Quick Tip for Hiding an Apple TV
Feb 16th, 2015 by Sarah
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Apr 2nd, 2014 by Sarah
When Haley was born and we converted our old guest room into a nursery, one of the things we worried about was maintaining a consistent not-too-hot, not-too-cold temperature in her room throughout the night. Since her room is heated by the furnace in the basement, it is on a separate thermostat than the rest of…
Mar 9th, 2013 by Sarah
A couple of months ago, we swapped out our old programmable thermostats with new Nest learning thermostats … and we’ve been really happy with them. Although there’s a lot we like about the Nest, one of the features we’ve missed from the beginning is the ability to analyze all of the data collected by the…
Feb 19th, 2013 by Sarah
Over Christmas vacation, we installed two new Nest thermostats. One was a Christmas gift and (after seeing how cool it was) we ordered the other online and installed it upstairs. We’ve only been using them for about 6 weeks, but so far we’re really liking them. We love the way they look in both locations…
Sep 19th, 2010 by Sarah
While walking through Lowe’s this weekend, we saw a new end display of products for monitoring energy usage. One of the new products on display was the Kill-o-watt, which we were happy to see is now available locally – we looked everywhere for one a couple of years ago and finally had to order online…
Jan 25th, 2010 by Sarah
Over Christmas break, we decided it was finally time to upgrade our kitchen computer and bought a new 21.5″ iMac. Our old computer had been an original Mac Mini, which was getting really slow even for simple stuff like browsing the web. We were also really tired of the mess of wires, power bricks, etc….
Aug 28th, 2009 by Sarah
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A few months ago, we bought a Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless Home Monitoring Camera and put in the office looking out the window to the front yard. Chad then set it up to work with some open source software called ZoneMinder (which is much more powerful than the software that came with the camera) to record…
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Mar 27th, 2008 by Sarah
Last weekend, we finally decided to order the components for and build a new home theater PC (HTPC) for running MythTV (DVR software). We really have a need for two computers to perform this function: one for the home theater on the third floor and the other for the family room that we’re setting up…