Contact Gordon

• Book Review: Opus Dei
• Tile trackers are a waste of money
• Book Review: Polish Robbin’ Hoods
• Briefly noted
• Aldi’s AirTag Keychain
• Book Review: Haunted Junk Drawer
• STFU ScanSnap Update annoyances
• Open their eyes with Live Photos
• An afternoon scene in Walsh Park
• Book Review: Apocrypha Now
• Two millennials at the post office
• Book Review: The Hooked X
• Book Review: Over My Dead Body
• Unintended consequences of casino carpeting
• Siri won’t speak in Shortcuts
• None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us: Goodbye Auto-Correct
• Book Review: Blah Blah Blah
• Book Review: 50 Things to do in the Urban Wild
• Primark is for travelers
• Feeling bitter about batteries
• A Tempurpedic Remote Control hack
• Book Review: The Merry Spinster
• A reliable keypad door lock from Schlage
• STATUS: Publish
• What YouTubers can learn from Buskers
• A Bigger is Better Shaving Mirror
• HAIL The Satanic Temple
• The secret to reliable remote control of your smart home
• How to easily turn off annoying Ulysses features
• Book Review: Existential Physics
• Book Review: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
• Neighborhood sociopathology
• Small-town Dead
• Dealing with people who won’t stop talking
• Troubleshooting an IR remote control
• Nevada Political candidate signs
• A solution for an outdoor speaker sound system
• Book Review: More Sneaky Feats
• Underfoot in Las Vegas
• Wired backhaul and Linksys Velop Wi-Fi mesh networks
• Book Review: Creative, Not Famous
• Book Review: A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
• Book Review: Coding Games with Scratch
• Book Review: Enquire Within Upon Everything
• Book Review: How to Lie with Maps
• Hikers Suspenders are the real deal
• Book Review: The Missing Ink
• A system for aging in place
• Book Review: Bullet Lists
• Book Review: The Don’t Laugh Game Does a 180
• Book Review: Tiny Crimes
• Book Review: xkcd Volume Zero
• Charging a Ring Stick-up Cam camera
• Book Review: Fan Fiction
• How to lose a customer, the Amazon eero 6e way
• A story cube milestone
• How to lose a customer, the Physician’s Mutual Insurance way
• Book Review: Sidewalk Oracles
• Resolving the HomeKit can’t find accessory error
• How to lose a customer the CenturyLink way
• Book Review: Who in Hell
• Another reason why Dropbox sucks
• Book Review: The Library of the Dead
• A true story
• Book Review: Secret Route 66
• The Case of the Counterfeit Nivea
• Book Review: Horrorstor
• The secret to manually updating Volvo XC-60 nav maps
• How to Lose a Customer the FedEx Way
• Livboj is IKEA’s excellent Qi charger
• Book Review: Make Paper Inventions
• Pandemic Drip Dry
• How to make portable backups using Hyper Backup
• Book Review: Dr. Broth and Ollie’s Brain-Boggling Search for the Lost Luggage
• Book Review: Move
• Rewarding rent-a-cops
• Book Review: Robot Magic and The Maker Magician Handbook
• Book review: Scooby-Doo and You: The Case of the Glowing Alien
• All due credit for Susan Thunder
• Where the heck is Riverside Cemetery, Huron, South Dakota?
• Book Review: Can We Stop
• Book Review: The Fairy Tale Review
• Book Review: How to Build A Lie Detector, Brain Wave Monitor & Other Secret Paraphsychological Electronics Projects
• Book Review: Flying High: Flags of the United States
• Using a Battery Replacer
• Pans that fit the Balmuda Toaster Oven
• Book Review: Dinosaur Therapy
• Book Review: The Book of the Raven
• Wisconsin Observations
• Trucker Suspenders are a thing
• Credit card charge from "Careington International" is VSP
• Book Review: The Secret of Terror Castle
• Not just for kidnappers
• The Tub Shroom works
• How the Mormon church pervades everything in Utah
• Book Review: The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers
• Stuff a stocking with local history!
• Review: Atlas Obscura Online Course
• A secret of computer cleaning
• Book Review: Poor Little Ghosts
• The Vanishing: A Holiday Tale
• A macro for searching Amazon
• Book Review: A Purple Thread
• A holder for Square Moo business cards
• Three Little Pigs
• Book Review: The Practice
• Book Review: Scritch Scratch
• Automating Ulysses to MarsEdit hand-off
• Book Review: Bird Feeder
• Book Review: Sharpie Art Workshop
• Book Review: Death From a Top Hat
• Book Review: Chicago America’s Workshop
• Firex double beep meaning and replacement
• Notes from a BeagleBone Black newbie
• How to Select All and Copy from the iOS Notes app
• This documentary is on fire
• A true story from the doctor's office, in cartoon form
• Leaky Peet’s Nespresso capsules
• Macro to load remote images in macOS Mail.app
• Book Review: The Old-Time Saloon
• Hotel Room Nightlight Hack
• Book Review: Grave Tidings
• Book Review: Cows on Ice and Owls in the Bog
• Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Hue headaches when traveling
• Book Review: The Lake Michigan Mothman
• Book Review: You Are Alice in Wonderland’s Mum!
• Bit Rot Chronicles
• Using Apple TV mute function with a Sonos Playbase
• Book Review: The Influencing Machine
• Rewriting What’s New in Word
• Keep your vaccination card in Notes
• Book Review: Tono Monogatari
• Book Review: The Elements of Eloquence
• Book Review: A Walking Tour of the Shambles
• Book Review: Urban Faery Magick
• Another reason not to go to Alabama
• Five people at the post office
• Book Review: Hunter S. Thompson - The Last Interview
• Announcing: Murderous Neighbors - Bizarre Fact File #5
• Book Review: Charles Fort
• IKEA's wonderful audio catalog
• Dear future resident
• Book Review: The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
• Book Review: The Cosmic Serpent
• Working around fuzzy PDFs from Shortcuts
• Book Review: The Dutch Shoe Mystery
• Book Review: There Once Was…
• Upgrading to eero 6 and HomeKit
• Covering a doorknob hole
• Book Review: Astronumerography
• Book Review: The Old Fashioned
• Stuff a stocking with history!
• Christmas is for ghosts
• The best way to catch a water leak before it's too late
• Book Review: That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
• A true story from Amsterdam (2019)
• Book Review: Bullet Points and Punch Lines
• A little free library in Chicago
• Is that a haunted bell in your pocket?
• Cropping a photo to any size with iOS 14
• The House of the Blood Stains
• My favorite bag; my favorite things
• Book Review: No Ketchup
• Book review: Lucas Mackenzie and the London Midnight Ghost Show
• A visit to Amsterdam's Oudmanhuispoort (2019)
• Book Review: You Are Wonderful coloring book
• iOS 14 Camera setting not restored on launch
• A true story from Amsterdam (2019)
• I am judging your return address labels
• Book Review: Londonist Mapped
• Levelator is not dead!
• There's no shame in little or slow
• Join the IndieWeb
• A true story from Köln, in comic form
• Book Review: Homicide — Bucktown
• Time Traveling in København
• A true story from Shetland's only town
• A true story in which I become an object in a scavenger hunt
• A true story from Liverpool
• Book Review: The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam
• National Coloring Book Day
• A true story from Wales
• A true story from Dublin
• Solicitor with Fairy Door
• Thank you, Pinboard
• A true story from Portobello Road (London)
• Book Review: Chicagoing Straight to Hell
• A true London story in comic form
• A true Chicago story in comic form
• What's your #BucktownBlocks story? (5)
• What's your #BucktownBlocks story? (4)
• What's your #BucktownBlocks story? (3)
• What's your #BucktownBlocks story? (2)
• What's your #BucktownBlocks story? (1)
• Book review: Superstitions
• Tablet Stands I’ve Known
• A true Las Vegas story in comic form
• Shopping Bag Museum returns
• Book Review: Chicago Gets Four Stars
• Quick fix for the KitchenAid Nespresso Espresso Maker
• Book Review: The Little Winter Book of Gnomes
• The Silver Ingot: A Las Vegas Text Adventure Game
• Automatically open the printer status window
• Book Review: Why You Should Read Children’s Books
• A Cat at Begraafplaats Huis de Vraag
• A nursery rhyme for troubled times
• Announcing: Bizarre Fact Files
• Book Review: Grave Plots
• Dr Fauci and Time Travel
• Clever garage door sensor hack
• Creating a yearly macOS Mail archive
• Multiple TXT records with Route53 DNS
• Sending text from Ulysses to MarsEdit
• Using Tinderbox for Mail Merge
• Our Will o’ The Wisp
• Cure for a SwitchBot that forgets its schedule
• Beaglebone Black card box
• Things3 quick-add with Safari page title
• Duplicate the current page in a new Safari window
• Book Review: The Canterville Ghost
• Wildcard redirects at Namecheap not working
• S3 Bucket Static Hosting Access Errors
• STATUS: Publish
• STATUS: Publish
• STATUS: Publish
• A writing exercise milestone
• Book Review: Difference Between
• More Roadside Poetry
• Sauce Packet Poetry
• Roadside Poetry
• Limitcheck and maskerror printing problem with Laserjet
• A blast from my ADAM past
• Hopper as Time Traveller
• Use an HFS+ drive with Synology HyperBackup
• Book Review: Thoughts of a Dog Walker
• Change WiFi settings for Koogeek Power Strip 01US
• Hunting the Little Woodcutter of Amsterdam
• Notes about upgrading from DevonThink Pro Office to DevonThink 3
• HP Printer Bonjour broken after network change
• Drafts action for Ulysses
• Check out my NutSac
• Be the Internet you want to see
• A great men’s belt with a silly name
• Scripting the QuickTake
• Good career advice for techies
• Why I’m here
• Shower without getting wet
• So long, Esquire (sort of)
• Best ankle compression sleeve
• My Allstate Debacle
• The best crappy DVD player you'll ever own
• Markdown tables in Ulysses and Marked 2
• Know when Alexa is listening
• The Best Long Shoulder Strap
• Book Review: Make your own Twine Games!
• A good electric kettle
• Book Review: The Battle of Lincoln Park
• Why does my Raspberry Pi Zero W constantly crash during startup?
• Alternative to crutches
• When you can’t shower after surgery
• Book Review: Chicago’s Best Dive Bars
• Using an alias with WorkMail / Exchange iOS 12 mail
• Book Review: True Ogden Scandals
• Big Grab Bag of INSTEON modules for sale
• Three Ways To Improve Rental Cars
• The Reader
• Book Review: A People's Guide to Publishing
• Book Review: Cemetery Maps
• Book Review: Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out
• Monsieur Paul = a gem at DisneyWorld
• The sad decline of Amazon Prime
• Synology (DSM) Hyper Backup fail -- fixed
• California Grill - meh at DisneyWorld
• Hemingway: Time Traveler
• Ambience at Nine Dragons (Epcot)
• Just sayin’
• El Siboney - Cuban Food in Key West
• Why is it so hard to create a will?
• How to edit the PDF pop-up menu in macOS print dialog
• Upgrading to the latest Kindle
• Two important Galena visiting tips
• Abusive Smart Homes
• A lap desk for when you're stuck in bed
• The haunting of a condo
• Inconsistent eero speed test results explained
• eero Beacon deployed
• PhoneValet Remote Dialing Requires Web Sharing
• Silent Observer: A True Story
• A simple amazing magnifying mirror
• Still missing Wylbur
• So long, Crashplan
• Don't host your business on Fatcow.com
• An iMac with three displays
• Pause the internet during dinner
• ScanSnap and macOS Sierra anxiety
• Five minutes with eero wi-fi
• The LED Bulb that ate my Wi-Fi
• Amazon Courier Delivery is a step backwards
• Thoughts on the Wink Relay
• Reason #99 that Macy's sucks
• Tallia Orange size discrepancy at Macy's
• NeverCurl for that p.i.t.a rug that you keep tripping over
• Insteon Chime (Alert) Module
• Moving from Bento to another database
• The Guardian's "I Hate Vegas" article fails fact checking
• Fix for Withings Home that drops offline
• Insteon exposes Alexa's weaknesses
• The rattle of the Ecobee3
• Amazon Dash: First Impressions
• Just a bite of Smart Home Hacks
• RealPad, for seniors in marketing only
• Fantastic chair for Big and Tall people
• First Impressions: Netatmo Welcome
• iBeacon launcher for Mac
• Insteon Hub meets HomeKit
• An improved way to wear the Narrative Clip camera
• Hexopedia: A review
• Is that an Anker sore?
• Revisited: Shave Well Mirror
• WordLock Karma
• Searching Evernote Hello
• Upgrading to the new Insteon Hub 2
• Fix for Asko dryer that won't turn on
• Fix for a loose and wobbly Xshot Monopod
• Horror tales from the smart home
• Cool Tools: Toastabags
• Follow up to The Energizer Flashlight That Won't Stay On
• Dropbox deleted my files by itself
• Numerous - lovely and useful tracking of numbers
• Revolv and INSTEON Mini Remote
• Bose Solo
• A remote, wireless gate alarm
• What's your name again?
• Teleconference dialing with Alfred 2
• Now this is modern writing
• Refilling the Fisher Space Pen Stowaway
• A faster "print PDF to DevonThink Pro" method
• iTunes: strange "no permission to see contents" error
• Transporter Sync SMB via Mac OS X
• QPlay: First Impressions
• Migrating Yojimbo to DevonThink Pro
• Hunting Trophy door light is a clever solution
• Thoughts on Transporter Sync
• TiVo Remote Control Code for TCL 39" LED TV
• More on UPS My Choice
• Revolv and Intermatic Home Settings Z-Wave Devices
• Goldee and Hue
• Quirky Spotter: An Update
• Monitor energy usage with WeMo Insight
• Smart Home Hacks is a Cool Tool
• A quirky approach to home control
• Remote-controlled power strip
• Use an old iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to monitor your home
• Control your Mac from your iPhone: Otto's Remote
• Collected Works: Cool Tools
• Growl Gets Better for Home Automation
• Revolv looks interesting
• Indigo adds Z-Wave
• Cool Tools - Shaving Mirror
• XTension's passthrough SSL/HTTPS server
• The downside of putting your house on the web
• Let the WeMo hacking begin!
• The Energizer flashlight that won't stay on
• Philips Hue: Problem adding new bulb
• Using Artboard for Info graphics
• Collected Works: O'Reilly Digital Media
• Collected Works: 43 Folders
• Keyboard Maestro: Markdown Link from Safari
• Keyboard Maestro: An update to Make Link With Title From Clipboard
• Update a Status Board webcam image using Javascript
• Quickly grab a Street View image of your location
• A different type of hideaway bed
• XTension adds microcontroller support
• "The Gift of Mystery" on Medium
• Built-in disk dock for OS X
• Hue gets smarter
• Automation to move messages to a folder in OS X Mail
• Door Jammer brace provides easy home security
• Curio to Staus Board
• Digital vs Print publishing in a niche market
• Keyboard Maestro: Feel less square with Urban Dictionary lookup
• A use case for Keyboard Maestro Web Access
• Review: Turning Pro
• Contact Gordon Meyer
• The Scoop coffee maker: More tips and tricks
• Soda Stream: Tips and Tricks
• Review: Fake TV
• Evoz and Belikin team up for audio-only monitoring
• Emptying my sleeves
• Your baby's weight in gold
• Have Your Mac Automagically Recognize You
• Alfred 2 workflow: Create img tag
• A script to automatically create a complete img tag
• Philips releases Hue API
• Tinderbox: rediscovering an old friend
• Know when your home is burning with INSTEON
• An Arizona UFO
• Keyboard Maestro: Look up a shorter synonym on Thsrs
• Control an appliance based on temperature
• Keyboard Maestro: Make Link with Title from Clipboard
• Arduino Esplora as a thermostat
• Track your accomplishments
• A word about Hue
• INSTEON Hub: Automation the Rest of Us?
• Holiday Decoration Automation with INSTEON
• Keyboard Maestro: Wrap URL
• Living with Dropcam
• Book spotting at Quimby's
• Lockitron - The promise of keyless entry
• WeMo: UhOh and HoHum (a review)
• Review: Withings Baby Monitor
• Control your Mac using Dropbox and a Ball of String
• Hacking The Scoop Coffee Maker
• TextExpander: Links to Amazon with affiliate code
• Blink(1) - the USB LED notifier
• The city that works
• Password Wallet: Auto-typing Secrets
• WeMo - Remote control over the web
• A smart light bulb
• Elphi - a Wi-Fi controllable plug
• A beginner's guide to UK home automation
• Automatically locking your computer when you leave
• Performing in Magic Chicago, May 2, 2012
• Review: UPS My Choice
• The Social Organization of the Computer Underground - Now for iPad
• Review: Shave Well Fog Free Mirror
• Review: One Good Earbud
• Audio-only monitoring of your pet
• Lorex home webcam using Skype
• Another automated Twitter approach
• Evernote for Spousal Communication
• My encounter with a St Augustine Monster
• Cure for a DevonThink database that won't open
• How to change the location data of an Evernote note
• How to remember your reusable grocery bags
• INSTEON control via iOS and Android
• Tinderbox: Converting to internal templates
• A Skype-based home webcam
• STATUS: Publish
• Consistency mobile
• A Christmas tree that asks to be watered
• Smart Home Hacks in Popular Science
• Lock and unlock your Mac with your iPhone
• Banging noise when furnace turns off
• STATUS: Publish
• Prelude to a story
• Performing in Magic Chicago next week
• Intimidate burglars with a laser display
• Higher quality network camera option
• Automatically close your windows
• The end of X10?
• Horrible anti-environmental package from K-Mart
• TV on your network: HD HomeRun Review
• Pringles courts Makers
• BookReader - An ePub viewer for Mac OS X
• Word count in XML documents
• Las Vegas: Underfoot - news and reviews
• No thanks, WakeMate (A Review)
• Book Review: The Wlider Life
• Home automation and the Sabbath
• Know when the mail has arrived
• Using an iPhone as a security camera
• How to import video to iMovie for iPad
• Top AppleScript tips for home automators
• Home Automation Tutorials Online
• SynchroLinc - INSTEON device trigger
• Making it easy to shop somewhere else
• AirBeam iOS camera monitoring
• Is Dropcam the best way to monitor your home?
• Announcing - Las Vegas: Underfoot
• Automating your doorbell
• Switch off, sleep, or restart your computer via iPhone
• Announcing The Jinx Companion
• Aria: The Automated Hotel
• My Cool Tools Contribution: Delivery Status
• My failed crop circle experiment
• Charge visitors to ring your doorbell
• Good technology for Seniors
• Reminders via email
• The demise of Dewey
• A Sequence of Lines proves a sad truth
• A cow tells how to cook hamburger
• Finding your lost luggage
• Automate and save water
• The lighter side of DIY home hacking I only...
• Newspaper in the throes of change
• Create a customized news broadcast for your home
• A door-mounted counter for tracking, um, things
• Is that a pen in your pocket?
• Book Review: Cryptozoology: A Pragmatist's Guide
• Smart Home Tweets: Fixed
• FlipBlade stand for iPad and MacBook Air
• Updated versions of The Social Organization of the Computer Underground
• Hosting an ePub requires a web server MIME type change
• Homeland Security monitoring technology comes home
• An automatic turn on
• Catching your neighbor in the act
• Performance snapshot
• Detroit Fire Station Fax Hack
• Smart Home Hacks in the Montreal Gazette
• A new Curio
• Control your Mac from iPhone using HomeControl
• Smart Home Hacks and iBooks
• 100 under 140 - a book review
• Monitor appliance power status with INSTEON
• Shion can see
• Screwed by Proxi
• NYT on the Coming Robot Invasion
• Monitor your home with an Internet camera
• Computer Underground: Word Cloud
• Ikea's Perpetual Solar Light
• More on monitoring elderly at home
• Performing at The Magic Cabaret
• Local AppleScript execution via the Web
• Approaching Magic Chicago
• Performing at Magic Chicago in July
• iPad and home automation
• Sea change: Cars vs Internet
• Book Review: The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine
• Hohm knows your energy use
• One smart, but expensive, apartment
• Announcing: 100 under 140 - "Magicians"
• Easy, but not cheap, ceiling speakers
• Safer, and totally cool, stairway lighting
• Peek inside an automated home
• Double the magic
• How to enter a tab or page break in Pages on iPad
• The Internet-Enabled Cat Feeder
• Rosie in 2020?
• Everthing connected, all the time
• Smart Home Hacks in WIRED
• Take Control of your Paperless Office
• The future smart alarm clock
• Robot House - Answers to Home Automation Questions
• Clothes Drying Rack Hack
• A better Scooba battery
• Journaling a sentence at a time
• My first computer
• Book review: Occult America
• ePub version of Social Org of CU
• Smart Home Hacks: The App
• TinyBooks Pro arrives
• AC Power Outlet with USB Charging Ports
• Performing in Magic Chicago
• Update on my wireless thermostat
• A less expensive way to get started with INSTEON
• Big Brother in the back seat
• A global Kindle DX
• Don't be Foodle'd
• Appearing in The Magic Cabaret
• New Mac utility for Proximity Detection
• The Vue Personal Video Network
• INSTEON at 45% off for Thanksgiving
• My favorite productivity apps for iPhone
• Dual-band INSTEON LampLinc
• A cautionary tale
• LED Message Display via the Web
• ScanSnap driver update for Snow Leopard
• View an iSight camera remotely
• The Computer Underground: Twenty Years Later
• Kindle on the road, a lesson learned
• Appearing in Magic Chicago - Postponed
• Envi envy, a new convection wall heater
• Update: Shopping Bag Museum
• The Wand IR Remote
• A magic mirror for Hallowe'en
• Indigo 4.1 emerges from beta
• Serial to INSTEON Interface
• Built-in INSTEON modules
• Home Automation notifications using Prowl directly
• Wating for the Shoe Phone
• Get your SnapScan mojo
• Control your Mac via Twitter
• My TiVo HD is blind, but only in the dark
• Fixing a black screen Ceiva
• A new utility for Mac Bluetooth proximity detection, and more
• Ceiva, Chapter 2
• Stroke On, Stroke Off
• Here kitty, kitty
• Come see me at The Magic Cabaret
• Give up a bad read
• Efficient attic or loft cooling with home automation
• Paranoia in Your Pocket
• Too many features, too little time
• Magazine vs Kindle
• Home notifications on iPhone via Prowl and Growl
• Book Review: The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill
• Even more automated twittering devices
• Kindle DX: Good Enough
• Book Review: The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
• Web stat spoof inspires home visitor counter
• Kindle DX: Second Impressions
• Book Review: And Then There's This...
• INSTEON window and door sensors
• Mac Pro hard disk vanishes during sleep
• Unclutterer on the paperless office
• Kindle DX: First Impressions
• Hollywood's Characters
• XTension adds support for UPB
• Will Obama save home automation?
• R-House details emerge
• Home automation on the rise, maybe
• Book Review: Secrets of Masonic Washington
• Z-Wave options for the Mac
• Think, and control your home
• Conjuring at The Magic Cabaret
• Indigo 4 adds iPhone control of your home
• Managing the paperless office
• Chairs that tweet
• The automated cat door
• On Twitter, cupcakes, and automation
• In search of a good headset
• The Remote Control Living Room: PopSci's Genius Guide
• Comic from xkcd hits close to home
• iPhone home automation control continues to expand
• Sensors to monitor
• Paperless Home Office and NeatDesk document scanner
• Ruby Rails-based home automation coming?
• Joy of Cooking expands
• Book Review: The 9-Inch Plate "Diet"
• A light switch that encourages conservation
• A tip for using Plain Clip with TextExpander
• Home Automation on Twitter
• NYT on home automation and the elderly
• Book review: Reading the OED
• Household Hamster Power, taken seriously
• Location-aware Home Automation via Google
• Chicago Apple User Group redux
• Mac Home Automation at Chicago Apple Store
• A selection of Magic Words
• Gadgets for senior care
• A mom's view of home automation
• Do smart homes save energy?
• More on Savant
• DEVONthink 2 enters public beta
• The automated luxury hotel room
• The automated lazy-boy recliner
• Typed with My Thumbs - my iPhone signature
• Nokia's home automation system
• Kick start your paperless office for the new year
• Comparing home automation approaches
• INSTEON Universal and PowerFlash module
• Good news! INSTEON window sensor coming soon
• iPhone as a baby or home monitor
• iPhone-based home automation gets fancier
• Appearing in Magic Chicago
• XTension home automation with iPhone and iPod touch
• Presenting with iPhone
• Control your home and energy use with Vera
• Distraction-Free writing with the Neo
• Magic Words, now available
• New version of HouseLinc 2 for Windows
• Robotic Lawn Mowing - Revisited
• Economic Fall Heating
• Appearing at The Magic Cabaret
• Joining Big Brother's network
• Leviton Tri-plex outlet
• Regarding casino carpeting and 21
• Book Review: Against the Machine
• EyeTV with Turbo.264 iPhone Export Error: Resolved
• Savant iPhone remote for home automation
• Schlage's Z-Wave Lock
• Boinx buys PhotoPresenter
• WSJ's overview of iTunes Control with iPod touch
• Magical Chicago on Google Maps
• NetLinc becomes SmartLinc
• INSTEON motion detector almost here
• Smart Home Hacks on your Kindle
• External USB modem for Caller ID
• Deodorant Usage Tracker
• NYT - Smart Home an oxymoron?
• AT&T Remote Monitor
• Zapper: iPod touch and iPhone control for your VDR
• Helping children learn magic
• XTension Adds More
• iPhone and iPod touch for Home Automation with INSTEON
• Catching up with O'Reilly contributions
• Listen and learn about INSTEON, Indigo, and more
• Typepad rejects XML-RPC login credentials
• Delivery Room Notifications
• O'Reilly Network: Your Mac Knows When You're Home
• Zippi-ty Cool Desk Fan
• O'Reilly Network: Thinking Home and Indigo 3
• O'Reilly Network: Upgrade Your Brain
• O'Reilly Network: Home Office Envy
• O'Reilly Network: Timely Travel Info in Your Pocket
• O'Reilly Network: Cidney - Distributed Caller ID for Macintosh
• Big Book of Apple Hacks
• O'Reilly Network - A Peek Inside an Automated Home
• O'Reilly Network: Relief for Mac-based Ceiva Customers
• O'Reilly Network - Meet Hazel
• O'Reilly Network - Proxify your home
• O'Reilly Network: Standalone Home Automation
• Twitter as a Moral Compass
• Earwax at Schmap
• Smart Home weekly at O'Reilly Digital Media blog
• O'Reilly Network: Mac technology for "Aging in Place"
• O'Reilly Network: Remotely controlling your home from within
• O'Reilly Network: Touch your home from the web
• O'Reilly Network: One week with EyeTV
• Smart Home Hacks: Reviewed
• February 14, 2008 - Northern Illinois University
• O'Reilly Network: Sonar for your Home
• Smart Home humor
• O'Reilly Network: Quiet your Home with Ambient Noise
• A solution for a Roomba that won't charge
• O'Reilly Network: My Paperless Office Revisited
• 43 Folders: Getting Sandy in my Face
• O'Reilly Network: The Insomniac Mac
• O'Reilly Network: Mobile passwords with iPhone
• 43 Folders: The Seed of Mindfulness
• O'Reilly Network: PhoneValet & iPhone
• Bah Humbug
• Schmap photo published
• Tool switch for around the house
• Technology for "Aging in Place"
• 43 Folders: The Great Keyboard Bath of 2007
• PARADE magazine on Smart Homes
• 43 Folders: Sciral Consistency update: Remember flexible tasks
• 43 Folders: My fling with a Sony Reader
• Tips for better Radioshift-ing
• Book Review: Crooked Little Vein
• My paperless office
• Book Review: Stories to Solve
• Book Review: Monster guides
• Convection Wall Heater: Revisited
• Rediscovering real popcorn
• Turn the tables on halloween pranksters
• Network Caller ID for Mac
• Radioshift networking tips
• Simple motion detecting switch
• AT&T's voice mail indicator is broken
• Watch videos about Home Automation with INSTEON
• Book Review: Do You Think What You Think You Think is not what you think
• A tool for writing with Macintosh
• iPhone case solution
• The horror of making a book your own
• R.I.P. Joybubbles
• Remote Control on a budget
• Book Review: Words of a Feather
• A cosmo for the Cosmos
• Martha on home automation
• Adding new Home Automation topics feed
• iPhone Earphone Solution
• Windows Home Automation - SEWWUG Recap
• Monitor your home with ZigBee
• Smart Home Hacks in Milwaukee
• Cleverness over clarity
• Buy a bite of Smart Home Hacks, by the byte
• Resolving a Comcast DNS problem
• RFID for home automation
• Tinderbox Breakfast
• Smart homes in the news
• New Internet-ready INSTEON controller
• Remote home monitoring on the rise
• Concerning those who live "off the grid"
• Automated HVAC dampers
• MUUG Redux
• Hi, this is your car. I've just been wrecked.
• Builders addressing how to monitor the elderly
• Childproof your home automation
• GE's whole-house control and security service
• Smart Home Hacks in Winnipeg
• Wii Bait at EB Games/Game Stop
• Knobs becoming ancient history
• Home monitoring from Bell Canada
• Your Home Knows You're Home - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
• Home Automation on the brink
• Tweeting from home
• Mad about MAD digital edition
• My favorite TextExpander TIp
• News at the speed of Twitter
• More about the Usable Help refresh
• Notes on the Usable Help refresh
• Notes on heyu
• Expert advice about Windows virus and spyware removal
• Ceiva: Rising prices for declining service
• Announcing "Las Vegas: Underfoot"
• Linksys Lifesaver
• Monitoring teen drivers, redux
• Thermostats and electric fireplaces
• A look at Indigo 2
• The master who made the grass green
• Powerseed's power source
• Expo news for home automators
• HP Tech Support Horror Story
• Teaching Office to kids is criminal
• Magic Mirror for Home Automation
• Automated Home circa 1950
• How I really got started in computing.
• A Mac home theatre case-study
• Magic sets for kids
• Your Psychic iPod
• Your washing machine talks back
• Book Review: Creepy Susie
• Convection Wall Heater
• Mini Cooper Confidential
• Roomba Battery Woes
• "Presence" for your Mac, today
• LaserWriter 12/640: Rescued
• Runners out my window
• Robert Anton Wilson needs your help
• Automated Hallowe'en Hijinks
• The anatomy of O'Reilly books
• Praise Eris!
• Indigo gets webified
• Monitoring teen drivers and more
• Food storage from the future
• Zen door
• An INSTEON Remote Control Hack
• Car-to-Home automation with Z-Wave
• Smart washers and dryers
• iPod Guilt
• DaVinci Mowed
• I want you to wake me
• Standalone Home Monitoring Devices
• Coffee Automation circa 1985
• A wider iSight
• Summer arrives, CornHole abounds
• Mystic Inn: A Modern Tapper?
• Book: The Acme Catalog
• A Super Duper portable strategy
• Monitor Your Driveway with Python
• Crowd Goes Wild at Barbie Live
• When you gotta go...
• A Watchful Eye on Aging Parents
• A Five Year Project
• Macintosh Home Monitoring @ MacDevCenter
• 123456 coming soon
• Patently Self-referential
• Goodbye YoYo, Hello PhoneValet
• Getting productive with WebDesktop 2.5
• Smart Bathroom Hacks
• Parliant Telephony Update
• Let the Call Snooping Begin
• A Smarter, but not the Smartest, Thermostat
• Elusive Half-Sized Index Cards
• Mind, meet Brain
• Indigo's INSTEON Goes Gold
• J.Jill. Better. Shopping. Ahead.
• Bard in a Box
• What's up with Jack and Jill, anyway?
• Home petcam made easy
• Dogs on the Road, Finally a Decent Kennel
• Another Z-Wave Promise
• Welcome back ClickBook, sorta
• Phlink listens in
• Hello, this is your Mac calling
• J.Jill. Worst. Shopping. Ever.
• Netgear Storage Central - Beware
• Growling PhoneValet
• Best. Power strip. Ever.
• Productivity Boosters
• The present-day composer refuses to die
• A watchful webcam technique for PC users
• Insteon automation with your Mac
• Santa and Mac OS X
• Domòtica: Los Mejores Trucos
• Digital TV: Clarified at last
• Dia de los Muertos
• Do you admit to believing in ghosts?
• Can you hear me now?
• The power of a single letter
• Hypertextual Fiction
• A hauntingly good show
• Operator. How may I direct your call?
• Hallowe'en Automations
• The HamsterTracker Project
• Macworld: Automate Your Home
• Home automation auction
• Toolbox: Anthracite & Express Scribe
• Around the World, blogged
• Meet the Blogger Twins
• Home Automation article in Macworld
• Mathematical Mojo
• Howto: Prematurely age fabric and linens
• Mirror Neurons
• Free Stuff at my Macworld Boston Session
• Home Automation at Macworld Expo, Boston Macworld - Meet Your Favorite Speakers
• Insteon's longer range
• Easier automated iSight snapshots
• Learn from the mage
• Another optimistic view of Z-Wave
• A show worth seeing
• Scrubby-Dubby Robot
• O'Reilly Network: Insteon is real
• Smart Homes at WWDC
• TinderTarot
• What's in a name?
• Mac-centric home automation catalog
• Home security considerations
• Hackable House
• NCMUG Automation Wrap-up
• Home Automation @ Santa Rosa
• Safely Automate Outdoor Lights
• Toolbox: Visual Thesaurus
• Happy trails, HST
• Rear View Shuffle
• Rainbow over Cupertino
• Fabricated Americans, Unite!
• O'Reilly Network: Introduction to X10 Home Automation Technology
• Roomba Rocks
• Just for the record
• O'Reilly: Control Your Home via the Web
• Tickled pink
• Blogcritics: Smart Home Hacks review
• Home Automation: Flood detection using Perl
• Finding ol' Scratch at the mall
• Book: Home Hacking for Geeks
• A welcome blast from the past
• Teaching magic to kids
• Smarter holiday lights
• Smart Home Hacks in the SJ Merc
• Book signing at DigitalGuru
• Home automation and software build notifications
• Gizmodo on Smart Home Hacks
• Another way to view the world
• CF lights and home automation
• Learn about home automation at NCMUG
• Get to Know MisterHouse
• Performance interfaces
• My own Hipster PDA
• OS X Con: Best Smart Home Hacks
• Nifty Notifications in Mac OS X
• ActiveHome Pro SDK
• Nokia's network camera
• Announcing "Smart Home Hacks"
• A new USB controller for Home Automation
• O'Reilly Network: Phlink's Network Caller ID
• Applied Social Science
• Best Drink Accessory. Ever.
• A true classic
• More on Phone Valet
• Infinitely Fascinating
• A 21st Century Clapper
• WWDC Home Automation Recap
• Tivoli & iPod - A Perfect Match
• Home Automation at WWDC
• Senseo has Landed
• Can Insteon dethrone X10? [Jun. 21, 2004]
• Solo Performer Show Controller
• Wire puzzlers
• Coffee, or more?
• Graphing Library
• Pleased to meet you, #41
• Good Fortunes
• Standalone Remote Home Control
• Too much storage?
• Your home, via Shell Oil
• Inside Mac Radio Recap
• Phlink gets better and better
• Martin's Misdirection
• Your phone, your butler
• Who you gonna call?
• No Longer Wet Behind the Years
• I'll buy one!
• Tinderbox keeps on ticking
• CID via your BT Phone
• Data logger
• Automated Living
• I heart bookstores
• Crochet for Pirates & Necromancers
• Notebooking
• OS X Home Automation Grows Up
• Paint It By Numbers
• BlueTooth Serial Adapter
• DIY DV Rigs
• Atari To USB Adaptor
• It's only solitaire
• A sad lack of memory
• Urban Decay
• No, maybe you don't need a coffee right now
• Matias on Tinderbox
• Home Automation at MacDevCenter
• Big in Brazil
• MindCad Pyramid
• Notes and Summaries from eTech
• Log and Camera Monitor
• FOAF me, baby
• Quck Review - Keyspan Presentation Remote
• Ambient Gadgets
• Fun hardware projects
• Waiting for R.A.W.
• Daydreaming about Graphviz
• AvantGo Answers Their Own Question
• Well, you asked
• Don't Hate Me Because I Use A Macintosh
• Pet and Geek Friendly, Such A Deal!
• Grab It While You've Got It
• C.A.N. You Spare a Mac?
• Joy for Word Nerds
• Las Vegas Resource
• A slick word processor
• Nice iTunes Visualizer
• D-Link Webcam
• Too much baggage
• Nifty little games
• USB Server
• The crux of the biscuit
• Heresey, you say?
• Voice Messaging for Phone Valet
• A New Year's Prayer
• Escher Puzzle Art
• Missed Ketchup Opportunity
• Mmmmm, fresh crab
• iPoker
• Last-minute gift suggestion
• Boo!
• So long, and thanks for all the brine shrimp
• Why dogs are better than cats
• Christmas comes early!
• Typecasting
• A spreadsheet for Mac OS X
• Monkeys = Fun
• Eastgate @ 21
• A nice doohickey
• I am an Ethnographer
• Evidence of leak removed
• Overborder
• Too late
• My Picassohead
• A morning treat
• Experimental Open Collaboration
• Best. Snowglobe. Ever.
• I heart my Palm V
• Think Clear
• Yes, No, Maybe
• Unsynchronized Pro
• Intaglio Rocks
• The soul of Wal-mart
• XLogo
• Praise Eris!
• Customer service pet peeve #23
• Note to self: Feed on Feeds
• iTune's social impact
• Automate Your Home Now!
• Open/Save Dialog in Panther
• OS X Con: Final thoughts
• OS X Con: Presentations Online
• OS X Con: Living in the Digital Hub
• Egads, what does that say?
• Give your iBook a REST (OS X Con)
• Framing political debate
• Phlink
• Nicecast looks, um, nice
• Penn on politics and misdirection
• Introduction to the OS X Unix Command Line
• Tog on Magic and Web design
• Tinderbox Teaser
• SF Trash Photo Essay
• Business leaders afraid to admit they're lusers
• Anti- Celebrity Desktop Pictures
• The SXSW Website competition
• Burning Monkey Mahjong Solitaire Review
• Awash in junk mail
• PowerBook Mute Startup
• The truth about Bowling For Columbine
• Arnold's back room deals
• Books 'em, Gordo
• Sitcom Innovation
• Indulging the Vice
• A new iView
• Nisus Thesaurus
• Highway Overexposure
• Mescalero lights me up like a flaming arrow
• This can't be happening.
• The Visual Thesaurus
• Androkids
• Pixel Pushing
• The Fledermaus
• Twitch
• G5 Sex Show
• Living in the Digital Hub
• Red Savina
• How to Improve Sunday Comics
• Robert Anton Wilson for Governor
• Chuq distills two RSS articles
• Appreciating EyeTV
• Paul Fredrick
• The Ice Man Cometh
• Mr Little Guy
• Jiggle
• No sense of humor
• Welcome
• More WhackyCam-ness
• WackyCam
• This is my first go
• This is a post from
• Almost public
• Struggle
• First Post!